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Introduction to Second Life Presentation

Introduction to Second Life Presentation

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Recently I have been putting together a presentation for introducing Second Life to K12 educators at Barnstable and Plymouth. This presentation will be part of the Lighthouse Learning project as we bring our teachers into Second Life to explore the possibilities and participate in the conversations and collaboration that is taking place among a diverse group of educators. The workshop support wiki is still under construction but I guess they always aren’t they. The link to the hand out is…

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What makes up your Learning Network?

What makes up your Learning Network?

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Ryan Bertag has been reflecting on Second Life and professional development. I posted a comment there. I have since been mulling it over in light of some conversations I had with fellow members of a professional learning community from my district prior to the end of school. We were trying to define and differentiate between a professional learning community (PLC) and a personal learning network (PLN). Ryan uses the term personal learning environment, I think like that term better. In…

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Lighthouse Learning Island

Lighthouse Learning Island

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I have been exploring Second Life for the last 4 months, it seems much longer than that. During this time I have built up a network of friends and colleagues, attended many wonderful presentations, began volunteering at the DEN and hanging out at the Blogger’s cafe. But now it is time to take it up a notch. I need to become more involved and really experiment with how Second Life can be used as a venue for providing professional development…

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Adding to the network

Adding to the network

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Over the last few years my collaborative network has grown, thanks to wonderful Web 2.0 tools; skype, web conferences, blogs, wikis and the like. But in the last few months the network has grown considerably by the addition of twitter, Secondlife and the Edublogger networks. These include the Bloggers Cafe in on the web and in SecondLife and Edublogger World on Ning. I have been able to have focused discussions with an ever growing group of educators. They have given…

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So what have I been up to….

So what have I been up to….

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Mostly entertaining family… It has been a busy week full of friends, family and lots of fun. But not too much time for keeping up with communication and collaboration with my web connected friends, blogs and Second Life. Is that how you say it? I have joined Ryan’s SecondLife Blogger’s Cafe and Jen Wagner’ web based cafe. Though I have not participated in any discussions yet. I have aided in a Discovery Educators Network tour of Second Life. It was…

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Discovery Education in SecondLife

Discovery Education in SecondLife

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The Discovery Educator Network (DEN) is setting up shop in SecondLife. The DEN is about teachers connecting with teachers to collaborate and share best practices. Much of this takes place through the web and the wonderful real life events held by Discovery educators through out the country. Secondlife is another venue to promote teacher to teacher sharing. Please take a look at the DEN in Secondlife blog to keep up to date on up coming events. If you have not…

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Why SecondLife?

Why SecondLife?

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Why Second Life? What would a K-12 educator get from Second Life? These are the questions being discussed in SL by educators across the country and around the world. I have been reflecting on a great deal on this as well. SL is taking a lot of my time now, is it worth it? Personally and professionally I have gained much. I have written about this before, it is the collaboration and conversations that are so worthwhile. I shall assume…

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