Tonight at 5 pm SLTime at http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Eduisland%206/37/227/21 on Atlantis Rising Campus come here about a new initiative to create an online 3d world absolutely dedicated to educators! That's all I know. Come learn more with me!
AND:
Mark your virtual calendars for Thursday, Sept. 30, at 6 pm SLTime, when Chris Smith, aka Shamblesguru himself, will lead an iPad Apps party at the campfires on ISTE Island. Come learn about the best apps, come share your favorites or your not-so-favorites, and have a pahhhhty with your colleagues together over the globe. Chris, by the way, will be coming to us from his own geolocation in Northern Thailand, and doing so the next day at that!
Thanks to our own Louise/Terra for setting this one up. It should be the very most wonderful fun.
Monday, September 27, 2010
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Pics from ISTE SIGVE Speaker Session "Speedchat" Panel last night!
I'll put these at the ISTE SIGVE wiki within the next day or two but it was quicker this morning to slap them up here. Just to share a really interesting and enlightening and inspirational hour at the ISTE Island Auditorium last night with fellow ISTE Second Lifers and Kyle and Chris from ReactionGrid last night. The first pics in this slideshow are from a much earlier speed chat session, but stay in there--first pic from last night is the one of the small group at the SL ISTE Island campfire. Click to go full screen then option to show captions (I'll fix that soon so it's automatic) and enjoy. Cheers!
Here's a direct link to the ISTE SIGVE Speed Chat set!
Here's a direct link to the ISTE SIGVE Speed Chat set!
Friday, September 10, 2010
What Happened to SIGVE?
Here on September 10, I'm musing about that. What happened? We came off of a faboo experience in Denver last early July with renewed energy and commitment to learning and teaching, fueled by an intense three days of sharing and celebrating at the ISTE2010 Virtual Environments Playground. At the SIG Leadership meeting that week, SIGVE's creation of ISTE Islands 1 and 2 in ReactionGrid was singled out as one of the SIG's accomplishments in 2009-10.
The ISTE SIGVE 3rd Tuesday Speaker Series was also mentioned, and our own Catherine Parsons, aka Victoria Gloucester, proved the praise on target by sharing a very personal history of virtual worlds exploration and her own perspective on the value of the 3D internet at the July Session.In August we took a Fall Break from the series, as did Kevin Jarrett's excellent broader-themed Speaker Series and the ISTE Thursday Socials. Now it sort of feels like we need to rez some animated tumbleweeds blowing through ISTE Island in Second Life in order to reflect the mood of the place.
What happened? Well, clearly, SIGVE members, like educators everywhere, rightly turned their attention to the start of a new academic school year. First and foremost we owe attention to our new students, the children for whom we serve in loco parentis for so many of their waking hours. For me, my students are not in a classroom anymore. I guess that makes me in loco loginquitas. Did I mention that I left my K-4 Independent School Technology Coordinator position of 11 years for a new one as Metro Nashville Public Schools' "Virtual Learning Coordinator?" But I still owe my students all my attention. And that is what, like so many of us, I have been paying them.
My feeling with respect to our avocation as innovators in virtual learning environments is that it's been a good break. Now, let's not lose our focus on our students, but let's roll up our sleeves again and continue to explore how virtual environments can best serve the students of the future.
[assumes Rod Serling voice] Item number 1, for your consideration: Next Tuesday, September 21, at 4 pm Second Life Time (SLT), I'll be at the campground at ISTE Island to chat with any and all. There's a lot to talk about. The agenda is open.
Item number 2, for your consideration: Following that meeting, join us for a one hour ISTE SIGVE Speaker Session, 5 pm to 6 pm SLT. This will be a "speed chatting" session akin to the original one-minute-per-panelist experience we had early on, on the topic of Educators in "ReactionGrid." This time each speaker will get two whole minutes a turn. Our stalwart Spiff Whitfield will moderate. On the panel will be (hopefully) Marianne Malmstrom, Noreen Streyhow, Mary Miner, Kelly Irish, Kyle Gomboy, and moi, with the addition of others who wish to join, to a maximum limit of 10 participants. We'll start at 5:05 and end at 5:45 so that others in attendance have a chance to ask and answer.
Item number 3, for your consideration: Following that session, we'll be hosting an Educators Evening in ReactionGrid, where our clever subcommittee has put together some "best-of" sites in RG to visit, and dancing and socializing will prevail. We hope that you can join us for that event, and if you can't, plans are in swing for sharing a desktop at the auditorium in SL so you can just hang out and watch there!
Item number Infinity: Let's keep having fun with this, ya'll. Come play with us.
See http://sigve.iste.wikispaces.net for everything and to add to it! Questions for the panel? Visit http://typewith.me/XSsHPeGKjW and add them. See you there.
The ISTE SIGVE 3rd Tuesday Speaker Series was also mentioned, and our own Catherine Parsons, aka Victoria Gloucester, proved the praise on target by sharing a very personal history of virtual worlds exploration and her own perspective on the value of the 3D internet at the July Session.In August we took a Fall Break from the series, as did Kevin Jarrett's excellent broader-themed Speaker Series and the ISTE Thursday Socials. Now it sort of feels like we need to rez some animated tumbleweeds blowing through ISTE Island in Second Life in order to reflect the mood of the place.
What happened? Well, clearly, SIGVE members, like educators everywhere, rightly turned their attention to the start of a new academic school year. First and foremost we owe attention to our new students, the children for whom we serve in loco parentis for so many of their waking hours. For me, my students are not in a classroom anymore. I guess that makes me in loco loginquitas. Did I mention that I left my K-4 Independent School Technology Coordinator position of 11 years for a new one as Metro Nashville Public Schools' "Virtual Learning Coordinator?" But I still owe my students all my attention. And that is what, like so many of us, I have been paying them.
My feeling with respect to our avocation as innovators in virtual learning environments is that it's been a good break. Now, let's not lose our focus on our students, but let's roll up our sleeves again and continue to explore how virtual environments can best serve the students of the future.
[assumes Rod Serling voice] Item number 1, for your consideration: Next Tuesday, September 21, at 4 pm Second Life Time (SLT), I'll be at the campground at ISTE Island to chat with any and all. There's a lot to talk about. The agenda is open.
Item number 3, for your consideration: Following that session, we'll be hosting an Educators Evening in ReactionGrid, where our clever subcommittee has put together some "best-of" sites in RG to visit, and dancing and socializing will prevail. We hope that you can join us for that event, and if you can't, plans are in swing for sharing a desktop at the auditorium in SL so you can just hang out and watch there!
Item number Infinity: Let's keep having fun with this, ya'll. Come play with us.
See http://sigve.iste.wikispaces.net for everything and to add to it! Questions for the panel? Visit http://typewith.me/XSsHPeGKjW and add them. See you there.
Thursday, September 2, 2010
September Blog-o'-the-Month at ISTE Island: Congratulations!
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
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