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Linden Research was sued on Tuesday for allegedly hosting a virtual Canal Street on Second Life. This is only tangentially related to the class, but I given that a lot of what we've seen in class covers Second-Life-like environments, I thought it might be good to keep up with what's going on with the actual Second Life.

AR experiment by Georgia Inst. of Tech. superimposing Second Life Characters in a real life office environment.

AR experiment by Georgia Inst. of Tech. superimposing Second Life characters in a real life office environment.

Discusses the use of virtual worlds for business collaboration

Using second life to facilitate business meetings is an indicator of how virtual collaboration is becoming more prevalent in the business world.

Gateway source for all students: high school and college composition and journalism and student of life. Bookmark this source and then bookmark the hyperlinks in this article. Do you have the 10 (11 for the bonus) tech skills down? I certainly can improve in some of these areas.

I am giving a talk in Second Life this week, if any of you are interested in seeing how that works.

Here's video examples of some of the MIND Institute's games... I'm not sure how the reveal of locations behind the iPad really come into play... SURELY they could have come up with more functional examples that relate content to real life?

Can you think of more functional & relative locations to showcase?

"This contribution to Seton Hall's Center for Mobile Research & Innovation is about more than just teaching the students to develop mobile apps - it is also teaching them professional and life skills, motivating them and preparing them for college, and instilling community service values"

full disclosure: classmate Alex Schoenfeld first shared this with the us in the TIE facebook group :). But it brings an interesting trend in the adoption and pricing of mobile apps: Article outlining what lots of us know when it comes to moblie apps and pricing - free, $1, and $2 are the price-points that sell, and allow us to try out an app with minimal regret. But with the rise of more and more high-quailty, high-profile, and high-budget educatioanl apps, will the pricing structure change? Will parents and educators be willing to spend the prices of traditional computer software ($50 or more?) for really great mobile apps? The article brings up an interesting model that seems to already be coming to life looking at how apps are being sold and updated lately: "Donahoo and Russell propose there's a better way: subscriptions and content expansion packs.  Launchpad Toys follows the latter tact. The initial price the Toontastic app for $3 (though it's currently free). Users can use that fully functioning app, or choose to add additional characters and themes with $.99 expansion packs. This way, they contend, costs are controlled; it's cheap for parents and children to evaluate an app, and the model encourages regular updates."

The role technology can play in expanding the time during which learning can take place.

Another article about "expanded learning time" both online and via community-based "brick and mortar" locations like libraries, YMCA, and Boys & Girls Clubs. "Out-of-school programs can be strong partners for schools who want to leverage expanded learning time to help their students achieve global competence. Youth-serving organizations share the broad mission to promote student success in work and life in the 21st century. Out-of-school program organization and management is often based on an asset model that values diversity. In order to attract and retain participants, out-of-school programs are centered around youth engagement through hands-on and experiential learning, often with a focus on 21st century skills, service learning, science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education, and others."

I wonder what Helen Haste would think of this organization . . .

"Playing Angry Birds or Mario Kart can warp your perception of what's real and what's virtual - and that might be just what you need"

PBS Kids has developed its first augmented reality mobile phone app that overlays graphics onto real world environments. The game aims to teach math skills.

Day in the life of a flipped classroom

It's cool to see how teachers have been inspired. This model obviously has some strengths.

Looks like chocolate covered broccoli to me...

teachers' experiences with how they conceptualize AR

Really interesting article about the potential of a lifelong and nonlinear path through college - reminiscent of Prof. Dede's lifelong and life-wide learning propositions/models.

Article from Usable Knowledge regarding augmented reality from the perspective of Mr. Dede himself!

There are no Aliens attacking and the threat of anilation is actually quite real. This is the narrative and inquiry learning that Jungrau has loaded on their rental iPhones for park visitors. Think for it as a living museum fighting for life and YOU are the FBI agent...or chemist.

Internet is certaily playing an incredibly important role in our daily life, no matter in the United States, or China.