EduGeek Journal

A blurb in the Campus Technology News Update recently discussed how academic institutions are not taking advantage of popular communication tools in recruiting. (View survey results from the study here.) Sure, Web 2.0 tools such as Wikipedia and increasingly Second Life are seeing usage from academic institutions; however, those tools that 90 percent of college [...]

Now for some background. For those not familiar with the “villain” in the Fantastic 4 comic book, Galactus is the most powerful being in the universe and must devour planets for energy to sustain his own life (yes, a comic book reference …you realize that you are reading an article in a journal with “geek” in [...]

After hearing the recent news about John Edwards’ Second Life campaign headquarters getting vandalized, I decided to go inworld and find out who else has their own virtual campain HQ. Interestingly, all three of the top Democrat cadidates have official locations; however, none of the Republican candidates (as of Saturday) had one (yet). Below are [...]

The EduGeeks (all two of us for now) were discussing the Blog Tags sidebar last night. Katrina had noticed that the tags were all the same size. I looked in to it and found that each tag will grow in size depending on the number of times they are used. The more popular ones will [...]

As many of you probably have heard, Second Life is very soon going to have voice integration. (Which may or may not be of benefit to you — depending on which side of the whole “voice vs. text chat” debate you agree with. There’s a debate that erupts on SLED every time someone suggests that [...]

Hello World!! Just want to send a quick ‘Howdy!’ to everyone before doing my first official post. Thanks to fellow edugeek Matt for letting me join in! Jumping right in… Recently, I attended the North Texas Regional Community College Technology Forum, a one-day conference that focused on educational technology used in community colleges. One session [...]

EduGeek Journal: the place to dream and share ideas about Educational Technology. This post is the first of many to come. So, if you are reading this, I guess we need to get on the ball and post some more stuff. Or you are searching through the archives and have hit the very end of [...]