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(Not a) Game Friday: Virtual Worlds 101

Museum 2.0

Websites are more like picture books about the museum—in virtual worlds, you can have a social, real-time, interactive experience. The Exploratorium did the solar eclipse, and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum is doing all kinds of programs around Darfur. It’s not a way to do it socially.

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"Google Was Our First Office": Managing a Worldwide Staff

NTEN

Imagine a Jewish girl, selling Challah bread on a college campus in America to help support black Muslims in Darfur. Each fellow is guided by a personal volunteer, mentor, and a coach, who are professionals in different fields. They used Google docs to help share documents with the volunteers worldwide as they worked on the magazine.

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