Category Archives: Projects

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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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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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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Catching up after the Whirlwind

Posted on March 29, 2012 by aevallegalicia

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 [...] Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Winter Comes to Jaguarland

Posted on December 5, 2011 by aevallegalicia

Well, I promised it last week, but snow has finally arrived at Jaguarland. Holiday trees abound in various parts of the island (including palm trees in lights up Dauphin Island way), there’s a big hungry snowman near the Fountain of Knowledge, free holiday plants in Jag Village, and for those of you who are itching for a snowball [...] Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Odds and Ends

Posted on November 28, 2011 by aevallegalicia

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 [...] Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Jaguarland’s 27 Mile Bluff Library Growing Slowly

Posted on September 30, 2011 by aevallegalicia

I’ve been spending a bit of time today adding a few more titles to the shelves of the 27 Mile Bluff Library at Jaguarland.  We now not only have a collection of full text books on eLearning and Distance Education, but we also have bookshelves started for Education History and Motivation. If you haven’t visited [...] Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Sim on a Stick Means Everyone Can Have Their Own Grid

Posted on September 8, 2011 by aevallegalicia

I came across the Sim on a Stick idea on the iliveSL blog several months ago.  The idea intrigued me and I filed it away in my head.  Now I’m ready to take the plunge.  For those educators who have a bit of technical mojo, I think this could be a great way to give [...] Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Ancient History Tour and Remembering 9/11

Posted on September 7, 2011 by aevallegalicia

It’s been a mixed bag for me today in Second Life.  I’ve been prepping for tomorrow’s training of our “newbies” in the Innovation in Learning Center as well as updating the Ancient History tour that will go on this week and placing a memorial for the 10th anniversary of 9/11. This week’s tour is of [...] Continue reading → Continue reading →

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