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		<title>pICTsl Farm Update</title>
		<link>http://pictsl.edublogs.org/2009/03/20/pictsl-farm-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:21:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzanne Aurilio</dc:creator>
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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>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>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>One after the other &#8211; Wonderland and Active Worlds</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:57:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzanne Aurilio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent a couple of hours poking around a few nodes in Wonderland , Immersive Education Initiative on the Media Grid, and then in Activeworlds and Activeworlds educational universe.
Wonderland is self-described as primitive in terms of development, but given that it was only launched in June it&#8217;s quite impressive and full of potential. What&#8217;s most [...]]]></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>What&#8217;s a virtual world &amp; how should we pay attention to them?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzanne Aurilio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks Cathy! Great summary. I was going to comment, but since I can post,   I thought I&#8217;d do that and extend the discussion.
I think we need to refine the term &#8220;virtual world&#8221; for our audience and context and extend the conversation to include cultural, organizational and pedagogical perspectives.
Improving student learning is our main [...]]]></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>
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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>Universal Design for Learning and Virtual Environments</title>
		<link>http://pictsl.edublogs.org/2008/05/11/universal-design-for-learning-and-virtual-environments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 23:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzanne Aurilio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UDL or Univeral Design for Learning is a  simple concept and echoes Don Norman&#8217;s point that well-designed things are self-explanatory. Unfortunately our high-tech world is riddled with far more poorly designed widgets than well designed ones. They often frustrate us or make us feel dumb. Few of us recognize them as such, but instead [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alternatives to SL</title>
		<link>http://pictsl.edublogs.org/2008/02/27/alternatives-to-sl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:14:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzanne Aurilio</dc:creator>
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