Community College Librarian

This machinima was created in Second Life by an undergrad class in the Communications and Media department at one of the NYU’s. This incredible piece of work speaks for itself.

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 [...]

Sometimes the You Tube comments are just so spot-on that they are better than the videos. Vollee just released a Second Life client for mobile devices with the iPhone version coming soon. I love my iPhone and would not do that to the poor sweet thing. BUT these sorts of developments in virtual world access [...]

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, [...]

Here’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. [...]

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } 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 state [...]

I made this little video for a presentation I did today. Avatars, you know who you are!

I belong to an enormous listserv of educators in Second Life and have been following the discussions there regarding the NMC’s venture with Sun Microsystems. Some people are a little concerned this new platform may take the place of Second Life since many edu’s have made enormous investments in SL. The NMC is huge in [...]