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Recently I posted an article questioning the usefulness of Second Life in education, to which I received mixed feedback. Last week I had the opportunity to see Dr. Julian Lombardi and Dr. Marilyn Lombardi of Duke University demonstrate a open-source peer-to-peer virtual world application called Croquet. Croquet is basically Second Life, but much [...]

For those who didn’t hear, today is SysAdmin Appreciation Day. I think this started as a joke a while ago, but now there is even a website. Here is a funny video by Wes Borg of Dead Trolls.com.

So to Matthew, Devin, George, Stewart, and Alex. Thanks for being my system administrators… [...]

Darren Draper, a technology specialist from Sandy Utah recently posted an article in which he asked the general question… why do we blog?  Great question for us educational bloggers out there… so why do I blog?

Darren, I started blogging because I really felt like I had some ideas that would benefit the larger educational community [...]

This morning I came across this video (courtesy of Cool Cat Teacher). This is just awesome.

So… can you imagine? Some great questions in a humorous format. First thought has to do with all the things the man who crashed the internet was doing. It is so true, we are saturated with [...]

Right on the heels of my last post about Second Life a couple of Second Life alternatives are starting to surface. I have long known that there were alternate virtual worlds as well, but as I recall the problem lies in the fact that they are just not as big, nor are there nearly [...]

TechCrunch published an interesting article a couple of days ago “Will The Last Corporation Leaving Second Life Please Turn Off The Light?” This article explores the cost of running a second life business and it’s relative small audience. Granted there are lots of things you can do in second life that you couldn’t [...]

This morning I came across a great article on Tech Consumer entitled: “The Next Big Thing: Why Web 2.0 Isn’t Enough” by Marion Jensen. Marion says that the “next big thing is…location, location, location.” He goes on to explain: