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Comment by Chris Smith on October 26, 2009 at 9:52pm

College Fair in Second Life ... for Photographs search Google for the tag #SLCG09

Comment by Chris Smith on August 28, 2009 at 9:16am

Comment by Randy Hilgers on July 8, 2009 at 8:54am

To those of you who did not attend our ISTE NECC09 Advanced Second Life Presentation last week and meet Ashley Linden from Linden Labs we are offering free Second Life Training to all ISTE members at K-12Kids.com.

We invited Philip Linden to attend the presentation to see how new 21st century learning tools like SofTutor can reduce the learning curve of complicated technology. Philip sent his assistant Ashley who downloaded SofTutor to use at Linden Labs.

At our presentation we taught everyone how to make school wear (clothing in second life using your school's logo) then covered simple building. We'd like to add these as updates to this free product eventually.

Try SofTutor for Second Life (windows version) at your school and see what your peers and kids think?

SofTutor Academic subscribers are free to modify/customize the content and run from their servers (we include a few videos to teach you how to customize SofTutor for Second Life your school and show your students how navigate your own islands.

We also encourage any SofTutor schools to share their content their teachers and kids make with other users.

Table of contents for SofTutor for Second Life (approx 2 hrs covering 145+ quick search topics)

0.5 SofTutor Quick Start
1 Create Your 2nd Life Account
2 Install Your Second Life Viewer
2.5 Getting Started in Second Life
3 Navigate
4 Use Your Camera
5 Configure Audio, Media, and Voice
6 Communicate
7 Meet, Make, Manage, Contacts
8 Take Snapshots and Share
9 Adjust Your Appearance
10 Search
11 Join Groups, Get Title, Help in Forums
12 Fill In Your Profile
13 Teleport, Landmark, Home, SLURLS
14 Laugh, Clap, Wave, Make Gestures
15 Map, Mini Map and Search for Events
16 ISTE Island Walkthrough
17 Opening a Door to a Classroom & Sit Down
17.1 Buying Clothes at a Store
17.2 Toggle Local Chat On or Off
18 Ride the Loch Ness Monster
19 Inventory, Build, Move, Play, Drive
20 End Credits

See SofTutor for Second Life a 21st Century Learning Tool

This product is a 280mb download and installs locally, it runs on ms windows, and requires windows media player 9 or better (free download from microsoft) and microsoft .net 2.0 (included with the product).

Comment by Randy Hilgers on June 27, 2009 at 4:20pm

We are working on a free tutorial in the hopes of bringing more educators to SL in time for NECC 09 (currently in final beta) sneak peek @ youtube

When available you can find a link on K-12Kids.com feel free to share with everyone in education. We'd love to do a non-english language versions as well if you'd like to share your video tutorials of SL let us know, you'll need to make them a creativecommons cc by license feel free to watermark them too.

These run in the SofTutor player (free) but can also be run with SofTutor school license and modified by the kids as well. We started a SofTutor ning group yesterday.

Randy H.
K-12Kids.com (stuck in Chicago)
Edison Trevellion (SL)

Comment by Chris Smith on April 17, 2009 at 2:27am

I was asked to organise to workshop on ISTE Beach this week ... and so I did ... the theme being "Team Building"
In fact we had two sessions ... a "Train the Trainers" session yesterday and the public one today ... this is just to thank all those involved ... volunteers and attendees ... it was a brilliant learning opportunity for me .... it might be appropriate to no longer refer to organisers as 'organisers or facilitators' anymore ... the title of "Chief Learner" seems to be more appropriate ... it was for me over the past 2 days.
Thanks everyone.
ISTE events are listed at: http://secondlife.iste.wikispaces.net/events
Photographs can be seen at my Flickr account

Comment by Dawn Shrum on April 2, 2009 at 3:53pm

ISTE Eduverse Talks Episode 4 archive with David Warlick and Steve Dembo now posted!

Crossing Over: Virtual World Networks, Real World Communities
If you weren't able to join us Tuesday evening for the live taping, be sure to catch our archived episode now!

Thanks to all of our guests for a great show!

Click here to learn more.

Comment by Chris Smith on February 17, 2009 at 11:58pm

ISTE "Library on a Stick Workshop" 19 Feb 2009
5:00pm S.L. Time

I've been invited back to share some more resources that are available free on International Schools Island

This session (at ISTE Island beach front) is designed to be of interest to teachers in any curriculum area and with students of any age group.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island/206/206/23

I'm going to showcase and share a concept and object from JJ Drinkwater, Director (The Libraries of Caledon) ....
"The Library on a Stick" (LoaS)
... personally I think this is a brillant name.

After an initial introduction to the concept there will be a 'hands-on' session in 3 groups to explore what the LoaS does ... and group discussion on how it might be modified to suit different curriculum areas or teaching and learning needs.

We will then reconvene as a whole group, I'll be asking for a volunteer from each of the three groups to report back (voice) .... on the functionality of the LoaS, how it might be used in different teaching and learning situations and how we might modify or improve this tool.

At the end of the session all participates are able to collect open source versions of the tools shown .. and take them home ... wherever home is ;-).

It is hoped that JJ Drinkwater himself will be able to attend.

Although I'm designing this time together to raise our awareness of some of the tools in S.L. there is a second aspect to the session .... which is the classroom management and organisation of the workshop. I do try and model different strategies to run professional development sessions when in S.L. ... some work better than others (I'm experimenting myself) ..... so I will allocate some time at the end of the hour to reflect on the process rather than the content ..... and this is where your feedback is really appreciated to help us move forward in the journey through this new medium ... what worked well and what not so well?

p.s. .... we might also have some fun ;-)

Shamblesguru Voom
(Chris Smith)
February 2009
I'll be using mainly voice .... so it's adviseable to have a headset or speakers .... microphones optional (but would be nice).

Comment by Diana Fingal on January 6, 2009 at 9:10am

L&L, ISTE's flagship magazine, now has a group on the ISTE Community Ning. We want to hear what you think about current ed tech topics. Chime in at www.iste.org/landl or just click on the L&L icon. Today's topic is Wikipedia: Friend or Foe.

Comment by Chris Smith on September 2, 2008 at 8:42am

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