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At the LinuxFest Party, I had an opportunity to talk with Rob Lamphier and Niall King from Linden Lab, the makers of Second Life. Niall is the Recruiting Manager for Linden. It was a great opportunity for my students to hear from a technology employer about the traits they are looking for. No surprise here - communication and group collaboration skills are mandatory. "But what about the tech skills?", my students asked. "Yes, those are needed, but not without the other.", was the answer.

Niall… Continue

In advance of doing a full-on session with students, I held an eOffice-Hour in Elluminate Live! for my students today. I had previously assigned them a project comprised of a series of steps and related links to help them setup and test their systems audio, video and software configuration. The assignment also included assigned tasks via links to Elluminate Live! participant orientations online - courtesy of Elluminate.

Four folks showed up to test and play, and I was able to spend some time he… Continue

Slower pace with more focus on a limited number of topics.

Spent time practicing group breakout sessions, loading content to Multimedia Libraries, and using the notes tool. I'm ready to start loading content and teaching with the tool. Did I mention that the online and phone support includes help with pedagogy for teaching with the tool? Cool.

Also found some training sessions for participants. I'll have my students watch recorded and interactive presentations on this. Plus there are slides to… Continue

Took the second in the three part series today. It was faster paced than the first and covered using the virtual whiteboard, white board annotation features, saving whiteboards, and moved to application and desktop sharing. There's a bunch of ways you could utilize the whiteboard features in class sessions.

I was especially interested in the application sharing. This feature allows you to show your whole desktop, or just a single application window to your class. You can also allow one or more… Continue

Attended an online class in Elluminate this morning. It's the first of a three part series in moderating Elluminate classrooms. The instructor was very skilled in managing the students even though we'd all been given moderation rights in the classroom. She demonstrated some good techniques in managing audio control, and how to handle classroom problems with out disturbing the whole class session. Recorded sessions are available t… Continue