On Tuesday night I attended at Preceptis event at the Samba Club. Twitter at the conference was a topic of discussion among the vendors ....and it was met with skepticism. For the vendors ( people trying to sell to higher education) an opinion was expressed that they never had read anything meaningful on twitter. Well, there were 7335 meaningless tweets about and around this conference. As someone who teaches marketing I somehow believe that a business looking to find trends, satisfy their custo…
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Added by Kae on November 7, 2009 at 1:43pm —
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ZugZug
Starting...well today we'll be raiding downtown Denver - we'll blog as we can but can you really expect more than microblogging when there's so much looting to be down. And we're still in the middle of the LMS offensive, hoping to reach the D2L lands by January. We do have vets and n00bs going this year.
So look at these twitter accounts for leets
@center4edupunx
@kzenovka
this one to encourage some allied villages to join in
@web20buffet
and this one for n00bs
@techwench
Dabu!
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Added by Kae on November 3, 2009 at 12:47am —
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This is a shout out to one of our EduPunxer who is presenting at the WCET conference on Thursday
WCET is ( taken from their website) a membership cooperative of institutions and organizations dedicated to advancing access and excellence in higher education through the innovative use of technology.
http://www.wcet.info/2.0/
So everyone is in Denver OCT 21- 24. The twitter hashtag for the conference seems #wcet09 but of course make sure to…
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Added by Kae on October 21, 2009 at 7:51am —
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CCK09 First Week
This week a couple of us EduPunxers began a open course from the Univeristy of Manitoba. It's titled Connectivism and Connective Knowledge. The instructors are Stephen Downes and George Siemens.
To learn more about connectivism feel free to watch the following videos:
Richard Schwier interviews George on
Connectivism
Stephen Downes presentation:…
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Added by Kae on September 20, 2009 at 11:31pm —
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Here is the latest update to Did You Know? Its focus is social media and business but still usable for EduPunxers, especially if you are teaching social media/business. ;)
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Added by Kae on September 14, 2009 at 8:00pm —
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Just came out on YouTube yesterday ...... what are we waiting for?????
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxHb5QVD7fo
We Need Our Teachers to Learn!
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Added by Kae on September 1, 2009 at 9:00pm —
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Hello Everyone,
We presented the game yesterday at the Games Education Summit and here's the write-up
http://www.patheos.com/Explore/Additional-Resources/Bardo-the-Game-06152009.html It will be part of the discussion tomorrow at the meeting.
Religion in Virtual Worlds Study Group
The Religion in Virtual Worlds Study Group meets on the 3rd Friday of the month at 8:00 AM Second Life time. (For our mem…
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Added by Kae on June 18, 2009 at 11:02pm —
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I was involved in a discussion about twitter practices by conference sponsors and I kind of came up with these possible strategies.
Different Tweet Strategies
1) Web 1.0
a. The organization keeps the communication one way. The organization puts out information, updates, public relations and they never follow anyone. It works. It’s another form of communication but it is only 1 way. Has a bit of old media feel – no feedback mechanism in place.
2) WEB 2.0 conference strategy
a. The twitter…
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Added by Kae on May 9, 2009 at 10:52pm —
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This is last minute and I'm on a slow connection that is having Internet problems.
But this ifrom a Koinup Tweet: Photo Session: presentation of MURKU, the HUD to make comics in Second Life
http://tinyurl.com/cf5qre
If anyone makes it to this please comment.
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Added by Kae on April 23, 2009 at 11:00am —
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A raid group ( yes 5 party members) are on their way 2 eLCC
http://telecoop.org/conference/
While not in competition with Allakhazam's Magical Realm, this guide provides quest walkthroughs, item lists, a full bestiary, spells, tradeskills, talents, ...
Organizations
Virtual Worlds – Best Practices in Education (VW-BPE)
http://www.vwbpe.org/
Conference wiki…
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Added by Kae on April 14, 2009 at 3:28pm —
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Okay - guess what
VWAG is?
Is it Virtual SWAG (Stuff We All Get)?
No, it's something much more useful than the gift bags we get from conferences ( Although MLani's gift bags from VWBPE come close).
Is it Virtual Worlds Armed Guards?
No, it's something much more dangerous than any security group ( Although MLani's freeze gun was intense).
It's the Virtual Worlds ( Teaching and Learning) Assessment Group. -
VWAG
The discussion about Assessments - started
this t…
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Added by Kae on April 13, 2009 at 1:43am —
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Don't know how - but managed to pull off another immersive event. ( Okay, It was due to Beth & Chris & Brandon & Heather). Beth even had Bob Harvey, author The Art of the Comic Book:
An Aesthetic History among other books attend in RL. Very curious to see what he thought - our best quote from Met@Morph was from our librarian Jeffenstein Wallenshanks (SL) who said, "You probably already know this - but this is like being in a comic book." Wonder what Bob Harvey might say. I can take i…
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Added by Kae on March 22, 2009 at 5:57pm —
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If you 'd like to follow some of the Virtual World - Best Practices in Education tweets
You can follow http://twitter.com/vwbpe
and us at http://twitter.com/center4edupunx
You might get a little different view from us - kind of behind the scenes.
Beth, Abacus and I will be I don't know "rounding the roundtable" on Vogon Poetry and other Absolutely Essentail Reads 4 Ur Game Design/Virtual Worlds class.
among other things!
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Added by Kae on March 22, 2009 at 5:40pm —
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Hello Everyone!
Just wanted to highlight some of the games session that will be held at the Virtual Worlds - Best Practices in Education Conference Friday March 27th - Sunday March 29th.
The schedule and sims are located at
http://wiki.vwbpe.org
All times are in SLT.
Friday
10 am
Evolving an Immersive Learning Simulation Paradigm to Standardize & Simplify Elearning Content Preparation in Virtual Worlds, Dr. Allen Partridge (RL) DoctorPa…
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Added by Kae on March 20, 2009 at 5:00pm —
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The Virtual Worlds Story Project Presents: The Second Life Story Quest
The Virtual World Story Project is pleased to announce its first annual Story Quest, to be held on World Storytelling Day, March 20, 2009.
With a goal of helping writers and storytellers imagine, craft, and share Second Life stories, the Quest will lead participants along one of four Story Trails. Along each trail will be a series of Enchanted Books. Touching the books will not only provide information to include in the sto…
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Added by Kae on March 11, 2009 at 10:13pm —
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Added by Kae on March 11, 2009 at 8:38pm —
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8:30 a.m. SL/PST: Front Range Island Opens
9:00 - 9:30 a.m. SL/PST: Make Like an Action Figure!
Not only can you dress like comics characters in SL, you can act like them too! Let us show you how, following opening remarks from Hervé St.-Louis, publisher and editor, The Comic Book Bin
9:30 - 10:00 a.m. SL/PST: The Importance of Watchmen and Its Place in the Comics Survey Course
A discussion of Alan Moore's importance by Andrew Edwards of Sequart.
10:00 - 11:30 a.m. SL/PST: Teaching the Coll…
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Added by Kae on March 11, 2009 at 8:35pm —
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Is this a sign of the economic times? Gabcast that wonderfully useful Web 2.0 app has now gone to a pay format. Effective March1st -
http://www.gabcast.com/
"Changes to Gabcast
Effective Sunday, March 1, 2009 Gabcast.com is changing its format.
The changes include the following:
No distinction among channel types (Free, Pro, Premium). There will only be one kind of channel and it will have all of the features that were previously reserved for Premium cha…
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Added by Kae on March 4, 2009 at 10:20am —
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Mini-Morph, Comics in Classroom Event in Second Life 3/18
Following up the Second Life Met@Morph Comic-Con held in October 2008, Mini-Morph a product of Met@Morph’s roundtable discussion on college comic course will be held on March 18 in Second Life. Mini-Morph is an international gathering of artists, scholars and students reflecting on the Watchmen movie and comic. How effective was the adaptation? What questions does it raise for the scholar? How do we explore those questions in the classro…
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Added by Kae on March 3, 2009 at 10:36am —
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Virtual Worlds - Best Practics in Education
2009 SL Conference
March 27-29, 2009
The VW-BPE 2009 Organization Committee is pleased to announce our call for proposals
Call for Proposals
The Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education (VW-BPE) is a community-based conference that provides opportunities for participants of virtual worlds to share current teaching, learning and research practices in 3D virtual environments. Conference presentations focus on teaching/learning, scholarly work, project…
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Added by Kae on February 24, 2009 at 9:27pm —
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