EduGeek Journal

Over the weekend, I took a last minuter trip to El Paso, to be with a family member in the hospital. On the plane ride over, I did the usual – leafed through the in flight magazine, hoping for a vaguely entertaining article on something. Anything. I actually found several – one on the official [...]

I post this for a few reasons: We get a sneak peek at Global Kids island on the Teen Grid in Second Life. (The Teen Grid is only accessible to players under 18 and to educators who have had a criminal background check.) One of the avatars in the video looks a *lot* like my [...]

Just finished reading a very interesting article published by the UCLA Magazine. Definitely information my colleagues and I have been proclaiming for the past several months. Hopefully this might help some of you in convincing your deans and admins that SL can be used effectively in education. Avatar Academics Is virtual reality the next frontier [...]

This is something straight out of Sci-Fi, but it is for real. 3-D scanners have existed for a while, apparently, but now they are coming down in price. 3-D printers are still expensive, but something that is possibly coming to a place like Kinko’s soon. The New York Times had an article about this technology. [...]

Yep, Second Life’s version of Amsterdam has been sold for $50,000 on eBay. There are a lot of people surprised by this. Conventional wisdom begs the question, “Why would someone spend real money for an abstraction?” I answer the question with “Why not?” What is real money? Is it tangible? Sure, you can hold a [...]

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 [...]