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April 25, 2008
Beyond Second Life
Last night I spoke to a parents' group about Social Networking and balancing the opportunities and dangers on the Internet for kids of varying ages. By the end, we started to get to the fact that we really are at the very beginning of all of this when we look at things like Club Penguin or MySpace.
Today, I came across this slide show from Cory Ondrejka
. Mr. Ondrejka offered this as the final session of a faculty seminar at the Annenberg School at USC, part of the Charles Annenberg Weingarten Program on Online Communities (APOC).
Mr. Ondrejka was the CTO of Linden Labs and a leading architect of Second Life so he's got an important and well-informed viewpoint on all of this.
And in my continuing Twitter story....I came across this via a tweet from gsiemens directing me to a blog post from Brett Bixler with this slide show embedded.
This is the kind of thing the I hope I got across to parents as we think about what social networking will mean in kids' lives.
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April 23, 2008
Did I miss anything?
Today, I'm attending the final day of the Internet2 Spring Meeting in Washington, DC. Right now, the main session is going on, but I hate sitting at the back of the room straining to balance on one of the chairs and trying to see over everyone's head to squint to view the PowerPoint slides. Instead, I'm in a comfortable chair in the lobby, watching the whole thing via the live stream, which of course will be available long after they finish talking. And, I'm not the only one.
At the same time, I'm working on a presentation I have to give tomorrow first to a K-8 faculty and then to their PTA. The topic is social networking and Internet safety. So many great resources, including access to full transcripts from the latest Congressional hearings.
Meanwhile, I've got my twitter stream coming in and came across this poem posted at the Library of Congress Poetry 180 project.
I don't know what all this means but surely people who don't live in this world are missing something, right?
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April 7, 2008
No Words Needed
On my first day back from vacation, I have to get ready for two presentations this week. Here's a tool I've just tried for digital storytelling -- ToonDoo.com
I think this tells the story!
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