Fleep’s Deep Thoughts

I just read a very interesting post from my friend Aldon Hynes over at Orient Lodge, where he gives a good summary of some themes from Computers, Freedom, and Privacy 2008. The issues he raises are important ones - the human connections that power social media and concerns about privacy and due process [...]

I received a request from a colleague I met in Second Life to answer four questions her classmates had about virtual worlds in education. The course is:
University at Albany
State University of New York
ETAP 723: Seminar in Technology, Dr. Peter Shea
Module 5: Pedagogy in a Virtual World - Lorraine Emerick/Speranza Serevi & Kevin Goodman/Raxen Gears
http://www.incubatorisland.com/vworld.htm
They [...]

Though I don’t agree with everything on the site, I came across this quote on Salon and it just fits:

Some days it feels like I’m watching a house on fire. And one idiot wants to put it out with a machine gun. The other one wants to use grenades. And I’m standing there with a [...]

I was hanging out with @malburns and @tarayeats yesterday evening in Chilbo and we were having a wide ranging discussion of all things Second Life, Web 2.0, and virtual worlds more generally, when Malburns mentioned this cute little program at http://weblin.com. He was describing how it gives you a little avatar and you “teleport” [...]

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Courtesy of the Ohio Fair Schools Campaign comes a summary of recent news articles with information about Gov. Strickland’s plans for reforming education in the State of Ohio.
There has been a flurry of news reports about Gov. Ted Strickland’s education reform plan. According to an article in the Columbus Dispatch, the governor [...]

I came across a couple of great thought provoking things yesterday, all come from Twitter friends - @gsiemens, @Larry_Pixel, and @lparisi.
First up, George Siemens shared his presentation from the Pacific Northwest Higher Education Teaching & Learning Conference in Spokane, WA. When thinking about where all of this digital connectivity is heading and [...]

Life4u reporter Draxtor Despres just sent me an IM about his latest report on the past week’s vBusiness Expo and Federal Consortium of Virtual Worlds in Second Life. I was a speaker for the Education track at the vBusiness Expo and Draxtor interviewed me afterwards. Look ma, I’m on virtual TV!

What follows are some thoughts that have been percolating since I read Peter Ludlow’s critique of virtual campuses in Second Life (Chronicle article) back in early December (talk about a long tail, eh?) and recently re-sparked by some conversations on the SLED listserv. In any case, the question about traditional learning spaces keeps coming [...]

Haven’t read the book, but listening to this video while mopping: