"Formerly hosted by the UNC TLT Collaborative, this year the TLT Conference is being hosted by UNC-Pembroke, with support by the UNC System, and will be held April 13-15, 2010 in Second Life.
The presentations and demonstrations will be held on the five NC Education WeBIEE islands. NC Education is a Second Life group funded by the community colleges and open to all of North Carolina education.
Registration for the 2010 UNC TLT Conference is free! You can attend from your home, office, library . . . anywhere you have a broadband internet connection -- for free!!"
Describes the use of geotagging for photos uploaded from some cameras and phones to the internet and being able to track to someone's home location. Represents the down side to some technology.
Many comments (185) - pro and con
http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/06/bill-gates-education/
* college needs to be less "place-based,"
* overall point is that it's just too expensive and too hard to get these upper-level educations.
* soon place-based college educations will be five times less important than they are today.
* no matter how you came about your knowledge, you should get credit for it.
* textbooks are too long... even in grade school some are 300 pages.
* our text books are three times longer than the equivalents in Asia.