I 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 not being [...]
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Teaching on the MUVE Workshop, originally uploaded by notmarian. Here I am with my class on the first day. Its so exciting to have so many of my COD peeps here [...]
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } COD on Edu3, originally uploaded by notmarian. Here’s the new parcels we’ve just acquired! We’ll still have Tintern and the Clouds Classroom, the Community Colleges space plus a garden of scientists, [...]
I’ve never presented to such a large group in SL (35!) and am still clueless as to why so many would want to hear about my work. I am heartened that there is so much interest in the work of the community college in virtual worlds. I am totally motivated to write that next paper [...]
I’ve been asked to give a talk in the ISTE Speaker Series about community colleges and Second Life. Now that the date approaches (June 10) I’m giving in to panic and just a little smidge of excitement. What can I tell this enormous group of K-12 educators about the benefits of virtual worlds to community [...]
For IT intensiveness (use), education is below Coal Mining. Mind, I’m not saying coal mining isn’t technical but there are a heck of a lot more students than there are coal miners! This video highlights some heavy-hitting free thinkers discussing the need for better IT in schools, less IT control in schools, MORE bandwidth for [...]
So, 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. [...]
The 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 at pbwiki, [...]