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  • Blogging the Personal
    ... because I'm much more focused on my personal life and the many transitions I'm handling there. If I were to blog it all ... different dive spots in a fictional spot in the South Pacific. Awesome experiential game. Kind of like Second Life in how ... interject their personal lives into their blogs (ala Cathy Moore as reported to Michelle Martin), then I don't think I'll make that list. Which is fine. Really. Blogging's not a contest...But personally, I like the personal. And yet ... around with whales is really cool.So. This is me trying to get my blogging energy back.
    Learning Visions - Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - Comments
  • Blog Day - (a little late though)
    ... mePhoto Attorney - photography law....how fascinating. Things to think about when shooting.Art Galleries of Second Life - there are 92 galleries listed here. I'm expecting some are real life photos/art some are second life photos ... long weekend of the summer was full of heat and sun. That's been rare here this year in Ontario. For Blog Day this year I thought I would find other blogs that match (and surpass) my other blog's focus - Photography. I'm no expert by any means. I just enjoy taking photos. Here are 5 new blogs I've come across where the photos and the stories are ...
    Discovery Through eLearning - Tuesday, September 2, 2008 - Comments
  • Blog Day - (a little late though)
    ... mePhoto Attorney - photography law....how fascinating. Things to think about when shooting.Art Galleries of Second Life - there are 92 galleries listed here. I'm expecting some are real life photos/art some are second life photos ... long weekend of the summer was full of heat and sun. That's been rare here this year in Ontario. For Blog Day this year I thought I would find other blogs that match (and surpass) my other blog's focus - Photography. I'm no expert by any means. I just enjoy taking photos. Here are 5 new blogs I've come across where the photos and the stories are ...
    Discovery Through eLearning - Tuesday, September 2, 2008 - Comments
  • NY Times Visualizes the Northstar Nerd!
    ... at data. This is how I led off my earlier post: "Last Summer Second Life was all the rage in the popular media. In fact, one of the most linked (and found) pages on this blog are the Second Life Tutorials (more SL posts).
    eContent - Sunday, August 31, 2008 - Comments
  • Tools Used
    LearningTown, del.icio.us/delicious, Picassa, Ning, Google Docs/Google Apps, Second Life, Blogger, iGoogle, orkut ... things that jumped out at me:Much more blog reading that I expected. 62% read at least weekly.Interestingly RSS readership ... , MySpace, LinkedIn, Facebook, Wiki, RSS, RSS Reader, Wikipedia, delicious, del.icio.us, blogs.
    eLearning Technology - Monday, August 25, 2008 - Comments
  • Tools Used
    LearningTown, del.icio.us/delicious, Picassa, Ning, Google Docs/Google Apps, Second Life, Blogger, iGoogle, orkut ... things that jumped out at me:Much more blog reading that I expected. 62% read at least weekly.Interestingly RSS readership ... , MySpace, LinkedIn, Facebook, Wiki, RSS, RSS Reader, Wikipedia, delicious, del.icio.us, blogs.
    eLearning Technology - Monday, August 25, 2008 - Comments
  • Recording Virtual Field Trips
    Two colleagues of mine, Susan and Christine, had a great idea! They wanted to do a virtual field trip in Second Life ... Second Life account in order to experience the field trip. So they wondered if they could â¬Ürecordâ¬" the instructor ... four step process.Capture the video in FRAPS while in Second Life. FRAPS does a full screen capture of what you see in Second Life. It even captures streaming video clips with audio that are playing in world. The full version of FRAPS is ... this solution to show to the instructor. It is a short, less than a minute, video showing a virtual field trip in Second ...
    eLearning Acupuncture - Friday, August 1, 2008 - Comments
  • Recording Virtual Field Trips
    Two colleagues of mine, Susan and Christine, had a great idea! They wanted to do a virtual field trip in Second Life ... Second Life account in order to experience the field trip. So they wondered if they could â¬Ürecordâ¬" the instructor ... four step process.Capture the video in FRAPS while in Second Life. FRAPS does a full screen capture of what you see in Second Life. It even captures streaming video clips with audio that are playing in world. The full version of FRAPS is ... this solution to show to the instructor. It is a short, less than a minute, video showing a virtual field trip in Second ...
    eLearning Acupuncture - Friday, August 1, 2008 - Comments
  • The Web is Not Public...But maybe It Should be or maybe Not
    ... companies and we are largely at their whim. Second Life/Linden Lab is really just a Web-hosting company that lives in ... my coffee and our regularly scheduled blog.
    e-Clippings (blogoehlert) - Tuesday, July 22, 2008 - Comments
  • The Web is Not Public...But maybe It Should be or maybe Not
    ... companies and we are largely at their whim. Second Life/Linden Lab is really just a Web-hosting company that lives in ... my coffee and our regularly scheduled blog.
    e-Clippings (blogoehlert) - Tuesday, July 22, 2008 - Comments
  • Second Life type Tools - Lively
    I still don't have a real purpose for Second Life yet. But I'm getting asked more questions about it.Interestingly, as soon as I sent my boss an invite to meander through Second Life with me, my feed reader explodes with stuff on Lively, Google's Second Life style ap.There are a couple of features I like right off the bat.- I can build my own rooms and ... the Second Life download. Navigation is also more intuitive than second life (though I'll admit I haven't moved around ... ?- We can use meaningful names for our avatars.- I can embed the room into my web page (or blog). BTW - that thing in ...
    In the Middle of the Curve - Wednesday, July 9, 2008 - Comments
  • New Distributed 3D Virtual Environment w/ Instructional Potential: Google Lively
    ... be in the world of emerging technologies. A quick initial reaction: it’s Second Life distributed.We should be able to experience it in our environments (such as blogs, wikis, or even LMS’). At first glance, Google seems to be ... Well, this sucks for Second Life Read Write Web Lively runs completely in the browser and you use your Google account to ... Second Life. You can also watch YouTube clips on virtual TVs and share your own photos. See more here at Google Lively ... on the Internet, including photos or videos. For another, you can embed your Lively area into your blog or, ...
    Janet Clarey - Wednesday, July 9, 2008 - Comments
  • Engineering Data Visualization
    Last Summer Second Life was all the rage in the popular media. In fact, one of the most linked (and found) pages on this blog are the Second Life Tutorials (more SL posts). However, as much as SL gathered media attention, the bigger interest for most of us was the discipline of engineering simulation and data visualization. While conducting some research recently, I became aware of an excellent visualization seminar series from Duke University. Like most research ... wiki sections: Software Engineering Learning Blogs and Pods     ...
    eContent - Thursday, June 19, 2008 - Comments
  • Learning Gets a Second Life
    ... and 30,000 people Others also doing this as well (Cisco for example)Weekly meetings in Second Life.- Sound now available in second life!!!!Can express self through avatar. Self-expression a real strength.- More potent than video ... helping instructors do this.- Second life has own scripting language- Most of this is one-time development. A consultant ... Learning Gets a Second LifePresenter: Anders Gronstedt, Gronstedt GroupDigital natives spend more time playing video ... . (Web 2.0)- See in wikis, blogs and podcastsPodcasting on the go - there is still some downtime (commuting, walking ...
    In the Middle of the Curve - Thursday, June 5, 2008 - Comments
  • Collaboration in a Virtual World Pt. 1
    ... the foundation of a learning communityAudience - training in Second Life. Docs havenâ¬"t used 2nd life. Have seen some ... - people constructing replicas of on the ground classrooms. Doing same thing in 2nd life can do in real life (one guy talking ... blog. Students feel like a tremendous outlet to express fears / frustrations / joys of learning.Some play with Wikis ... - Research assignments - seek out and present additional resources- Group work on case studies- Simulations- Blogs- ...
    In the Middle of the Curve - Tuesday, June 3, 2008 - Comments
  • Second Life Training
    This month's question came from a reader the June 2008 Big Question is:Second Life Training?More specifically:In what situations, do you believe it makes sense to develop a learning experience that will be delivered within Second Life? If you were to develop a training island in Second Life, what kind of environment and artifacts would you consider ... Second Life for Online Classes50 Tips and Tricks to Create a Learning Space in Second LifeMick Leyden - Can we possibly use Second Life?G-Cube - e-Learning and Second Life - How viable is it?Donald Clark - 10 reasons not to use Second Life ...
    The Learning Circuits Blog - Saturday, May 31, 2008 - Comments
  • Second Life Training
    This month's question came from a reader the June 2008 Big Question is:Second Life Training?More specifically:In what situations, do you believe it makes sense to develop a learning experience that will be delivered within Second Life? If you were to develop a training island in Second Life, what kind of environment and artifacts would you consider ... Second Life for Online Classes50 Tips and Tricks to Create a Learning Space in Second LifeMick Leyden - Can we possibly use Second Life?G-Cube - e-Learning and <