Skoolaborate – Avatar Hunt

12 students took part in the Avatar Hunt in Skoolaborate today. These students had done some preparation work for this meeting.
Students created an outfit for their avatar and filled out an email with a personal profile. This they emailed to Japanese students.
During the meeting, the students engaged in conversation to find out who is who. [...]

50 Way to tell a story – Web2.0

Alans great post which shows a vast array of tools to tell a story using Web2.0. Just when you thought you’d got a toolbox. Try this. Also a reflection by the Learnscopers, posted by Alex on Voicethread.

Well I guess you all want to see my new baby! … thanks to Dave for collecting it. I think it will be called Wav. Just because all the cool people give their VWs names, all my others are called, moneypit.
It’s a 72 Type 3 Fastback. I case you want to know.

There goes the neighbourhood – PMHS are on the Teen Grid!

Some days don’t go to plan … but then you get a boost from people in your PLN (still not over that term yet). Our school is now part of the Skoolaborate community, and so took up residence on the third floor. In the next few weeks I will add some outbuildings and start to [...]

Travels in the NMC

A quick snapshot from the NMC Campus. It takes so long to get around all the great stuff here,
but this exhibit is a great visual to show the evolution of the primative. I am very much looking
forward to working with them and Anya at the University of Sydney in the future. It is amazing
how a [...]

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Not mine, and leeched it from Judy … but worth looking at … I learned a new term PNL … Personal Learning Network … I like it!

New School

I wanna study here, can this be called PD?

All the stuff you missed out on

http://www.nswlearnscope.com/elearning07-podcast-downloads
If you want to know why we need Web2.0 in the classroom, why students and teachers need it to be relevant in the world they are going to live and work in … listen to this stuff …

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NMC – Videocast – Watched in SL@Learnscope

I met Alan from the NMC – the largest educational consortium in Second Life – but they do exisit in RL!. This is the video about their work. How exciting then to be working with this group ! Alan took a bunch of people at Learnscope ‘in world’ to see their campus and amazingly – [...]