Exploring New Learning Spaces

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 […]

Recently I was highlighted in an eSchool News article regarding the use of SL in my class.  It was especially fun when one of my best friends who is a faculty member at Kent State (Lin Lin) and my Director found the article as well :)  You can read the entire article here: http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showStory.cfm?ArticleID=6713&page=1
Many colleges […]

Tomorrow is the grand opening of the “Art of Second Life” - the first major exhibition by the new Aho Museum Curator, Tayzia Abattoir.  I got a chance to sneak over last night and see the Starax exhibit that occupies its own sim.  Starax is truly talented and it is a great loss that he/she […]

This week and next is the NMC’s Symposium on Impact of Digital Media and the Slatenight team has been asked to participate.  As part of our program Anya (Angela Thomas) will give a talk on identity that will be followed by a fashion show with a twist.  Instead of highlighting the latest fashions we hope […]

In real lile I would describe myself as shy, maybe those who know me would disagree but it really does take a lot for me to approach someone new.  I just realized that I have turned into a shameless networker in Second Life - begging for access to restricted sims, emailing people that I find […]

October 12-14th - the Alliance Library System and Second Life Library/info Island Grand Opening!
Proposed Scheduel of Events:
Thursday, October 12 – Virtual Worlds and Education:  The Cutting Edge – 4 pm sl – 6 pm sl – Speakers: Pathfinder Linden, Kitty Paul, Puglet Dancer, Professor Boliveau, Lorelei Junot and Maxito Ricardo – Puglet Dancer and Kitty […]

I was hoping to be able to post this to the NMC Campus Observer but that would have been the second day that I posted the same day as someone else.  Is there some kind of a collaborative blogging etiquette *smile*?  Lori Bell has joined the NMC blog and has posted important info regarding an […]

Monday was a very busy day in Second Life for educators - in the morning the NMC Teachers Buzz session featured scultures based on mathematical equations.  I got the rare opportunity to talk about this visit with two math faculty today as we plan to really investigate the SL environment for teaching and learning (more to […]

 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 […]

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 […]