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Well, I am working on a plan to introduce Internet 2.0 training to my new staff I will be going to this next fall and there are a lot of transitions that I need to make, moving from high school to elementary students. However, the skill set of some of the students in the Urban High School had skills of many of the elementary students I have worked with before.

My goal is to create an inservice center around what teacher's in the school are already doing. Especially in the area of…

Ok guys, it's finally sunk in. I won't be at NECC this year. I really wanted to get there to meet in person some of those great people I have been working with, learning from and just chatting with. I made some efforts to get there but it just didn't pan out. So I guess the 18,000? of you who will be there will…

My name is Mark Treadwell and I have been…

Jay Pfaffman, an instructional technology professor from the University of Tenessee recently wrote an excellent piece which appeared on the LinuxInsider site entitled, It's Time to Consider Open Source Software. As can be expected, this generated a fair…

In last month's issue of…

My name is Kelly. I've been free of commercial television for 13 years now. Well, that's not true. Every Christmas while staying at the hotel with my wife's family, I can't help but watch a few Star Trek and CSI.

There is a great discussion going on at…

I found this article about the Ann Myers Medical Center in Second Life. Although I don't believe Second Life is ready for conducting formalized training that utilize things like the Ann Myers simulations, I do think that this is closer to the kinds of elements that can be added to pre-clinical (and even clinical) training to assist in the development of communication and critical thinking skills.…

Over the past few days I have been finding it nigh on impossible to access my Gmail account.
Today I googled "gmail problem" and lo and behold it seems that quite a few people have been having the same difficulty.

The first link I clicked on suggested I clean out my cache and temp files....
It worked - I got my gmail back again

Hey. Some of you may know I'm blogging a bunch, and I'm headed down to the 'Non-Conference" of educational bloggers in Atlanta this coming Saturday. I recently added some posts in my primary blog, scottmerrick.net, about Second Life and realized that it is only appropriate that I keep those two lives separated, however comingled their developments may at times be.

So I've created the "scott merrick in second life" bloggie to keep up…

Hi All!

As many of you are, I'm looking forward to the NECC conference in Atlanta, GA. There seems to have been a flury of interesting posts on the blogsphere recently now that the schools year is wrapping up (more time). It will be interesting to see how some of those conversations continue through NECC and the rest of the summer.

...and in other happy news, my daughter just turned three and had one heck of a cool party with a few of her close…