September Blog-o'-the-Month at ISTE Island: Congratulations!

All the buzz about the closing of the Teen Grid, Linden Lab's reported rudeness to Eduisland3  owners in refusing a needed rollback(see quoted email below), and the ongoing debates about the increasingly tenuous relationship the Lab has to education does tend to distract from our commitment to Second Life, but the Bloggers Hut presses on. Maybe it's time to mirror it for backup at the new ISTE Islands in ReactionGrid!

Congratulations to September 2010's ISTE Island Blog-o'-the-Month "Virtual School Meanderings," Michael Barbour's informative treatment of all things related to online learning opportunities. I'll admit to a bias in the choice of nominees for this month: My new work is in the field of virtual schools, and it pleases me that Barbour's blog won the (admittedly very light this month--where ARE you people? It must be the first month of the school year or something!) vote at the Bloggers Hut on ISTE Island in Second Life.

Bloggers Hut Nominees for October are (and I'll promise to change the theme for November--I'm having too much fun discovering virtual schooling themed blogs!):


Red: VirtuED Virtual Educaton
http://virtued.wordpress.com/
Stan Trevena and others

Green: virtual learning
http://sclater.com/blog
Niall Sclater

Yellow: Virtual Learning Worlds
http://www.virtuallearningworlds.com/
Barton Pursel

Blue:  Virtual Worlds News
http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/
Chris Sherman

Here's that note from Fleet about Eduisland 3, sent to me in a forwarded email from my friend Bernajean Porter. What gives, Linden Lab?...

Hi again,

 

Regarding the earlier notification that Eduisland 3 had been damaged and I had ordered a rollback: the Lindens have notified me that they are refusing to do a rollback because they have changed their policies, and will now only rollback for - quote - "catastrophic technical failure".  They claim that too many people have abused rollback in the past in order to get free copies of objects.

 

I am obviously furious about this but have no way to do anything about it other than spend a considerable amount of time manually putting packages of objects in my 'Lost and Found' folder carefully back into place tomorrow.

 

If you are an Eduisland 3 resident then please check the 'Lost and Found' folder of your inventory for any items belonging to your avatar that may have been returned to you and re-rez them in the appropriate locations as best you can.

 

I apologize deeply for the inconvenience to our Eduisland 3 tenants.  Obviously this change in policy goes far beyond Eduisland 3 in its ramifications, meaning that we cannot auto-repair future damage to other sims either.  Naturally, Sambiglyon will draft a new policy to address this issue.

 

Best wishes!

 

- Fleet