Fleep’s Deep Thoughts

Concepts like “place” and “presence” can get really mushed up when you’re working in the metaverse. I’ve been puzzling about these concepts so intently over the last couple of weeks that I was actually motivated to do some (*gasp*) scripting to see if I could mediate that “sense of presence” in Second Life. Let [...]

(This post is about the Massively Online Open Course called Connectivism and Connective Knowledge being taught by George Siemens and Stephen Downes from September to December 2008. Over 1900 participants have signed up, and I am facilitating the Second Life cohort for the course. Over the following months, I will be posting about [...]

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Left, right, center, confused, mainstream media, international - one of the wonderful things about Twitter is that you get a truly bizarre cross-section commentary from anyone with a Twitter account.
I’ve been addicted to watching the scroll this morning, in fact [...]

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” [...]

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 [...]

@LenEdgerly I watched Moyer’s show with Rev Wright last night and came away impressed w/ his work #
Third sighting of a naked, ruthed, weirdly named avatar popping into and out of existence in Chilbo. Bots? #
Any SL peeps know where the walk through model of the human heart is in-world? #
@Typewriter What time is [...]

Will be speaking at vBusiness Expo in about 30 mins if anyone wants to come http://tinyurl.com/6ow9ho #

Back from St. Louis, great trip, met some terrific folks at USDLA, spring lush drive home, back 2 work. #

Disturbing news of the day: Pentagon paid $1.7 million to firms of polygamy bosses http://tinyurl.com/5qb6zu #
Feeling guilty about Earth Day, going to spending it driving hundreds of miles to teach people about the benefits of virtual worlds. Absurd #
Think twitter is eating tweets. Checking out http://www.twitterlocal.net and adding some Cincinnati peeps. [...]

Corporate tax declines and U.S. inequality (image) http://tinyurl.com/493b5x #
@injenuity Me too. TGIF> :) #
@skydaddy that was the sweetest thing I’ve seen all day. :) #
@injenuity Only two, actually, the rest of the day is set aside for grant writing so I can continue to PAY for SL. ;) #
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