Sean McDunnoough must have noticed I was in SL earlier (or guessed I was there) as he skyped me immediately introducing me to BlogHud, a blogging system for residents in Second Life, or as they poetically put it, a live stream of consciousness and experience from another place. It allows the owner to easily post … Read more
Last weekend I was at my parents (85 and 79). I happened to read an article about SL in a local magazine and started commenting it with my mother who could not understand what I was talking about. As they now have a very impressive system at home (an uncluttered Pentium 4 and broadband connection), … Read more
Snapshot_029Originally uploaded by joannamkay. My First Life is adventurous, busy and disorganized and as a result I am going quite insane with all the work stacked on the table, meetings and deadlines. Among my many good resolutions, I promised myself I would not get involved in anything new until the end of the year. Throughout … Read more
I have enrolled for the 3rd Online Congress for Cybersociety,organized by Fobsic (an organization from Catalunya). I do not have much to say but very interested in following the conversations in the different forums. You are allowed to choose 6 to participate in but can read what is happening all over. Here are the ones … Read more
FlickrCC is an ingenious hack signed by Peter Shanks, allowing you to easily find photos on flickr that were released under the creative commons license. I will suggest it as a must-have on all my students’ blogs. There is a long list of royalty-free photographs on del.icio.us dekita as well.
Personal vs. business dimensions of employee blogging: my weblog Originally uploaded by beewebhead. Josie Fraser announces for the third time the Edublog Awards, which recognizes and promotes excellence in the educational use of social software. I won it in 2004 and Dekita got the award in 2005. It is nice to have your work in … Read more
Leigh Blackall has just pointed to Wikiversity, a community hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation for the creation and use of free learning materials and activities. He and Bronwyn Hegarty from Otago Polytech have taken the initiative of building a new course on Wikiversity – Facilitating Online. They envisage starting with material suitable for novice facilitators … Read more
Unbounded Freedom is a very recent blog and also a guide to Creative Commons thinking for cultural organizations by Rosemary Bechler, a freelance writer and commissioning editor who helped to found Open Democracy. The guide can be downloaded from the Counterpoint, the cultural relations think tank of the British Council.