Archive for April, 2008
Do librarians catalog YouTube videos?
29 Apr 2008So, I’m still on the YouTube revelation from yesterday. Instead of being fully engaged at one of the presentations I attended today I was pondering YouTube (and TeacherTube and Blip.tv). Many colleges block or slow down YouTube and other popular sites at peak teaching times to free up bandwidth for the classrooms and library research. [...]
Engineer’s Guide to Cats
In: Libraries| funny bits
28 Apr 2008I am at a conference. The keynote speaker was Larry Irving, the man who coined the phrase “The Digital Divide.” Much of what he had to say needs to percolate in my mind but, since I’m at a conference and most people feel compelled to blog when they are at a conference…here’s my Conference Tidbit [...]
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Whither the wiki
19 Apr 2008The Community Colleges in SL group finally has a wiki. See the pretty tab above or go to: http://ccsl.wetpaint.com I hope we’ll make it a useful tool for all CC’s interested in getting into virtual worlds. What I’d really like to post about today is my search for the free wiki. I looked [...]
Getting a Second Life Account!
10 Apr 2008Here’s a video I did with the excellent multimedia services television super heros at my college. It was made for the Soaring to Excellence teleconference tomorrow. The teleconference, Trends, Fads or Folly: Spotting the Trends that Really Matter looks at virtual worlds, folksonomies and new ways of reading. Lori Bell and Tom Peters are presenting. [...]
New Online Game with a Cool Social Twist
In: General Whatnot
3 Apr 2008Players of Glass Bead connect concepts within a subject or field of interest. You can play in all sorts of subjects like Literature, Art, Food, Tech, People, or go crazy random all while interacting with other players with the same interests. Players have to justify their choices in chat windows with on-the-fly research on [...]
State and Local Agencies Train in Virtual Worlds
In: Safety| Second Life| Virtual Worlds
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Play2Train , originally uploaded by notmarian.
It seems that state and local agencies are trying out virtual worlds like Second Life to prepare for emergencies. There’s Play2Train’s build for the [...]
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- Clara: I cannot believe this. I am sick of big research institutions getting the majority of funds leaving [...]
- Denise: Oh sorry, SocProf. You have to have Second Life on your computer to redirect to that link. Get Seco [...]
- SocProf: :-( Firefox does not know how to open the link. [...]
- Monk Zymurgy: I have to agree..Sita Sings the Blues is super great. I loved it so much, i watched it twice already [...]
- Denise: You watched it. You can't un-watch it! ha ha ha. [...]