POSTCARDS FROM THE SANDBOXSomeone I’ll call Dark Sunglasses sent me a short IM, pointing me to the Newcomb sandbox, then slipped back into the shadows. And that’s where I found them– small, green, and wreaking havoc. Seem to be taking over, my source…SLHamlet
A Read/Write Web Learning CurriculumClarence summarizes the points in Henry Jenkins’ latest white paper and adds more fuel to the conversation in terms of moving away from teaching content simply to regurgitate it and moving toward teaching content in the context of developing skills for learning, and I think they are worth repeating here:Play […]
WIRED OUTTAKES: SAMURAI ISLANDAs part of my contribution to Wired magazine’s October feature on Second Life, I took a raft of high-resolution screenshots to accompany the copy. Most of them, of course, ended up on the cutting room floor, so I’ll be running…SLHamlet
Secondcast #24: Crayon in my Nose Johnny and Lordfly interview Elex Dusk of the Elbow Room, the popular “neighborhood bar” located in the Mare sim. Elex describes life as the bar’s creator and head bartender and offers sound advice on hosting events in SL.Download SecondCast Episode 24
Secondcast #16: Hotel Utah Hamlet Au (formerly Linden) joins the Second Cast for part 2 of 2 of the first live studio audience podcast taping. Hamlet talks about his blog, his recent top 10 resident list and his upcoming book.Download SecondCast Episode 16
New UK Student BloggersIf nothing else, this trip has reminded me how much fun it is to work with kids and how I really love to be in an environment where I can be serious and be really silly at the same time. All of the kids that I met this week in Liverpool and […]
Four Years Ago This Week?"Teaching in a Changed World?I’m heading over to the K-12 Conference to look at the first week keynotes, so I don’t have enough time to blog something original today. (I did have to play about two hours of “football” with the kids, in the brisk autumn air, with the leaves falling […]
Over 1 million Second Life residents now!So we passed the magical part of 1 million users just recently. Also according to Linden Lab the website is slow because Yahoo featured Second Life on main portal page so maybe this was giving the final rush of new signups to get over this mark.So what does […]
Just Askin’: Wear on Head/Wear on Hand
Filed under: Odds and Ends
I don’t recall which update it was that took away the hilarious ‘Wear Object on Head’ issue and replaced it with ‘Wear Object on Hand’. For those of you who are post-this subject, the deal was this: Newbies would attempt to Wear an Object, but […]