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5 Jun 2008

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 [...]

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They are in the “nearly now” but we are below Coal mining.

In: Community Colleges

11 May 2008

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 [...]

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Do librarians catalog YouTube videos?

In: Community Colleges| Librarianship

29 Apr 2008

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. [...]

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Whither the wiki

In: Community Colleges| Second Life| Virtual Worlds

19 Apr 2008

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 [...]