me.edu.au - Kerry J

About Me

Communications is my passion as is technology, so my current role as an Education Officer with education.au is one of those happy situations where my interests and skills are in use every day.

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03 Jul 2009

Welcome to Webkinz® - a Ganz website

This is the youngest vw I've found to date that allows for chat between members. Tags: webkinz virtualworlds virtualworld socialnetworking eduILU Posted by: kerryj

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02 Jul 2009

Welcome to Whyville!

Tags: web2.0 education socialnetworking virtual community Posted by: kerryj

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The IEEE Computer Society

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Scratch for Second Life

S4SL is based on Scratch, a graphical programming language that lets you construct programs by snapping together graphical blocks. With S4SL, you can snap together a few blocks to make your SL pet interact with you using chat commands, make your sculpture change size and color, or make your house respond to your presence. Tags: secondlife scratch lsl scripting programming Posted by: kerryj

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Metropolis POV » Q&A: Eric Gordon on Community Planning with Second Life

Use of Second life to plan Library Park in Boston. Tags: secondlife community planning Posted by: kerryj

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From the US Holocaust Museum, Second Life

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The VirtuSphere: full body immersion Virtual reality at last

Tags: virtusphere vr geek fun Posted by: kerryj

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Second Life to be banned in Australia? Let?s get to the source.

Several people in the past few weeks have asked me about whether or not virtual worlds not classified by ACMA and/or Massively Multiplayer Online RolePlaying Games (MMOs, MMPORGs, MMOPRGs) like World of Warcraft would be banned under the new filtering regime currently being tested by the government relating to games classification and online games. Ill admit [...]

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01 Jul 2009

NASA Goddard's MMO Game

MMOs help players develop and exercise a skill set closely matching the thinking, planning, learning, and technical skills increasingly in demand by employers. These skills include strategic thinking, interpretative analysis, problem solving, plan formulation and execution, team-building and cooperation, and adaptation to rapid change. Tags: edauILU ILUedau NASA games Posted by: kerryj

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LEARNING ABOUT LEARNING FROM A VIDEO GAME: RISE OF NATIONS

By James Paul Gee. 2005 This paper will argue that computer and video games have a great deal to teach us about how to facilitate learning, even in domains outside games. Good computer and video games are complex, challenging, and long; they can take 50 or more hours to finish. If a game cannot be learned well, then it will fail to sell well, and the company that makes is in danger of going broke. Shortening and dumbing games down is not an option, since most avid players don?t want short or ea[..]

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Kerry J's Whiteboard

On 2 Mar 2009 Rebecca Nash wrote

Hi Kerry, I attended your workshop at Macquaire Uni but haven't received the certificate of attendance. Just wondered if I could check up on this as I'd like to add it my Cert IV upgrade evidence. Many thanks, Rebecca.

On 15 Feb 2009 Tomaz Lasic wrote

Hi Kerry Good tips you got there & good call to help new ppl to the kind beast of Moodle. Best I can do for newbie Moodlers in these first few crazy weeks back at school after holidays is point them to 2 Minute Moodles - the tutorials for newbies and not necessary tech savvy at http://human.edublogs.org/moodle-tutorials-2-minute-moodles/ I'll be adding a few more soon (yeah, been saying that for a few months now ;-) I've also got a couple of handy clips about what Moodle actually is (using an analogy with Lego) http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=7035b85c0a9667c1cac0 and how we have used it at our school http://human.edublogs.org/2008/08/06/how-can-moodle-change-a-school These have kinda been Moodle crowd pleasers and they seem to do the trick for people new to Moodle. If you need a hand with Moodle stuff when in Perth for EDNA workshops please feel free to tweet or call. Cheers, Tomaz

On 14 Feb 2009 Kerry J wrote

Got Moodle Tips for new Group owners -- visit the Group Owners Group in edna Groups and help out your fellow Moodlers: http://www.groups.edna.edu.au/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=32190

On 29 Jan 2009 Kerry J wrote

BarCamp Adelaide is taking place 21 February 2009 -- SA geeks unite! http://www.barcampadelaide.com/

On 18 Dec 2008 Concetta Gotlieb wrote

Hi Kerry Have a great Christmas and a reallly fun New Year. I made a little holiday video card for you guys. http://blip.tv/file/1589478/

On 11 Nov 2008 Al Upton wrote

Hey Kerry (just left this comment on my whieboard lol) ... I'm tired as expected this time of this term. Have just read the feedback from the keynote in Sydney that Martin Pluss and AIS invited me to do - see comment my page. Upon reading it my responses varied from "Wow! are you talking about me?" to "That's great, I was hoping to convey that message" to "OUCH!!!". So varied .. it's hard to know how to react. Feedback on the day was also very good. I used to be a more polished presenter .. perhaps I'm on my way back .. but not quite there yet lol. It was however quite a hard gig .. never really knew what was expected. I have a bit better idea for this Friday's eDayz at TAFE (Gilles Plains) ... Looking forward to seeing you there. Cheers, Al

On 3 Nov 2008 Martin Pluss wrote

Vidclip done - I sent you and email with the blip address - here is youtube version. http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=QxxoxplV2h8

On 9 Oct 2008 Rhys Moult wrote

Thanks for the session on Wimba. I will definately investigate using your service further. Cheers, Rhys

On 2 Oct 2008 Lynley Clark wrote

Good morning. ACEC has been really great, but looking forward to coming home. Hope all is going along well. Lynley

On 31 Aug 2008 Kerry J wrote

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