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Old Classroom Space In honor of the Second Life workshop I will be starting next week (still time to sign up, click here for more information), we have given the MSIT Second Life classroom space a little make over. You can see some of the “before and after” screen shots. New Classroom Space from the […]
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Leave a Comment (3) →So, last night I got to watch the CSI New York show which combined the television episode with some action in Second Life. Two of my favorite things so it was fun to see how the wove the two together. Although, I’ve never seen SL graphics so crisp and clear. Anyway, a great combination of […]
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Leave a Comment (4) →Here is a video I created for my “Learning in 3D Class” which contrasts the world of 2D Synchronous tools with 3D Synchronous learning tools. I hope it illustrates some of the advantages of 3D environments and some of the things that can be done to faciliate learning within a 3D environment. The video is […]
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Leave a Comment (6) →Tonight was the first “Learning in 3D Class” it was totally fun and totally chaotic. It reminded me a lot of the first e-learning classes that I taught, no one was really sure what to do, the software would crash from time-to-time and students and instructors where figuring out what needed to be done. So […]
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Leave a Comment (21) →Sometimes, things just all seem to come together at once. A number of alumni and friends of Bloomsburg University’s Instructional Technology program have sent me some great links and they are all about wildly different things but all are related to the gamer generation. Check them out. Here is one titled Most-Praised Generation Craves Kudos […]
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Leave a Comment (1) →Here is a link to an article I wrote called Defining and Understanding Virtual Worlds for ASTD’s Learning Circuits. And here is a good companion piece if you haven’t read it already, check out Another Life: Virtual Worlds as Tools for Learning at eLearn Magazine. One of the authors of that article is Tony O’Driscoll […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →This semester as part of a larger class project where students are required to respond to an e-learning Request for Proposal (RFP), my students are going to need to create some spaces and areas in Second Life. To faciliate this process, I have created wiki (at the suggestion of Barton)to provide information and to answer […]
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Leave a Comment (1) →This weekend I attended an English as a Second Language (ESL) class. It was a surreal experience for two reasons. 1) I already speak English (unfortunately, the only language I do speak except for a little French which I continually butcher, oui) 2) the class was in Second Life (SL). The instructor, Kip, separated the […]
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Leave a Comment (7) →Here is an article brought to my attention by one of my students Jason Kojtek. The article, The Second Life Census provides a link to a spreadsheet showing some interesting SL numbers. For example, the number of non-repeat credit card accounts is 2 million and the number of people online at any time is between […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Last night I attended my first meeting in Second Life. It was sponsored by the International Society for Technology in Education better known as ISTE. (that’s me in the hat with the blue and black striped shirt.) It was facilitated by Kittygloom Cassady. She did a great job! I kept the bubbles over everyone’s head […]
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