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http://www.reactiongrid.com/VirtualEvents.aspx Virtual events on reactiongrid. tags : education , learning , opensim Making Use of Notecards in Second Life - For Dummies SecondLife / OpenSim basics for notecards. tags : education , learning , secondlife , opensim Script Me! Learn how to script in second life. It creates autoscript to help you do things in SL or OpenSim. YES!!!! tags : education , secondlife , opensim Getting started in LSL scripting in Second Life Tutorial to learn how to script - works in SL and OpenSim. I'm learning how to do this. tags : education , learning http://www.reactiongrid.com/WorldCreation/CreationTools.aspx Creation tools for Worlds and Open Sims tags : education , learning , opensim , edu_newapp Posted from Diigo . The rest of my favorite links are here.

Tweeght How to siphon off those great quotes -- just tag your tweets #tweeght #thought or #quote or reply to @tweeght -- so great! tags : education , twitter , learning Posted from Diigo . The rest of my favorite links are here.

Fridays are always reflection days here -- when we share what we learned via blog post, discussions, or video. Today, we ustreamed. Several times my mouth went open. Like, when one of the terraformers (these are the people who make the land ) talked about the vision for the island and the creation of good "badguys" - people who are trustworthy to operate the avatars of the villains who roam the island and try to get students to give out inappropriate information. So, let the students speak for themselves. Listen to our terraforming team talk about our island, the uses of Open Sim in schools (We use www.reactiongrid.com and LOVE it!), and their vision of what they'd like to see happen. Also, hear the reflections of the other students about their work in virtual worlds. Free Webcam Chat at Ustream This is a great group of students and they are doing wonderful work! We're getting ready to start on their book. So, what am I teaching them, what are our objectives? A...

The conference was totally amazing.  Still have to share with you the post, but this is the video Julie made with a incy wincy bit of help from me for our opening session.  If you don't know what flat classrooms are or about the projects it is an intro.

FOXNews.com - Where Are Your Friends and Family? Check Google Maps - Science News | Science & Technology | Technology News Google Maps turns on family location services giving you the "latitude" to track people in your family. With privacy concerns abounding, the service has still launched. Take a look and incorporate this into your digital citizenship and safety discussions. tags : education , Google , learning , privacy Posted from Diigo . The rest of my favorite links are here.

YouTube - Don Tapscott's Grown Up Digital contest Video from Don Tapscott - his call to Canadian educators but it is a global project for all of us. Share it and join in. tags : education , learning Posted from Diigo . The rest of my favorite links are here.

So glad you're my friend. Here's to all of those out there who make Twitter the destination of choice for so many of us.  From putting together global projects to just getting that nagging question answered - or even twittering a kind word via direct message to my cell when my grandmother died or Mom was sick - twitter is a Godsend in more ways than one. Here's the mosaic including just the first 100 of you guys who make things so great! Get your twitter mosaic here.