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		<title>pICTsl Farm Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:21:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t been posting here, not because I haven&#8217;t been doing pICTsl Farm related work, but because it&#8217;s been more about my dissertation than not and as a result I&#8217;ve been posting about that here.
What&#8217;s new around the Farm? Well Amy Schmitz Weiss in Journalism and Media Studies, has moved in as a neighbor at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wisdom from the past &#8211; fast forward to the Beach Club</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzanne Aurilio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I ran into one of our IT Security Officers the other day in the ladies room. She overheard me talking about the the pICTsl Farm&#8217;s and the new Beach Club and we got to talking about Second Life and technology in general.
Unlike me, she&#8217;s been working in IT and with computers for 30 years. She [...]]]></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 or Wonderland? Hmmm?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:29:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzanne Aurilio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we&#8217;re wading in the Activeworlds waters, deciding how we&#8217;re going to get in, I&#8217;m kind of wondering whether we should also (or instead) get into Wonderland a bit more. I&#8217;m connected to their and the Media Grid&#8217;s conversations, but we&#8217;re also looking at this with new eyes, with building some capacity to support a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where has all the knowledge gone? Activeworlds circa 1999</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzanne Aurilio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I began getting a sense of the bigger picture, let&#8217;s say the beyond Second Life view, of virtual worlds doing my dissertation lit review. Now that we&#8217;re actively looking into AW, I&#8217;ve come across a mountain of information. Projects, research, people, consortiums, conferences, all involved in this stuff in the late 90s, early  2000s.
I started [...]]]></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>What Exactly Is A Virtual World?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:14:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathy</dc:creator>
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Pop quiz: What is a Virtual World?
a) A shared space
b) Avatar-based chat room
c) 3D collaborative experience
d) All of the above
e) Or something else?
With new Virtual Worlds being announced almost weekly, the question bears asking.
The Virtual Worlds Review, for example, a pioneering effort in describing the development of Virtual Worlds, suggests six features common to all [...]]]></description>
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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>Is Second Life an elaborate chatroom?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 14:35:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzanne Aurilio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At its base it more or less is. I&#8217;ve gleaned this sentiment from different conversations in the metaverse, mostly blogs and threads, often from people who are long time inhabitants of the web as a social space, as well as some gamers who are derisive of its ungameness.
One comparison is that to MOOs, texted-based synchronous [...]]]></description>
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