ISTE SIGVE presentation at NSYCATE!

I hope you will take a break from your work to view some of mine/ours. Thanks to good brother Andrew Wheelock/Spiff Whitfield for taking his time to pretty this up and post it!

How an International Special Interest Group Grew from a Special Community from andrew wheelock on Vimeo.

Why Teach in Virtual Worlds? A Visual Example

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November's Blog-o'-the-Month is Virtual and REAL!

Hey, all,

Welcome to November's very rich offering, Dave Lanke's "Virtual Dave...Real Blog" at http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/blog/. We're going all higher ed on you, but you'll love it, because the diversion comes with a librarian's slant. Dave is a Professor at Syracuse University and he's got work on his blog from all the way back to the ancient year 2002. Spend some time there--you'll be glad you did. Dave, if you want to brag, here's an image for ya:

For December? Let's look at some Second Life focused blogs:

Red--Daniel Voyager's Blog at http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/my-5th-rez-day-in-second-life/

Green--Gracie Kendal's "1000 Avatars photography project at http://1000avatars.wordpress.com/

Yellow--Lotus Greene's Educating Lotus at http://educatinglotus.wordpress.com/

Blue--Selby Evans's "Virtual Outworlding" at http://virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com/

Congratulations to the nominees. As of this morning, November 7, it's a four-way tie at the Bloggers Hut on ISTE Island! Go vote! Nominees, feel free to grab an image for your site:

Previously Featured:

Josh Stumpenhorst's "Stump the Teacher"
Dean Groom's "Design for Learning"
Esme Qunhua's "Teaching and Learning in Virtual Worlds"
"Blogging ISTE" webpage featuring scores of blogs for ISTE11 in Philadelphia PA AND IN THE METAVERSE!
Rawlslyn Francis's "Adventures of an Academic Avatar"
Kimberly Hendrick's "Computer Teacher"
Rurik Nakerud's "Ed Thought"
Gourmet Gadget Gal
"Abby's" "Jazzing Up Eighth Grade"
Education World's "Teacher Bea"t
KZero, Inc., "We Are Worldswide"
Engage Digital--(formerly Virtual Worlds News)
Virtual School Meanderings--Michael Barbour
Blogging ISTE (special compendium page at iste.org)
The Dariing Librarian--Gwenyth A. Jones
Why Technology in Education Rocks in Virginia--various VSTE writers
Free Tech for Teachers--Richard Byrne
Suffern Middle School in Second Life--Peggy Sheehy
OpenSimulator--assorted authors
Dusan Writer's Metaverse--Doug Thompson
CoolCatTeacher--Vicki Davis
EdTechJen--Jennifer Roland
Clive on Learning--Clive Shepherd
Technology and Learning--Lee Kraus
PESD Island--Noreen Strehlow
In a Strange Land--Iggy O et al
Second Life in New Zealand--John Waugh, Terry Neal, et al
Hey Jude!--Judy O'Connell
Learning Games--Daniel Livingstone
Learning Visions--Cammy Bean
Dr. Z Reflects--Leigh Zeitz
Hendron's Digest--John Hendron
Phasing Grace--Grace McDunnough
From Mr. A to Mr. Z--Jeff Agamenoni
Around the Corner--McGuhlin.net
Fleep's Deep Thoughts--Fleep Tuque/Chris Colling
NMC Campus--New Media Consortium
PHSPrincipal Blog--Dave Meister
Teaching Math Technology Blog--Maria Anderson
2CentsWorth--David Warlick
The Story of My Second Life--Kevin Jarrett
Oh! Second Life (now Oh! Virtual Learning)--Scott Merrick :)