It's exciting to see the interest and activity taking place at ReactionGrid. If you're wondering how to get involved in this, take a quick look a the videos from the Digiteen Dream Team: ReactionGrid. The video tutorials might be just the thing to kick you off on your virtual adventure!
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Added by Judy O'Connell on October 13, 2009 at 5:38pm —
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Global Kids, Inc. is a nationally recognized leader in using digital media to promote global awareness and youth civic engagement. Global Kids’ Online Leadership Program integrates a youth development approach and international and public policy issues into youth media programs that build digital literacy and STEM skills, foster substantive dialogues, develop resources for educators, and promote civic participation.… Continue
Added by Judy O'Connell on July 23, 2009 at 3:14pm —
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While articles about education in Virtual Worlds appear frequently in journals and anthologies devoted to the study of immersive worlds, the new Journal of Virtual Worlds in Educaion is the first academic journal that will center solely on education in virtual media.
The first issue is slated to appear in May 2009. The Journal of Virtual Worlds and Education is accepting artic… Continue
Added by Judy O'Connell on March 29, 2009 at 12:00am —
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Aussie's from Jokaydia visited, explored and played in "The Far Away" in 2008. We encountered may interesting people and discussed the extraordinary visual landscapes there.
The artist behind this build chooses not to reveal his real life name. In Second Life, a 3D virtual world, he is the avatar known as, "AM Radio", and he is incredibly gifted.
Below is a link to a NYTimes article from 3/5/09 titled "Portr… Continue
Added by Judy O'Connell on March 28, 2009 at 3:56pm —
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Why build a virtual world?
Philip Rosedale talks about the virtual society he founded, Second Life, and its underpinnings in human creativity. It's a place so different that anything could happen!
Watch this video from the creator of Second Life at… Continue
Added by Judy O'Connell on March 22, 2009 at 12:00pm —
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The Islands of jokaydia will be taking part in Linden Lab's Educational Support Faire from 25th January 2009 - 30 January 2009 in Second Life!
Join us for fun, networking, resources and new contacts in the Second Life Education Community!
You can visit the jokaydia booth from the 25th Jan @ http://slurl.com/secondlife/Olde/145/42/35
Also, check out the fabulous calendar of events scheduled for the fair @… Continue
Added by Judy O'Connell on January 25, 2009 at 1:00pm —
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The Science For Second Life project run in 2008 which integrated Second Life and a wide range of web tools into a standards-based high school science class in New York City, has now published an independent evaluation that was conducted during the project .
Key findings included:
* Students’ attitudes towards science-related careers changed positively w… Continue
Added by Judy O'Connell on January 25, 2009 at 12:55pm —
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Alternate reality games (ARGs) weave together real-world artifacts with clues and puzzles hidden virtually any place, such as websites, libraries, museums, stores, signs, recorded telephone messages, movies, television programs, or printed materials. ARGs are not computer or video games, but electronic devices are frequently used to access clues. Players can meet and talk with characters in the narrati… Continue
Added by Judy O'Connell on January 15, 2009 at 9:00pm —
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The most recent issue of EDUCAUSE has a fantastic focus on Virtual Worlds in their Back to Virtual School issue Volume 43, Number 5, September/October 2008.
"Whether it is Second Life or another virtual world, this foundational movement is not going away. The question to be addressed in th… Continue
Added by Judy O'Connell on September 22, 2008 at 11:30am —
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We love inspiring each other! So those Jokaydians who are attending NECC were stoked to be able to meet up with Konrad Glogowski our fellow Jokaydian whose research and thinking provides the bedrock to educators working with online tools, and in-world tools.
In true Jokaydian fashion we jumped on the opportunity to stream Konrad’s presentation into Jokaydia, for our SL friends.… Continue
Added by Judy O'Connell on July 2, 2008 at 3:42pm —
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Thanks to Peregrine Salon at Second Blogger, I have picked up a nice 'cheat sheet' that I can hand out to any newbies working in SL. You might like to grab a copy too - and it come in two different qualities, depending on your printing needs.
Beautiful Machinima Kondrad!
I was particularly pleased to catch up with the Machinima that Konrad has put together of the Virtual Classroom Project. Jump over and read about the innovative project, and then catch up with the Final
In a couple of weeks our students will begin to work and play in Skoolaborate, our entry point into Teen Second Life. This week we set up all our machines, and tested the avatars that were created. Paul, a keen student, ensured that the avatars all logged in correctly. He was allowed just 5 minutes to actually see what it is like to maneuver with an avatar. This is where I was so struck by the difference between wired kids and their teachers. I have had… Continue
Unlike Dean and his excellent troupe of students, we are at the very early stages of implementing Teen Second Life. Today I created some avatars for our students who are joining Skoolaborate, and we are having our first 'meeting' tomorrow. In our school we are running Teen Second Life as a co-curricular program. The idea is to run a small project to investigate the learning opportunities for our students - and to provide some concrete informatio… Continue
Added by Judy O'Connell on April 29, 2008 at 7:00pm —
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This morning I attended a fabulous ISTE presentation by Konrad Glogowski aka Konrad March at the ISTE Second Life auditorium. He spoke so well about blogging and the creation of student collaborative ventures, with teachers fostering the creation of student blogging that is personal, flexible, and not overshadowed by a 'teacherly voice'. More on this later. Jo Kay and I will put together a bit of a presentation to capture the essence of Konrad's message… Continue
The Islands of Jokaydia in Second Life provide us with professional collaboration and meeting spaces, and support for our virtual worlds projects. Visit the jokaydia.com website for more information.
I am fairly new to immersive environments, but I love the idea of building with kids. I teach middle school so I could bring some of my own students. or work with others. I am on the east coast in the US as fair as time goes. I have more open time o…
It's exciting to see the interest and activity taking place at ReactionGrid. If you're wondering how to get involved in this, take a quick look a the videos from the Digiteen Dream Team: ReactionGrid. The video tutorials might be just the thing to kick you off on your virtual adventure!
To f… Continue
Why build a virtual world?
Philip Rosedale talks about the virtual society he founded, Second Life, and its underpinnings in human creativity. It's a place so different that anything could happen!
Watch this video from the creator of Second Life at… Continue
such as websites, libraries, museums, stores, signs, recorded telephone messages, movies, television programs, or printed materials. ARGs are not computer or video games, but electronic devices are frequently used to access clues. Players can meet and talk with characters in the narrati… Continue
