Comments on: I-Report gets a Second Life http://secondlife.blogs.cnn.com/2007/11/12/i-report-gets-a-second-life/ Your news of a virtual world Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:20:19 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Drew Jiagu http://secondlife.blogs.cnn.com/2007/11/12/i-report-gets-a-second-life/#comment-25 Drew Jiagu Mon, 12 Nov 2007 23:23:56 +0000 http://secondlife.blogs.cnn.com/2007/11/12/i-report-gets-a-second-life/#comment-25 I'm happy that more people are taking an interest in Second Life. I am an educator in the U.S. exploring Second life and its potential uses for teaching and learning in- and outside the classroom. In addition to being a fun virtual world, Second Life could also be used as a very real-world tool for learning. As a virtual environment, Second Life provides opportunities for more interactive, exploratory and experience-based learning. Also, students who have different learning styles, ways of communicating, and special needs, may benefit from activities making use of Second Life. Educators, students, and parents, be sure to check out the islands that are dedicated to educational purposes! http://simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Second_Life_Education_Wiki I'm happy that more people are taking an interest in Second Life. I am an educator in the U.S. exploring Second life and its potential uses for teaching and learning in- and outside the classroom. In addition to being a fun virtual world, Second Life could also be used as a very real-world tool for learning. As a virtual environment, Second Life provides opportunities for more interactive, exploratory and experience-based learning. Also, students who have different learning styles, ways of communicating, and special needs, may benefit from activities making use of Second Life. Educators, students, and parents, be sure to check out the islands that are dedicated to educational purposes!

http://simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Second_Life_Education_Wiki

]]> By: Socrates http://secondlife.blogs.cnn.com/2007/11/12/i-report-gets-a-second-life/#comment-23 Socrates Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:08:20 +0000 http://secondlife.blogs.cnn.com/2007/11/12/i-report-gets-a-second-life/#comment-23 Catherine-Texas, when you get 1,000 people together to put on a charity event, that is news no matter where it happens. When you have 200+ universities teaching in one place, that is news no matter where it happens. When you have 40,000 people at once getting along together in reasonable peace at any one time, that is news no matter where it happens. Even in SL.. Catherine-Texas, when you get 1,000 people together to put on a charity event, that is news no matter where it happens.

When you have 200+ universities teaching in one place, that is news no matter where it happens.

When you have 40,000 people at once getting along together in reasonable peace at any one time, that is news no matter where it happens.

Even in SL..

]]> By: GoodFellow Aabye http://secondlife.blogs.cnn.com/2007/11/12/i-report-gets-a-second-life/#comment-22 GoodFellow Aabye Mon, 12 Nov 2007 21:54:11 +0000 http://secondlife.blogs.cnn.com/2007/11/12/i-report-gets-a-second-life/#comment-22 This is an interesting concept, but I don't know how well this will pan out. Only time will tell. Good work CNN This is an interesting concept, but I don't know how well this will pan out. Only time will tell.

Good work CNN

]]> By: tim huggins http://secondlife.blogs.cnn.com/2007/11/12/i-report-gets-a-second-life/#comment-21 tim huggins Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:44:48 +0000 http://secondlife.blogs.cnn.com/2007/11/12/i-report-gets-a-second-life/#comment-21 You've got to be kidding me? Is CNN jealous that Fox is cornering the market on fake news? CNN is asking people to make stuff up in a virtual world and the make up a report on it as well? And then have the audacity to call it "news?" Rats. Looks like I'll have to go get my *real* news elsewhere from now on :( I'm really disappointed in you, CNN. We had such a good thing going... I'm moving on. You've got to be kidding me? Is CNN jealous that Fox is cornering the market on fake news? CNN is asking people to make stuff up in a virtual world and the make up a report on it as well? And then have the audacity to call it "news?"

Rats. Looks like I'll have to go get my *real* news elsewhere from now on :(

I'm really disappointed in you, CNN. We had such a good thing going... I'm moving on.

]]> By: Catherine - Texas http://secondlife.blogs.cnn.com/2007/11/12/i-report-gets-a-second-life/#comment-20 Catherine - Texas Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:26:00 +0000 http://secondlife.blogs.cnn.com/2007/11/12/i-report-gets-a-second-life/#comment-20 I am sorry to see CNN, with its long-established worldwide reputation for dependable news reporting, get sucked into Second Life and its virtual fantasy. How can virtual news be real news? It's an oxymoron. Don't the big thinkers at CNN know that Second Life is loaded with bogus personalities -- people who want a virtual second life because they can't handle the real first life that they've got? I know someone personally who has established a virtual identity at the Second Life site. He's fooling himself and trying to fool the world -- oops, I mean the virtual world of Second Life. And CNN is soliciting HIS I-Reports?!?! I am sorry to see CNN, with its long-established worldwide reputation for dependable news reporting, get sucked into Second Life and its virtual fantasy. How can virtual news be real news? It's an oxymoron. Don't the big thinkers at CNN know that Second Life is loaded with bogus personalities - people who want a virtual second life because they can't handle the real first life that they've got? I know someone personally who has established a virtual identity at the Second Life site. He's fooling himself and trying to fool the world - oops, I mean the virtual world of Second Life. And CNN is soliciting HIS I-Reports?!?!

]]> By: SSM http://secondlife.blogs.cnn.com/2007/11/12/i-report-gets-a-second-life/#comment-19 SSM Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:13:35 +0000 http://secondlife.blogs.cnn.com/2007/11/12/i-report-gets-a-second-life/#comment-19 Have Anderson Cooper's avatar IM my avatar. Have Anderson Cooper's avatar IM my avatar.

]]> By: S. Kimmel http://secondlife.blogs.cnn.com/2007/11/12/i-report-gets-a-second-life/#comment-16 S. Kimmel Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:51:24 +0000 http://secondlife.blogs.cnn.com/2007/11/12/i-report-gets-a-second-life/#comment-16 The article about this interesting endeavour states that CNN wants to find out what readers (virtual) find newsworthy. If CNN allowed comments beneath its O/L news stories as the Globe and Mail does, they'd find out pretty fast. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/ The article about this interesting endeavour states that CNN wants to find out what readers (virtual) find newsworthy. If CNN allowed comments beneath its O/L news stories as the Globe and Mail does, they'd find out pretty fast.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/

]]> By: mikey http://secondlife.blogs.cnn.com/2007/11/12/i-report-gets-a-second-life/#comment-15 mikey Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:18:51 +0000 http://secondlife.blogs.cnn.com/2007/11/12/i-report-gets-a-second-life/#comment-15 You may be from the 1800's but games dont just have to be for fun anymore, you can use it like a tool. You may be from the 1800's but games dont just have to be for fun anymore, you can use it like a tool.

]]> By: cudjoebill thibaud http://secondlife.blogs.cnn.com/2007/11/12/i-report-gets-a-second-life/#comment-13 cudjoebill thibaud Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:53:36 +0000 http://secondlife.blogs.cnn.com/2007/11/12/i-report-gets-a-second-life/#comment-13 Excellent move! Don't forget the educational projects: There are over 200 rl colleges and academies active in SL now. Many have visually interesting "builds": Edgar Allen Poe's House of Usher, Shakespeare's Globe theater, molecular and astronomical displays in science, etc. Good luck with it! Excellent move!

Don't forget the educational projects: There are over 200 rl colleges and academies active in SL now. Many have visually interesting "builds": Edgar Allen Poe's House of Usher, Shakespeare's Globe theater, molecular and astronomical displays in science, etc.

Good luck with it!

]]> By: Mmonica http://secondlife.blogs.cnn.com/2007/11/12/i-report-gets-a-second-life/#comment-11 Mmonica Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:13:43 +0000 http://secondlife.blogs.cnn.com/2007/11/12/i-report-gets-a-second-life/#comment-11 Are you serious? I can't believe my ears. News about Second Life "events"? Why not ask your readers to submit their dreams ? How about running a contest about who can look at clouds and see the most interesting shapes? That could fill some airtime on CNN. Are you serious? I can't believe my ears. News about Second Life "events"? Why not ask your readers to submit their dreams ? How about running a contest about who can look at clouds and see the most interesting shapes? That could fill some airtime on CNN.

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