Posted by dmirliss | Apr 25th, 2008

RezEd

Just joined a new online community dedicated to education in virtual worlds.  I have overwhelmed by the number of groups that have popped up since we first brought students in Second Life two years ago.  I would have to clone myself and my AV in order to attend them all   Anyway, the interface being used on this site is very cool – wondering what they are using to power the site.  You know I am impressed...

Posted by dmirliss | Aug 17th, 2006

Synthetic World Initiative

 The end of the summer is always a tough time – lots to do at work, prep for teaching and dusting off that pesky literature review.  I have been making a big effort to try to keep up with the SLED list especially since the weekly meetings seem to be on a break (although NMC is going to start a weekly Monday meeting).  Recently there was a post about a new group being started with weekly meetings on Tuesday...

Posted by dmirliss | Aug 2nd, 2006

slatenight.com Launch Party

If you are on my friends list in SL then you have one of these waiting in your inventory.  Anya is officially launching slatenight.com, a collaborative project that I am proud to be a part of.  I hope to see you all...

Posted by dmirliss | Jul 16th, 2006

Skydiving!

HA! What fun. Definitely something that I would not do in real life. There is a bit of a story behind my latest adventure of skydiving with new found friend Audio Zenith. I recently posted to the SLED listserve a bit of a formal blurb about the grad student group. Audio and another responded that they would prefer more informal conversations in SL which is fine by me but I think that some structure and...