Archive for March, 2009
British med students get virtual
In: Second Life
30 Mar 2009This is a great use of virtual worlds. Its experimental now but the work is fabulous. Here’s an SURL if you want to visit: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Imperial%20College%20London/150/86/27
Embedded video from CNN Video
Second Life for Workplace Learning
30 Mar 2009Tom Werner is the god of workplace/virtual world info. He did a free webinar on the topic just recently which I kick myself hard for missing. The phrase “3-D:In it, not looking at it” has to be at the top of my list for believing so strongly in virtual worlds in community college education. [...]
Little Red Riding Hood
30 Mar 2009From Very Short List. LOVE this! Thanks, Jenn.
Slagsmålsklubben – Sponsored by destiny from Tomas Nilsson on Vimeo.
Success
In: General Whatnot| Opinion
29 Mar 2009“Success is peace of mind attained only through self-satisfaction in knowing that you made the effort to do the best of which you are capable.” I really like this. Mr. Wooden also makes a distinction between reputation and character that is such a healthy approach to way we think about ourselves. TED [...]
VWBPE Panel
29 Mar 2009I sat on a panel discussion today about groups that support teaching and learning in SL. I was on the panel with so many incredible people. 140 avatars showed up for the discussion and it was, to put it mildly, a zoo! It was really fun. I had some issues with my chat [...]
And another thing…
In: Uncategorized
26 Mar 2009sometimes I have no idea what the hell people are babbling about on Twitter and I really hate to see a perfectly good language get massacred for the sake of conserving time or allotted characters. For instance:
ZnaTrainerRT @Sophie_Lhoste: @Zna How wnderfl! U actually did wht every1dreams of doing. Thot it lst yr.Undecided. Does it [...]
Twitter…
In: Cool Tools| Opinion| funny bits
26 Mar 2009Ok, I’m not completely getting it. It is great to twitter and read other people’s tweets at conferences but as Jenny Levine and others point out, these little batches of information about a specific event or topic are ephemeral. Well, I guess you could save these “threads” if you start using an entirely [...]
Are we this miserable?
In: General Whatnot
24 Mar 2009I find it a little scary and depressing that we need a whole sub-genre of Happy in the area of personal growth. Have people forgotten how?
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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. [...]