It's time to brace yourself for another round of gloom and doom prophecy about Second Life! This latest round is being triggered by the announcement that Linden Labs has asked the "sleducation" wiki to change their name because the "SL" is in violation of the Linden trademark. Kudos to Jokay Wollongong, who decided to not enter into a major fight over this action, but that has not stopped the growing "Bad Linden...Bad!" scolding coming from educators and others in and around SL. And if history c…
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Added by John Jamison on October 1, 2009 at 10:30am —
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The work of ImagiLearning, Inc is to support the efforts of individuals and groups who are attempting to learn how to adapt to the emerging digital culture. In this age of change, we focus on the elements of that change, rather than on pushing a particular agenda or philosophy 'about' that change. With that understood, I want to attempt to address an issue that could easily be interpreted as having some 'political' agenda...but that is not my motivation. First, I don't have a political agenda. S…
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Added by John Jamison on September 10, 2009 at 10:56am —
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The State of Illinois is one of many that is struggling with budgets (and political agendas), with some very serious results. In June, several of my colleagues were laid off from our office, directly as a result of the actions and in-actions of the legislators. After two months now, we are beginning to see some return of budgets, as well as a couple of our colleagues. However, I have been impressed with the amount of pain that has been created, and which shows no real tendency to ease. While thi…
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Added by John Jamison on September 3, 2009 at 3:05pm —
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Ok, I sound like any typical grandfather there don't I? "There is none smarter...or cuter...or...whatever, than my grandson!" Well, however true that may actually be...that's not really the point of this post. It's about "Genius".
This morning I stumbled across an article I've had on my laptop for a few months...in that folder I keep sticking things in that I really need to read "someday". It's an article by Thomas Armstrong, called "Awakening the Genius in the Classroom". I decided to skim it…
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Added by John Jamison on September 1, 2009 at 9:30am —
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We are nearing the start of our Fall SLemester Experience, the 4 month learning community about the digital culture, using Second Life as our platform. We do still have a couple of seats open, and we're busy adding new activities and experiences to make this the best SLemester Experience so far!
The SLemester Experience is NOT just for newcomers to SL. Some of our best experiences have been with those who have been in SL for a while...who said the SLemester took them deeper than they ever imagi…
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Added by John Jamison on August 30, 2009 at 12:52pm —
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I came to Second Life for the first time several years ago. I walked around in a circle or two, left and came back months later, walked around a little more, and then just left. Second Life was boring and a bit scary but looked like it had tons of potential. However, knowing the potential of something and making that potential a reality for yourself are two different things.
A year or maybe two...who's counting, really?...I saw an announcement on LinkedIn from a guy named John Jamison about a c…
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Added by Jen Bouchard on August 25, 2009 at 7:40am —
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Not long ago I was reminded by a co-worker that as we develop our online courses we need to keep in mind that the majority of our learners "out there" will be viewing our courses on an 800 x 600 resolution screen. In fact, that was recommended as a required standard for development. Out of pure curiosity, I did some quick research and found the following interesting info from the numbers-collecting group, w3counter:
http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php
According to their studies, here are t…
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Added by John Jamison on August 24, 2009 at 10:30am —
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After two years of planning and a lot of great work by our team...we have just announced our next step in our mission and passion to Create the Future of Learning...the ImagiLearning Logic System for Second Life.
Check out our Blog at: http://imagilearning.com/blog/ to see just what we are doing....and come into Second Life and join us in our adventure!
This is the first of a list of new projects and products in the works at ImagiLearning, Inc., and we're always looking for new ideas and peopl…
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Added by John Jamison on August 21, 2009 at 8:34pm —
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A couple of weeks ago we announced the release of our new website, and have been working hard to polish and expand the resources there. As a part of the overall plan for our web-presence, we are making another adjustment today, and preparing for the next step in a couple of weeks.
Today...we formally activate our new Blog site, now to be the home of our "rants", "tirades", and hopefully even a helpful thought or two. Follow the navigation link from our website, or just use the URL…
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Added by John Jamison on August 5, 2009 at 9:00pm —
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As I was updating the "What am I doing" section of the page here, I found myself ranting about the difficulty I'm having keeping track of all of the options being thrown at me in this digital culture I'm trying to live and work in. Just today...actually just since about four hours ago today, I've had three different meetings in which three different people were telling me what I "need to do" for my business to take the "next steps", and to "tip", and to "break through". And honestly, every one o…
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Added by John Jamison on July 30, 2009 at 11:32pm —
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I recently wrote an blog titled:
Quotes don’t have to be from dead people you don’t know
You build deeper relationships by quoting your partners, associates and people in your networks. It is worth the effort to look for the great thought your associated write.
Share your best quotes about the digital culture in the comments.
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Added by Jim Sutton (Jeff Oatsmill) on July 29, 2009 at 10:08pm —
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The old blog post has been quiet again for a while as I've been pulling together the plans for the roll-out of our next group of programs in September. Two of our successful programs are returning, and a brand new course is being added to the mix! The 4 month long SLemester Experience returns for it's third year.
The SLemester Experience is an immersive learning community that meets in Second Life, and uses that platform to experience and try to understand the emerging digital culture it repres…
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Added by John Jamison on July 28, 2009 at 8:53pm —
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The last two years has seen a significant growth in the recognition that traditional education and training has a lot to learn from the world of digital games. More educators and trainers are now incorporating the use of 'games' into the activities they offer to their learners. We believe this is a good step.
But we believe there is another step to take. Unfortunately, the tendency is too often to just "bring" games into the classroom; putting them in as another element of our otherwise traditi…
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Added by John Jamison on July 11, 2009 at 5:00pm —
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For those out there enjoying the dissertation process right now...I wanted to announce that I have a few new openings for dissertation coaching beginning this month. I went through the process of completing formal dissertation research in SL...with all the questions, explanations, justifications...and have been working with several others going through that same path now. The coaching is a 50 minute "focused" phone or SL conversation each week,...with the simple goal of helping you get that thin…
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Added by John Jamison on May 27, 2009 at 8:16pm —
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Over the past couple of months I've found myself having to explain and re-explain some of the words I've been using...sometimes even to myself. As I continue my study of the changes coming with the emerging digital culture, my use of language is reflecting some of the internal and very real changes taking place within me. Let me just give you two examples here.
First, I almost daily find myself discussing with someone the word "real". It usually begins by having someone stress that, while the w…
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Added by John Jamison on May 6, 2009 at 2:30pm —
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My "jjamison@imagilearning.com" email address was offline for a brief time while we moved and updated our servers. If you did send me an email between Friday evening and 2pm Sunday...that message most likely went into that great digital zeroes and ones pergatory....never to be heard from again.
The accounts are all working again as of Sunday morning....but if you did email me during the outage and have not heard back from me...please try once again.
With our new servers now in place, watch for…
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Added by John Jamison on May 3, 2009 at 2:30pm —
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What is in a name? Apparently a trademark infringement for one thing.
We are in the process of finding a new name for our successful SLemester programs, after being notified by Linden Labs that the "SL" is an infringement of their trademark for Second Life. It was a very friendly and polite note, and it provides us with the opportunity to rethink...refocus...and re-brand the work we are doing.
The primary goal of ImagiLearning, Inc. has been to provide resources, training and support for indiv…
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Added by John Jamison on April 14, 2009 at 8:30pm —
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We are excited to announce the opening of our newest
Learning Community experience at ImagiLearning, Inc. Along with offering the
SLemester four-month learning community for individuals as we have done for the past two years, we are now offering a fully customized
Group SLemester for educators or business persons attending from one institution. This session runs for either a full quarter or semester, based on the decision with the institution, and provides a structure…
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Added by John Jamison on April 11, 2009 at 4:21pm —
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We are very happy to announce that registrations for the Summer 2009 session of the ImagiLearning
SLemester are now open. The SLemester is the four-month long, immersive learning community held in Second Life. Limited to 15 participants, the community participates in weekly discussions focusing on issues relating to the emerging digital culture represented by virtual environments, and other issues having significant impact on learning and business. The community also has access to ongoing…
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Added by John Jamison on April 4, 2009 at 12:04pm —
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As I am preparing to do an in-world introduction to Second Life for a large group of designers and tech-folks next month, I was asked the question about the risks of Second Life, particularly the risk of someone being offended if they are "inappropriately approached" when they first enter the new environment for orientation. This is a common question, regularly fueled by such stories...each taking on a life of its own. I was asked to write a brief "disclaimer" for the event, so that no one was u…
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Added by John Jamison on March 24, 2009 at 11:00am —
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Here It Comes Again...
Inside View of ImagiLearning - A Learners Perspective
I propose quoting living people you do know.
