‘Virtual Worlds’ Archive

Congratulations, Damn it. April 30, 2009 No Comments

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 [...]

Second Life for Workplace Learning March 30, 2009 No Comments

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 [...]

My blog sucks… September 21, 2008 No Comments

Because I never have time to post anything more than a video or a picture of something cute. Here’s an awesome student machinima. Excellent editing.

Teaching on the MUVE Workshop! July 13, 2008 No Comments

.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 [...]

The ISTE and me… June 5, 2008 No Comments

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 [...]

Sorry, greatly lame. June 4, 2008 No Comments

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 [...]

Whither the wiki April 19, 2008 No Comments

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, [...]

Getting a Second Life Account! April 10, 2008 No Comments

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. [...]

State and Local Agencies Train in Virtual Worlds April 2, 2008 No Comments

.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 [...]

A little video March 12, 2008 No Comments

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