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Lias Leandros
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Join date: 20 Jul 2005
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02-14-2009 08:00
The 'official' SL educator thread is not used since there is no longer any education supported by Linden Lab. Many people discovering these forums would benefit from a thread where educators could discuss, collaborate and post about SL education events. I wonder which Linden is in charge of these forums so this request can be passed on. Anyone know?
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Brenda Connolly
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Join date: 10 Jan 2007
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02-14-2009 08:04
Maybe Blue. Evidently the Blog is being redone, maybe Teh Forumz will be next. From: someone Next week we will be launching an all new Second Life Blog.
The Second Life Blog was once a place where the Lindens talked casually with you about policy, their projects, recent news, the future of SL, etc. Residents regularly told us that they loved having access to such broad insight into the company and frequent communication with the full range of Lindens. And Lindens loved the ongoing dialog with residents.
Over time however, as more Lindens came to participate, the blog got a bit manic. Some of you complained that reports of temporary performance issues would eclipse larger conversations related to long term plans and features while others believed that tutorials and opinion pieces were distracting them from the hard news of inworld issues they needed to know about in order to run their businesses.
In other words, we outgrew our single channel blog. It was no longer serving people’s individual needs. Perhaps worse was that the signal to noise ratio in comments had gotten bad enough that Lindens weren’t able to depend on them as a way to clearly hear the range of needs and desires of the community. As such we had to limit blog participation to a smaller number of Lindens on certain types of topics and move extended discussion to the forums.
We knew it was important to get back to using the blog as a key means of constructive two way conversation with the community, so we put together a shopping list of must-haves for a new blog suite which included…
Individual channels of communication for each subject
Numerous means of accessing channels (including RSS and email subscription)
Discussion format sub-blogs for extended conversations with threading, voting etc…
Private sub-blogs for communities working in Second Life (like educators and Solution Providers)
After comparing options, we believe we’ve found one that will best suit our ongoing needs. We expect that it will allow us to get back to the days when any and all Lindens could participate freely and hope that it will provide a convenient way for you to engage us on a wide variety of topics.
So we hope that you’ll join us here, on Thursday the 19th of February, for the launch of a whole new Second Life Blog, where it will be the good ol’ days all over again!
See you then,
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Czari Zenovka
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Join date: 3 May 2007
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02-14-2009 15:18
No clue...but as an instructor I agree with you, Lias.
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Ee Maculate
Owner of Fourmile Castle
Join date: 11 Jan 2007
Posts: 919
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02-14-2009 15:23
Judging from the number of emails I get filtered into my SLED folder the SLED mailing list ius alive and well and is where most educators end up discussing issues.
It is also frequented by Lindens (most notably by Pathfinder).
Personally I would prefer that this took place in the forums.... but there is an outlet.
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Qie Niangao
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Join date: 24 May 2006
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02-14-2009 15:54
From: Brenda Connolly Maybe Blue. Evidently the Blog is being redone, maybe Teh Forumz will be next. Right, specifically the bit about "Private sub-blogs for communities working in Second Life (like educators and Solution Providers)." I'm not sure , however, what "private" means there; what makes sense for "Solution Providers" seems quite counterproductive for educators. I guess time will tell, but it couldn't hurt to push next week when the new blog arrives, to make sure it starts out moving in the right direction. I think Pathfinder is the Linden who's supposed to coordinate with educators, so he might be another source. |