Bad press for Linden Lab

Someone on the SLED list posted a link to the following Slashdot story http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/20/1323231/SecondLife-To-Remove-Free-Content-From-Web-Search The write-up reflects very negatively on Linden Lab.  This latest dust-up, about freebie items in the online store, has not sat well at all.  Is it my imagination, or has Linden Lab had trouble keeping on the good side of the […]

National Educational Technology Plan meeting

As mentioned in my previous post, I was one of the speakers at the International Society for Technology in Education’s (ISTE) Second Life meeting with members of the President’s panel for the National Educational Technology Plan.  Below is the content of my speech. Hello, and welcome. I’m excited and honored to have been asked to […]

Speaking at an event for the National Educational Technology Plan (NETP)

On Thursday, November 5th, 2009, starting at 6pm Pacific Time, ISTE, Metanomics, New Media Consortium, Virtual Ability and the University of Michigan will be hosting an event on the ISTE amphitheater in the 3D virtual world Second Life (c). This event will center around the National Educational Technology Plan (NETP).   Prior to an open discussion […]

Experiment: Text to Voice for transcripts

In an effort to make these transcripts available to those who would normally need to use screen readers, or those who just prefer to listen to them instead of reading them, the SLER is experimenting with converting the text chat transcript to a voice enabled version. This entire effort is the brain child of Margaret […]

“And Justice for All”

I am attending the National Network for Educational Renewal (NNER) 2009 Annual Conference and had the privilege to present with Dr. Leslie Wilson and Dr. Laura Nicosia, both from Montclair State University. Our presentation was titled “And Justice for All: Using Artificial Environments to Create Community and Teach Diversity”. We had a large, and active […]

SLER Wordle

I wanted to see if any common words (or people) showed up more often than others in our SL Education Roundtable meetings. So I took the transcripts from the meetings in March, April and May when we did NOT use voice chat (since the voice chat would not have as complete coverage of the meeting) […]

Help Comparing Netbook Models

(the following was also posted to the SLED list.  I will [hopefully] add any helpful info posted there into comments here) Sorry to repost a similar message, and thanks to the folks who responded to me off list, but things have gotten a bit more complicated. I’m a Mac user, so my exposure to the […]

SLER makes the Highlights of 2008 list

Each week, on Tuesday night, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm Eastern time, I host the Second Life Education Roundtable, or SLER for short. The meetings started last spring. I was looking for a place to meet other education professionals to talk about issues that were important. Nothing met at a time that was convenient for me […]

EDUCAUSE Vitual Worlds Constituent Group

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ELIFALL08 – Building Community with Virtual Spaces

Building Community with Virtual Spaces Shannon Ritter, Social Networks Adviser, Penn State World Campus, The Pennsylvania State University Building a community of learners can be especially challenging when working with online and distance education students. By using social networking tools like Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, and Second Life, we can begin to construct a community of […]