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		<title>Virtual Halloween Party: Learning can’t get much more fun!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzanne Aurilio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When: Friday, October 24, 2008
Time: 8:00 &#8211; Midnight (PDT)
Where: SJSU SLIS Second Life Campus
This is a great opportunity to have FUN learning about Second Life. If you’ve heard about Second Life, spent time there or not, have an avatar or not, this is a low stakes opportunity to get a sense of the virtual world [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coming Soon &#8211; Faculty/Staff Beach Club</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:37:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzanne Aurilio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Situated behind the SDSU campus and next to the Library, the new Faculty/Staff Beach Club will be a one of a kind in Second Life. A Beach Club, you&#8217;re thinking?? What about learning how to teach in SL?
During the Gustav crisis, we received a request to use our SL facilities in case New Orleans&#8217; schools [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wonderland 0.4 &#8211; Demo video</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:11:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzanne Aurilio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What to notice
It&#8217;s helpful to understand that Wonderland has been envisioned as a platform for working/collaboration across distance.  It provides a more immersive experience than you could achieve with current available technologies such as video and phone conferencing, web-conferencing and chats.
Two things to consider in a virtual environment are its capacity to facilitate users [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Wonderland &amp; the pICTsl Farm for Faculty Development</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 21:09:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzanne Aurilio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When one thing leads to another, you have to go with it. Human resource challenges and our general consensus that AW is rather last year&#8217;s VW model, and Wonderland is potentially tomorrow&#8217;s model,  we&#8217;ve made some decisions.
I&#8217;ll continue participating in the Wonderland/Immersive Education development community as a user and potential content builder. Cathy (Mari) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Activeworlds here we come</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:21:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzanne Aurilio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Expanding our exploration of the Metaverse, we&#8217;ve got a few green lights and need a few more, before we&#8217;re developing a presence in Activeworlds. There are over 110 institutions from around the world in their education  universe. The Educational Universe is an entire Active Worlds Universe dedicated to exploring the educational applications of the Active [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s Lively</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzanne Aurilio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I downloaded Lively, Google&#8217;s avatar-based virtual on my pc last night and poked around a bit. I&#8217;ve been reading early reviews in the blogosphere too. Digado said this about his second dip into Lively. One tone is that it&#8217;s nothing special, and indeed compared to Second Life, it does lack the creative functionality, technical and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning in Virtuality Archived Session</title>
		<link>http://pictsl.edublogs.org/2008/06/25/learning-in-virtuality-archived-session/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:09:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzanne Aurilio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Access the archived Horizon Wimba session go to Blackboard&#62;Course Design Institute&#62;Communications&#62;Live Classrooms&#62;Learning in Virtuality Archive.
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		<title>Learning in Virtualities on June 24</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:21:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzanne Aurilio</dc:creator>
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		<title>SDSU-DistanceEd-SL</title>
		<link>http://pictsl.edublogs.org/2008/05/12/sdsu-distanceed-sl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 17:24:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzanne Aurilio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday&#8217;s LAT published a piece about corporate America&#8217;s embrace of Second Life. New World Notes&#8217; Wagner James Au, shared some of the back story. Great journalism, it was and what I love about the blogosphere.I added my 2 cents to his post, as I have been here and there, in the Metaverse- YouTube, Twitter,etc. I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>pICTsl Farm goals for 2008</title>
		<link>http://pictsl.edublogs.org/2008/03/12/pictsl-farm-goals-for-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzanne Aurilio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Will 2008 be full of interesting developments and innovations in virtual worlds beyond  Second Life? That&#8217;s what some are saying. We&#8217;ve given the Farm 2008 some thought. We asked our audience what they wanted &#8220;to know&#8221; about virtual worlds and we got some great and challenging responses like:

How are organizations using VE (Virtual environments) [...]]]></description>
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