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Ismail is an English Lecturer and technology specialist who is interested in the integration of technology in teaching and learning.

Building Educational Objects in SL

June 10, 2008

Last week I was able to build my first SL objects. The two objects I experimented were the speak easy hud and the note projector. The first is used to prepare a presentation-script ahead of time prior to a meeting or presentation and then be able to use it as a support of what you […]

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CoP Meetings in SL

June 7, 2008

I was lucky to attend two meetings in SL this week. The first was informal and short where I explored The Tech Virtual Museum Workshop space in SL. The interesting idea implemented by the team developing this space was through mixing the real and virtual worlds together by broadcasting a

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Virtual ‘Avatar’ Worlds for Communities of Practice

As hardware and Internet connections enhance more and more in the recent years, virtual worlds emerge as

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Communities of Practice (CoP) Revisited

June 4, 2008

In the following posts, I am going to shed some light on this relatively old concept of CoP. I would like to think about it from the perspective of users who have been contributing to CoP for several years. My main interest would be examining their performance, structure, impact, and possible further adaptation in wider […]

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It Works!

Hi there, Welcome to my new simple Blogo~Nile which is part of Edu~Nile language and educational project. I should confess that I was hesitant trying this new blog as I like the other blog which I kept using for over 5 years now. However, this one looks promising indeed. At least it confirms to me […]

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