Exploring New Learning Spaces

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 there!

Heidi and I were successful in introducing 13 faculty members to the NMC Campus in Second Life.  We have introduced students to the SL environment before but gave them an introduction and then required them to use the environment for an exercise sometime later.  Many students explored the environment between this time and became familiar with its functionality […]

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. […]

I was hard at work tracking down a speaker for our grad student meeting Wednesday when I got an IM from my friend Noir asking about the public NMC campus space. I had heard on the SLED listserve that there was going to be a public campus but I did not think it had […]

Update on photography in Second Life - the best lighting is Sunrise but you have to be facing East (the sun) to avoid harsh shadows on your face.

Anyone in RL who knows me also knows that I love photography. For a short time I worked for my family’s photography studio and photographed hundreds of highschool seniors. Even though I decided to leave the photography profession it is still something that I love to explore as a hobby. Recently I […]

 
The SL Grad Student Colony and SLED group had a great turnout during their meeting last night.  The goal of the meeting was to plan the Educator’s event to be held at the Second Life Community Convention 2006 being held in San Francisco this August.  Sadly, I will not be able to attend but we are […]

Making great progress on setting up my blog thanks to the help of David (see the third owl link in my blog roll).  I think that it is really shaping up *smile*.  Still no time to write anything serious (academically speaking) but I don’t want to stop writing otherwise there will be nothing to read. 
Relay […]

If anyone is reading this I apologize for all the changes - I am still working on a template that I am happy with so do not be surprised to see a number of different schemes.  Yesterday I had a wonderful time supporting the Relay for Life event taking place in second life.  You can […]