Fleep’s Deep Thoughts

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: [...]

Thanks to Harold Jarche for the link.

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 [...]

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 [...]

As promised, I finally got my photos from Virtual Worlds 2008 uploaded to Flickr, better late than never, right?
As I went through the images, I tried to remember exactly what about the event left me so.. cold. It wasn’t really the people, I was thrilled to see many friends again, Aldon Huffhines from the [...]

Representative Ed Markey presides over the virtual hearing in Second Life. Photo courtesy Rik Riel.
Update: Alan Levine at the New Media Consortium’s site just posted an audio link of the hearing. Thanks Alan!
TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 2008
Online Virtual Worlds: Applications and Avatars in a User-Generated Medium
Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet Hearing
9:30 [...]

I am cross-posting a comment I just made on a 400+ thread at the broken toys blog because I think buried in a bunch of really ugly muck is an extremely interesting question, and I’d rather participate in a conversation that is moderated.
The background of this very extensive conversation can be found here:
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On Saturday I drove through a snowstorm doing 20 miles an hour on the interstate. It was a horrible drive, my hands hurt from gripping the steering wheel so tightly, and the roads were in terrible shape. I must have seen 30 accidents along the way - tractor trailers jackknifed, cars over embankments, [...]

I meant to properly blog this the other day, but hopefully some saw it through a brief tweet.
In this video, an Iowa State University panel of faculty, staff, and administrators consider the implications of using Second Life from an institutional perspective. Both the pros and cons are debated, and I would recommend it not [...]