Instructional Media Lab MSU-Bozeman

The International Society for Technology in Education is celebrating their Grand Opening in Second Live with a Scavenger Hunt, the ISTEGOSH. Task one in the hunt was to visit 25 numbered locations on ISTE’s island in SL, take pictures, and post them on Flickr. So, if you want to see 25 pictures of my avatar [...]

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Claudia Linden let it be know that Linden Lab is working on a future teen accessible area of the Second Life main grid, where educators and kids could mix more openly than on the highly restricted Teen Grid. Details have clearly not been worked out yet. Much work remains to be done. But many present [...]

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Sunday, July 15th, Bill Friis, the Second Life avatar of Bill Freese, attended the grand opening of the ELVEN Institute in Second Life. The institute is devoted to helping preK-12 educators and librarians to integrate new technologies into teaching and learning. The event was held on the rooftop of the institute’s building on the Cybrary [...]

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Vassar’s site in Second Life has just opened a reproduction of the Sistine Chapel. I have a photo I shot in the original (along with a thousand other tourists breaking the no photo rule that day) and roughly the same shot in Second Life. The Second Life copy is very good, and much less crowded. [...]

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The New Media Consortium campus in Second Life has announced the winners of their Impact of Digital Media Photo Contest. Our effort was an image inspired by photos of Montana pioneers, but this time the pioneers were moving into a virtual frontier. We tied for third place. Makes us quietly proud. And a bit richer. [...]

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