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"Space Makes you Bitter" - Sandbox culture in second life and EVE online slideshare presentation by Kavon

I'll vamp more or less brilliantly about the leveling value of three dimensional virtual worlds. As Lowly High Grand Poobah Emeritus of the 5,000 member international organization ISTE's Special Interest Group for Virtual Environments, 2010 National Ass'n of Independent Schools' "Teacher of the Future," and recipient of ISTE's "Making IT Happen" award in 2011, I know whereof I speak.

Google's Knol Project introduces the term of art 'knol' as a unit of knowledge. As we learn, we acquire 'knols' much like pieces of a gigantic jigsaw puzzle and arduously weave them into a "fabric of knowledge" in which all the pieces fit neatly together and a "big picture" emerges.

Machinima entitled "Crumple's Pet Skunk Tutorial. Created in LegoUniverse by an Elementary Student under the instruction of Knowclue Kidd.

By Documentary Film Program on March 1, 2007 at 1:30 pm The Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School is a leader in the study of the law and policy around the Internet and other emerging technologies.

SIGVE - ISPR: International Society for Presence Research Understanding, evaluating and researching online, virtual and in-direct forms of presence. Extremely interesting, please read.

I believe that we solved all of the puzzles and I think that I know which location matches up to which culprit and their password. Today at noon each of the culprits will stash a flashdrive at their hiding location but we'll have to know which password will unlock them.

An epic (from theGreek adjective ἐπικός (epikos), from ἔπος (epos) "word, story, poem") is a lengthy narrative poem ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_poetry "Be all Epic and stuff." a classroom mantra in Mrs. Sheehy's WoW in School http://wowinschool.pbworks.com.

This week, the topic of discussion is: Arathi Basin - Which strategies are most effective in this battleground for both rated and un-rated play? What tips, tricks and tactics have you discovered? What common mistakes have you witnessed? And More...

Second Life official website. Second Life is a free 3D virtual world where users can socialize, connect and create using free voice and text chat.

Here's a cool way to "animate" students of poetry who haven't quite figured out the beauty of the medium and that it's about THEM. Ask students in groups (or solo) to create an Animoto to express the essence of a poem as these students have done here. My program chair for literature contacted me two weeks ago and said that students were struggling in the poetry unit, whereas in the short story unit (where joy, and not just rigor) was built in, students flourished. think her poetry unit was written from a DISTANCE and not self-immersion. Immerse until joy bubbles up -- simmer well within the appropriate technological apparatus, season with boundaries and student choices -- and voila! One has a complete educational experience. -Exquisite Corpse

the Community Virtual Library Exhibition Area on Info Island, a great wealth of resources and information stored here, come and take a look

from the Caledon Oxbridge University Wiki: "Caledon Oxbridge was originally founded as a collaboration between NCI and the Independent State of Caledon. It provides a complete Second Life tutorial for new residents.

The Virtual Pioneers Group on Facebook where further discussion and meetings dates are set up. Come Join Us.