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Mar 08

Twitter Updates for 2008-03-01

Wow – Tweet 2000! This tweet is dedicated to all educators on Twitter and in SL who motivate me to keep learning, every day. Thank you! =) #

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Feb 08

Twitter Updates for 2008-02-29

Holding office hours in world #
Engage Me or Enrage Me: Educating Todayâ€™s Digital Native Learners http://tinyurl.com/39yhx9 #
Reading Democratic intensity showing up at the polls – Ohio turnout: http://tinyurl.com/3bxnao #

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Feb 08

Twitter Updates for 2008-02-28

IT, education, and politics friends, please welcome @policywank to twitter! #
Reading (prehaps more than I ever wanted to know) about making SL avatars talk (lip synch when YOU talk): http://tinyurl.com/yvcvry #
Note to self: Aesthetic computing course syllabus using SL http://tinyurl.com/3xd533 #
Virtual Worlds: Libraries, Education and Museums Conference March 8, 2008. http://www.alliancelibraries.info/virtualworlds/ #
Reading student blogs about their experience with Ivory Tower and trying to build in SL.. wow, good stuff. #
@HiroPen had to miss it will it be archived somewhere? #
Listening to Juel while sorting inventory http://tinyurl.com/38vdgw #

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Feb 08

Twitter Updates for 2008-02-27

Checking out Friend Feed http://friendfeed.com/fleep hat tip @seanpercival #
Heading to Bowling Green State U’s SL Learning Community meeting, I’m late. Doh. #
Watching the dem debates #
@davewiner’s IRC chat channel is the place to be for the debate commentary http://tinyurl.com/3bfwrf #
Twitter, are you broken? #
@RavenPhoenix Thx! Just testing. 🙂 #
Fascinating twitter stats: http://blog.twitter.com/search/label/stats #

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27
Feb 08

Hospital of the Future in Second Life

How might virtual facilities change the way we teach?

From Looker Lumet’s blog comes information about the Virtual Palomar West Hospital in Second Life.

â€œVirtual Palomar West in Second Life, an architectural and conceptual visualization of The Hospital of the Future opening in 2011. Powered by a Cisco Medical-Grade Network that converges information and communications technology along with clinical and building automation systems onto a single network, Palomar West will transform the future of healthcare as we know it. Palomar West is a showcase of architectural and medical technology innovations driven by flexibility for efficiency, environmental conservation, and patient and staff comfort. Experience The Hospital of the Futureâ€” today!â€

Hmm, interesting!

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27
Feb 08

Virtual Worlds: Libraries, Education, and Museums Conference in SL

â€œVirtual Worlds: Libraries, Education, and Museumsâ€
Saturday, March 8, 2008 in Second Life – New Media Consortium Conference Center.
To register: http://www.alliancelibraries.info/virtualworlds

Purpose of the Conference:
To provide a gathering place for librarians, information professionals, educators, museologists, and others to learn about and discuss the educational, informational, and cultural opportunities of virtual worlds.

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Feb 08

Twitter Updates for 2008-02-26

Having trouble with Moodle install, not going to get Sloodle working tonight. #
Phew – traffic is a DRAG. Got him just in time to host educator roundtable in SL, slurl shortly #
Er got home, not him. Who? Wha? Don’t ask me. #
Educator roundtable in SL http://tinyurl.com/2kkxef #

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Feb 08

Twitter Updates for 2008-02-25

@slfarley Obama was on our campus today, traffic mess from here to the horizon #

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Feb 08

Twitter Updates for 2008-02-24

Listening to an Accident Hash I missed http://tinyurl.com/37zbxk #
Struggling with korean-english syntax differences #
2nd paper draft done and sent. Don’t think I have the text book chapter in me tonight. #
<3 @Pistachio for calling it her "Fort Knoxiest password" haha! #
No Sleep Till Br.. Machinima! If this doesn’t work I’m going to cry. #
Geez, did I do something wrong or does it always take an eternity to render a 30 second clip to .mov? #
And with that, I pass out. Night twits. #

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Feb 08

Fleep’s First Machinima

Today I added 2GB of RAM and 1TB storage to my home system with a SimpleTech Duo Pro External HD in an attempt to solve my Machinima Problem – namely that Fraps kept freezing because my poor machine was steaming and I had less than 1 gig free space left. Doh.

Determined to make machinima, the RAM install went fairly well once I had the sticks paired properly and the SimpleTech drive was, well simple. Plug in and go. Yay! But the Fraps -> QuickTime Pro to convert .avi -> .mov didn’t work, had to do an intermediate step with VirtualDub which was a little annoying. Then loooong render time in QT -> upload to my blip.tv channel and if all goes well, you’ll see Fleep’s First Machinima down below.

Don’t get too excited, I’d just hit the record hotkey when Ryan came over to the plaza and we started chatting before I remembered I was recording, so it’s mostly just me fiddling with the camera HUD. Doh. Still, success??

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