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	<title>Fleep&#039;s Deep Thoughts &#187; Virtual Worlds</title>
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		<title>Governance in Virtual Worlds</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 11:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
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On Friday, March 26th, I participated in the Governance in Virtual Worlds 2010 conference sponsored by the Sandra Day O&#8217;Connor College of Law and World2Worlds.  The conference description:
Virtual worlds and online games are used by millions of people around  the world for recreation, corporate and academic conferencing, formal  education, research, training and charitable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Fear of Blogging: Optimist: Speaking with your Digital Voice: Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is one of those self-indulgent, reflecting on my own blogging posts, so if you hate that sort of thing, stop reading now.
Wherein the Optimist Wins the Internal (Eternal?) Debate:  To Blog or Not To Blog
A friend and I recently got into a heated debate about blogging.  The context isn&#8217;t important so much, but it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Superstruct:  Inventing the Future &#8211; 2019</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:07:01 +0000</pubDate>
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Screaming 3D Bootstrapper Csven Concord had been pinging me for weeks about the Superstruct game organized by the Institute for the Future.  I finally got a few hours to take a look at it and was stopped cold at the very first mission of the game:  describe yourself in the year 2019.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>08A_15COMM429:  Video Games Better Than Real Life?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 02:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is for Prof. Jenning&#8217;s Communication &#038; Technology class.  If you want to comment, please comment back on the class blog so Prof Jennings sees it!  &#8211; Fleep

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		<title>CCK08 &#8211; Suggested Reading &amp; Collage About Education in Second Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 01:54:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This post is about the Massively Online Open Course called Connectivism and Connective Knowledge being taught by George Siemens and Stephen Downes from September to December 2008.  Over 2000 participants have signed up, and I am facilitating the Second Life cohort for the course.  Over the following months, I will be posting about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EDUCAUSE Review: Back to (Virtual) School</title>
		<link>http://www.fleeptuque.com/blog/2008/09/19/educause-review-back-to-virtual-school/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been a bit deluged this week with last minute preparations as the start of the new school year approaches, but I wanted to take a moment to post about the September/October 2008 issue of EDUCAUSE Review.

If you have any interest whatsoever in virtual world technology and how it is being used for education, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3 Great VW Panels @ Chilbo Summer Fair!</title>
		<link>http://www.fleeptuque.com/blog/2008/08/19/3-great-vw-panels-chilbo-summer-fair/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:07:36 +0000</pubDate>
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Cecilia Delacroix gives a poetry reading at the Chilbo Summer Fair 2008.
The Chilbo Summer Fair is well underway, with tours, rides, cultural events, and more happening every day this week!
Three upcoming panels promise to be of interest to virtual world enthusiasts:
Virtual Worlds Day Panel
Wednesday, 8/20, 3 PM SLT
Location: Shrubbery Amphitheatre
SLurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Chilbo/167/129/109
This panel will feature a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hype Cycle and James Paul Gee &#8220;Building Worlds&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.fleeptuque.com/blog/2008/08/14/hype-cycle-and-james-paul-gee-building-worlds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gartner Emerging Tech Hype Cycle &#8211; August 2008
Virtual World News alerted me to Gartner&#8217;s latest &#8220;Emerging Technology&#8221; Hype Cycle analysis, and I was a bit surprised to see where they placed public virtual worlds, particularly in relation to Web 2.0 and wikis.

Gartner shows wikis far out in front of Web 2.0 generally and Web 2.0 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thought for the Day:  Secret Worlds</title>
		<link>http://www.fleeptuque.com/blog/2008/08/05/thought-for-the-day-secret-worlds/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fleeptuque.com/blog/2008/08/05/thought-for-the-day-secret-worlds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
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Image courtesy of xkcd comics.
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		<title>SL Events: BlogHer, ISTE, &amp; Virtual Policy 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So many things happening right now, I haven&#8217;t had time to even blog about them all!  Two events happening today and one archived event below..  hope to see you in-world!
ISTE Speaker Series Event
Tuesday, July 22, 2008 &#8211; 6PM SLT/9PM EST

ISTE Speaker Series Event: Metanomics: bridging the virtual worlds of business and K-20 education
Location: [...]]]></description>
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