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Learning in immersive virtual worlds (simulations and virtual worlds such as Second Life) could become a central learning approach in many curricula, ...

Though this article is written for the business sector, there are many great parallels with how we experience social media's acceptance in the educational realm. The suggestions that are given are readily applied to our setting, as well. In the enterprise, many employees think blogs are merely websites on which people talk about their cat or their latest meal. Many don't know the differences between and advantages of such tools as message boards, blogs, and wikis. They have heard of these terms in passing, but the demands of their day-to-day jobs have prevented them from recognizing the distinct benefits of each tool. Solution: It is useless to advocate for social media tools in a vacuum. Unless you're describing a solution to a practical problem, busy workers will not respond to buzzwords like "wiki," "blog," and "community." Your client usually has about a 30-second attention span in which you can sell a social media tool. An aide in my arsenal has been the excellent videos by Lee Lefever at Common Craft. Lee visually explains social media concepts "In Plain English." Common Craft videos quickly explain complex and sometimes unfamiliar technologies in a few minutes, sans the buzzwords, hype, and sensationalism. Problem: Cynical Clients Who Don't Want to Share Information Unfortunately, some potential SharePoint users balk at the technology because they have no desire to share their knowledge for the benefit of the organization. These individuals tend to equate their knowledge with job security; therefore, they feel nervous about sharing out of fear that they wouldn't be needed any more.

As part of the education track of the Second Life Community Convention (SLEDcc 2008), we'd like to showcase great educational machinima. Work will be featured at a Machinima Festival that spans the three-day,

Eduverse website for Flat Classrooms session in Second Life coming April 21, 2009 where Vcki Davis and Julie Lindsay will be interviewed!

If print job not disappear after deleting the print queue than u should recycle the printer , after recycling the printer memory will be cleared from printer it will also clear the pending print jobs follow the below steps to recycle the printer , Sometimes the printer may have to be recycled a second time before it will print (if the top print job in the queue will not disappear with the first recycling).

,Virtual Macbeth was designed to demonstrate how we might best use the affordances of virtual environments for Education. Shakespeare’s Macbeth reimagined in Second Life provides an adaptive bridge between classic texts and new media technology.

SLOODLE is an Open Source project which integrates the multi-user virtual environment of Second Life® with the Moodle® learning-management system.

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Second (annual?) EduBloggerCon "East" is being planned (thanks to the generosity of Alan November) just prior to, the Buliding Learning Communities Conference (BLC09)

NineHub is a Simple, Easy, Reliable and Secure LMS Hosting. Anyone can create online courses within seconds even without installation or programming skills. It provides unlimited disk space, bandwidth, classes, instructors and learners.

Using Moodle - Teaching with the Popular Open Source Course management System by Jason Cole and Helen Foster is published by O'Reilly as part of the Community Press series. It can be downloaded for free. Cool The first edition of the book, written by Jason Cole and released in July 2005, is based on Moodle 1.4. The second edition, released in November 2007, has been updated to cover all the features in Moodle 1.8, such as the new roles and permissions system, blogs, messaging and the database module.

With Thinkature, you can create a collaborative workspace and invite coworkers, friends, and colleagues to join you in just seconds. Once inside your workspace, you can communicate by chatting, drawing, creating cards, and adding content from around the Internet. It's all synchronous, too - no need to hit reload or get an editing lock.

Teacher Tv From Good to Outstanding Follow teachers as they try to improve their skills. Will Hana and Rachel get the outstanding rating? Watch uncut footage of their second lessons, then join the discussion group to share your thoughts.

A very well-intentioned, but ignorant piece on the role of video games in the classroom. Non-educators should stay out of the education arena and write what they know about!! "On the other hand, does it really take a videogame to make learning fun? Surely, there are better ways, which are less likely to be dated the second they're finished."

This is the second part of a three part series focusing on tips and tricks for podcasting.