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just chanced upon this 4-mths old article by Owen Thomas, it appears that Second Life is ending it's 'original life' in the business world:
We were primarily interested in Second Life as a business/commerce/finance phenomenon, covering it like we would any small but fast-growing economy in the real world. The bureau is now closed. Essentially the story we were there to cover has moved on. -- Adam Pasick, as cited by Thomas
in short, SL didnt make MONEY as originally planned. so it's getting a second life by "pitching itself as an online schoolhouse."
good news for those of us in teaching isn't it? (:
gotten this off one of my feeds, littlemisskool [lmk] is writing a thesis on the abovementioned. let's wish her all the best in her writing :)
A new blog is created every second and the phenomenon has grown 60 times larger than it was three years ago, says Technorati in its periodic State of the Blogosphere report ... There are about 1.2 million new posts daily, or 50,000 an hour ...
and the full article goes here.
[source: information week]
Will Richardson has this interesting post on his conversation with his son. His son is 6 years old and blogging away! Tell us much about our upcoming generation and it reminds us teachers to constantly attune to our young :-)
The article entitled "Meet the First National Interschool Blogging Champions" is in November's issue of MOE Contact Online. With the event behind, the write-up does bring back much memories :)
Yet another article on iPods, from The Seattle Times.
Teachers in this article are using the portable players to "make podcasts, practice their vocabulary words, English as a Second Language students are using them to practice English, getting the best possible sound quality from the youngsters, which sometimes meant doing it over and over."
In addition, busy parents too are capitalising on the technology to "keep in touch with the world their children inhabit all day at school" by programming their computers "to capture the broadcasts".
