The Daring Librarian

If you're an educator in Second Life you can experience the 21st Century Library Media Center Playground also on the grid! Can't get to Denver but want to experience the 21st Century Playground? A duplicate and decidedly different set of kiosks have been created in Second Life to mirror those set up in Denver! The informational kiosk topics are: Libraries in Second Life Whiteboards Virtual Bldg Glogster Wikis Twitter Mobile Tech Digital Storytelling This year's theme is the Wild, Wild Steampunk West: the Victorian Denver Goldrush of Information featuring an in-world games and panning for gold!! Created by master builder Miss Eleanor Anderton (Linda Dougherty - RL) and Capt. Red Llewellyn (yours truly!) this build brings together the romance of the steam era and the modernity and Science! of the 21st Century! When you visit, be sure to pick up your free gifts on the oceanfront patio! The souvenir ISTE SIGMS top hat that i created for this event and the beautiful I...

Recently in-world, I got this exciting msg from Louise Borgnine of ISTE Island: "If you are attending the conference in Denver and would like a Second Life name tag with your avi pic on it, head on over to ISTE Island HQ and take a pic of yourself. Follow the directions on the board next to the photo booth!" Here's the SLURL to the photobooth! First I tried to do my field explorers outfit: The same outfit i was wearing (the horror!) when I toured the Lost Mine exhibit which I'll be sharing with you soon!~ But that seemed a little too milquetoast for my taste so I changed into my Merry Widow Wretched Dolly gown and started snapping. Look at the lovely netting on that tophat! Just spectacular! It is quite silly how much I enjoy dressing up my avatar...maybe I didn't get enough time playing with Barbie as a child~! LOL I have so much money invested in clothes in Second Life it's shameful. I blame Miss Eleanor Anderton! It's really vital to me as a Vi...

NECC09 Washington DC on PhotoPeach Musings, & Lessons Learned from the NECC Conference, 09 First, you may want to take the test What Kind of Tech User Are You? ....then think about the ONE thing you would like to learn or apply to your career in the next year... " Our plates should be small but our appetite LARGE for new technology " but what i'm saying is..... pace yourself, you can't learn AND use everything you hear about ALL the time! if you just concentrate one thing each week/month/year......heck even if you only try one thing on one day each year you're ahead of 90% of the tech users & teachers out there! see? not so bad! and if you're the daring sort...the kind that isn't afraid to dive into the digital pool and swim with the fishy digital collaborators...know that there will ALWAYS be someone who is doing more than you...who humbles you with all that they utilize in their classroom or school (i get both overwhelmed and ins...

WARNING: rambling post with many parenthetical interjections - also, this post originally was on my Second Life blog......and I brought it over here as my first professional blog post! Don't worry, it should make sense eventually. (( 2022 Note - OMGosh, this post is cringeworthy! I had forgotten that long ago I eschewed capitol letters and employed a rambling weird punctuation filled super bloggy causual writing style.  I started to correct all that and then (exhausted) I stopped and just rolled my eyes thinking that it was, though dated, a part of my history - So be it.))  Back to 2009-- So the NECC conference in DC was just brilliant this year! The Twittering back channel conversation was so stimulating and i made so many new Twitter following friends! 100+....lovely, smart, & cool colleagues who can continue the discussion about Educational Technology - expanded my Personal Learning Network!.....So..... I've decided to become transparent! My worlds are colliding anyway...