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The New Improved Dogland Park

Even with no clinic, Dogland Park improves. Without the restrictions and limits placed on Dogland by Enrico Genosse, the park has become more of what the VKC Dog Owners Open Chat Group wanted. There are always fully trained VKC and D&D dogs available for relocation at great low costs. We also now no longer must cater to the wishes of others, concerning telling truth about certain vendors products that are bad for our SL dogs. Dogland support team can now be perfectly honest with all about wh… Continue

Added by Vitolo Rossini on November 21, 2009 at 10:21am — No Comments

Shambles Newsletter November 2009 ... online

http://www.shambles.net/newsletter/november2009

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Added by Chris Smith on November 11, 2009 at 12:00am — No Comments

The Children's Interactive Library

Let’s face it. Many students in primary/secondary and even tertiary are not library goers. Sometimes the whole semester ended without visiting it. Well, sometimes it is because of the facilities or the library itself that is not inviting to us. But here is an interesting video I’ve browse a while ago. This is said to be a prototype of “The Children's Interactive Library” in the future. Well I guess this will need some large funds and I cannot think of… Continue

Added by SheldonZ on November 5, 2009 at 12:00am — No Comments

Go!Animate: Interactive Books & Libraries in Second Life

GoAnimate.com: Second Life Tour 1: Interactive Books & Libraries by gwyneth

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a Go!Animate vid i made for a presentation at the AASL conference (American Association of School… Continue

Added by Capt. Red Llewellyn on October 30, 2009 at 10:00am — 1 Comment

College Fair in Second Life

College Fair in Second Life Presentations: 24th and 25th October 2009 Exhibits displayed: 24th Oct to 13 No. 2009 Venue; International Schools Island Full details at ... http://bit.ly/SLCF09 Tag: #SLCF09

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Added by Chris Smith on October 5, 2009 at 7:58am — No Comments

Let's Talk About Library Renovation

Petworth News: The Petworth Neighborhood Library, 4200 Kansas Avenue, NW, is being renovated. The cost of the renovation is approximately $11.4 million. Whew!!! This is more than overnight loans. Well, in Phase I -- Exterior renovation began June 2009. Library remains open during this time. Work includes: window and door restoration, masonry repointing and cleaning, roof repairs, new exterior lighting,… Continue

Added by SheldonZ on September 10, 2009 at 10:30pm — No Comments

Extended Services at Dogland Dog Park

At Dogland Park, we have extended our services to make owning an sl pet more fun and easier. We have added many attractions as well. *Come see our classes, or get walked through VKC Dog Adoption and training. Not only Do we have the greatest dogs available in world, with true Artificial Intelligence, but there is more. *We are the ONLY vendor of Jazz Johin Animated Talking Macaws. *We carry "Happy Pets" Fantasy pets (like animated Bambi). *You will find Todd Borst Shoulder Pets here of every kin… Continue

Added by Vitolo Rossini on August 29, 2009 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Screencast: mini tour around the Virtual Worlds area on shambles.net

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Added by Chris Smith on August 28, 2009 at 12:10pm — No Comments

County Library Wins Statewide Video Competition

TRENTON — Phase one of the New Jersey State Library’s “Tell Us Your Story” marketing program came to a close with the winners of the statewide video contest selected. Placing first with its video “Get Your Game On at Your Library” was the Cape May County Library. A reception announcing the winning entry will take place on Monday, Aug. 17 at 2:30 p.m. at the Cape May Cou… Continue

Added by SheldonZ on August 12, 2009 at 2:00am — No Comments

Second Life & Virtual World-related programs @ 2009 ALA Annual Conference

The Virtual Communities and Libraries Member Initiative Group meeting for the 2009 ALA Annual Conference – taking place in the hometown of ALA Headquarters: Chicago, IL! — will take place in real life on Saturday, July 11, 2009, at 3:00 pm CT (1:00 pm PT/SLT), at National Louis University, which is located at 122 S. Michigan Avenue. Meet the members of VCL MIG in the Second Floor Atrium. Do you have friends going to Annual Conference who would like a chance to see what SL is like? IM Oberon Oct… Continue

Added by ALALibraryVal Miles on July 10, 2009 at 4:12pm — No Comments

ISTE Wshop : in SL : Web 2.0

ISTE Wshop : in SL : Web 2.0 21st May 2009 6pm SL time All details at http://tr.im/lv5L Facilitator Shamblesguru Voom ------------- Continue

Added by Chris Smith on May 16, 2009 at 6:30am — No Comments

Shambles Termly Newsletter

Shambles Termly Newsletter .. only 3 a year ... for (international) educators http://tr.im/kpvx

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Added by Chris Smith on May 5, 2009 at 8:00am — No Comments

Shambles Termly Newsletter

Shambles Termly Newsletter .. only 3 a year ... for (international) educators http://tr.im/kpvx

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Added by Chris Smith on May 4, 2009 at 8:30pm — No Comments

Help

I have signed up to this and now have not ac lue what to do. Can anyone help, I am obviously having a very senior moment. Continue

Added by Morna Ingram on April 22, 2009 at 6:41am — No Comments

Adventures in Children’s Literature: Careers for School, Public, and Academic Librarians on ALA Island on March 17, 2009 at 9:45 am PT/SLT

As announced in the press release dated March 10, 2009, Library careers in children’s literature celebrated in Second Life: From 9:45 a.m. PT/SLT (Pacific Time/Second Life Time) until noon on Tuesday, March 17, 2009, the American Library Association’s (ALA) Recruitment Assembly will celebrate “Adventures in Children’s Literature: Careers for School, Public, and Academic Librarians” in Second… Continue

Added by ALALibraryVal Miles on March 16, 2009 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Finding out about librarians in 2nd life

Hello I'm afraid I'm going to be a bit of a lurker, but I joined because I'm currently researching libraries in second life for Emerald's website, www.emeraldinsight.com. I would be very interested to hear about interesting second life library locations, and how libraries have used second life. Thanks! Continue

Added by Margaret Adolphus on March 12, 2009 at 8:13am — 2 Comments

The Naace Tour that Should have Been

The NAACE Tour That Should Have Been from Leon Tubrok on Vimeo. More details at International Schools Island Blog http://internationalschoolsisland.blogspot.com Continue

Added by Chris Smith on March 8, 2009 at 12:00am — No Comments

Posted to Fast Company.com Nov. 08 Call-In Transcript - Next Gen Interactions Virtual Worlds

Date: February 25, 2009 Posted to Fast Company.com: The complete, edited transcript of Fast Company’s November 08 Call-In – Next Generation Interaction: Are Virtual Worlds Waiting in the Wings? – @ http://tinyurl.com/d2vjud Moderated by: Fast Company.com Technology Coordinator Donald Schwartz The Back Story This Call-In featuring Virtual World Experts Tish Shute and Bruce Damer is intended as a broad ranging discussion covering the changing mood towards virtual worlds; where th… Continue

Added by Donald Schwartz on February 26, 2009 at 9:56pm — No Comments

Library on a Stick : Workshop in SL

ISTE "Show and Tell/Workshop" 19 Feb 2009 5:00pm S.L. Time I've been invited back to share some more resources that are available free on International Schools Island This session (at ISTE Island beach front) is designed to be of interest to teachers in any curriculum area and with students of any age group. http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island/206/206/23 I'm going to showcase and share a concept and object from JJ Drinkw… Continue

Added by Chris Smith on February 18, 2009 at 2:42am — No Comments