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The One-Look Virus and Immersive Environments for Teaching and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Six worlds, avatars, lots of chat and even then screens receiving video for. web geeks and cardboard cutout avatars. we will have witnesses and student-lawyers speak in text under disciplines of civility and rules of evidence, subject to objection by opponents and ruling by the judge, who will be me. way to the future?

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Blogging and Liability Class with Lauren Gelman at State of Play Academy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" She gave us a primer on copyright and fairuse , shared her experienced from a blogging community for law students, talked about her plans for teaching this topic on the 3-D virtual world, there.com. re interested in attending and have never been in There.com, Lauren can get you an avatar ??? guest access???).

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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle

Connection Cafe

Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle tells the story of four students: Spencer (Alex Wolff), Bethany (Madison Iseman), Fridge (Ser’Darius Blain), and Martha (Morgan Turner) as they follow the same path as Alan Parrish. They turn on the system, choose their avatars, and are suddenly transported into the video game.

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Second Life Education Programs in NY Times, Goes Open Source, and other tidbits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Over fifty avatars attended. Graduate students doing research or teaching in Second Life have formed a mobile colony that holds discussions with experts in subjects like online ethics or aesthetics What they didn't mention is the new Nonprofit Island that will be opening a few weeks.

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Announcing… 29 New Favorite Nonprofits for 2012!

Nonprofit Tech for Good

selects a new set of nonprofit avatars to be featured in the Nonprofit Tech 2.0 Prevent students from dropping out of high school and increase literacy: @ CISNational , @ FirstBook. Expose racism and teach tolerance in America: @ Tolerance_org. Teach human history, art, and culture: @ Smithsonian.

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