Fleep’s Deep Thoughts

(This post is about the Massively Multiuser Online 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 [...]

The Second Life Community Convention 2008 and Second Life Education Community Conference 2008 wrapped up in Tampa, FL and in Second Life on Sunday afternoon, two days ago, but it is only now that I am relaxed and awake enough to write about it. I think the things that affect us most profoundly are [...]

Cecilia Delacroix gives a poetry reading at the Chilbo Summer Fair 2008.
The Chilbo Summer Fair is well underway, with tours, rides, cultural events, and more happening every day this week!
Three upcoming panels promise to be of interest to virtual world enthusiasts:
Virtual Worlds Day Panel
Wednesday, 8/20, 3 PM SLT
Location: Shrubbery Amphitheatre
SLurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Chilbo/167/129/109
This panel will feature a [...]

Chilbo Summer Fair!
August 16 - August 31 - in and around Chilbo & neighboring sims

The Chilbo Summer Fair was conceived as an idea to celebrate our community - an excuse for everyone to get together and have fun and invite friends!
Please check the Chilbo Summer Fair Planning Wiki for the possible schedule changes.
Chilbo Summer Fair [...]

An ad farm along the Linden Road in Mangyeong sim seems much unchanged, despite changes in Linden Lab policies about ad farms announced seven months ago.
The Second Life community is all abuzz over a recent post from Linden Lab about upcoming changes in mainland policies. Several vocal SL bloggers have chimed in, including Gwen [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]