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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Building Community in Second Life: Renaissance Island

Learning Visions

Friday, August 24, 2007 Building Community in Second Life: Renaissance Island As you know, Ive been trying to walk-the-talk and experiment a bit with Second Life, role my virtual sleeves up and see what all the fuss is about. Manish.there certainly is a lot of interest in Second Life and a lot of skepticism.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Plodding Along in Second Life

Learning Visions

Friday, August 17, 2007 Plodding Along in Second Life In the spirit of plodding along , I had another positive experience in Second Life. Theres a real emotional level to Second Life. Do role plays or disaster simulations and I think youll feel that stress level kick up a notch or two.

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Online, en masse

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Photo by William White on unsplash Still other virtual clans are emerging from the cultures surrounding online leisure activities such as massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs), strategy games and transnational special interest groups that meet en masse, online. Tomorrow: The Tribal Web Reference Childress, M.

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Multiple identities

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And does my Second Life avatar bear any resemblance to my real life persona at all? But this we do know - everyone is capable of acting out multiple identities - to suit the changing environments and shifting contexts modern life presents. Or a collaborative environment such as a wiki? Unported License.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Welcome to Tom Kuhlman

Learning Visions

Cammy, you seem to have taken on the role of gateway to the edublogosphere! Wendy Wickham This work by Cammy Bean is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Sounds good enough to eat. Posted by Cammy Bean at 10:53 AM Labels: rapid e-learning 2comments: Clive Shepherd said. A useful service indeed.

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Imagined worlds

Learning with e's

Although in spaces such as Second Life, we see constrained thinking in the form of virtual classroom and lecture halls, with doors, windows and roofs, this need not be they way we represent learning spaces in virtual worlds. Perhaps this is why Second Life designers persist in creating classrooms as learning spaces.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: The Gin System

Learning Visions

Monday, July 02, 2007 The Gin System As Ive been trying to sort out the role of FaceBook lately, I cant help but wonder "wheres the content?" Wendy Wickham This work by Cammy Bean is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 It seems to me that FaceBook is a great networking tool. United States License.