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Nonprofit Commons in Second Life Survives Griefing Attack

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" Griefing can be a problem in Second Life, although it does not happen at every location all the time. For example, at the BlogHer in Second Life panels and social events no problems were report as indicated by this report by VintFalken and the Information Literacy Weblog. "What about griefers?"

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Second Life and Communities of Practice Group Action Learning Project

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Right now there's a group of us trying to do some action learning about how to facilitate virtual collaborative work and learning in Second Life. The first level is the second life literacy skills - how you move around and communicate. I met with the group last week. We debriefed about the three levels of learning.

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The Birth of a Field: Digital Media and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That's my avatar, I'm live blogging from Second Life. From my office in the Boston, I teleported myself into the Virtual World of Second Life and headed straight for the New Media Consortium virtual campus where I joined about 65 other avatars representing educators from all over the world (even Austrailia where it was 3:00 a.m.

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