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Archive for January, 2010

Second Life field trips to-do list – part 2

Here’s the story: I am exploring the dashboard of my SL account (following W?odzimierz’s idea to write about how to access it and all as suggested here), when I find that one of the tabs on top of the page says “World Map“. Curious about what SL looks like on a map, I click on [...]

Great Discovery! The Search Events Tool in SL’s account

We’re always so excited about going inworld, that we tend to forget that with a SL avatar comes an account where we have valuable tools and information. One of such tools is the search engine that allows you to look for events in the next 24 hours that might be of interest to you. Here [...]

Second Life field trips to-do list – part 1

Trying to commit myself to a monthly post about Second Life educational places to visit, here goes a list of possible future field trips:

clipped from tlinvw.ning.com

Resources – some educational spaces to visit
in SL:

List of educational landmarks at the
TLVW HQ in Second Life (click on the Week 2 Activities
poster)

Virtual
Macbeth

EduSquare: LMs
of various educational sims

Revised
Blooms [...]

The importance of having a home

I have recently realized that it’s been over a year since I opened my Second Life account…it didn’t seem that long, and then it hit me: my classroom! Those are my first memories of “living” in SL. I don’t remember exactly how it happened (it is probably connected to EVO2009) but thanks to Kip Yellowjacket, [...]

SL Field Trip: Holocaust Museum

This past Thursday I went on a  tour to the virtual version of the Holocaust Museum in Second Life. As I’ve had the chance to visit the real museum in Washington DC, and it was such a powerful experience, I was really curious to see what this virtual display was like. My experience at the [...]