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 [...]
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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 [...]
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I’ve been really lax in posting of late. The Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education conference was AMAZING. As exploration stream lead, I used the conference to fulfill my internship hours for the IDD program here at South. In preparing for the tours and exploration, I signed up for, played around in, and created orientation [...]
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Maryellen Weimer, the keynote speaker at last year’s South Alabama Conference on Teaching and Learning, had another great blog post this week where she compares the Ideal Professor with the Typical Professor. She cites a research study where junior and … Continue reading
Here it is, the end of yet another semester. As with the semesters prior to this one, this is the time that I start planning the upcoming tours for the next season. This semester’s wasn’t as well attended as I’d hoped–a big part of that is thanks to the ongoing technical issues we’re having on campus with the firewall–but if [...]
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There are many reactions one can have to a computer going down. For someone who’s an ed-techer, that reaction isn’t pretty. I’ve been on a borrowed laptop for weeks now (my good desktop has had to go in for extensive “surgery”) and the lappy’s good for email, but not for virtual worlds. So what’s a virtual [...]
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