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Second Life at the Movies

Kapp Notes

It was bound to happen, a full-feature length movie in Second Life.oops, sorry, it hasn't happened yet.but you heard it here first. Click here for the SLURL if you want to check out Hollywood, Second Life.(you you need to have a Second Life avatar to visit.) Also, in Second Life News.

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Blended Learning: Not your Mother’s, Grandmother’s, or Possibly Even Older Sibling’s Training

Association eLearning

Remember the days when you looked forward to field trips to the planetarium, hovering over a formaldehyde preserved frog with your lab team, or seeing the movie version of Lord of the Rings on a Friday afternoon? Make no mistake, today blended learning goes beyond merely tagging on a movie or performing a Web Quest on the internet.

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TCC09: Digital User-Generated Content and Our Emerging Digital Literacy

Experiencing eLearning

This preliminary study uses examples of digital user-generated content, specifically digital stories and movies, to examine the types of information that appear to convey effectively. What kind of information can we create, how does meaning making happen? Could be about their own home life, but could be fictional too.

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Gas makes a splash in 3D worlds

E-Learning Acupuncture

I wasn’t in his office, I wasn’t on the phone with him, our time together wasn't even a series of email exchanges – it was in a 3-dimensional virtual world: Second Life! Enter Second life. Tim and his staff have created a virtual gas station in Second Life. Are you in Second Life?

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: This job aint dead yet.

Learning Visions

What strikes me about this whole DIY/informal learning/death of ISD conversation is that what were really talking about are those so-called motivated knowledge workers. These are guys who will take informal learning by the horns and run with it. Thursday, March 01, 2007 This job aint dead yet. Its ok Dan. Were not dead yet.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Describing What You Do: Instructional Design

Learning Visions

Ellen Wagner says, " I Ds help transform intangible information assets into things of great business or epistemological value." Maybe thats my explanation, or maybe people are just becoming more informed these days :-), with the www and all ;-). Im sort of distracted by the naked boy who just ran by (not mine). We move on.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Who Gets to Be Called an Instructional Designer?

Learning Visions

Just because a film professor has a graduate degree doesnt mean he/she can make a great movie. I did informal needs analysis on a daily basis, I wrote measurable objectives and built level 2 evaluations and authentic assessment items. In fact, in most cases, it probably means he/she almost certainly cannot. 5:12 PM Rupa said.