Teachers Buzz 03 Apr 16 Transcript
From NMC-Campus
- April 16, 9am PDT
- Location: Dreams Community
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[8:57] Nomadia Nordwind: do you know where this teacher's meeting is?
[8:57] Enjay Ellison: I'm involved with the community, and there seem to be a LOT of meetings.
[8:57] Enjay Ellison: I believe right here.
[8:57] CDB Barkley: teahers buzz is supposed to be here
[8:57] Nomadia Nordwind: right
[8:57] CDB Barkley: Waiting for our speaker, audience, etc
[8:57] CDB Barkley: Quite an event here
[8:58] Enjay Ellison: If you want a guided tour of Ceilidh, Nomadia, we can set a time and I'd be happy to show you around.
[8:58] Nomadia Nordwind: sounds great! how many are in the community?
[8:58] Golda Stein: hi sam, you look too comfy
[8:58] Enjay Ellison: um...
[8:58] SamBivalent Spork: hiya golda!
[8:58] SamBivalent Spork: hee hee
[8:58] Enjay Ellison: almost 700
[8:58] Enjay Ellison: though not all live in those lands
[8:58] Elizabeth Chamerberlin is Online
[8:59] SamBivalent Spork: the ant looks so nervous in the default sit anim :P
[8:59] Nomadia Nordwind: whoa!
[8:59] Ilene Pratt: Hey, Robins, hi!
[8:59] Ravenelle Zugzwang: Hi Everyone
[8:59] Nomadia Nordwind: i think i'll sit down, enjay
[8:59] CDB Barkley: Hi Rav
[8:59] Robins Hermano: hello
[8:59] Golda Stein: Hello
[9:00] minxeh Volos: hiya Ravenelle
[9:00] Ravenelle Zugzwang: nice to see you :)
[9:00] Enjay Ellison: the group appeals because of its theme, but also I think because of the creativity in the lands and the fact that it is well organized and protected, to make the lands safe space.
[9:00] Nomadia Nordwind: it's a beautifull country
[9:00] Nomadia Nordwind: the mountains are fantastic
[9:01] Enjay Ellison: ty! the mountains next door in Elf Harbour have gotten even more numerous in the last week
[9:01] Golda Stein: i just hope you aren't friends with fleas
[9:02] Enjay Ellison: wonderful av, SamBivalent!
[9:02] SamBivalent Spork: thanks enjay :)
[9:02] Canuck Preddy is Online
[9:02] Nomadia Nordwind: enjay, do you rremember sullivan? fleshinrg out the etug ranks
[9:03] Sullivan Tomcat: hahaha
[9:03] Enjay Ellison: yes, I do... Hi Sullivan! I was Cardhu last time you saw me.
[9:03] CDB Barkley: Good morning folks....
[9:04] CDB Barkley: I am CDB from the NMC and we had planned one of our NMC Teachers Buzz meetings here today at this great fair
[9:04] Sullivan Tomcat: Hi Enjay - Im still looking forward to visiting your jigging learning labrnth!
[9:04] CDB Barkley: We are expecting to have Desidira Stockton here to talk about learning communities...
[9:04] CDB Barkley: Not sure if she is here yet, and I cannot locate her avatar in the directory.... so...
[9:04] CDB Barkley: I am filling time
[9:05] CDB Barkley: The NMC has been in Second Life for about 15 months
[9:05] CDB Barkley: We are an organization of 250 colleges, universities, museums who work together on events and projects releated to teaching, learning, and creative expression
[9:05] CDB Barkley: We run f2f events, online, organize special projects, etc
[9:06] CDB Barkley: We entered Sl as a place to explore the use of it for collaboration, sharing, R&D, creation of new forms of media, etc
[9:06] CDB Barkley: We started a group called the NMC Teachers Buzz last August -- mainly as an informal, open meeting every 2 weeks
[9:07] CDB Barkley: For educators, people interested in talking and sharing about teaching in SL
[9:07] CDB Barkley: We have had discussions, presentations, field trips, etc
[9:07] CDB Barkley: And my colleague Ravanelle, who is woman-ing our booth across the way, suggested we bring a meeting here
[9:08] CDB Barkley: While I try to reach our speaker, maybe y'all can let me know where you are from and what your connection is with education, SL, etc
[9:09] Ravenelle Zugzwang: I'm from Washington State and I work for the NMC , I am a supporter of the Dreams community and like to attend events when I can.
[9:09] Robins Hermano: I'm from University of Central Florida, still exploring and hope to teach accounting this Fall
[9:09] Thursday Xu: I'm at Iowa State University - Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching
[9:09] CDB Barkley: Groovy!
[9:10] Ilene Pratt: I'm a librarian from Univ of South Florida in Tampa - just trying to keep up wtih everything in SL!
[9:10] CDB Barkley: Our efforts on SL are online at http://sl.nmc.org
[9:10] Nomadia Nordwind: I'm from College of the Rockies in Cranbrook, BC (Canada). Looking at the potential of SL for teaching & learning
[9:10] CDB Barkley: Hi Ilene! Youa re busy
[9:10] Lizzy Saintlouis: I'm a Project Manager for eLearning at Georgia State University exploring new technologies
[9:10] CDB Barkley: And our past meetins, etc for Teachers Buzz is at http://sl.nmc.org/wiki/Teachers_Buzz_Session
[9:10] minxeh Volos: Im from the UK, i help out here at dreams and work or MoU
[9:11] CDB Barkley: Welcome
[9:11] CDB Barkley: It certainly has been an explosive year for education and SL
[9:11] SamBivalent Spork: i'm just a dummy with a philosophy degree, and a tendancy to teach informally :P
[9:11] CDB Barkley: Not so dumb!
[9:11] Enjay Ellison: I teach design courses for Emily Carr Institute (art/design) and BCIT in BC; interested in potential for distance ed, augmenting f2f, and new branches of design
[9:11] CDB Barkley: My dusty degree is Geology, hardly used
[9:11] SamBivalent Spork: i got mine out of a cracker jack box! :P
[9:12] CDB Barkley: So while we wait and hope our speaker shows up... I know a few cat jokes (kidding)
[9:12] Golda Stein: i have been teaching basic building classes here at dreams
[9:12] CDB Barkley: Great Golda!
[9:12] Golda Stein: I have a family science degree
[9:12] CDB Barkley: We have so many people who want to learn building
[9:12] Sullivan Tomcat: Im from BCcampus in Vancouver and exploring a common exhibition space in SL t share British Columbian higher ed initiatives in SL
[9:13] CDB Barkley: So Desidera;s topic for today was meant to be a discussion of forming global learning communities in SL...
[9:13] CDB Barkley: "We have a rich faculty community in SL; do we work together to foster a global learning community, or do we recreate the wheels of learning by duplicating services?"
[9:13] CDB Barkley: was a question she had included in her topic
[9:13] CDB Barkley: What do you think?
[9:13] Ravenelle Zugzwang: I see a lot of both
[9:14] Ilene Pratt: I think it's a good question - and we should do as much together as possible, but there will be times when we have to represent our own institutions.
[9:14] Robins Hermano: I agree, but also think that at least for me I needed to learn how to build/script to understand how SL can be used
[9:15] Kisa Naumova is Online
[9:15] Robins Hermano: And so in some respects I've recreated the wheel
[9:15] CDB Barkley: I'd like to build/script, but have yet to even do so...
[9:15] Robins Hermano: But my whells tend to fall off and are a bit clunky, lol
[9:15] CDB Barkley: I wonder though, there is so much here to make use of....
[9:15] Ravenelle Zugzwang: learning to use SL for yourself better you to add value into a shared learning enviroment,, it's important to know how to use the tool (SL)
[9:15] Enjay Ellison: there is bound to be duplication as people develop materials specific to their field, but what makes sense to me is repository of shared resources plus a good system for telling everyone about everyone else's work. That way we could see what others are doing, get inspired, and use shared tools to develop our materials.
[9:15] Ilene Pratt: Robins, what about your accounting work you are creating? You'll be willing to share it?
[9:16] SamBivalent Spork: hmmm... 2 good points raised... emulation vs. new creation
[9:16] Robins Hermano: Absolutely
[9:16] Sullivan Tomcat: I think that the culture of big institutions is traditionally around protecting resources - the idea of sharing resources is relatively new and scary for some... it may be up to us as individuals to lead the way and then show the institutions what we are creating
[9:16] CDB Barkley: I see a wheel Dream Weaver
[9:16] SamBivalent Spork: and the need to learn emulation (in sl) before being able to make new creations
[9:16] CDB Barkley: What about the tendancy to re-create RL rather than create something new?
[9:16] CDB Barkley: There a relots of replica buildings
[9:16] Ravenelle Zugzwang: that is human nature to recreate what we are most familiar with
[9:16] Lizzy Saintlouis: But is a community about stuff or about communication among the members? Is building/scripting necessary to form the community?
[9:17] Enjay Ellison: there is an aspect of the safety of the familiar that is valid, but we should be making sure alternatives are visible.
[9:17] CDB Barkley: I've made a vast new netowkr of connections and all I've built are cubes ;-)
[9:17] Ravenelle Zugzwang: and it's a new resident behaviour, you see more established residents tend to create from their own visions..usually from the influences of the RL replica's they had been creating
[9:17] Kaydeekay Ariel is Offline
[9:17] CDB Barkley: For those who are teaching with SL now, what sorts of reactions are you getting from your students?
[9:18] Ilene Pratt: I know some profs who are trying to convince their students to get in here and try things - and the students are frightened!
[9:19] Ravenelle Zugzwang: what frightens them?
[9:19] SamBivalent Spork: (to lizzy) no need to know the complex side of sl to enjoy it. but a community has to have folks on hand that do know
[9:19] Sullivan Tomcat: I am not teaching per se but have been using SL as a place to design workshops for learning with faculty/administrators in univs/colleges
[9:19] CDB Barkley: Doesn't that fly in the face of the assumptions about "digital natives"?
[9:19] Ravenelle Zugzwang: "digital natives"?
[9:20] Ilene Pratt: Ravenelle, I'm not sure! I think they are afraid of people being mean to them; afraid it'll take too much time; afraid they won't know how to behave.
[9:20] Enjay Ellison: I asked my students about SL and none of them knew about it (tho I think that is changing) the same week that it turned out that a group I was talking to all consisted of grandparents.
[9:20] CDB Barkley: It sounds like the normal evolution of most people who come here.
[9:21] CDB Barkley: It took most of us years to learn how to walk and talk ;-)
[9:21] CDB Barkley: in RL
[9:21] Ilene Pratt: And in SL too! I still bump into things <heheh>
[9:21] Nomadia Nordwind: i read somewhere that the average user of SL was a 30-s female
[9:21] Sullivan Tomcat: Ilene: I think that's interesting as my experience of SL so far is that it can accentuate RL experiences and emotions. Most students I kow are stressed about school - so why add more stress in a virtual environ! This is our challenge - how to make the experiences new
[9:21] CDB Barkley: Great point Sullivan
[9:22] Ilene Pratt: Sullivan, I think you are on to something! It IS stressful to learn a whole new environment!
[9:22] Robins Hermano: I think that in terms of collaboartive efforts, creating things that would allow our students to leran SL and interact in it will be extremelly helpful
[9:22] CDB Barkley: What are some good "gateway" activities?
[9:22] CDB Barkley: ones to get people in "easily"
[9:22] Lizzy Saintlouis: I recently observed a class in SL. The first session, even the instructor was stressed. Second got easier and by the end, ideas were flowing.
[9:23] Ravenelle Zugzwang: I don't hear much fear about someone playing Mario brothers..people love video games and while SL is not a game, it is similar in the way we connect and enter it
[9:23] SamBivalent Spork: really, what helped me in my first few days, was one-on-one conversations with other helpful folks
[9:23] Sullivan Tomcat: I like the way the Global Kids seem to be adopting the environment - making the interactive portions fun and work to their advantage (voting by standing on something, collaborative building, interaction and simulation!)
[9:23] Ilene Pratt: Yes! Having some social interaction with a mentor really helps!
[9:23] Enjay Ellison: one idea for a gateway activity might be a show-and-tell for clothing and avatars, so people see what is possible
[9:23] Enjay Ellison: and have freebies
[9:24] CDB Barkley: One teacher we worked with found a clothes designer who donated outflits for students
[9:24] SamBivalent Spork: the personal communication really teaches more than signs and object chat
[9:24] CDB Barkley: What do you think will be the impact of the voice capability? Have you tried the beta?
[9:25] Ravenelle Zugzwang: so as Teachers leading your students into SL, you can relieve some of the new enviroment anxiety by familiarizing yourself and being there as a connection for you students when they come in?
[9:25] Ilene Pratt: Voice is going to be very interesting! It works remarkably well! It'll be like an Elluminate session but you'll really BE there with others!
[9:25] CDB Barkley: If you had to share 1 or 2 top places with a colleague new to Sl, where would you send them?
[9:26] Lizzy Saintlouis: Edu Island and Info Island
[9:26] Ravenelle Zugzwang: I think people will be nicer to one another when they can hear the others intentions through voice inflection, or not but more opt to be polite. Text is really misread often
[9:26] Robins Hermano: NMC, NOAA, Terra Incognita
[9:26] Ilene Pratt: The International Spaceport Museum is great!
[9:26] CDB Barkley: But text is so much more information dense
[9:26] Enjay Ellison: Svarga, Leo Burnett
[9:26] CDB Barkley: What is Svarga?
[9:26] Enjay Ellison: Better World
[9:26] Ravenelle Zugzwang: a fantasy build
[9:26] CDB Barkley: (I have to get out more)
[9:26] CDB Barkley: cool
[9:27] Ilene Pratt: CDB, has anyone said anything abotu saving transcripts of voice?
[9:27] Enjay Ellison: Svarga is an old build, very creative. The maker actually built some evolutionary stuff
[9:27] CDB Barkley: No Ilene
[9:27] CDB Barkley: What doe you want to know?
[9:27] CDB Barkley: Is ti built in?
[9:27] Golda Stein: Sometimes it isn't the great and wonderful, but what the average person can do and build
[9:27] Sullivan Tomcat: CDB: I tend to agree with you - I like the ability to track chat, type something quickly and let the information be visual instead of audio - sometimes...
[9:27] Ilene Pratt: Yeah - saving chat histories is helpful.
[9:27] CDB Barkley: Plus chat you have a record
[9:27] CDB Barkley: Yes
[9:28] Ravenelle Zugzwang: (if anyone wants a LM to Svarga let me know and I'll drop it on you)
[9:28] Ravenelle Zugzwang gave you Svarga, Svarga (128, 128, 22).
[9:28] SamBivalent Spork: lessee... Dreams (for mentoring), New Citicens Plaza (for info and freebies), Yadni's Junkyard (more freebies, get to see some wierd unsettling things)
[9:28] CDB Barkley: FYI, i forgot to say...
[9:28] CDB Barkley: We post our transcripts to our site
[9:28] Enjay Ellison: you can set your preferences to log chat and IMs to a specific place on your hard drive.
[9:28] CDB Barkley: so I hope you are okay with that
[9:28] Ilene Pratt: Yes, it's ok with me!
[9:28] Robins Hermano: sure
[9:28] Samara Barzane: Ravenelle -- I would like it
[9:28] CDB Barkley: Ilene, when we do our streaming live audio events, we use outside desktop software to record the entire session
[9:29] CDB Barkley: To me it is really important to have a record of things that happen here
[9:29] CDB Barkley: Second Life pretty much exists in the "now"
[9:29] Ilene Pratt: Yes, things move around pretty fast! Even buildings move around!
[9:29] Enjay Ellison: so do mountains. :)
[9:30] CDB Barkley: Ilene, you are involved with the TCC conference, that is a global community, can you share abut that?
[9:30] Ravenelle Zugzwang: http://www.slhistory.org/index.php/Main_Page this is a link to a website that tries to document SL history
[9:30] Ilene Pratt: Ah yes, the TCC Online Conference is concerned with teaching/technology and all that good stuff.. and...
[9:30] Ilene Pratt: It's happening this week. There will be some sessions about SL.
[9:31] Ilene Pratt: And the conferen ce which is in its 12th year draws people from all over the globe.
[9:31] CDB Barkley: It's one of the long standing online conferences
[9:31] CDB Barkley: http://tcc.kcc.hawaii.edu
[9:31] CDB Barkley: Pretty cheap registration
[9:31] Ilene Pratt: CDB and I helped with some preconference sessions about SL to get new users involved.
[9:32] CDB Barkley: So getting back to our original topic- we likely know form experience that this is a global community....
[9:32] CDB Barkley: I have made some of the greatest expansions in my prof network this year...
[9:32] CDB Barkley: ... how do we foster that at a class level where we are focused on more specific content needs?
[9:33] CDB Barkley: How can students get some of that same experience?
[9:33] Sullivan Tomcat: One of my challenges with taloking about SL to colleagues is in explaining its value in terms of the traditional work environment - it seems like most of the online meetings and conferences I attend in SL are "about SL" - do you know whaqt I mean - it can be elusive. smoke and mirror stuff.
[9:33] Ilene Pratt: I know that some of the profs are happy to have guests participate. That seems like a good approach
[9:33] CDB Barkley: Good point Sullivan
[9:34] Kisa Naumova is Offline
[9:34] CDB Barkley: I'm wondering about thos experiences when the interaction is so rich, that you lose sight of the uniquess of floating avatars, etc
[9:34] Sullivan Tomcat: but my network has vastly increased.. so something is defnintely happening!
[9:35] CDB Barkley: I'm not quite as familiar with the Dreams Community, but have been excited we were asked to come... can someone tell me more about their connection with education?
[9:35] SamBivalent Spork: hmm... one interesting thing about people's conceptions of what is possible in sl - is that sl can be used as some magic pill that will transform the structure of community/learning/teaching
[9:35] SamBivalent Spork: but it's more subtle than all that
[9:35] CDB Barkley: Oh yes Sam-- that happens a lot
[9:36] Sullivan Tomcat: I agree it is very subtle.
[9:36] CDB Barkley: Take the blue pill?
[9:36] SamBivalent Spork: it does open you up to a world community, but it doesn't *necessarily* help you connect with them
[9:36] CDB Barkley: That is on you to do
[9:37] SamBivalent Spork: it can be a learning tool, in fact, for me that's nearly all it is...
[9:37] CDB Barkley: So.... what do you think we will be talking about a year from now?
[9:37] SamBivalent Spork: but it can't be made to look like a traditional learning tool
[9:37] CDB Barkley: in terms of what educators are doing in SL?
[9:38] Ravenelle Zugzwang: we can have a lot more conversation about hindsight and what worked and what isn't working
[9:38] SamBivalent Spork: conferences, such as this one, operate on very different rules than do rl meetings
[9:38] Ilene Pratt: I think there will be a lot more actual whole courses offered.
[9:38] Sullivan Tomcat: Our work "as a group "ETUG" here in British Columbia has been quite regional. We are focussing on using SL as a learning tool, but within networks we have already formed - as an enhancement
[9:38] SamBivalent Spork: yet we aim to duplicate a rl scenario
[9:39] Wendy Webb is Online
[9:39] Robins Hermano: Does anyone know the # of University classes being held in SL now?
[9:39] Ilene Pratt: I haven't seen a number of classes statistic anywhere.
[9:40] CDB Barkley: I think that would be hard to define
[9:40] CDB Barkley: "more than a few, less than a lot"
[9:40] CDB Barkley: Do you mean full classes?
[9:40] CDB Barkley: or classes using it at some level?
[9:41] Robins Hermano: I was just trying to get a sense of who is using it, I see Islands with interesting builds but I only know of just a few full-time classes
[9:41] Robins Hermano: That's probably more about my network then anything else
[9:41] Sullivan Tomcat: This is interesting - the explosion of experimentation in SL is huge but keeping track of whats happening and providing some stability is a challenge - this is why I think NMC is so vital. They have consistently supported growth - in fact its in their vision/mission!
[9:41] CDB Barkley: There's a comprehensive list on the simteach wiki, but that is not the full one I bet
[9:41] Robins Hermano: But I don think that a year from now that # (whatever it s) should be much greater
[9:42] CDB Barkley: I'm not really convinced it is the appropriate vehicle for full classes
[9:42] CDB Barkley: We've really had one full class use NMC this year, and that was Ed Lamoureaux's 3 week course in January
[9:42] Enjay Ellison: I think that a lot of institutions are entering the world and perhaps building, but most haven't yet quite figured out what to do with it.
[9:42] Ilene Pratt: I agree - I don't think it's a failure if instructors use other tools in addition to SL
[9:42] Samara Barzane: That was my experience when I brought students onto the MOOs in the 90s
[9:42] Vampira Kanno: sorry to bother u what is NMC?
[9:42] SamBivalent Spork: i agree with CDB to a degree. it seems kind of silly to teach science or history in sl
[9:42] CDB Barkley: "If you build it, they will rez"
[9:42] Samara Barzane: It was great for projects
[9:42] Jeremy Kabumpo is Online
[9:42] Sullivan Tomcat: This is what we want to do - starting regiuonally - provide a repository of SL initiatives going on at BC colleges and Universities - provide like a jumping point/bookmark place so people can jump to any of the initiatives...
[9:43] Ilene Pratt: New Media Consortium
[9:43] Vampira Kanno: thx
[9:43] Samara Barzane: But was more problematic for delivering course content
[9:43] SamBivalent Spork: but sl seems to have created the need for new types/categories of teaching/learning
[9:43] CDB Barkley: http://www.nmc.org http://sl.nmc.org
[9:43] CDB Barkley: Yes
[9:43] Robins Hermano: But the more you are here and interact with other educators I think it becomes easier to envision new roles for SL specific to what you want to teach
[9:44] CDB Barkley: If you ever get a chance to hear Lyr Lobo or Sarah Robbins talk, they give excellent examples of appropriate and creative ways to use SL, across disciplines
[9:44] Elizabeth Chamerberlin is Offline
[9:44] SamBivalent Spork: communications people are interested in online communication, sociologists are interested in the social networks and their expansion
[9:44] Ilene Pratt: One library science prof sent students to SL to track down a librarian and do an interview. We used to just send students to their nearest library to find one ;)
[9:44] Vampira Kanno: SL stimulates the need to communicate...that is the most basic driver for learning
[9:44] CDB Barkley: Much to to with role play...
[9:44] CDB Barkley: historical re-enactment
[9:45] SamBivalent Spork: it seems now, that one learns by tp'ing around and looking, occasionally chatting
[9:45] Robins Hermano: I'll be using it to allow students to interact with things that are otherwise intangible
[9:45] CDB Barkley: We have a theater faculty at Northwestern who is planning to teach stage design, and production in SL
[9:45] CDB Barkley: We have a new facility that can sintantly change out a theater into about 9 different configurations... so it is a fluid lab
[9:46] Mavrick Aero: a bit dense here
[9:46] SamBivalent Spork: it might be interesting to see a class on world affairs, where a small group tp's to regions that are tied to various countries/cultures, to liason and chat about issues
[9:46] CDB Barkley: Right....
[9:46] SamBivalent Spork: to learn by doing... sort of
[9:47] CDB Barkley: .. and since we have manly early adopters here, it might be good for some collaborations outside our institutions
[9:47] SamBivalent Spork: a little like traveling around the world... you may not get the smell, but you can talk to the people
[9:47] CDB Barkley: And you sleep i your own bed at night....
[9:47] Vampira Kanno: how many countries here now?
[9:47] Samara Barzane: I teach philosophy of art and would be interested in exploring the possibilities for online projects with anyone who is interested
[9:47] Mavrick Aero: Hi folks - I'm not just a bakery owner, I'm affiliated with Duke University - we're currently buying an island for our office of student affairs
[9:47] Canuck Preddy is Offline
[9:48] CDB Barkley: Good question
[9:48] Vampira Kanno: japan
[9:48] CDB Barkley: Hi maverick
[9:48] Enjay Ellison: Hi Mavrick
[9:48] Sullivan Tomcat: Canada
[9:48] CDB Barkley: Student affairs is a great place for use of SL
[9:48] Zana Kohime: Canada
[9:48] CDB Barkley: USA, province of Arizona
[9:48] Samara Barzane: near Chicago
[9:48] Enjay Ellison: Canada (I sense a theme)
[9:48] Mavrick Aero: We're thinking of fully rendering the freshman campus at some point so new students can cruise around their future dorms
[9:48] CDB Barkley: That is what Case has done
[9:49] Mavrick Aero: And just meet fellow students before that get here
[9:49] CDB Barkley: and MIT is doing
[9:49] Ravenelle Zugzwang: and Princeton
[9:49] Ilene Pratt: Ok, so that's SL as a way of modeling RL so students will be more comfortable in real life when they get to campus!
[9:49] CDB Barkley: Hey, for global connections, please register your avatar on our frappr map -- http://sl.nmc.org/map/
[9:49] Giovanni Tweak: Canada
[9:49] SamBivalent Spork: i've met people from italy, germany, uk, holland, japan, brazil, portugal, venezuela, kuwait, UAI, canada, and a few i forgot... :P
[9:49] CDB Barkley: Go Canada!
[9:50] Ilene Pratt: me too! Folks from all over!
[9:50] CDB Barkley: I skype chatted with a teacher form Dubai -- amazing stuff with k-12 there
[9:50] CDB Barkley: Well... I want to thank folks for dropping in today
[9:51] CDB Barkley: I was hoping to be a participant, sorry we lost track of our speaker!
[9:51] Robins Hermano: She must be busy with the conference, I don't know how she does so much!
[9:51] CDB Barkley: Look for more about Teachers Buzz sessions at http://sl.nmc.org/wiki/Teachers_Buzz_Session
[9:51] CDB Barkley: and http://sl.nmc.org
[9:51] Enjay Ellison: thanks, CDB
[9:51] CDB Barkley: We have some good sesisons in the works
[9:51] Ravenelle Zugzwang: Thanks CDB = D
[9:51] CDB Barkley: And be sure to spend lots of time here!
[9:51] CDB Barkley: Dreams is awesom
[9:52] Sullivan Tomcat: thanks cdb - way to step up!
[9:52] Ravenelle Zugzwang: for years they have been educating people in SL and building community
[9:52] Vampira Kanno: thx very muxh for this meeting
[9:52] CDB Barkley: Unfortunately, I have one of those Rl commitments and have to log soon
[9:52] Ravenelle Zugzwang: take a bit of time to explore their sandbox and the other booths
[9:52] Samara Barzane: My thanks also
[9:52] minxeh Volos: Thank You for being here CDB :)
[9:52] Ilene Pratt: Nice to meet all of you!
