Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Real Life music experiences from Second Life

Hi all...wow the music is hot in Second Life. It is hard to believe that this virtual world can bring so man wonderful artists to someone like me sitting in the middle of the US ---but here I am listening to some gret talent from all over the world. Would I be doing this with out SL..I think not!

I listened to Dexter last night and he was amazing ..wow even better than the first time.

I was chatting with someone before his show started and she told me that he had been following Komuso Tokugawa and that he had a show following Dexter..so I went to his show..let me tell you this guy is a fantastic talent.

You can learn more about this artist and others: http://sonicviz.com/wordpress/2009/04/

or http://www.sonicviz.com/

Cathy

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Assessment in Second Life

Please check back as I add more resources, including my Google Groups site with articles and other research available.


The blog below is my attempt to put together the resources that have appeared on SLED in the last couple of weeks on assessment:

Computers and Educators, has now come> out:>> Jarmon, Leslie, Traphagan, Tomoko, Mayrath, Michael, & Trivedi, Avani.> (2009). "Virtual world teaching, experiential learning, and assessment: An> interdisciplinary communication course in Second Life," Computers &> Education 53: 169-182. Elsevier.>

Resources from Eloise Pasteur:

http://skills.eloisepasteur.net/assessment.php
http://skills.eloisepasteur.net/projectassess.php
http://skills.eloisepasteur.net/learningassess.php



Instructional Alchemy:

http://instructionalalchemy.com/blog/




Calendar of research discussion events:


http://vwresearchersgroup.pbwiki.com/Meeting-Schedule-and-Transcripts



Journal of Virtual Worlds:

http://jvwresearch.org/














From:

http://www.trainingshare.com/resources/distance_ed_journals_and_online_learning_books.htm


Educational Technology, Pedagogy, and Distance Education Journals (most are online).
AACE Journal: International Forum on Information Technology in Education (AACEJ); http://www.aace.org/pubs/aacej/ (formerly Educational Technology Review (ETR))
All AACE journals: http://www.aace.org/pubs/default.htm
Advanced Technology for Learning; http://www.actapress.com/journals/onlinejournals.htm
ALT-J (Journal of the Association for Learning Technology) (ALT) (UK) http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/09687769.asp and http://www.alt.ac.uk/alt_j.html
American Journal of Distance Education: http://www.ajde.com/publications.htm
Asia-Pacific Cybereducation Journal: http://www.acecjournal.org/
Asia-Pacific Education Review: http://eri.snu.ac.kr/aper/
Asian EFL Journal: http://www.asian-efl-journal.com/index.php
Australian Journal of Educational Technology: http://www.ascilite.org.au/ajet/ajet.html
British Journal of Educational Technology: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0007-1013
Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology (CJLT): http://www.cjlt.ca/
Canadian Journal of Univ Continuing Educ: http://www.extension.usask.ca/cjuce/eng/Eng1.html
Computer Assisted Language Learning: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/09588221.asp
Computers and Composition: http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline/
Computers and Education: An International Journal: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/347/description#description
Computers in the Schools: http://www.haworthpress.com/store/product.asp?sku=J025
Computers in Human Behavior: http://authors.elsevier.com/JournalDetail.html?PubID=759&Precis=DESC
Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (special sections on Science, Math, Social Studies, English, and Educational Technology General). http://www.citejournal.org/
CyberPsychology and Behavior: http://www.liebertpub.com/publication.aspx?pub_id=10
Distance Education: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/online/0158-7919.asp
Distance Learning: http://www.usdla.org/html/resources/dlmag/; formerly the USDLA Journal: http://www.usdla.org/html/resources/journal.htm (ended in April 2003)
E-Journal of Instructional Science and Technology (E-JIST): http://www.usq.edu.au/electpub/e-jist/html/about.htm
Educational Media International: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/09523987.asp
Educational Technology and Society (Athabasca): http://www.ifets.info/
EDUCAUSE Quarterly: http://www.educause.edu/pub/eq/
EDUCAUSE Review: http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/index.asp
eLearning and Education (eLeed): http://eleed.campussource.de/
ETR&D (Educational Technology Research and Development): https://www.aect.org/Intranet/Publications/edtech/subguides.html and current edition online: http://www.aect.org/Intranet/Publications/etrd/5201.asp
First Monday: http://www.firstmonday.org/
HRD Quarterly: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jhome/74000165
HRD International: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13678868.asp
Information Research: http://informationr.net/ir/12-1/infres121.html
Innovations in Education and Teaching International: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/routledge/14703297.html
Innovate: Journal of Online Education: http://horizon.unc.edu/innovate/guidelines/
Instructional Science: http://www.springerlink.com/(idiqti55nfgfq545gv4fsd2u)/app/home/journal.asp?referrer=parent&backto=linkingpublicationresults,1:102905,1
Interactive Learning Environments: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/10494820.asp
Interdisciplinary Journal of Knowledge and Learning Objects: http://ijklo.org/
International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (IJ-SoTL) http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/ijsotl/current.htm.
International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education: http://aied.inf.ed.ac.uk/
International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning: http://ijcscl.org/
International Journal of Distance Education Technologies (from IGI): http://www.igi-global.com/journals/details.asp?id=498
International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET) http://www.i-jet.org
International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education (from IGI): http://www.igi-global.com/journals/details.asp?id=4287
International Journal of Instructional Technology & Distance Learning: http://www.itdl.org/index.htm
International Journal of Pedagogies and Learning http://www.apacall.org/ijpl/v4n3/
International Journal of Web-Based Communities (IJWBC): http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijwbc
International Journal of Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies (from IGI): http://www.igi-global.com/journals/details.asp?id=4286
International Journal on E-Learning (IJEL) (Corporate, Government, Healthcare, & Higher Education); http://www.aace.org/pubs/ijel/default.htm, http://www.aace.org/pubs/ijel/
The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning: http://www.irrodl.org
The Internet and Higher Education : http://www.scis.nova.edu/ihe/default.htm
Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks: http://www.aln.org/publications/jaln/index.asp
Journal of Computer Assisted Learning: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0266-4909
Journal of Computing in Higher Education; http://www.jchesite.org/
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/loi/jcmc (replacement)
Journal of Distance Education: http://cade.athabascau.ca/ (Canadian Assoc for Dist Ed (CADE))
Journal of Educational Computing Research: http://baywood.metapress.com/(lsit1t45pwvzee45wur0douf)/app/home/journal.asp?referrer=parent&backto=linkingpublicationresults,1:300321,1
Journal of Educational Media and Library Sciences (Taiwan): http://research.dils.tku.edu.tw/joemls/index_e.htm
Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia (JEMH) from AACE http://www.aace.org/pubs/jemh/default.htm
59. Journal of Educational Technology and Society: http://www.ifets.info/
Journal of Educators Online (JEO): http://www.thejeo.com/index.html
Journal of Interactive Media in Education: http://www-jime.open.ac.uk/ (UK journal)
Journal of Interactive Learning Research, http://www.aace.org/pubs/jilr/default.htm
Journal of Interactive Online Learning: http://www.ncolr.org/jiol/
Journal of Learning Design: http://www.jld.qut.edu.au/; http://www.jld.qut.edu.au/ (new journal)
Journal of the Learning Sciences: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/lst/jls/
Journal of Online Learning and Teaching (JOLT): http://jolt.merlot.org/index.html (from MERLOT)
Journal of Research on Technology in Education: http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Publications/JRTE/Issues/Volume_38/Number_1_Fall_2005/Number_1_Fall_2005.htm
Journal of Technology and Teacher Education: http://www.aace.org/pubs/jtate/default.htm
Language Learning and Technology (LLT): http://llt.msu.edu/
Learning, Media, and Education (formerly Journal of Educational Media) http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/17439884.asp
Online Journal of Distance Lrng Admin: http://www.westga.edu/%7Edistance/jmain11.html
Open Learning: The Journal of Open and Distance Learning: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/02680513.asp
Pedagogies: An International Journal: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t775653691~tab=summary
Performance Improvement Journal: http://www.ispi.org/
Performance Improvement Quarterly: http://www.ispi.org/
Quarterly Review of Distance Education (AECT)
http://www.infoagepub.com/www/products/product2/qrde/index.htm
QWERTY: Journal of technology, culture, and education: http://www.progedit.com/welcome.htm
Social Education (perhaps for online global education articles):http://www.socialstudies.org/publications/se/Technology, Pedagogy, and Education: http://www.triangle.co.uk/jit/
79. System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/335/description#description
Technology, Pedagogy, and Education: http://www.tandf.co.uk/Journals/titles/1475939X.asp
The Technology Source: (ended November 2004, archives at) http://www.technologysource.org/ and the Wayback machine: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://ts.mivu.org
Tech Trends: http://www.aect.org/Intranet/Publications/index.asp#tt
Theory and Research in Social Education (perhaps for online global education articles):http://www.socialstudies.org/cufa/trse/
Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education: http://tojde.anadolu.edu.tr/index.htm
WebNet Journal: Internet Technologies, Applications & Issues is http://www.aace.org/pubs/webnet/guidelines.htm

Another list of technology journals: http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cvu/links/journals.html
List of ed tech journals and acceptance rates: http://designer.50g.com/journals.htm
Educational Technology Magazines, Blogs, and Newsletters
Campus Technology (formerly the Syllabus Magazine): http://www.campus-technology.com/index.asp)
Change http://www.heldref.org/changemanu.php
Chief Learning Officer: http://www.nxtbook.com/fx/books/mediatec/closep05/
i. http://www.clomedia.com/
Chronicle of Higher Education (information technology section): http://chronicle.com/infotech/
Converge Magazine: http://www.convergemag.com/
Digital Knowledge: http://www.knowledgedrivers.com/Resources/Res_Newsletter.html
Edge http://www.pdkintl.org/publications/guidelines.htm
Education Week http://www.edweek.org/info/about/submit-commentary.html
Educational Leadership http://www.ascd.org/portal/site/ascd/menuitem.965dde87afdbb65fb85516f762108a0c/
Educational Technology Magazine: http://www.bookstoread.com/etp/
Education World Technology in the Classroom: http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/
eLearn Magazine: http://www.elearnmag.org/
Electronic School http://www.electronic-school.com/guide.html
eSchool News: http://www.eschoolnews.com/
IEEE Potentials Magazine http://www.ieee.org/portal/site/mainsite/menuitem.818c0c39e85ef176fb2275875bac26c8/index.jsp?&pName=corp_level1&path=membership/students/potentials&file=index.xml&xsl=generic.xsl
Infobits http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/bitmay04.html
Learning & Leading with Technology http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Publications/LL/About_LandL/Submission_Guidelines3/Submission_Guidelines.htm
Learning and Training Innovations: http://www.ltimagazine.com/ltimagazine/
Media and Methods Magazine: http://www.media-methods.com/
New Horizons for Learning http://www.newhorizons.org/nhfl/about/history.htm#articles
Performance Xpress: http://www.performancexpress.org/ (Int’l Society of Perf Improvement)
Perspectives: Policy and practice in higher education http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/tpspauth.asp
Phi Delta Kappan: http://www.pdkintl.org/publications/guidelines.htm
Rethinking Schools http://www.rethinkingschools.org/about/guidelines.shtml
Stephen’s Web (Stephen Downes’ Blog): http://www.downes.ca/
Technology and Learning http://www.techlearning.com/content/about/tl_edguide.html
T.H.E. Journal http://www.thejournal.com/magazine/cp/default.cfm
Training Magazine: http://www.trainingmag.com/training/index.jsp
Workforce Performance Solutions: http://www.nxtbook.com/fx/books/mediatec/wps0805/
http://www.wpsmag.com/content/templates/wps_home.asp?articleid=7&zoneid=2

Teaching and Learning Journals:

College Teaching: http://www.heldref.org/ct.php
Innovations in Education & Teaching International: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14703297.asp
International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (IJ-SoTL) at http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/ijsotl/
Journal on Excellence in College Teaching: http://celt.muohio.edu/ject/
Teaching in Higher Education: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13562517.asp

Monday, April 20, 2009

Steely Decosta and Funky Freddy Republic

Ok all..just when I thought it couldn't bet any better ..it does..Steely Decosta rocks in Second Life.

Showing up at the Tranquil Cafe..late as usual I lucked out in picking Steely's performance to view tonight. He has it all..this guy can really sing, perfect in every way..but to demonstrate his strength he plays the guitar like no one else.

Steely's profiles states: "I play a variety of covers csny beatles jimi hendrix ben harper james morrision firefall jason mrazu2 ben e king eagles plain white ts sam cooke and do original jams..." and the great thing is that he does them with enough original flair that you don't findyourself focused on the original tune.

Despite some technical problems and other glitches FunkyFreddy Replubic was well worth getting through it all and digging deep..showing at Molaskey's PUb. Ok the guitar this guy can play ..when he digs deep is awesome...

How did I get so lucky as to pick to such outstanding acts? Tip the venue which have the ability to spot great talent.