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Christy Tucker over at Experiencing E-learning has tagged me for another meme. First I will refer to the last meme in which I was tagged for 5 exciting facts about me. Then I will add three additional facts for the required total of eight random facts. Enjoy these little known tidbits… Here is a link […]
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Leave a Comment (1) →Over at Learning Simulations, Phil Charron has written an entry about Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning. You can read what he has to say in his entry by the same title of the book, Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning. I do some work with his company from time-to-time and so I sent him […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Erika, our guide for ProtoSphere, talks to the group. This week’s class proved to be exciting as we got a guided tour of ProtoSphere from Erika of ProtonMedia, used the VOIP in Second Life and had a group challenge where teams of students (dressed as fire fighters) cleaned up make believe chemical spills in teams […]
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Leave a Comment (19) →If you have been following the Second Life class I have been conducting this summer you know that one of the assignments is to create a Machinimia Project explaining some part of Second Life. The complete assignment can be found on the Assignment Page of the MSIT Second Life wiki. One student has already completed […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →I left a comment on Tony Karrer’s blog about creating a “Design Day” so that everyone in the blogosphere adds a comment about the importance of instructional design as opposed to focusing on technology. And then Dennis Coxe over at Sailing by Sound picked up on my comment and posted an entry called “I Declare […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Here is a great article titled Mixing and Managing Four Generations of Employees by Greg Hammill. It does a great job of explaining the tendencies of four different groups all currently working within organizations and all required to work together even though they have different outlooks, experiences and expectations. The groups are: Veterans, Silent, Traditionalists […]
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Leave a Comment (2) →This week, we had Suzi Mazzenga as a guest speaker talking about her adventure as a male in Second Life. You can read about it in her article My Days as a Dude. She gave her presentation using text chat within the Second Life classroom we have set up on MSIT Island. The class then […]
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Leave a Comment (21) →I often talk about how the “gamer” generation views email as snail mail. Here is yet more proof. Tom King of Mobilemind sent me this great link to an article Kids say e-mail is, like, soooo dead which explains why kids don’t use email. My favorite part to the article: “Sometimes I say I e-mailed […]
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Leave a Comment (3) →Avatar from ProtonMedia’s ProtoSphere which will be discussed today. Today at 12:45 EST, I will presenting, along with Ron Burns of ProtonMedia a session titled Fostering Informal Learning in a 3D Learning Environment. It should be very interesting and a lot of fun. We will focus on how informal learning can be fostered in a […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →The second “Learning in 3D” class had a few technical difficulties. Second Life was slow and not everyone could log in. And our other 3D space was not accessible either. Our goal of this class was to view a number of educational locations to see what types of educational environments are being created within Second […]
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