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

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She is also saying that virtual worlds are not for everyone which is definitely true. These posts have sparked some thoughtful reflections, from a folks on the Second Life Educator's List and I'm going to quote and summarize a few: The Second Life Doubter's Club. avies' to stand around and chat. way to the future?

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Guest Post by Gaurav Mishra: The 4Cs Social Media Framework

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Over the last year, I have had to explain how social media works to diplomats, defense officials, and academics and students focused on fields as diverse as international affairs, management and sociology. The second reason is a clear definition of what social media is, even within the social media community.

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NPTechTag Roundup: Election Debriefs and Wikis in Your Kitchen!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

An interesting point about using MySpace: "It can definitely be used for recruitment and as a mass communications tool, particularly for younger voters who tend to use email less. It is written, edited and produced by students and other volunteers in the valley. It launches with an 11/11 orientation.

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Guest Post by Alan Levine: Social Media Recap from NMC 2009

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Twitter was definitely on an upswing (but not near the use we saw this year), and we had a TwitterCamp display set up. We will definitely do this again. We managed to get a medium quality Quicktime stream that we put into Second Life, and higher quality Flash video stream , that we made available on the web.

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We Tell Stories: Thinking Inside New Boxes

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Reading the stories, I flashed back to the writing exercises I used to give students in poetry classes. Being forced to design inside the bizarre physics of the Second Life design environment has taken us places we wouldn't have gone with traditional exhibit design tools. One is distributed across blogs and twitter feeds.

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