Ed Tech Crew 141 - 'Welcome to my Virtual World' an Interview with @lucybarrow

Podcast number 141 - November 1st, 2010

[Running time: 1.16:07 mins, size: 70.4 MB]

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News & General Websites of interest:

Be afraid - be very afraid - FireSheep Extension
http://codebutler.com/firesheep
Presentation that started the news: http://codebutler.github.com/firesheep/tc12/#1

Interview with Lucy Barrow

Blog: http://lucybarrow.edublogs.org/

Twitter: http://twitter.com/lucybarrow & http://twitter.com/begoniaisland

Other web sites from Lucy:

Quest Atlantis official site: http://questatlantis.org/

Our school’s OpenSim Project Blog: http://begoniaisland.edublogs.org/
Go to the Resources page for lots of information to get started with Virtual Worlds

Our school’s Quest Atlantis Project Blog: http://myquestatlantis.edublogs.org/

Second Classroom Ning:  http://secondclassroom.ning.com/

Open Sim on USB - http://vw-standards.wikispaces.com/Research+-+USB+OpenSim

There’s also a great new Virtual Worlds book that’s available from ACER Publishing, “Virtual Worlds: Learning in a changing world” by Judy O’Connell and Dean Groom

http://shop.acer.edu.au and search for “virtual worlds”

Feedback from listeners:

Follow up from last weeks show with Adrian Camm on Game Based learning - via twitter @fboss pointed us via @gamebl to some games  research - http://www.wlv.ac.uk/default.aspx?page=25083

From @darrenmurphy - Sweet Bypass
http://www.zdnet.com.au/sweet-bypass-for-student-finger-scanner-339306878.htm?tag=mantle_skin;content&omnRef=http://www.zdnet.com/news/sweet-bypass-for-student-finger-scanner/478942

Videos:

Something to make you laugh (youtube clip) “Tweet it” ‘9.7 inches of brightness bitches’ - http://goo.gl/hmBu

Events:

Conference - Mind & Its Potential - http://www.mindanditspotential.com.au/index.stm

VITTA Conference:
http://www.vitta.org.au/conferenceinfo
Caulfield Racecourse, Melbourne - Mon 29 Nov & Tue 30 Nov

ICTEV - call for papers for 2011 conference

http://k12onlineconference.org

2010 Schedule - K-12 Online Wiki - http://wiki.k12onlineconference.org