One box does it all
Can they mix? Some advocates of Cyworld, the hugely popular social networking site in South Korea and now Japan, America and China, say that it is able to combine 3D and 2D worlds. I signed up today to check it out but found it only let me edit my room. The features for uploading photos [...]
FERPA and Second Life
FERPA
1974, aka the “Buckley Ammendment”
Limits what you can do with “education records” that you “maintain”
FUD says don’t tell anyone anything, but there’s been a huge change as a result of the VaTech shootings. There will be Educause Live! events on FERPA on Oct 17 and Nov 5.
What’s an “education record”? Anything that can identify a [...]
Tyler, Walker and Eisner Curriculum
Today’s technology driven society gives students a myriad of choices. They are exposed to more information in a day than our parents were in a week. Feedback from your learners and educators on the methodologies that best penetrate the young adventurous mind will prevail. Learning to interact and enhance these thoughts in a way that [...]
Life 2.0 Spring Video
Life 2.0 is going to be huge! 6 days, and 1,000 presenters. See how businesses are utilizing the power of Second Life to provide media rich presentations and training capabilities in an environment many times more captivating than a 2D website could ever imagine to offer.
English Village
This is a video of English Village. I made this to show a couple things. One is to show how the island looks for promotional purposes and another is to show how we can incorporate many types of media technologies into language learning.
<a href=”http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm2243617″>【ニコニコ動画】セカンドライフ 英語</a>
This video uses subtitle commenting on Niko Niko Douga, an extremely popular [...]
SL Kobe - Second Life Group
Here is a flyer that is going around Kobe in hopes of starting a group about using Second Life. I’m hoping this will spread the word about the use of social networking and virtual worlds in education in Japan.
If you are interested in attending a meeting, add a comment, or email me at mike[at]professormerryman.com. You [...]
