Virtual Firsts in Second Life.

A virtual nod to Kyle 2.0, the former ATEC student ready to tear up the world, for this link on virtual firsts in Second Life. Second Life is being taught by Professor Terry — some say he is obsessed — and many of you will eventually find yourself here, or there, wherever there is.  This is a good primer of firsts.

Scott Cook Blog.

Scott Cook is going to use an existing blog for the class.Scott is an extensive blogger, so it’s worth checking out his site here. We will want to discuss with him the whole blogging process and get his perspective.

A Word About Your Blogs

I will post your blogs as they come in and will add them to the blogroll on the side. This will be for easy access. I encourage all of you to visit the different blogs, to make comments, if applicable, and to have fun with this. Occasionally I will make comments directly to  your blog, or bring up issues here that result from your blog.

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Remember: Not only do I want the link, but next week I will want a rough idea of what you want to do with your blog, its focus, and so on. If you already know, send me the info and have at it. Record your thoughts about blogging, hassles, whatever, as you go along so we can talk about them in class.

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Effler Blog

Mary Effler,

here’s the link to my blog:
http://maryeffler.blogspot.com

Well, now that I have a blog, I guess I should give it a purpose, huh? I chose the name “A continental breakfast for Socrates”, simply cause after philosophy class one day, that sounded like a really cool name for a website or blog or book…or something. Maybe a classic rock band.

In internet studio, we were asked to brainstorm ideas for a website (as our assignment at the end of that class is to develop a full site). In looking at that list, I realized that several of those could be adapted into a blog form as well. Looking at the name of my blog, I could do something related to philosophy…either posting reactions to certain works of philosophy that we look at in class, or posting basic info on philosophy, or something like that. As I have an interest in world religions, I could try to relate philosophical matters to understanding religion. Or I could really mess with people’s minds and have the name be completely unrelated to the blog whatsoever, and have it focus on something else entirely, like Dilbert, or web/graphic design, or kittens in space.
Well, I’ll be serious at this point, and say that at the time, I would like to do something with philosophy for this blog, as reflecting upon it in a blog might help me better formulate my ideas for class discussions and essays in my philosophy class. I was also considering having my internet studio website deal with philosophy, so it would be a good addition to that website, should I choose to focus on that. Do you think this would work?
I’ll get the podcast info to you later.

Class Two Presentation

The Class Two presentation has been uploaded and is available for download. For the most part, it includes getting started links of value to the students. It can be found here. The file name is Emac 3326 Class 02.pdf.

Homework Assignment #2

This is the homework we discussed in Class 02 last night.

It is due by Wed., Aug. 30, midnight.

This can also be found in the presentation, which can be found here. The file is Emac 3326 Class 02.

homework part 1

review free blog hosts. find one you like. sign up for an account. send me the URL. send me your idea(s) for a blog.
choose a topic of interest associated with something you want to accomplish in school, at work, and limit “vanity projects.”
getting started:
www.wordpress.com
www.blogger.com
www.typepad.com
www.livejournal.com
www.xanga.com
Live Spaces
Yahoo!

homework part 2

find a podcast. listen to it. send me the show name, episode, link. tell me what you think.
getting started:
iTunes
www.podshow.com
www.podcastpickle.com
www.podcastingnews.com

some popular shows are:
daily source code (tech, general, where it all started)
dawn and drew (seinfeld for podcasting)
TWiT (tech news, well done)

Reel Reviews Radio (movie reviews by the guy who wrote our podcasting book)

test in class

talking about blogging.