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Not Elluminating
Ellie Brewster, my avatar, has very strong views on Elluminate. The very mention of it makes her lip curl with disdain. She likens it to a prop in a famous comedy: Wall, that vile Wall which did these...
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Multiple intelligences
Ellie does yoga I go back to Zotarah Shepherd’s educational build in Koru fairly often, it’s a great place to think about immersive educational experiences. The build is a 3-D representation of Howard...
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Collaborative concept mapping
One of the most challenging things about Second Life teaching is that you are never completely in control. Students can use instant message as a background to a lecture, they can text chat during a...
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She Maketh Herself Coverings of Tapestry
“She Maketh Herself Coverings of Tapestry”: Feminist Activism and Collaboration in Second Life Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women’s issues – Charlotte Bunch...
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The Afghanistan Museum in Second Life
AAUW Women's Community Project The AAUW Women’s Community Project held an event in Second Life this month, a talk by Millay Freschi on RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan....
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Once More Down the Rabbit Hole
Hamlet Au has done an excellent writeup of Cloud Party. It’s a WebGL-based virtual world, which means that any browser that can handle WebGL* can get you there, just by using a link (pretty well the...
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Students love photography
Gridjumper has a great post on the Photo Hunt Group in Second Life. On Monday mornings and Wednesday nights this group visits a preselected location together, and spends an hour taking photographs....
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Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee: Inventory-based teaching in SL
Last week I gave a workshop on inventory-based teaching in Second Life for participants in the SLMOOC 14, Teaching and Learning in Virtual Environments. The basic point of the presentation was that...
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An alternative to VW teaching?
This blog has been on a bit of a hiatus, as I have been going through quite a few changes, leaving my position at Ohio State, taking a long and well-deserved break, and starting out as a consultant in...
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