This edition of the Inside The Lab podcast focused on education. Claudia Linden and Pathfinder Linden are interviewed. It is a very good presentation to educators that may ask “Why Second Life?”
I’ve been meaning to write about the awesome experience that I had attending the virtual conference. I had a great time assisting in the VA DEN/DEN in SL event at the Discovery building in Silver Spring. It was even better seeing the many people that I connect with in my personal learning community in different events. I learned so much.
Tracy Standhart created this FANTASTIC group of links from the different presentations. Head over to her Google Pages page and check out these very valuable links.
Heather over at the Virginia DEN blog has setup some great information for people in the Washington, DC area that might want to attend the DEN Virtual conference in real life with fellow educators. So take a look at her post and the links at the top of the page for information about choosing your meal from Potbellies, how to get to 1 Discovery Place and more.
You don’t have to be a Star educator to attend. All educators are welcome.
Make sure you follow the links to register and do it before the cut off deadline. Space is limited but remember if you don’t registered by the deadline you can still attend all of the fun virtually!
This Wednesday AND Thursday has back-to-back offerings. Start your evening off with the EdTech Connect webinar with Daniel Pink. Then join us in Second Life for a workshop about managing your out of control inventory with Laelia Laval.
Attend New York Times bestselling author, Daniel Pink’s, EdTechConnect webinar series December 13th at 7:00pm EST
Daniel, author of A WHOLE NEW MIND, will describe how three powerful economic forces are putting a premium on right-brain abilities in the workforce.
He’ll describe the six artistic, empathic abilities that now matter most — and discuss how educators are beginning to surface and sharpen those abilities in students.
Every month EdTechConnect is committed to bringing you the most prominent and topical speakers of the education technology community. Upcoming speakers include Anastasia Goodstein, David Jakes, Tim Lauer and Vicki Davis. Register now to attend them all.
Description: Do you dread clicking on ^Inventory^ when you’re in SL? Can’t find those shoes that went with your ‘Look At Me’ outfit? Remember getting an educational tool, but don’t remember what it was called or where you put it? Then this workshop is for you. Learn some tips and tricks to manage your ^Inventory^ and actually start to organize all those objects. This will be a ‘working’ workshop, so come prepared to dig in and get dirty!
One way to teach a love for reading writing is by example but I don’t mean using adults as the example. How about peers? Adora Svitak loves reading and writing. She already has one book published and has more in the works. She reads a lot too. Her favorite book is The Century for Young People by Peter Jennings.
Now here comes the really great part. You and your students can meet Adora through one of the Discovery Connects Webinars. It is planned for December 5th at 11:00AM EST.
I spent a few hours attending different session in the DEN Stream-a-thon. It was a fantastic day. I began in the morning by emailing all of the instructional technology coordinators in our district to remind them about the day.
I made it into The Builders session with Matt Monjan. Even though I have done numerous workshops on all parts of DE streaming, I still learn something new from the experts. I peeked at the attendees list and kept seeing all these people I work with. There were about 5 of us in there together. We started a backchannel chat for those of us on Skype. That way if any of us missed something another person would fill them in.
Our district is way behind in implementing Google Earth but all of us have been chomping at the bit. I sent an email about 30 minutes before the start of the session. I also twittered it. Hall Davidson had a packed house of over 100 people. Scanning the attendee list I was blown away that there were 10 of us on. Then there was a round of hellos from my fellow Leadership Council members. There was even a teacher from my building that was on during her lunch. Breakthrough! Her first webinar was the stream-a-thon.
Learned loads of stuff from Hall. The time seemed to go so quickly. Elaine Plybon shared file of lessons that was great. I was able to get it but I think it got so many hits that the link got overloaded. I ended up having to leave right at the very end of the session to actually implement that session. I was scheduled to work with a 4th grade class on creating a presentation about the rain forests of the world. Their presentation tool of choice - Google Earth.
I wasn’t able to attend one of the sessions that I wanted to do to travel time home. That was leading a workshop.
Later on though I went in for the Stealing from the STARs session with Lance. Most Excellent! I got loads of ideas so I really will end up stealing (borrowing) from them.
Here are just a few of many. Watch for the posting of presentation for more. Hall Davidson came back in and added to tips about using DE streaming and closed-captioning and also using iPods with DE streaming. He has everything on his Media Matters blog.
Moonk where you can create slideshows and flash movies easily.
Finally things began to settle down with DEN Town Hall meeting. Lots of info and exciting things planned for the DEN. I ended up heading into Second Life and did a little bit of decorating and playing. We have college philosophy class discussing utopias using our courtyard. They liked our decorations even with the screaming witch. BTW, we are giving away L$1000 every 30 minutes for our Halloween party this Sunday. Hope to see everyone there.
I spent a few hours attending different session in the DEN Stream-a-thon. It was a fantastic day. I began in the morning by emailing all of the instructional technology coordinators in our district to remind them about the day.
