tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9218055668844411172011-09-06T18:59:05.716+03:00Wandering through virtual world. New tools for open and flexible learning. Matkalla kohti opetuksen uusia ulottuvuuksia. Elämää virtuaalimaailmassa.Aino Kantohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16572765306476546042noreply@blogger.comBlogger331100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-921805566884441117.post-58702514721323527382008-10-17T17:07:00.007+03:002008-10-17T17:56:30.680+03:00

Cool! Isn't it? Just enter your Delicious user name or the URL of your blog and you will get a nice word cloud on the most common words stated in your website.Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes.

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The Finnish Adult Education Centre (of the City of Helsinki) has started a project dealing with interactive and social media web tools and facilities. I have made some notes about the early plans and goals about the project in this blog (see more from my notes at 2007 Nov 3rd).The goals have been changed a bit during these several months (actually the first ones go back to one year almost) and

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I have participated in several nice virtual conferences in Second Life during the last weeks. Unfortunately I just have had lack of time so I haven't made any notes to my blog about these activities. Luckily my friend avatars have been more active in the blogospshere so I just give some references to the blogs and to the websites about the conferences.Jokaydia Unconference, September 27th - 28th,

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After two more weeks, Friday the 17th of October 2008, there will be a Finnish Second Life seminar organized by the Koulutuskeskus SALPAUS from Lahti, Finland (mentioned also in Le's and Sammy's blogs). The program and the registration can be found from the website [http://slseminaari.blogspot.com/]. Online participating (only half of the day) by Second Life is for free, real world participating

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Marja wrote already about recent virtual meeting of the web tutors in the University of Helsinki. Also Sammy and Le wrote about the future happenings in the Educational Centre for ICT area in the EduFinland Island including the in-world Studia Generalia video streams in October and huge global Megaconference.In addition to those we are planning to produce in November one or more public lectures

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On Tuesday, September the 23rd, there came upon another horrible school shooting in Finland. This was not unluckily virtual but for real. If you want to put a candle in Second Life, there is a memorial stone in the Finnish Sauna Retreat area in the SL during this week.Info about sad Kauhajoki School Shooting:http://www.yle.fi/news/left/id102478.html

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I recently joined into a Finnish group, Suomi - suomenkielinen, and got a group announcement about the fishing competition in their region, The Finnish Sauna Retreat.Before the competition started Friday, the 12th at 8 PM, there was also possibility to participate in the aerobics class...and afterwards go also in the real Finnish Sauna, naked or with a towel that avatar can get for free.The

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I had honour to meet a lovely avatar Yolanda Hirvi, who is an in-world designer and the owner of the Metaversal Arts island in Second Life. Metaversal Arts is a brand and a group of content creators in the Second Life metaverse. In the island there are various and wide selection of items for sell, mainly built in the spirit of the victorian period (ie. antiques). There is a lot to buy but also

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In our ubiquitous information technology based society we need to manage through every day life which is more and more full of new challenges: electronic forms, web based tools, social networking sites, and virtual worlds such as Second Life.To meet those challenges we have developed a great variety of services and facilities in our Adult Education Centre of the City of Helsinki, where we have,

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I was preparing myself to the class for our volunteer students in the Adult Education Centre and wandered through Second Life seeking for some good sites for the quick tour demonstration. I teleported myself to the Sky News sim and met a very nice avatar called Silvae Reuven, who works for Sky News in the real world. She was very helpful and I definitely got a good case to my show.Here is the

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While my real ego was sitting in my office in the Adult Education Centre, the dear virtual avatar of mine participated in the opening ceremony of the University of Helsinki, which was broadcasted by video stream in EduFinland island in Second Life (SL). The quality of the stream was fine and it was nice to chat with the other avatars in SL while listening and watching the stream on the in-world

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There is quite useful in-world search option in Second Life. I used it for seeking what would happen in the learning genre in the near future. There were plenty of activities going on and to be. I picked up one which started in some minutes: A free building class in the Insight Virtual College.I will add the introduction of the class here: "Building Module II is a detailed overview over the

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I found and installed a brand new Facebook (FB) application that generates Second Life information into FB account profile. It will automatically update FB user's Second Life status so that FB friends can see if the user is online or not. User can also easily share favorite virtual destinations and of course display the SL-avatar to the FB-friends.The application can be installed into Facebook

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I got some fun this morning trying several animation balls, those balls in the Second Life, that makes your avatar moving and doing almost anything. First you need a find one, then sit down on it and just enjoy the show.So I teleported myself into the Muse Isle, where I could amuse myself as an artist (painter animation) and do some some tricks with the slay pottery. I flew on the top of the hill

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This morning I got an inspiration of searching the most beautiful sims (digital areas) in the Second Life virtual world. Unfortunately my computer's memory and graphic card was not able to work properly so that I could make some splendid photo shots over the sites. Luckily I found a short video clip from YouTube (see above) which will do the trip. Isn't the world wonderful!Kirjoitettu

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This morning I decided to rearrange my Inventory because it would otherwise be soon a huge mess. There was already a lot of stuff such as free clothes, shoes, hairs, skins, objects etc. Together there were over 3200 objects before rearranging in the inventory, afterwards slightly below 3000.I made a new folder structure inside the main folders and created sub folders with short but descriptive

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View my page on Sosiaalinen media oppimisen tukena

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One particularly nice person, Midsummer Moomington, a librarian of our Adult Education Centre was in troubles last Thursday in the EduFinland island. She needed some help in her very first steps in the virtual world of SL. First there was a problem of getting inside the open learning center house in the island: the door just did not open at all in first attempts. We noticed finally that it needs

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I was making a task list for the group meeting of the Adult Education Center's "Social Media -project" persons. The meeting was to be held Wednesday the 18th of June 2008. I were taking a deep look in the EduFinland island and suddenly saw there was an announcement for a meeting of the ICT designers of the University of Helsinki in SL which was just about to start. In despite of I do not belong

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I teleported to ESL SL School (English as a Second Language in SL) and chatted with Johnius Petrov who is a member of a Help Team there. He is a russian who lives in Ukraine. He seemed to be a very nice person and had an interesting dream in the real life. He has a master degree of Computer technology from the University but wants to be a psychologist and to study abroad. He needs some money for

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The first Finnish University has established an own island in Second Life. The main aims are focusing in the pedagogical use of virtual spaces in the genre of ICT. The island will be used also for training.I visited in the island on Saturday morning. It was really calm: no one there. Well...it was a really sunny and warm day in the Frist Life, so no wonder :). The structures in the island have

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After a very long pause I am here again. So, there will be something new soon... Kirjoitettu Flock-selaimella

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I got an invitation to join in to an interactive presentation and dialogue with Mr Chris Melissinos, Chief Gaming Officer, Sun Microsystems, titled "Virtual Worlds and Social Gaming: We're JustGetting Started." The title of the presentation was interesting so I decided to teleport myself to Dr Dobbs Island where it had already started. Once I arrived there I noticed the big auditorium was full

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I continued searching places for educational purposes, used SL's search window and found an interesting place called Academy of Second Life, which offers lessions for free forexample in Scripting and Building in SL. One sujects is also Teaching in SL. They do hire new teachers who get a 500 L$ stipend per an hour for their lessions. There are usually 1-3 lessions in a day between 7 AM to 10 AM SL

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I decided to search some information and places about eLearning from SL. I found some places but stayed longer in Info Island's ICT library. There were lots of info (notecards, tutorials, web links and other items) about using SL as a tool for educational purposes.I was buying some free scripts for future purposes from the ICT library when I met Madragal Poppy, a student who needed to get to know

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My dear friend Toni Cao logged in SL and I contated her at once by SL Instant Messenger. I invited her in Rome and we had an extremly nice conversation about recent issues in SL and real world. Toni is a RL journalist and has a carrier in new media genre for an service that spreads ICT articles all over the Italy for newspapers and online magazines. She uses a lot of her time to be aware about

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I was introduced to Inge Qunhua, a danish teacher who lives in Jylland. I was told she owns an island that deals with eLearning genre. Her college uses SL in educational purposes. I need to get known with her better! Bracken (teacher as well) said earlier she could show me Inge's island some day if Inge happens to be offline. It would be really great!We discussed about the heterogenic of the

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Discussed with my SL friend, Violet1, about spending time in SL. She missed her class in ESL virtual school and was of course sad about it. She works for classrunner and Giovanni, the principal of the ESL school, had to be a substitude of Violet1.Ethics and moral in virtual worlds reflect the same values of living and behaving as in real world. The situation could be relatively same if one missed

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I was introduced to English as a Second Language virtual school in SL and it's staff by my new friend Violet1 Meili. Giovanni Tweak (italian principal of the school), Bracken Homewood (official ESL teacher), Inge Qunhua (official ESL teacher) and Violet1 (classrunner, mentor) were my guides.Classes are not free for students but the first class is always free of charge so that one could see and

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I visitited Second Life's website http://www.secondlife.com/ and red about the tutorials of Second Life (SL) virtual world. From there I found an article concerning about real life Swedish Institute that had established some islands in SL. The goals are to present Swedish culture and travelling to all the visitors of the place. There was a website of the Swedish Institute's where one could start

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Virtual World of the Second LifeSecond Life (SL) is a realistic (but also fantastic) three dimensional online digital virtual world. All of the shapes and the constructions are imagined and created by its residents called avatars.The constructions can be animated as the waves move in the seashore and the trees drops their leaves, or snow falls down on the ground. The doors and windows of the

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In the beginning there was a God...and this is my story (LOL = laugh on loud). Well, I was very smoothly and nicely told that I should write down something about my recent interests with Second Life virtual world platform. But first may I introduce myself.I work in adult education genre in an institution that is one of the biggest in its class in the Europe. I belong, among several others, in the

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