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The Seedlings 10-29-09 podcast of an interview with Janalee Redmond has gotten my back into Second Life and Sloodle. Janalee is the Community Manager for Metanomics.

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I joined SL two years ago and spend several house creating my avatar and exploring education worlds. Once you are in SL you quickly realize, or you should, that to really learn how to use SL will take some serious time away from RL (real life). Over the last year I have checked back in to SL and updated to the latest version. I also became a Sloodle member over a year ago, but I have not spent much time exploring them either.

This interview with Janalee has got me back in SL and Sloodle. I am going to install the Sloode plug-in on the learning2oh and the lpvec.net Moodle.

I have been working to finish the Moodle Silk Roads project I have to do for the East Asian study group and was wondering how I could make it more interactive. By developing a Sloodle Silk Roads project students could be in a virtual caravan on the Silk Road.

Tags: Metanomics, Moodle, second life, Sloodle, virtual worlds

Karl Fisch, a technology teacher at the Arapahoe High School in Centennial, Colorado and starting a year ago he created three videos about the past, present and future of education and technology. They have become some of the most viewed videos on the Internet. He reminds us of where we have been and where we may go. If you have not seen these videos they are only about 3 minutes each, so take a look and let me know what you think.

The first video is “What if?” It reminds us that maybe things have not changed after all.
What if?

The next video is Fisch’s most famous, “Did You Know”. He gives us a look at the state of technology and education today.

Did You Know?

The last video is called “2020 Vision”. In it Karl Fisch takes a look at what the world may be for students graduating from high school in 2020.

2020 Vision

Tags: ed tech, education