Today at Global Kids, as part of an orientation for new staff members, we did an exercise where we had to draw a visual map that represented five incidents or moments in our lives that led us to come to Global Kids. Here’s the map that I drew. It starts in the upper right corner,…
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My twitter feed
This is what my friend Josh says that my average Twitter feed is like.
MacArthur announces $2 million Digital Media & Learning competition
The MacArthur Foundation announced recently that they are launching the second round of their Digital Media and Learning Competition, in collaboration with the University of California, Irvine, Duke University and the virtual network HASTAC. Global Kids’ RezEd project was one of 17 projects awarded a DML Competition grant last year. This year’s competition for the…
Comcast spanked by FCC for violating Net Neutrality!
Yes, I am days late on this, but I still thinks it important to blog this up. The cable company Comcast on August 1st got cited by the Federal Communications Commission (which is chaired by a Republican) for violating the principle of Net Neutrality. Specifically, the FCC found that "Comcast Corp.’s management of its broadband…
Giving virtual props to the Global Kids webmistress Joyce
Here’s a short video of me "giving" a crystal stone over Skype to my Global Kids colleague Joyce (aka "Rhiannon Chatnoir" in SL), as a way of showing respect and appreciation for her work at GK. For those that don’t know, among Joyce’s many other hats, she is the webmistress and Web2.0 guru for the…
Video: Friedrich’s “Ink Scanner” at Eyebeam Mixer
inkscanner @ eyebeam Mixer from Friedrich Kirschner on Vimeo. Here’s an awesome video of Friedrich Kirschner’s bootleg 3D "Ink Scanner" that he demoed last weekend with willing victims like myself at the Eyebeam Lab mixer. Much nicer than the video I shot, and shows more clearly the whole process. Friedrich promises me that I will…
VIDEO: Rik gets digitized at Eyebeam!
As I previously mentioned, my buddy Friedrich Kirschner invited me help test his new bootleg 3D body scanner at a mixer event at Eyebeam labs tonight. I joined a dozen or so other folks who gamely volunteered to shed most all of their clothes to participate. The technology Friedrich employs to create 3D body scans…
Neat 3d model of how Second Life works… in Second Life
More meta-metaverse goodness. Check out this awesome 3d model of how Second Life works, created in Second Life. In the bottom left are the various client computers accessing Second Life via the internet (the gray cloud I’m standing in.) In the back is the server farm that host the data of each of the "simulators"…
VIDEO: Origin of the word “Rez” from the movie “Tron”
My colleague Barry put together these tasty clips from the 1980s ground-breaking scifi movie "Tron." Barry pulled out every use of the word "rez" in the film to explain why Global Kids named its new social network for virtual world educators "RezEd.org." "Rez" in the Second Life context refers to creating objects in-world, i.e. to…
OECD wants to know how the internet can make the world a better place
Here’s an interesting use of online video to facilitate public participation in international policy making. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has asked the "YouTubers" to submit their visions of how the internet can be used to "make the world a better place" which will be responded to by member states of the…