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 [...]
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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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Hello from the newly minted Innovation in Learning Center! Last night was the last tour for the summer semester and we’re now working on the list of themes for the fall. So far, this is what’s coming (official dates will come later!)– Orientation Centers and Jaguarland Educational Associations in SL Historical Perspectives (Museums and RP [...]
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We’re rolling out another new ”test drive” of a tour this week–Real World Organizations in SL! This tour is one that may have various alternatives in the future, showing how organizations, associations, and consortiums in the real world do work and outreach in Second Life. On Thursday, June 23rd, we’ll tour the American Library Associations sim, [...]
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I’ve been dragging my feet on putting these together, but I finally tallied the numbers from the visitor counters for all USA-related locations in SL for the month of May 2011. Not surprisingly, the beginning of the month was stronger than the end. The last of our Spring semester tours was held at the beginning [...]
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This week, we have another brand new tour, so come on out and help us “test drive” the Literary Arts tour in SL! This tour was meant as a way to look at the non-library related sites that have allowed those who have a love of both reading and writing to find a home in [...]
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In the afterglow of the VWBPE conference, I have to admit I had a bit of extra “bounce” to get something done. Some of the steampunk builds were awe-inspiring and the presentations made me want to do something more. I’d done a tour … Continue reading