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Second Life - K12 Online Conference Starts In?

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

K12 Online Conference Starts In?
…5 Days, 12 Hrs, 48 min and 53…er…51…you get the idea seconds as of this writing…that’s when David Warlick’s keynote goes up on the Conference Blog and let me just say that I just got a sneak preview of David’s talk (I am a psuedo organizer of the conference, ya know) […]

Second Life - SL to be Taxed?

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

SL to be Taxed?
Filed under: News
It looks as though Immersionists are going to receive a nasty shock to their systems if this goes through. Apparently, a United States congressional committee has been convened to look into the prospect of taxing money exchanges in SL. “There’s just too much money floating around,” says Sam Lewis, a […]

Second Life - Good Blog News

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

Good Blog News
Nice article from a few days ago in The Seattle Times: Living: Teachers are reaching out to students with a new class of blogs“Never in 25 years of teaching have I seen a more powerful motivator for writing than blogs,” [Mark] Ahlness said. “And that’s because of the audience. Writing is not just […]

Second Life - Secondcast #17: Field Trip

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

Secondcast #17: Field Trip
The Secondcasters take a field trip to Arcadia in episodes 17 and 18 to play all of the games in the 2006 developer contest.Download SecondCast Episode 17
Secondcast #21: Wall of Shame
The casters interview real life Barry Joseph, Director of the […]

Second Life - Visiting the aloft island

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

Visiting the aloft island
I was browsing a bit around the world and somehow remembered the aloft hotel and the fact that I haven’t had a look yet. So I went over to the aloft island in order to check it out. And I must say: Great work everybody involved. Very nice interiour and architectural design. […]

Second Life - Reading and Writing with RSS

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

Reading and Writing with RSS
Via Blogs for Learning, a new site from Michigan State, comes this pretty interesting article “The Technology of Reading and Writing in the Digital Space: Why RSS is crucial for a Blogging Classroom” by David Parry from the University of Albany. It has a higher ed slant, but is very relevant […]

Second Life - SecondCast #37: Rock Eating Birds

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

SecondCast #37: Rock Eating Birds
Johnny and the SecondCasters start off with an interview with Frogg Marlowe and Jaycatt Nico, well known Second Life musicians. But the grid is under attack! The worst of all attacks to date… There’s no time to post the details…. save […]

Second Life - GRIEFING AND THE ETHICS OF METAVERSE JOURNALISM

Monday, October 16th, 2006

GRIEFING AND THE ETHICS OF METAVERSE JOURNALISM
So over the last week or two, there’s been several grid attacks that have taken down the world for a few hours–some coverage here, and from popular graphic novel writer Warren Ellis, here. Where you haven’t read about them is…
SLHamlet
CREATING PEACE
I’m honored to welcome Gwyneth Llewelyn as a contributor […]

Second Life - Teaching With the Read/Write Web?or Not

Monday, October 16th, 2006

Teaching With the Read/Write Web?or Not
From the “E-Mailed Stories that We Liked Dept.” (blogged with Andy Losik’s permission:)Today in my elementary Infotech classes, I realized the horror of life withoutonline resources that are tabbed as being part of “social networking”.Inadvertedly our school district’s filter profile had “Web Logs/Personal webpages” added to it this morning, meaning […]

Second Life - Working in my new store in the beautiful Parioli (Rome, Italy) sim - drop by and buy some beautiful wall hangings for your home or business

Monday, October 16th, 2006

Working in my new store in the beautiful Parioli (Rome, Italy) sim - drop by and buy some beautiful wall hangings for your home or business
posted by Kidd Newchurch on Parioli using a blogHUD : [blogHUD permalink]

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