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All kids’ virtual worlds are educational

by liam | Apr 5, 2008 | education, gaming, literacy, media, virtual worlds

There is a great discussion going on over at Shaping Youth (starting with this post and then this one) and Izzy Neis about the possibilities of eco-education in kids’ virtual worlds. I’m so happy to hear this discussion because, as I’ve said before,...

Rheingold draws “maximum” crowd in Second Life

by liam | Apr 3, 2008 | education, gaming, literacy, media, virtual worlds

The auditorium on ISTE Island was packed last night, with a maximum of 74 avatars gathered to hear online community pioneer Howard Rheingold talk about his Social Media Virtual Classroom project. He did that and a lot more. For me, one of the key points of the talk...

Traffic shaping/Net Neutrality on CBC news

by liam | Apr 2, 2008 | education, literacy, media

The big telcoms practice of traffic shaping, controlling how fast your internet connection is, finally makes the news today with this report from CBC. I’m not even sure if that link will work as the CBC site doesn’t let you link directly to videos (!?) You...

Congress hearing on virtual worlds

by liam | Apr 1, 2008 | education, gaming, literacy, media, virtual worlds

Thanks [yet again!] to my twitter network, I learned about the Subcommittee meeting of the US Congress, Online Virtual Worlds: Applications and Avatars in a User-Generated Medium, (archived video here) just as it was kicking off. I managed to catch all the good and...