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June 29, 2008
Getting Started in Second Life
The Getting Started in Second Life slideset from last year has been redone with the original audio as a podcast. You can see the slides and listen to the audio here.
Available to download to your iPod device from this page.
UM School of Dentistry: IT Bootcamps: http://www.dent.umich.edu/informatics/bootcamp/bootcamp_archive_07.html
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June 28, 2008
Second Life Teacher's Toolkit
The Teacher's Toolkit class from Enriching Scholarship has been redone (in part) as a podcast. You can see the slides and listen to the audio here.
Available to download to your iPod device from this page.
UM School of Dentistry: IT Bootcamps: http://www.dent.umich.edu/informatics/bootcamp/
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June 20, 2008
Brown Bag Chatlog: Fleep Tuque
The chatlog from last week's fascinating fireside chat by Fleep Tuque has now been posted to the wiki.
http://slum.wetpaint.com/page/2008/06/13+-+Fleep+Tuque+on+Education
NOTE: Wetpaint is being weird about the link, so you may need to navigate to the page:
Home > Brown Bags & Community Events > Brown Bag Chatlogs & Notes > ...
Topics ranged across this eclectic set:
* Fleep's Background
* SLEDcc
* Presenting RL Events in SL
* Teen Grid & Gaia
* SL Education Activities, Planning & Examples
* American Chemistry Society
* Second Nature, NOAA, and More
* Salamander & Tours
* Inventory Management Tips
* Recommended Classes
* Web Searching Tips for SL
* Using and Finding Calendars
* Twitter for SL
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VOTE - Annenberg will fund 3 of 5 SL community projects
Annenberg will be funding 3 out of 5 semi-final projects in their Community Challenge in their Network Culture Project Competition.
They are asking Second Life avatars to go to a survey and vote for which they want to see funded. I am working with one, so I have my own preference, but they are all good projects. The way the voting works, you actually have to choose three. Three are health related, one is connected to the Native American community. The five are (briefly):
- Ability Commons, a collaboration between Healthinfo Island (medical librarians), and Virtual Abilities and the Health Support Coalition (organizations that provide education, support and transition guidance in Second Life for persons with disabilities, health care consumer support groups, and support group leaders. (This is the one I'm supporting.)
- Interactive Accessible Home - a virtual model of a home embedded with accessiblity examples, suggestions and tips for modifying your own home to make it more accessible.
- Mauerkrankheit/Wallsickness - an art installation exploring the concept of boundaries and divisions, such as the US-Mexico border or Berlin Wall.
- Native Lands Culture Outreach - bringing together the RL Native American community in Second Life and providing information, education and resources about their culture from the truly informed.
- Texas Obesity Research Center - To extend the offerings of this University of Houston based organization into Second Life with information, education, and resources.
There is more information about all of these at:
http://networkculture.usc.edu/projects/21-network-culture-projects/61-community-challenge-finalists-announced.html
Please vote. If you are on Twitter or other email groups, please pass along the word. Feel free to forward this message. On Twitter, this is what I've been sending:
Annenberg will fund 3 of 5 Second Life community projects.
Read here: http://tinyurl.com/5c4vam Vote here: http://tinyurl.com/4olwah
Here is what the voting looks like.
An early draft of the notecard from Ability Commons is given below.
Let us, as academics and educators in Second Life, support the development of richer educational resources and projects in Second Life by voting. Thank you!
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Something wonderful is happening and with one small action you can be part of it. Our friends in the Health Support Coalition have a chance to win 300,000 Lindens from the Annenberg School to create a SL home for a wide range of peer support groups.
"Ability Commons" is the work of Gentle Heron, Carolina Keats and many of the 41 members of the Health Support Coalition, including "MDSLA," "Crohn's and Colitis Support, " "Open Gates Peer Support," and "Agoraphobia Support Group."
We need your help, right now. Please take 20 seconds to go to this website "http://tinyurl.com/4olwah" and vote for "Ability Commons." Rank them "1) Favored" and do your part to help us create an incubator for small and emerging groups.
Your vote will allow more people with disabilities and health issues to share our pleasure and purposefulness in Second Life.
Will you do more? Please forward this note to your friends - voting is open until June 30, and your help will make all the difference.
Thank you!
Our proposal is here:
http://secondlife.wikia.com/wiki/Ability_Commons
The Annenberg/USC site is here:
http://tinyurl.com/5mawlm
Posted by pfa at 07:16 AM | Comments (0)
June 13, 2008
Chatlog from Tintern Abbey Available
The chatlog from last weeks tour of Tintern Abbey is now available at the wiki:
2008/06/06 - Tintern Abbey with Pipsqueak Fiddlesticks
Highlights of the discussion include the economics of creating the space, student activity design, and the use of audio in the space. The chatlog is divided into sections to facilitate browsing for specific topics.
Posted by pfa at 10:42 AM | Comments (0)
June 06, 2008
SL Grid Down - May Reschedule Tintern Abbey
The grid is currently down.
I'll keep trying, and if we can get in, we'll go ahead with the event, but otherwise will try to reschedule.
Posted by pfa at 12:01 PM | Comments (0)
June 02, 2008
Chatlog available for Working with Students in Second Life Discussion
The chatlog from the May 30, 2008 Brown Bag is now available on the Second Life @ the University of Michigan wiki.
SLUM: Brown Bags: 2008-05-30 Working with Students in Second Life
http://slum.wetpaint.com/page/2008%2F05%2F30+-+Working+with+Students+in+Second+Life
Posted by annepz at 03:21 PM | Comments (0)
June 01, 2008
Upcoming Events - Tintern Abbey, June 6
Friday June 6
9am SLT / 12 noon EDT
http://slurl.com/Eduisland%203/194/68/22/
Lady Pipsqueak Fiddlesticks will be our guide to Tintern Abbey, one of the most carefully researched & crafted literary immersion experiences in Second Life. The Tintern Abbey build carefully researched not only the original literary work but also writings and letters from Wordsworth about the experiences which lead to the writing of the poem. The build is multimedia (make sure you have audio enabled!), with a variety of embedded student learning & enrichment activities.
Wordsworth, William. Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798: http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww138.html
Lady Pipsqueak Fiddlesticks:
Tintern Abbey: Entrance:
Tintern Abbey: View from Overhead:
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