On Virtual Property

11.17.10 Posted in Social Media by Shelley

Last week as I was mindlessly reading the newspaper (online of course), I came across this post about a virtual burglary. Apparently, the authorities in Italy are prepared to pursue the case on email fraud not theft. What strikes me about this story is that it calls into question the nature of the games we [...]

Virtual Learning Spaces

07.01.10 Posted in Social Media by Shelley

I’m just kicking off a new project at Tampa’s Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) where I will [hopefully] be exploring ways to expand the idea of virtual learning spaces. A cursory google search of virtual learning spaces lists all kinds of spaces that students interact with on a traditional computer (think second life or [...]

What do I think? You Choose.

06.18.10 Posted in Media, Moxley, Social Media, education, elearning by Shelley

After reading The Future of Thinking: Learning Institutions in a Digital Age and “The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age,” I was left feeling extremely optimistic and extremely frustrated. There were so many things to like about these reports, yet I found myself raging against many of the points the authors made. The [...]

Share and Share A Lot

06.16.10 Posted in Moxley, Social Media by Shelley

I really loved Lawrence Lessig’s Remix. I especially liked his distinction between me-regarding and thee-regarding motivations. Lessig does a good job of describing why and how we contribute to the open internet. We are obviously in a state of flux. Tensions between for-profit and open (some of which profit and some of which do not) [...]

Open

06.14.10 Posted in Moxley, Social Media by Shelley

I think the highlight of GLS 6.0 was the closing keynote by David Wiley. His talk, Openness and the Future of Education, was enlightening, amusing, and educational, everything a closing keynote should be. As luck should have it, I am also reading some other texts on open-sourcing this week, so I now have a few [...]

On Why I [heart] Henry Jenkins

06.14.10 Posted in Moxley, Social Media, conferences by Shelley

Last week I attended Games, Learning, and Society 6.0, a small conference about learning and games. One of the highlights was the Henry Jenkins keynote (and definitely the David Wiley keynote, which I’ll talk about in another post). In his white paper, Jenkins talks about the new skills required in our emerging participatory culture. Some [...]

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