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Friday, February 24, 2012
Experiencing Second Life
Instead of working on my website assignment, I've been exploring the time-suck, Second Life. Which I know I will absolutely love. I'm at a random scuba place and here's the thing, off shore there's a fin circling round and round. My pulse totally jumped! I thought it was a shark. It's a killer whale, which can be just as dangerous, but my pulse jumped! That's how "real" an experience can get. I can't wait to go scuba diving! I'm going to make a video of it and then post it to my facebook page as my scuba trip! hahahaha! I'm such a nerd. Below is a picture of me in Second Life:
Info 621 Virtural Worlds
This week we are studying virtual worlds. I totally want to create a Sutter's Fort virtual world, (I'd also like to earn a paycheck to do it, hah! Wishing.), as a Library Services and Technology Act project, with the goal being to create a 3D world that the kids could explore and "manipulate" the objects to learn about that time in history. There are supposed to be lots of virtual worlds for kids and I should probably look into them, too.
Anyhoo- the blog, SecondLifeUpdate.com, has a list of links that look interesting and helpful:
Other Resources:
Articles about Sutter's Fort as sources of information:
Anyhoo- the blog, SecondLifeUpdate.com, has a list of links that look interesting and helpful:
- Tutorial to Show a PowerPoint Presentation in Second Life
- YouTube Videos in Second Life
- Cool Ways of Streaming Video in Second Life
- Business Collaboration in Second Life with Immersive Workspaces 2.0 from Rivers Run Red and Linden Lab
- Open Loft Prim Sculpting Tool in Second Life
Other Resources:
- The Unofficial Second Life Wiki
- How to Build in Second Life
- Be sure to check out YouTube Videos, too.
- This list could go on and on, so I'll stop with: How to Replicate a Real-Life Building
Articles about Sutter's Fort as sources of information:
Monday, February 20, 2012
I am my family's personal librarian...
I currently have a three year old and while I've grab a parent's guide to books for kids before, I just want to note that the Choosing Books for Children by Hearne is pretty good. I now have ten new books on the way from T.S.Hyman's various illustrated adaptations of the Grimm stories to Well's Max books. You never know what will resonate with a kid.
On the books for the adult male in the household front, I've brought home American Vampire vol 1 & 2, G. del Toro's Stain trilogy and currently the Animal Dialogues.
I'm still just reading stuff that relates to my school work, such as Your Digital Afterlife...
On the books for the adult male in the household front, I've brought home American Vampire vol 1 & 2, G. del Toro's Stain trilogy and currently the Animal Dialogues.
I'm still just reading stuff that relates to my school work, such as Your Digital Afterlife...
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Personal vs. Professional (Online) Identity... Can they remain separate?
This week the prof will be hosting a FB chat on the above theme. She posted some questions to get our juice thoughts flowing.
Personal vs. Professional Identity
Looking at conflation of the personal with the professional while participating on social media:
-- What are we learning about one another?
-- How does this effect our interactions?
-- How does social media affect our learning as a group?
-- What value do you see with using social media professionally?
We've read several articles which say that there is no way to completely separate the two. And considering how things may be indexed, linked, quoted, uploaded, etc without a person's explicit participation or permission, I can see how this is technically true. Doesn't mean that I won't try my damnedest to maintain a separation such as using Facebook solely for friends and family (and editing the privacy permissions in my profile), while building a professional network on Twitter and LinkedIn.
I think the question I want to focus on is the third one. This week we read an article called "Small Change: Why the revolution will not be tweeted" by Malcolm Gladwell and published by The New Yorker Oct 4, 2010. While the gist of the article argues against the ability of social media to drive revolutions, one of the supporting points is that social media supports/drives weak connections. You are connected to people you don't know personally (think your Twitter followers/followees) or with whom you don't share a strong tie (such as long lost friends you want to re-connect with). He points out that those very weak ties are the ones we most benefit from in terms of learning new ideas and getting connected to the people we need to know to advance in the world.
So my classmates and I are weakly connected. We share the same school and class, but we live away from each other (different states), and we have no motivation outside of completing our coursework to interact with each other using the online tools. But, this group will probably be my most informationally influential group because more eyes will be able to read the vast quantity of content, filter out the relevant or interesting ones and drive them to me. I can tell you this, I love to see what my mom is doing, but her posts will not advance my career (though they may help my household).
Personal vs. Professional Identity
Looking at conflation of the personal with the professional while participating on social media:
-- What are we learning about one another?
-- How does this effect our interactions?
-- How does social media affect our learning as a group?
-- What value do you see with using social media professionally?
We've read several articles which say that there is no way to completely separate the two. And considering how things may be indexed, linked, quoted, uploaded, etc without a person's explicit participation or permission, I can see how this is technically true. Doesn't mean that I won't try my damnedest to maintain a separation such as using Facebook solely for friends and family (and editing the privacy permissions in my profile), while building a professional network on Twitter and LinkedIn.
I think the question I want to focus on is the third one. This week we read an article called "Small Change: Why the revolution will not be tweeted" by Malcolm Gladwell and published by The New Yorker Oct 4, 2010. While the gist of the article argues against the ability of social media to drive revolutions, one of the supporting points is that social media supports/drives weak connections. You are connected to people you don't know personally (think your Twitter followers/followees) or with whom you don't share a strong tie (such as long lost friends you want to re-connect with). He points out that those very weak ties are the ones we most benefit from in terms of learning new ideas and getting connected to the people we need to know to advance in the world.
So my classmates and I are weakly connected. We share the same school and class, but we live away from each other (different states), and we have no motivation outside of completing our coursework to interact with each other using the online tools. But, this group will probably be my most informationally influential group because more eyes will be able to read the vast quantity of content, filter out the relevant or interesting ones and drive them to me. I can tell you this, I love to see what my mom is doing, but her posts will not advance my career (though they may help my household).
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