Yearly Archives: 2012

We’re moving!

Posted on October 12, 2012 by aevallegalicia

Due to the expansion of interests and grids (from SL into JokaydiaGrid, OSGrid, ReactionGrid, NWG, etc) and online games (i.e. World of Warcraft, Glitch, Disney, Minecraft), the post topics have outgrown the label of ”Second Life.”  Therefore, we’ve just launched a new WordPress site–http://southalabamagamingeducators.wordpress.com/ . Hope you’ll make the hop with us and continue reading! Filed under: Projects Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Local gaming educators have a new site/group!

Posted on October 12, 2012 by aevallegalicia

Welcome to our new site for SAGE–South Alabama Gaming Educators.  I’ve been meaning to create a new blog/group since Jaguarland closed.  I think that though Second Life may be the primary place that most educators involved in virtual worlds have as their home, there is so much more out there!  As for myself, I know [...] Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Pandamonium Hits WoW

Posted on September 28, 2012 by aevallegalicia

If you have any gamers at all in your classes, you may not have seen much of them this week.  Tuesday, the latest World of Warcraft expansion, Mists of Pandaria went live.  The WoW forums were rampant with both kids and adults exclaiming that they were taking off for the next day, some the entire week, just to [...] Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Fall ’12 Semester Kick-off in SL

Posted on August 20, 2012 by aevallegalicia

The past few months have been a mixed bag for the few of us from USA working in SL and other virtual worlds.  With the loss of Jaguarland, yours truly had to regroup and decide whether or not to keep up the tours and the groups, etc.  Through lurking and semi-participating through various MOOCs hosted [...] Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Post July 4th theme for the tour this week!

Posted on July 3, 2012 by aevallegalicia

We may have lost Jaguarland but I’m still doing tours!  (Actually now, I have the chance to branch out of SL, so don’t be surprised if you see tours of Inworldz, World of Warcraft, Cloud Party, or JokaydiaGrid coming up!) This Thursday’s tour has a Fourth of July theme–even though it’s on the fifth–kind of [...] Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Gone but not forgotten…

Posted on June 22, 2012 by aevallegalicia

It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything here.  Over the past few weeks, on a personal level I’ve had a world of new opportunities opening up within the virtual environment and MMORPGs that I’ve been off exploring on one level or another.  Some of these have, amazingly enough, pulled in my previous life as [...] Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Embedding Forums, Assignments, and Exams in Lessons

Posted on June 8, 2012 by Rob

I was recently helping a faculty member migrate her course from eCollege to Sakai. and, because I didn’t want to make things too hard on her when it came time to move her course to a new site for the … Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Protected: CoTL 2012 Keynote Addresses

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Rob

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Two new opportunities coming up

Posted on April 23, 2012 by aevallegalicia

For those who missed the Virtual Worlds MOOC following the VWBPE conference, we’re not through yet!  Due to requests to keep going, we’ll be rolling out two more MOOCs shortly.  One will be a more indepth focus on machinima making and participants should come out of it with their own completed machinima project.  The other [...] Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Thoughts on my (Re)Introductions to World of Warcraft, JokaydiaGrid, and Machinima-Making

Posted on April 9, 2012 by aevallegalicia

As I said in the last post, it’s been a whirlwind few weeks.  I’m still visiting multiple grids/rpgs per day–I’m just not doing multiples at a time anymore!  I’ve been amazed at the people I’ve met in the Cognitive Dissonance and Inevitable Betrayal guilds in World of Warcraft (they’re educators’ guilds on the US Sisters of Elune [...] Continue reading → Continue reading →

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