I Love Widgets!

As you can tell by my blog, I LOVE Widgets! I just added a couple of widgets recommended by Read/Write Web. I'm also working on an explanation and widget resources for my RETAzens at the current RETA Wiki.

Happy Birthday Star Wars!

Star Wars came out when I was 7 (yes, I'm 37) and my dad was a huge fan. Those were exciting times waiting for The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. I was quite saddened when Han Solo was put into deep freeze, repulsed by Jaba the Hut, and of course, loved the Ewoks. So it's all things Star Wars for a while. CNN story, Thirty years later, 'Star Wars' force still being felt, provides a nice historical perspective and some upcoming events. TheForce.net has tons of great links to stories about Star Wars turning 30. I'll be keeping an eye on the Star Wars site to see if anything special goes on there. The TechRepublic has some fun videos and trivia. I wonder if there's going to be anything going on in Second Life?

Waste a Few Minutes w/ Guess the Google

Two cool things to waste a few minutes on: Guess-the-Google Montage-a-Google Have Fun!

Second Life Update

Recently we started a Second Life initiative here at NMSU, currently referred to as NMSU Aggie Island. So you'll be seeing my SL updates. To see all SL updates that I post, there's a nice feature in new Blogger that allows you to label/tag your posts, so find my "blog topics" and click on "second life". My SL update for today is a two-part special: 1. My Pepperdine CadreX-Mate Cheryl is a rockin' SL specialist. I had the opportunity to attend her NACOL presentation, Social Networking and Second Life: Uses for E-learning. You'll want to check out ED Tech Island in Second Life, 3D Learn, emilychang.com, nicenet.org, SL Conferenc 2007, and CXKnowledge.com. I've also added an SL VodPod with some cool SL vids, I'm going to try and add them to this post. 2. Robert Scoble and James Au converse and present us with Second Life 101 videos. That's it for now. May your first and second lives by happy ones! :) ~julz

Mobile devices in Second Life

Bethany and I were chatting the other day about streaming video and wondering if there are mobile media devices in Second Life. And now I just came across a Cruxy, a cool portable music player widget for Second Life.

NY Children

Danny Goldfield is working on his project NY Children. He plans to photograph a child from every country on earth with the criteria that they must all live in New York. He has photographed 148 with 46 to go. It's quite beautiful and a refreshing look at beauty in the world.

Adding Avatar and Video

We've been playing with some fun tools. My Voki (avatar video) is added on the right, my BubbleGuru should pop, and for this post I am doing a wee demo of Flixn. These tools post easily into my WebCT course as well...