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Permalink Reply by Ricart Prats on February 19, 2008 at 2:15pm

Sure, I would like to chat in SL. Keep me posted. - Concord Comet.

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Permalink Reply by Lisa Linn on February 20, 2008 at 6:24am

Hi Gail et.al,

I think many of us already belong to ISTE and/or DEN in SL. If you don't please search for ISTE and come join the largest group of educaotrs in SL. We have regular member events, and speakers, as well as docents at ISTE Island headquarters to answer questions and generally help however we can. If we want to have a meet in-world, we can schedule one through ISTE with a lkittle advance notice.

Lisa Linn
SL CLare Lane

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Permalink Reply by Lee Allan Sanders on February 20, 2008 at 10:44pm

Hi Gail,

I drop by the ISTE HQ building often (ISTE Island), and have found very nice folks gathered there on almost all occasions. As Lisa says there are docents there to help, and they really do help *:-) In SL I am Licenciada Saunders and I am an ISTE member both in RL and in SL, and I recommend ISTE as a very safe place to hang out and continue the learning process.
My $0.02, and welcome *:-)

Lee Allan Sanders (Licenciada Saunders)

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Permalink Reply by Jamey Osborne on February 21, 2008 at 11:30am

I'm Jamey Sismondi in-world and I'm always looking to meet educators and find out what people are doing with virtual worlds. Look me up and count me in. My time is limited, so it'd be rare to make a meeting, but I'll always IM and mentor any educator needing some assistance.

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Permalink Reply by Liam O'Donnell on April 2, 2008 at 11:29am

Hey all, I've been dropping SL more often lately as my sched permits. I'm Smartlak Goodfellow in world. Always looking to connect with other educators. I agree with Lisa: join ISTE if you haven't already. They've got a great system for meetings talks, etc that connect educators in SL from around the world.

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Permalink Reply by nstrehlow on April 14, 2008 at 7:52am

Hi,
I'm a Technology Integration Specialist in Phoenix and would like to meet people from this group in SL.
I went to the ISTE headquarters yesterday and my experience was not as nice as previous people. I found the docents engaged in conversation at the end of an impromptu particle demo but only one person said hello and did I need something. She was using voice chat and I could hear the dismissive tone in her voice.

Everywhere else I've been in SL has had friendly greeters who bent over backwards to help or welcome me. I felt that this docent found me to be an intrusion into their clique. I said that I came to join the group and she added me with no comment. I went to another area of the island and then came back. She was telling people that she was concerned that people would just "show up" at the island like the person that was there before. I had changed out of my dress and into jeans and a t-shirt so she obviously didn't recognize that it was me to whom she was referring. She wondered to them if I could hear her and I said I could. I felt that this was extremely rude and it makes me not want to go back to ISTE headquarters.

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Permalink Reply by Lisa Linn on April 14, 2008 at 5:24pm

Hi,

I am an ISTE docent, and was appalled by what you wrote above, as was ISTE Island management. Most of our docents are very serious about the work we do, and treat newbies and new ISTE members as we would like to be treated. At the request of Island management, I would ask you please to write to Claird Loon and RavenPhoenix Zenokva at sl-island@iste.org. They would like to apologize personally and to find out when this unfortunate circumstance occurred, so the docent can be retrained. Also, I would ask that you give us another chance; most of us are affable and happy to help you. Please drop by tomorrow at 4:00SLT so I can meet and greet myself, I promise you will get the kind of attention you deserve

Thanks,

Lisa Linn
SL Clare Lane

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Permalink Reply by nstrehlow on April 15, 2008 at 8:06am

Hello,
I did not see this post until this morning and would have been on my way home from work at that time anyway. I guess it's enough that someone just be aware that if they are docents they should be more friendly when they know nothing about the person arriving and not jump to the conclusion that certain people have no business being there. I will visit again as either Ginger Trafalgar or Norma Underwood. I thank you for your response and hope to become better acquainted with the SL ISTE contingent.
Noreen Strehlow
Phoenix Elementary School District #1
Technology Integration Specialist

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Permalink Reply by Laura on April 28, 2008 at 1:40am

Hi Lisa
I had a different experience at ISTE HQ, yesterday I went there for the first time to join a guided tour: it was fantastic! I arrived one hour before because I didn't calculate well the "time" and I found a docent, he was very nice and we started an interesting conversation. When the tour began everything was very well organized and people who had problems with voice chat or anything else received help in avery nice way.
I will join other tours in future and keep in touch with all the events and initiatives of ISTE.

Bye, Laura

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Permalink Reply by Tammy Jones on April 14, 2008 at 8:52am

Hi, I'm a 6th grade history teacher with a Master's in Technology Integration. I would love to meet in SL and chat with you all. As you know technology is so fast changing that I'm always interested in the new things that are happening in classrooms.
Tammy
(aka Sarasvati Tigerpaw)

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Permalink Reply by Lisa Linn on April 14, 2008 at 5:39pm

Hi Tammy,

I too am a 6th grade history teacher -language arts as well, and I too have a Masters in Technology Integration. In fact, I came into SL last January on the heels of my last instructor who had just received a grant from the university to study SL. I volunteered to help him with research, and we're still on the ride!

I have docent duty on Tue at 4:00SLT and Sat at 3:00SLT. Stop by and say hello :-)

Lisa Linn
SL Clare Lane

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Permalink Reply by Emma Duke-Williams on April 19, 2008 at 7:37am

I'm Emmadw Rickenbacker in SecondLife. We've just got an Island (UoP) - which is, at present, in it's "just off the shelf" state ... we have yet to develop it.

I've been involved with using SL for some time now, for the past year we've rented land from NMC, and it was the fact we kept running out of prims that has lead us to getting the island!

I'm a lecturer in the School of Computing at the University of Portsmouth, UK, and I've offered SL as an option for an Educational Computing Unit, in which students have to create some educational software (the other alternative was Flash). We've also got studnets doing Human Computer Interaction using it, and some project students.

I'd be up for a meeting, Gail mentioned am/pm, I'm taking it she means SL time, in which case, I'd have to to am, or very early pm ... otherwise it's the middle of the night here!

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