Information, Communication and Technology for Emergence (ICT4E)– An Immersive Learning Community Blended with Virtual Worlds and Web 2.0

There is an urgent need to transform our educational ecosystems and address the rapid transformations occurring in our world, especially the crisis confronting our survival. Are these needs linked and can we address them together? Educators around the globe are discovering and embracing virtual worlds, such as Second Life, for immersing [...]

Paradigm Shift and New Horizons

ZeroG Dancers, some reflections

I treated my avatar to the latest performance by DanCoyote Antoneli and the Zero Gravity Dancers.  It was my first encounter with Hyperformalism and I left the sim feeling enthralled.For me there is that occasional experience of transcendence, in life, during a performance–when time seems to stop. During one moment of the Sky Dancers [...]

Media Ecology

Attended the in world lecture by Bob Logan on Media Ecology last night in Second Life. I still don’t have the slightest idea what media ecology is. The idea that mathematical need and writing occured simultaneously–with priests counting cows or whatever in Mesopotamia–is interesting and I have to think about that. [...]

Virtual Being

The phenomenon of creating groups in Facebook fascinates me. One aspect of web 2.0, as I struggle to come to terms with it, is the dichotomy of public and private, individual and group and the feature of creating and joining groups. It seems that ‘the web’ has incorporated in an essntial way the [...]