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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>Wisdom from the past &#8211; fast forward to the Beach Club</title>
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		<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>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>Learning in Virtuality Archived Session</title>
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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>Avatar Design for non-designers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:21:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzanne Aurilio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I first looked seriously at Second Life, it was self-evident that the avatar was the essence of the entire experience. This may be more the case in world-building environments than in gaming environments. It&#8217;s not only that learning is an embodied and social endeavor, turned topsy-turvy now that we can control avatars in a [...]]]></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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