Virtual Campus Blog

• News from the Podosphere
• Blackboard World ’08 – Las Vegas, July 15-17, 2008

• Rod’s Podcaster Guide & E-Learning News
• Lively – Google’s new Second Life killer
• Knol – Google’s new Wikipedia killer

• Blending Blackboard and Second Life

• Interview with Mauri Collins, DEd, Instructional Designer, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
• Dr.
  Collins is also an adjunct assistant professor at Boise State
  University, where she co-teaches an innovative course: Teaching and
  Learning in Second Life. She has been involved with computer-mediated
  communication since 1987 and worked in distance education since 1992.
• Her presentation shared teacher and learner experiences for those who plan to teach using Second Life.
• Second Life and Learning Spaces
• “it’s not just pixels on a screen”
• “Testicle in the Sky” (Slurl) by DrDoug Pennell (SL) aka Dr. Douglas R. Danforth of Ohio State University
• “Prim” – primitives, basic building blocks in SL

• Podsafe Music Selection from the Podsafe Music Network
• “Summertime” by Brother Love – one of the most popular tracks on the network

Listen here.