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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>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>Cultures of Virtual Worlds Conference</title>
		<link>http://pictsl.edublogs.org/2008/04/27/cultures-of-virtual-worlds-conference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 20:33:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzanne Aurilio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was only able to stay for one day of the conference, held at UC Irvine. It was similar to the MetaverseU conference in that some extraordinary thinkers and doers were there. Maria Bezaitis and I chatted a bit about how important metaphors are as bridges to understanding.  Melissa Cefkin is doing some great thinking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Browser-based access to SL, open source &amp; gender</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:36:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzanne Aurilio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A young British woman (yeh!) is developing AjaxLife, a web-based application for connecting to Second Life from within your web browser. She&#8217;s surveying us on what we&#8217;d like to see. Do the survey here. Great idea (the survey and the project). I&#8217;m cheering women on is this domain because it is overwhelmingly male in culture [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Bransford on SL for learning</title>
		<link>http://pictsl.edublogs.org/2008/02/13/john-bransford-on-sl-for-learning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:15:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzanne Aurilio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bransford is coauthor of How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience and School. In late 2006 he hosted a discussion on learning in SL.
&#8220;People have asked if multi user virtual environments (MUVES) like Second Life (SL) can support &#8216;rigorous learning&#8217;. Given the right kinds of designs, the answer is &#8216;yes&#8217; But the yes answer requires &#8216;effective [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preparing for ELI 2008</title>
		<link>http://pictsl.edublogs.org/2008/01/20/preparing-for-eli-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 22:56:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzanne Aurilio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Educause&#8217;s Learning Initiative Annual Meeting is just around the corner and I&#8217;m preparing the data I&#8217;ve collected over the last 5 months to present.
Aurilio, S. (2008, January). Introducing university faculty and instructional staff to second life: A pilot initiative. EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Annual Meeting. San Antonio, Texas.
This years theme is Preparing Students for Life [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winterbreak SL workshop results</title>
		<link>http://pictsl.edublogs.org/2008/01/11/winterbreak-sl-workshop-results/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzanne Aurilio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We had 32 participants attend six, two and a half hour sessions of our Introduction to Second Life Winter Break workshops. Faculty, instructional staff,  campus administrators and folks from our neighboring USD got their second lives up and running. Overall it was well received, the majority thought the sessions were effectively organized and presented. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The educational uses of SL</title>
		<link>http://pictsl.edublogs.org/2007/10/24/the-educational-uses-of-second/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:45:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzanne Aurilio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Wiki is an expanding collection of what&#8217;s going on and what could go in SL educationally.  Worth bookmarking and keeping up on.

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		<title>Reflections from the Farm</title>
		<link>http://pictsl.edublogs.org/2007/08/05/reflections-from-the-farm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2007 20:33:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzanne Aurilio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In SLRL, the Second Life Research Listserv, I was happy to see an insightful conversation about the abundance of brick and mortar emulations of institutions (and their concepts) in an environment that has the potential to be more.
There were two distinct voices in this conversation. One pointed to the land grab mentality.  Akin to [...]]]></description>
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