padlurowncanoe's PTC Keynote!

It's still going on, but my part's done, so I'm bloggin' it. padlurowncanoe Dibou, my friend Cathy Walker in rl (though we've only met here in SL) is keynoting an Instructional Technology Showcase Day at Pulaski Technical College in North Little Rock Arkansas today, and she asked me to come in for a few minutes to talk about ISTE and teacher professional development networking in Second Life. It was getting a bit time-crunched when we got around to my part, but it was truly interesting and fun, especially seeing some of the other sites that her other participators shared. She had Komuso Tokugawa, her blues musician buddy from Tokyo, play some smokin' live music as people were coming in for her workshop, then visited This Second Marketing guru Robin Roar at the TSM sim, where the work for companies like Colgate, Coffeemate, 1-800-flowers, and others is ongoing. After that, we popped over to artist Filthy Fluno's successful art gallery, the topic of much press and the inworld source of artist Jeff Lipsky's realworld livelihood. There's a great set of his pics at flickr...

And, speaking of flickr, here's a small set of pics I managed to snap :).


She then pulled her folks to ISTE Island, where I did a quick-n-dirty ISTE intro and showed them the tp-er board, then popped down to the Blogger's Hut to show some of the resources there. I talked fast and there wasn't much time for joking around, but we had some interesting questions, like "how much time to you spend in SL?" My answer was "an average of 7-10 hours a week, sometimes more, sometimes less" and that's pretty true, excepting for the weeks I spend 20 or so. Today I'm blowing the top off the average, working inworld much of the day while taking care of other business here at my Vanderbilt job.

Finally, before Cathy moved her faculty attendees to breakout sessions at PTC, friend JS Vavoom (John Miller irl) demo'd his great VESIM nursing education simulator. He did a stellar job, sharing his resources at his Centralia classroom after taking us through a cardiac arrest simulation at his sim. He's doing great things with Second Life education and is soooo to be commended. You can bet that livelihoods will be generated by the ground-breaking work he is doing, and one hope that includes prosperity for John himself.

Dat's it! Getting to work irl now! Cheerio, and thanks to padl for including me in the shareshare!