Digital Doodling

Ran a dogpile search, while trying to figure out why “Virtual Ed Blog site” has been on  my iGoogle “to do list” for about four-weeks,  and found Terra Nova. It’s a blog site that focuses on educational applications of virtual worlds. It has a group of active writers and contributing writers, which seems like a hybrid wiki/blog site. I’m not sure if Cathy discussed this site during one of our MULEs meetings. But, the posts were informative. One pointed me to Google Lively a new Virtual environment for chat similar but simpler than Second Life. Made me wish I had PCs in my classroom. My students are going to participate in an Artist Trading Card (ATC) activity through Tapped In with students from Australia, Canada and Italy. At this point we are using postal delivery for the exchange, and will set up chat rooms for the students to “talk” afterwards. Lively sounds like it would be a good way to run the Chat, but even though it will run well on FireFox, it’s not ready yet for Macs.