Well I have been swamped in RL with a ton of work and with evening night classes. I have not had time to really explore... and SL has been buggy with my computer and not letting me log in. Now that I'm back to an almost normal schedule, I'll be doing some more exploring and blogging. I hope that everyone enjoys the blog and I promise to try and get some new posts up soon.
See you in SL!
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Greenbush Education Island
So I have not been online very often for the past few weeks. I have not had a chance to really explore or look around. As I had a few moments I thought I might follow up on some items I have been meaning to do for a while now, just to see what was new.
In my wonders I come across this fantastic auditorium. It is located on Greenbush Education Island. It is an island tied to a University in Kansas. I had a chance to talk to one of the members there and he was full of great information. The auditorium that they have is free for educators to use for discussions or meetings.
They have a podcast that you can listen to right in their podcast center... just watch out for that first step off, it is a long way down.
They have a Vendor Tower which currently looked like they were looking for some vendors to have a space in it. I would love to see some of the businesses take a leap of faith and be sponsors in educational locations in SL. The number of educators that are now in SL is growing and it would be nice to see some additional vendors in SL just like in RL.
In my wonders I come across this fantastic auditorium. It is located on Greenbush Education Island. It is an island tied to a University in Kansas. I had a chance to talk to one of the members there and he was full of great information. The auditorium that they have is free for educators to use for discussions or meetings.
They have a podcast that you can listen to right in their podcast center... just watch out for that first step off, it is a long way down.
They have a Vendor Tower which currently looked like they were looking for some vendors to have a space in it. I would love to see some of the businesses take a leap of faith and be sponsors in educational locations in SL. The number of educators that are now in SL is growing and it would be nice to see some additional vendors in SL just like in RL.
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Roleplaying in Education
This evening I had a chance to attend a conference that included a fantastic discussion about Roleplaying in education, and how Second Life might fit in. It was held in the ISTE's skypark. The discussion feel into several different components, but he covered topics around historical roleplaying, "Never Land" roleplaying, and science roleplaying. The presenters name is Wainbrave Bernal. His note card was fantastic and covered almost everything that was discussed. I would recommend heading to ISTE to see if you can find it after the event.
It was interesting to see the diversity of educators in the session. I mean there was a Dragon in the back row!!! As was pointed out in so many other blogs, educators need to do something different to catch students attention, and if that means your avatar is a furry or a dragon, then it might help.
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