After two long years, we finally have an island in Second Life to work on. We bought an existing island from the Alliance Library System. Those good librarians have been a wonderful support for us, and a lifeline for me personally. Since the Linden Labs people can’t easily grasp higher order thinking, they are having [...]
From the SLED List: I’m proud to announce that Prince William Sound Community College (in beautiful Valdez Alaska) has posted a 2 year IT position that will include technical coordination of our Second Life educational sites. With campuses in Valdez and Cordova sitting on the beautiful Prince William Sound and in the Copper River Basin [...]
The winners of the Linden Prize were announced today. I’m very happy for the people at Studio Wikitecture and Virtual Ability. I know some of the hardworking and tremendously creative people in both of these groups–they richly deserve this award and need the cash infusion. In my heart was really hoping that the Alliance Library [...]
This 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
Tom 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. I’ll [...]
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, [...]
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } 2nd Anniversary, originally uploaded by HVX Silverstar. Alright, so, I pole danced for charity…I am proud of it! (well, not really, but it was for the Libraries in Second Life–an excellent [...]
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 [...]