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Category: Virtual Worlds

My promotion: Assistant Director of Global Kids’ Online Leadership Program!

Posted on January 9, 2009 by

After a year at the Online Leadership Program at Global Kids, I'm excited to announce that I have been promoted to Assistant Director of OLP! Functionally, I will still be doing a good amount of "Second Life producing," but also doing more programmatic and staff oversight. We've got an awesome bunch of geeks and educators…

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Nexeus Fatale’s “The Apex-High” album: free, Creative Commons, house-hiphop-trance goodness!

Posted on January 8, 2009 by

In December, my buddy and badass DJ Nexeus Fatale released for free download his album "Apex-High," which I downloaded on Sunday.  I've had it playing for the past few days during my commute to and from work, and it keeps getting better and better.  Here's Nexeus's description of the album: In the beginning of my…

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Real World Places in Second Life #27: The Estonia Embassy

Posted on January 8, 2009 by

I don't know why I never visited here, but a colleague alerted me to the Estonian government's Second Life island (click here to teleport.) Given the level of e-government innovation that happens in Estonia, I guess I shouldn't be surprised that they have been in the virtual world since December 2007.  I've heard that Estonia…

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Apps for $10K “Linden Prize” for innovative Second Life projects due January 15

Posted on January 8, 2009 by

Just a reminder that next Thursday, January 15, applications are due for the US$ 10,000 "Linden Prize" being offered by Linden Lab. If you will recall, in November, Linden Lab, the company that runs Second Life, announced that they are launching the $10,000 "Linden Prize" for "an innovative inworld project that improves the way people…

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Second Life inaugural ball at virtual Capitol Hill January 20

Posted on January 6, 2009 by

Kei Moana told me about a fun inaugural ball that his folks at the Second Life Capitol Hill are organizing on January 20. So if you were not able to score a ticket to the real life presidential inauguration in DC, you can still celebrate with other blinged-out avatars in a virtual Capitol building.  It…

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New study on Islam and virtual worlds releasing findings on January 29 in NYC

Posted on January 6, 2009 by

Speaking of Islam and virtual worlds, it looks like Joshua Fouts and Rita King of Dancing Ink Productions will be unveiling the findings of their study on "Understanding Islam through Virtual Worlds" on January 29 in New York City, and then again in Second Life on January 30.  Here's the info on the NYC event:…

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First look at Muxlim Pal virtual world: shop, chat and pray

Posted on January 5, 2009 by

After registering almost a month ago, I finally was able to log into the new "Muxlim Pal" virtual world.  As you will recall, the owners of Muxlim had restricted access to the new virtual world due to griefer attacks that started after the BBC published a story about Muxlim Pal.  Now apparently they have dealt…

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Global Kids 2008 Year End Review

Posted on December 31, 2008 by

I just finished drafting the 2008 Global Kids Year End Review, with a lot of help from my colleagues.  It's remarkable listing all of the cool stuff that we did over the past twelve months with our scrappy little team of geeks and educators.  Some of my personal favs: An AIDS orphan in Ugandan exchanges…

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Year One at Global Kids Wrap-up

Posted on December 27, 2008 by

December 19, 2007 started off super-crappy but ended super-awesome. That morning, I updated my status on the micro-blog Twitter as "jobless." A few minutes later, I got a text message from Barry Joseph : “Sorry to hear the news.  Please call when u can.” Barry is a guy I had known for about a year…

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Virtual Naughty Elves Unite: SantaCon comes to Second Life tomorrow!

Posted on December 22, 2008 by

For those like me that missed the real world SantaCon, I got the exciting news that Santarchy 2008 is happening tomorrow, December 23 in Second Life: Couldn't make it to SantaCon because you didn't have a red suit? or you had a cold? couldn't find a designated driver? or you had to stay home with…

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