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Machinima as a Teaching and Learning Tool
Teachers are generally a creative and resourceful bunch, and though we do make use of commercially produced materials, we often customize them for our students. Unusual, humorous, poignant and the...
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ISTE 2012, SIGVE, Machinima and More
SIGVEs new Headquarters on Second Life is geared up for the ISTE 2012 Conference. You can attend in San Diego or INworld, or both. The ISTE 2012 Conference in San Diego is about to start and SIGVE,...
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The Grid Report – Quirky Bits From The Metaverse
Hypergrid at your own risk. Hypergridding is possible between most public grids. Of course there are those private grids, kind of like gated communities. Sometimes you look the same when you arrive and...
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ISTE SIGVE EDuMachinima Fest …and the Winners are
Avatars pull their Pixel cars into the SIGVE Drive In Movie to watch machinima submitted by students and teachers in the 2012 EDuMachinima Fest. On June 26th the SIGVE EDuMachinima Fest was held in the...
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ISTE SIGVE 2012 – Post Conference Momentum or Business as Usual
Large international conferences always create a buzz, feeling of excitement and lots of talk about “where do we go from here?” Often it dissipates over the following weeks, not with ISTE’s SIGVE. The...
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A Virtual World Educator Badge
Badges are a hot topic in education these days. Edutopia has a list of badges you can self-select or apply for, Mozilla’s Open Badge Project provides an infrastructure (still in Beta), including...
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2013: Engage For Change
A small change – My new year WoW Toon, a little out of my comfort zone an Orc Warlock. “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that...
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Machinima for Education
Scoping out the EduMachinima Theater on Front Range in Second Life. A group to support the development and use of machinima in education will begin meeting bi-weekly, starting on Monday September 16 at...
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My EduBlogger Picks for 2013
“Edublogger Awards” is an annual popular vote for online technologies. I find the Edublog site a valid and reliable source for good educational links in a variety of categories. I am honored to have...
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Is Machinima The New Diorama? or Flipping Academic Fairs
Jokaydia monitors children ages 4-16 in constructing spaces in Minecraft. Students use video capture and editing software to make machinima. This student built space is a historical complex. Ask a...
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