http://aalawrence.com Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:01:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en (Above: (top) Ms. Chianti Carmichael hangs out at an assessment station on SL English, while (bottom) Ms. Aubree Lawrence instructs an ESOL class for BA&CE, circa 2005) Second Life is has incredible potential as a learning platform. I was excited to read on Forbes.com that an English language school in Germany ... http://aalawrence.com/2008/03/30/learning-a-second-language-in-second-life/ This is fascinating to me. Those crazy kids, err, I mean, Researchers at Rensselaer are using Second Life as a platform to test an engineered, self-reasoning avatar. Yes, avatar. The little character on the screen that comes to life when operated by a reasoning human being, only... without the human ... http://aalawrence.com/2008/03/14/greetings-professor-falken-gulp/ This week I’ve started assembling a budget for the CCTV in Second Life project. This, of course, meant one of my favorite Second Life activities – shopping! In Second Life, all of the content is user-created. One cannot help but be impressed with the creativity displayed in the objects for sale. ... http://aalawrence.com/2008/03/05/window-shopping-is-work/ The recent Slate article “The Wisdom of the Chaperones” starts with “It’s getting harder to be a Wikipedia-hater.” You might think that means that it’s moving in a very positive trend, but author Chris Wilson seems to believe we are all being charmed by an ‘illusion’ of democracy at sites ... http://aalawrence.com/2008/03/03/just-what-are-we-calling-for-here/