Working with setting up a gallery space at Digication as part of this semester's exploration in online portfolios, learning tools and collaborations. The MSAE grads have been using it. It's pretty clean and geared toward education. Also, upgrades on the CAC Moodle. Looking at Mahara, an open source e-portfolio system.

Lots of great tools, getting better and more integrated all the time!!  Beware of overly cloudy weather, however!

Modified overlay proposal for new back porch.
Designed by ELR using Google Sketchup

Many more images to come as the project gets underway.

Another Memorial Day Weekend. We cheer on the living. A parade marches past near my house every year. The street is closed off, the parade, earnest. It's gotten bigger since 9/11. The old solders, those tattooed WWII vets with untold stories we may never hear, are passing away, only a few still march. The Vietnam vets, our brothers and uncles, are now old men. Most of the marchers are children, shriners or marching bands. We'll lose a few guys in Iraq this week, most likely. Their families will morn them. Meanwhile, summer comes in and life goes on. The columbines are blooming. Another another parade another summer.

Photos by Eleanor Ramsay. Click on them to see larger version.

This free inworld conference was a great opportunity to see what educators are doing with 3d-immersive learning and collaboration

From their website: "The Virtual World Best Practices in Education (VWBPE) conference originated from the 2007 Second Life Best Practices in Education Conference. This grassroots, community-based conference attracts faculty, instructors, trainers, administrators, instructional designers, technical specialists, and members of organizations from around the world. Those who create teaching/learning environments, resources, tools, support services and professional development opportunities internal and external to virtual world environments participate. During the conference, participants have opportunities to ask: What is education?, What is teaching?, What is learning? and How can we provide virtual world educational environments in which today’s learners can become all they can be."

Stripping the bride bare while I redo the site...again.