Posting

Dembe will not be posting from April 24th, 2007 to April 30th, 2007. The blog is still active, she just will not have access to a computer during these dates for any updates or postings.

Regards till my next post,

Dembe ;-)

Discover the Treasures of Distance Learning Conference Handouts

A wonderful conference that occurred March 27-29, 2007 in Texas on the Treasures of Distance Learning. This web page has the handouts for many of the presentation. This is a must see conference for any educator thinking of any aspect of online learning environments.

http://www.txdla.org/conference/2007/presenterhandoutsREVa.asp

Regards till my next post,
Dembe :-)

Conference - Second Life International Conference: Best Practices in Teaching Learning and Research

Friday, May 25th, 2007 http://slic2007.blogspot.com/

Conference - Second Life International Conference: Best Practices in Teaching Learning and Research

For more information visit: http://slbestpractices2007.wikispaces.com/

Presentation Schedule: http://slbestpractices2007.wikispaces.com/PresentationSchedule

This looks like a must attend for any educator in SL! They are currently accepting proposals for presentations.

Regards till my next post,
Dembe :-)

Harvard: Cyber One - Law in the Court of Public Opinon

This is a fantastic video to promote classes at the Harvard Extension from Professor Charles Nesson, Rebecca Nesson and Gene Koo. The video for the course, Law in the Court of Public Opinion, can be see an http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/cyberone/videos/CyberOne.mp4 this provides "an A/V description of the CyberOne experience." The video is from September 2006, but it is a must see.

More can be learned about this project at http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cyberone/.




Regards till my next post,
Dembe ;-)

Second Life Posdcasts and VideoBlogs Library

I came across this interesting site for SL today http://www.mefeedia.com/lists/7/. It is entitled

SecondLife Podcasts and Videoblogs.

This site is collecting a library of all videoblogs and podcast. Over time it should be a good resource. Currently, I did not find a lot of educational content, but I did find a lot of interesting content which can give ideas for education. :-)

Regards till my next post,
Dembe

Blog Page Visitor Counter

I decieded I wanted to see how many people actually visit my blog. I decided to add a counter today and chose http://www.ewebcounter.com/. This seems like a great FREE tool.

Plus, it has some great tracking features are well.

Regards till my next post,
Dembe

Zoho Writer a Really Cool Tool for Groups Working in SL

Okay, anyone that knows Dembe or her user knows that downloading Word Documents is very upsetting to her. Currently, Dembe is working with a few groups on SL and Google groups seems to be the key place to get and retrieve documents.

Well, what if there was a Word program that was web based and documents no longer have to be be downloaded, just shared? Well, it is Web 2.0, ask and Ye Shall Receive! It is out there and it is called Zoho Writer. It is out of Chennai, India and works in English. Best of all it is FREE to sign-up for a user account. Below is a picture of the Zoho Writer online tool:

"Like Writely.com, a service recently purchased by Google, Zoho is going head-to-head with Microsoft Word by building word processing into your browser. Zoho Writer lets you export and import Word documents from your PC or create new ones online and share them with anyone. Zoho also offers Zoho Sheets, an online spreadsheet, and Zoho Planner, a to-do list that can all be shared by groups."(http://business2blogs.com)

Information on Zoho can be obtained from http://www.zohowriter.com. I think this could be a wonderful tool for group users of SL. It eliminates the need for making sure all users have the same software and cuts down the possibility of downloading viruses onto a computer.

Regards till my next post,
Dembe

TeacherTube

Something new I came across today called TeacherTube located at http://teachertube.com/. This would be a great place to start posting educational videos about SL and classroom resources.

Here are some great example of its educational uses:





Imagine how this could be used with SL for educational purposes. :-)

Regards till my next post,
Dembe