Blog Juice for Educational Technology

This must be Brian, though I do not recall seeing anyone on EduIsland dressed so nicely — except for the possible exception of Steven Dembo!

I woke up early this morning with mostly incoherent ideas going around in my head — lots of questions and very few answers.  So the first place I went was one of my aggregators, and there I found two new posts about Second life in Education. 

The first one that I opened was one from Brian Mull’s November Learning blog, entitled, November Learning in Second Life.  Brian doesn’t leave his in-world name, and I’m having an especially hard time placing real-world names with in-world names.  Their office is just next to mine, it’s just that all of the avatars are starting to look alike to me — unless their’s fur involved.

Also showing up in my aggregator was a thorough and balanced examination of Second  life by one of the folks at Generation YES (Generationi YES Blog).  Second Life, posted yesterday, Gives a brief description of the environment, but also lists several educational benefits as well as areas of continuing skepticism.

Read their article and comment.  It’s a valuable conversation.

The author’s in-world name is Kay Idziak.  I sure wish I had been able to choose my last name when I signed up.  Mine sounds reptilian!

2¢ Worth!