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Home Town:: Nashville, Tennessee

School or Organization:: University School of Nashville/Vanderbilt Center for Science Outreach

Website or Blog:: http://scottmerrick.net

Skype, Facebook, IM or Other Preferred Contact Accounts: scottmerrick (on all of 'em)

About Me:: It's all at http://scottmerrick.net, but an easier direct link to my Second Life blog, Oh!VirtualLearning! is http://scottsecondlife.blogspot.com -- See ya there!

Revised Resources for SL Workshops and Birds Sessions

Hey all, at NECC09 I'm helping facilitate two 3-hour workshops on the topic of Second Life, a 3-day running Second Life Playground, and a SL Birds of a Feather. I'm also helping put together a BOF on the topic of my favorite new VW for kids, Quest Atlantis: I'll be a bizzy bee, for sure. All our workshop and session descriptions (one for absolute n00bs and one for experienced educators who want dedicated time to mess with presentation and teaching tools) are at the NECC program search results page and the playground description is here:

Second Life Playground
Monday, June 29, 8 am–4 pm; Tuesday, June 30, 9 am–4 pm; and Wednesday, July 1, 8 am–2 pm
Explore stations for creating avatars, navigating in Second Life, using Second Life for professional development, using Second Life with students, and exploring ISTE's Virtual island.
Coordinators: Lisa Linn, Temecula Valley Unified and Scott Merrick, University School of Nashville/Vanderbilt CSO

I've just this day set up Birds of a Feather resource walls at both http://wallwisher.com/wall/slbirds and http://wallwisher.com/wall/qa birds. This is a tool I've just discovered and I hope it will serve us well! If you are interested in sharing anything about either topic, this is the place to do so.

I'll also suggest that, especially if you aren't going to be in our fair capitol that week, you check out the Group Virtual NECCers and Steve H.'s NECCUnPlugged.

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New Separate SIG for Second Lifers in Education?

Hey all, I posted a typically rambling set of reflections at http://scottmerrick.blogspot.com/2009/07/on-mall-on-4th-of-july.html on the 4th, and if you're a SLer, a irl ISTE member, and an educator, I'd be eternally grateful for your take on it. Thanks!

Posted on July 6, 2009 at 7:31am —

My NECC09 Flickr Set addie:

is http://www.flickr.com/photos/optomystic/sets/72157620507710581/

Posted on July 2, 2009 at 2:00pm —

Hey ya'll, It's heating up! I'll see you at NECC and inworld and all over the place. I just started…

Hey ya'll,

It's heating up! I'll see you at NECC and inworld and all over the place. I just started a group called the Second Life Playground for all of you, at ISTE's request, and there's a link there to the playground wiki (offsite) with information about the schedule. Please note that while signups for presentations are open at the ISTEvisions signup page, presenters need to… Continue

Posted on June 18, 2009 at 3:25am —

Inworld Volunteer Docents for the Second Life Playground--SIGNUP!

Okay, ya'll, the wiki is up and running and accepting signups from Inworld Volunteer Docents at http://necc09slplayground.wikispaces.com! Zsuzsa and Henny are heading up inworld activities during the Playground and they can use all the help they can get. So click on over and sign up for as many blocks of time that you can in good conscience register for!

Thanks in advance and I'm soooo looking forward to NECC09!!!

Posted on May 18, 2009 at 6:08am —

YAY! I'm BAAAAACK!

Yippee. I finally figured out how I'd messed up my ning login and I'm a-back in bizzness here. I'm so excited about NECC09, presenting two 3 hour workshops (filling up fast) and co-facilitating two Birds of a Feather and the (all 3 days this year!) Second Life Playground! I'll be a bizzy bee in D.C. (that's a happy little poem!)!!! More here soon.

Posted on April 10, 2009 at 9:26am — 2 Comments

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At 2:05pm on June 23, 2009, Craig Mollerstuen said…: Hey, Will be in DC tomorrow (Wednesday) getting ready for everything, especially Remote NECC (week from today). :-) Looking forward to seeing you in DC!

At 6:27am on June 20, 2009, Sandy said…: Thanks! Hope that I can learn some new things for use by me and in my classroom.

At 5:16pm on February 3, 2009, PLANETPALS said…: Hey Scott check us out!

At 2:28pm on July 11, 2008, Terra Sieberman said…: Hey boylyworly--

Did your giant flying avatar make it home safely?

:) Louise

At 5:39am on July 2, 2008, Scott Merrick said…: WOW! What freakin' fun this week has been! Posts on it at scottmerrick.net!

At 11:47pm on June 29, 2008, Mike McKay said…: Hi Scott. I'm looking forward to the meeting tomorrow. I hope I'll sound awake at 6:45AM. LOL. See you soon. :-)

At 3:32pm on June 26, 2008, Clif Mims said…: Looks like the 'stache is back in time for NECC. I hope to see you in San Antonio, Scott.

At 8:08am on June 26, 2008, Scott Merrick said…: Woowooooo! I've just printed my A group boarding pass for tomorrow a.m.'s flight to San Antonio. Lovin' it! All packed, but now I need to get my carry-on organized (LOL--as if).

Cheers!

At 2:57pm on June 25, 2008, Scott Merrick said…: I LOVE the "Latest Activity" sidebar feature. It's so heartening to refresh the page and see activity that I just added has disappeared in the course of minutes as new colleagues in teaching and learning add their own. This is a hoppin' place!

At 12:27pm on June 20, 2008, Laurie Korte said…: You should check out my book titled Moodle Magic: Make It Happen. I also have a session titled the same on Tuesday from 11-12. Join http://moodlemeet.ning.com
Use Global Classroom as your free hosting site for classroom creating, sharing, and swaping. I'll also be offering a year long Moodle Implementation course starting in July as a train the trainer idea.
I'd love to meet you at NECC.
Laurie