Connie Bensen » Comm in Education http://conniebensen.com Community Strategist Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:37:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Community, Education, and Second Life http://conniebensen.com/2008/07/31/community-education-and-second-life/ http://conniebensen.com/2008/07/31/community-education-and-second-life/#comments Fri, 01 Aug 2008 02:17:51 +0000 Connie http://conniebensen.com/blog/2008/07/31/community-education-and-second-life/ While I was taking a bit of time off to spend with my sister & her boys, a very proactive educator found my blog. Yesterday I saw the trail of tweets … :) That’s the joy of social networking! You can pretty much follow the word of mouth.

So today I talked with Kevin Jarrett who is actively employing social media to help educators. I was impressed when I read his bio & look forward to exchanging more ideas with him!

Kevin invited me to speak in Second Life. I never thought I needed to go there, but yes I do! (ok, I must admit I was intrigued after seeing Connie Reece sporting her green pea dress & dancing. Today she tells me she’ll take me roller skating!). It seems that I have many friends that will teach me the in’s & out’s. I will be ready to speak in September!

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What are educators doing? Well they have Classroom 2.0 with more than 10,000 members. And Kevin is gearing up to have middle school students publish an online newspaper. They’ll have a great time doing that & what better way to start gaining the skills for real life (or should I say ‘virtual’).

If you’re in the education field, drop a note. And I welcome Kevin & all of his friends to my blog. I started a new category for you. Let me know how I can help!

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