Exploring New Learning Spaces

Its been a crazy semester with lots of travel (2 trips to Texas still to come).  Just yesterday I gave a presentation on the electronic portfolio projects that I have been involved with at work.  Thanks to the recommendation of a friend, I was asked to speak to a small group of representatives from various […]

 I get teased a lot for my shopping addiction in SL (esp. by partner in crime Heidi) but a recent Wall Street Journal article says that I am not alone.  According to the article, and this should be no surprise to other SL residents, clothing is emerging as the hottest market.  What does this tell […]

From looking at my blog you might think that my disseration has something to do with virtual worlds, that just happens to be a side interest.  My real focus is on CSCL and learning communities in a variey of environments (SL being just one of them).  My pilot data was collected in on a campus […]

I knew that I needed to just take a rest from trying to fix my flickr plugin.  It took awhile but I cleaned out all of the files associated with that plugin from my server, I think that the cache files (all 2 million of them) were causing the unresponsiveness I complained about before.  The […]

I have spent have the day fighting with my Flickr photo album plugin and have officially given up.  If you use the Silas Partners plugin which allows you to inlcude Flickr images in your post as well as create photo albums (I took down the photos page on my blog since it showed all my […]

A special thanks must go to Ramesh for taking the time to show me the biohazard simulation that he has built in Second Life.  The Play2Train project is part of the Idaho Bioterrorism Awareness and Preparedness program.  The program is described as:
The program’s objective is to enhance the knowledge and skills of health care professionals […]

Machinima seemed like such a mystery to me before doing some research on how to produce such movies.  If you are looking for some good resources check out my machinima tag in delicious - if you know of any other resources please let me know.  Hopefully I will find some time to play with making […]

“Teacher’s Lounge” hosts prominent researcher John Bransford in-world in two weeks:
Dr. Bransford is a prominent education psychology researcher and edited the often cited How People Learn book. He agreed to chat in-world about his work with the L.I.F.E. center. He and several graduate students who read this list are doing research in SL.
EVENT DETAILS:
Monday, Oct 2nd
12 noon-1pm, […]

Finally, after a month of working on this article it is published on the SLATENIGHT.com blog.  Many thanks to Dan Winckler (AKA Dan Magpie) for all of his help and Anya for her patience in waiting for this piece to be finished.  Be sure to check it out: http://www.slatenight.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=87&Itemid=40

I am sitting here at a conference in Colorado waiting for my turn to present (toture) so I decided to check up on the NMC SL blog.  In case you have not heard a Harvard Law School professor is bringing a class in SL.  I really like the idea of having the short movie clip […]