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• Innovative educator Leslie Jarmon dies

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 167
  University faculty member and instructional innovator Leslie Jarmon died on Nov. 24 after a 15-year battle with cancer. She was 57. Jarmon was an early adopter of instructional uses of virtual worlds, becoming a role model and advocate for colleagues looking to create new models in pedagogy through innovative uses of ...
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• Zynga Unleashes PetVille, Puts GoPets To Sleep

  
  Virtual Worlds News — Authority: 472
  This week Zynga unleashed its latest social game, PetVille .As the name implies, PetVille is Zyngas entry into the time-tested butcrowded "virtual pet" genre of social game. Users can adopt and playwith virtual pets, earning items to customize their virtual homes andappearances. What is curious about the sudden ...
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• Linden Lab to test new house/land incentive for premium Second Life accounts

  
  Massively — Authority: 682
  While the growth of Second Life new-user registrations remains steady, as do active users, the number of premium accounts in Linden Labs virtual world had entered into an accelerating decline, last time we had any data available to us. This is hardly surprising, as tweaks to the land-centric Second Life ...
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• Linden Lab to test new house/land incentive for premium Second Life accounts

  
  Be The Gamer — Authority: 160
  While the growth of Second Life new-user registrations remains steady, as do active users, the number of premium accounts in Linden Labs virtual world had entered into an accelerating decline, last time we had any data available to us. This is hardly surprising, as tweaks to the land-centric Second Life ...
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• Weekly Wrap: 10 Social Media Commandments, Glee Obsession, Life Without Facebook, Digital Content is the Future, PS3 Social Upgrade, Life After Oprah, Pakistani Youth & More!

  
  Derek E. Baird :: Barking Robot — Authority: 424
  Youth Impact Report 09 > Ryan Murphy full of Glee > Series creator has the youth audience by the throat">Ryan Murphy full of Glee : Thanks to his breakout Fox hit "Glee," Ryan Murphy not only has hisfinger on the pulse of the youth market -- he has it firmly by thethroat, so to speak. The exuberant ...
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• Virtual Footsteps

  
  The Attic — Authority: 135
  Google has added Pompeii to its Streetview service. Apparently, you can also virtual-visit Stonehenge. Im very interested in visuality, especially of places, and Google Streetview to me is a fascinating meld of traditional cartography with filmic visuality, so that the mapped point of view becomes both omniscient and ...
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• CyberBullying Tragedies and Internet Safety: eModeration Part3

  
  Shaping Youth — Authority: 122
  Dec. 3, 2009 Just visited the excellent Connect Safely forum to pose the industry question, is there ANYthing that digital moderators or online advocates could’ve done in the child safety realm to prevent the loss of 13-year old Hope Witsell due to the suicide/sexting case? Obviously, Hope’s ...
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• The Consumer Connection: New Revenue Drivers for A Toy Industry in Transition - Virtual Worlds News

  
  Webkinz - Collectible Stuffed Animal Toys — Authority: 142
  The Consumer Connection: New Revenue Drivers for A Toy Industry in TransitionVirtual Worlds NewsWeb-enabled toys (Webkinz, etc…) and mobile brand extensions (think iphone and itouch versions of toys) provide toy companies with a direct connection to …
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• Awesome machinima about community in Second Life by Ill Clan Studios

  
  The Click Heard Round the World — Authority: 471
  Heres the latest in a series of machinima videos produced by Ill Clan Studios about the virtual world of Second Life .  This one focuses on the community-aspects of Second Life, arguably its strongest attribute versus other platforms out there.  Great work as always, Ill Clan!  I just wish my SL experience was ...
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• Zula USA Partners With WildTangent

  
  Virtual Worlds News — Authority: 472
  A partnership between childrens virtual world ZulaWorld.com and free online gaming site WildTangent was announced today by the companies. Kids can now go to WildTangent and play a number of education games previously available only on ZulaWorld.com. The online destination ZulaWorld.com is a science-themed interactive ...
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• SecretBuilders Brings Mozart to Kids, Tween Users

  
  Virtual Worlds News — Authority: 472
  SecretBuilders, a kids- and children-focused virtual world that emphasizes creativity and historical adventure yesterday said it had struck a deal with San Francisco Opera to bring the music and culture of Mozart to online users. Kicking off the alliance this past weekend, SecretBuilders subscribers have been able to ...
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• Meeting of Minds: Cross-Generational Dialogue on the Ethics of Digital Life

  
  Derek E. Baird :: Barking Robot — Authority: 424
  Global Kids , Common Sense Media , and HarvardUniversitys GoodPlay Project havereleased Meeting of Minds , a report that highlights the ways in whichparents, teachers, and teens relate to the emerging dimensionsof life online ranging from virtual worlds, social networks and/or the ethics of digital content ...
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• Boy Meets Girl Hoodie Promo: First Online, Then In Stores

  
  Virtual Worlds News — Authority: 472
  Fashion Fantasy Game (FFG), an online fashion game/virtual world/chat community for teen girls is allying with contemporary apparel brand Boy Meets Girl (BmG) to offer a virtual fashion line of BmG products online -- all designed to drive real-world sales.  As part of the promotion, all FFG members will receive a ...
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• Can NearLondon Succeed Where Second Life Failed?

  
  bda - Buckingham Design Associates — Authority: 110
  Christmas is fast approaching, and with it the rush to get to the shops. But with all the traffic and crowds, you’d be forgiven for staying away and buying your gifts online. Well, this year you can visit some of London’s top retailers from the comfort of home thanks to a new virtual world called NearLondon. ...
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• If Enterprise 2.0 is a Crock, Second Life Enterprise if the Stuff That Fills the Crock

  
  Enterprise 2.0 Blog — Authority: 112
  What got into my head? During a relative lull in interesting sounding sessions at Enterprise 2.0, I decided to attend the session run by Linden Labs entitled “The Virtual Enterprise: The Future of Work”. At the session Linden Labs announced Second Life Enterprise, a behind-the-firewall private virtual world ...
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• Ganz Touts Best Bet Award Win - Virtual Worlds News

  
  Webkinz - Collectible Stuffed Animal Toys — Authority: 142
  Ganz Touts Best Bet Award WinVirtual Worlds NewsGanz, the creators of the Webkinz and Webkinz Jr. line of plush pets and online virtual worlds, said today that its Jr. line of products — designed for … Related External Links video: BET AWARDS 09 AFTERPARTY PERFORMANCE « R CITY GLEE ...
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• Netnography: Doing Ethnographic Research Online-Info, Free Book Chapters, and More

  
  Brandthroposophy: A Marketing and Research Blog — Authority: 107
  Hey everyone. The long-awaited (for me at least) Netnography book is actually, really, being printed by Sage this week, in New Delhi, I think. The presses are rolling, the drums of ink are being loaded, the dead trees are being slapped to produce pages, and out will emerge…the book. The first book, ever, in the ...
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• Ganz Touts Best Bet Award Win

  
  Virtual Worlds News — Authority: 472
  Ganz, the creators of the Webkinz and Webkinz Jr. line of plush petsand online virtual worlds, said today that its Jr. line of products --designed for kids 3 to 6 years old -- received a Best Bet Award for2010 from the Canadian Toy Testing Council (CTTC). Since 1952, the CTTChas been assessing toys on the basis of ...
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• How Gotham Gazette Used Games as Storytelling Devices

  
  MediaShift Idea Lab — Authority: 127
  With the launch of its energy game Switch , Gotham Gazette this fall completed a two-year Knight Foundation-funded project to create several news games about New York City policy issues. We think we produced some good games (to view and play them go here .) And we learned a lot. Most satisfyingly, we confirmed ...
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• Daily Links for Wednesday, December 2, 2009

  
  Bob Sutor — Authority: 126
  Open Source An Open Source Tool for Every Task School Library Journal / Steve Hargadon Following are some of the most popular OSS applications for schools. All are freely available, requiring no license fees, and can be loaded on an unlimited number of computers or distributed to students for home use. ...
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