What Virtual World tools are the favorites of educators and trainers?

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Speech Writing: How To Write A Good One?

Speech writing is in lots of ways similar writing a paper, apart from that there is no penalty for spelling and punctuation mistakes. You should not try to write words in your speech that you are not relaxed pronouncing or don't know the meaning of because it can lead to a less fluently delivered speech. To be able to write a high-quality speech is a lot like making a good cake. Having the right elements is key for it's success. Every… Continue

Added by Barbara Wilkins on December 8, 2009 at 8:10am — No Comments

Shambles Newsletter November 2009 ... online

http://www.shambles.net/newsletter/november2009

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Added by Shamblesguru on November 11, 2009 at 6:03am — No Comments

Virtual Round Table Conference - Valid Questions & Answers

For those keeping up with Virtual Round Table Conference questions, here are some of the archived ones: tagged vrt09, #vrt09 Ask about the banned attendees? And why the round table is not as round as it appears? Virtual Round Table Conference - 11 Questions List http://www.scribd.com/doc/22044599/Virtua… Continue

Added by James O'Reilly on November 3, 2009 at 2:00pm — 7 Comments

College Fair in Second Life

College Fair in Second Life Presentations: 24th and 25th October 2009 Exhibits displayed : 24th Oct to 13 No. 2009 Venue: International Schools Island Full details at http://bit.ly/SLCF09 Tag: #SLCF09

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Added by Shamblesguru on October 5, 2009 at 1:55pm — No Comments

My Dissertation Writing Story…

When Dissertation Troubles Surrounded Me: This is an appreciative letter to thank the people who provided pin-point and professional UK dissertation writing help at the time when I was totally disappointed and had braced myself to meet the disaster regarding my PhD degree. It was the worst time of my life when I even thought of my dissertation disapproval. I was busy working and handling my social life. You can say that I was hanging in balan… Continue

Added by Gaili Jensen on September 30, 2009 at 7:09am — No Comments

Facebook On Its Way to Being A Social Superpower / Facebook Acquires FriendFeed (Social Network Aggregator)

1. Google News: Facebook http://news.google.com/news/search?ned=us&hl=en&q=facebook Google Trends: Wiki, Blog, Skype, Facebook, Twitter http://www.google.com/trends?q=wiki%2C+blog%2C+skype%2C+facebook%2C+twitter&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&so… Continue

Added by James O'Reilly on August 18, 2009 at 5:30pm — 1 Comment

Event & Meeting Guidelines

If you intend to publish, prepare, configure, brief, execute, de-brief, and follow-up an event or meeting, please observe the following Event & Meeting Guidelines: Newbie Problem / Incident Management http://tinyurl.com/problem-incident-management 1. Publication in Ning - The Ning event logo needs to be captured (Jing,… Continue

Added by James O'Reilly on July 1, 2009 at 7:00am — No Comments

Virtual Worlds Research Discussion Group

The questionaires Part A - Adding A Free Tool http://tinyurl.com/second-life-tool-ranking-a and Part B - Ranking Your Top 10 Free Tools http://tinyurl.com/second-life-tool-ranking-b (and respectively the non-free tool forms a1 and b1) have been accepted to the Virtual Worlds Research Discussion Group under the category Useful Links:… Continue

Added by James O'Reilly on February 19, 2009 at 8:30pm — 1 Comment

Invitation to Add Your Second Life Tool Ranking

Do you want to know what Second Life tools are the favorites of educators and trainers? Here you have the opportunity to add free Second Life tools to an on-going list and/or rank the existing ones listed. Then look at the results. A form for non-free ones is also provided. As soon as the statistical sample size N of the entries make some sense, Part C will be implemented. Part A and B are still structuring in their beta form. Your initial data entry helps to improve this structure.… Continue

Added by James O'Reilly on February 19, 2009 at 7:00pm — 1 Comment

ISTE "Library on a Stick Workshop"

ISTE "Library on a Stick Workshop" 19 Feb 2009 6:00pm S.L. Time I've been invited back (to ISTE) to share some more resources that are available free on International Schools Island This session (at ISTE Island beach front) is designed to be of interest to teachers in any curriculum area and with students of any age group. http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island/206/206/23 I'm going to showcase and share a concept and object… Continue

Added by Shamblesguru on February 19, 2009 at 5:56am — No Comments

International Schools Island

Wow ... James, I'm member number two ... this is a brilliant idea for a Ning .... and I hope it takes off! I'm indexing SL for Educators in SL itself ... in three towers ... Curriculum Tower, Technology Tower, Information Tower .... and a Medical Centre .... all on my estate 'International Schools Island' in SL (3 SIMS). International Schools Island Location (SLurl) http://slurl.com/secondlife/International%20Schools/64/90/24… Continue

Added by Shamblesguru on February 19, 2009 at 5:30am — No Comments