Fleep’s Deep Thoughts

Hey what do you know, it’s time to be recursive!

Starting in about 30 mins, I’ll be joining some luminaries in the Second Life blogosphere for a panel discussion in world. Here are the details from Orange Island’s Media Week program:
12.00 pm SLT: Discussion: Blogging Virtual Worlds
Speakers: Ordinal Malaprop, Koz Farina, Saffia [...]

So many things happening right now, I haven’t had time to even blog about them all! Two events happening today and one archived event below.. hope to see you in-world!
ISTE Speaker Series Event
Tuesday, July 22, 2008 - 6PM SLT/9PM EST

ISTE Speaker Series Event: Metanomics: bridging the virtual worlds of business and K-20 education
Location: [...]

I was quite bummed to miss the rally tonight for Obama’s address to the NAACP (had family obligations). Local media broadcast the speech to a crowd in downtown Fountain Square, and local media reports a couple thousand people showed up.
Unfortunately I can’t embed the video directly here and it’s not yet up [...]

This song has been playing in my head on repeat for days on end. It got so bad I actually broke out the guitar and gave myself some good finger blisters trying to learn it. I’ve drafted some friends to help me figure out the chords that are confusing me and I thought [...]

It seems not too long ago that I was making predictions about Second Life and Education in 2008, and here we are more than half way through the year and I find myself helping organize the Second Life Education Community Conference and reflecting on SL’s fifth birthday and I’m just as involved and passionate about [...]

Yesterday Google released a 3D virtual chatroom application called Lively that can be embedded into a webpage. A bunch of folks from the Second Life community headed over to the Linden Lab chatroom to check it out and I grabbed about a minute of machinima to give a sense of the visuals.

At the moment [...]

As promised, here are a few more blogs/sites that I read regularly that focus on using virtual worlds and Second Life in education. Even if you aren’t a teacher or in the education field, these folks work on projects that I think should be interesting to anyone who has an interest in life-long learning, [...]

In the last year, I’ve had my first “real” papers published. I’ve been surprised at the long lead times, and the even longer review processes, and even looonger publishing dates before these things see the light of day. In a time when I can publish the same material myself with the click of [...]

If you haven’t been around Second Life for long, it can feel like a lonely place, but getting to know some of Second Life’s citizens through their blogs can be a good way to get a broader sense of all of the interesting and terrific things happening in the virtual world.
So when a friend asked [...]

Informal Learning
I posted a few days ago about the Personal Economics of Social Media, and highlighted Intellagirl’s slideshow, How Social Media is Pushing Higher Ed into Identity Crisis. If you missed it, I highly recommend it.
In thinking about that post and the responses I received, I started to think about what exactly “informal learning” [...]