Try Bablefish to translate text to other languages. I sure wish they had Vietnamese for one of my students!
Second Life in the News
I though I would create an entry where I could keep track of the links that people send me — and those I find myself! Google Eyeing its own Second Life
Sloodle Your Noodle in Second Life
This presentation was pre-recorded before the Eastern Iowa District Staff Development Day.
I Bought an Island
… a virtual island that is! I wanted to “work the float” for my credit card and provide the maximum amount of time to build our Virtual Campus in Second Life so TODAY I purchased the island. They say it will take 10-15 business days to process and they won’t charge my credit card until…
First Podcasting Attempt
This was originally posted through using ListGarden to create the feed link and index page. This is my first podcast — on, what other than…Podcasting! First inspired by running into the word “podcast” on Yahoo! I then found a book on Podcasting. Now…here I am! This podcasts tells the hardware, software, and process used to…
Second Life — Educational Possibilities
I went to a conference last Spring and saw OpenCroquet. Thought it was interesting, but a lot of work. At the time, they mentioned Second Life. I didn’t pay a lot of attention to it — thinking someday. Well someday is today. I was assigned to teach a course called “Intro to Game Development.” After…
Second Life Proposal
Well, I thought about Second Life some more, and saw the educational possibilities. So, I put in and IDEAS proposal at our college to get a litle seed money to buy an island and put a classroom, campus, district into Second Life. There are some upcoming conferences that I hope will help, and a lot…
Religion in Second Life
As a Noob, I did purchase some land because I wanted to build and create my permanence in Second Life. Well, I had a free house that was really quite fancy with moving blinds and a fireplace and everything! I found my spot of land and purchased it, but right after I did I was…
Summer and Second Life
The teaching year is over for 2006-07, and it is on to my pet projects. This summer it is Second Life, and getting a presence for the Eastern Iowa Community College District. Tomorrow, May 25th there is a SL Conference on Best Practices in Education. It is held from midnight to midnight! Hope I don’t…
Welcome to My Blog!
What an original title for this post! Well, I hope to use this blog in my never-ending struggle to become paperless! I plan to post things here as I think of them, and as I find a need to save this information in a place where I can find it again — and again —…