The first college fair on InfoIsland today was a great event! Thanks to Alice Burgess, Abbey Zenith, speakers (Stone Semyorka, Robby Kowalski, Sage Duncan, Vic Michalak, and Pathfinder Linden), colleges, attendees, and especially for the use of Info Island that made this all a great success.

There was a lot of great networking and I learned some great tips on selling the idea of using Second Life to administrators including that we’re actually saving them money!! (thanks Sage!) Presentations also included information on taking the leap of signing up for a course being taught in SL and what the benefits are (interaction, meeting people from all over the world, trying a different medium for collaboration and presentation, etc.).

Pathfinder graciously attended and spoke about several initiatives Linden Lab is doing to help support educators.
-features such as ‘admin accounts’
-more reliable regAPI
-’behind the firewall’ solutions from M Linden’s talk at a previous conference

Thank you Pathfinder, Claudia, and other Lindens! Presentation here: pathfinder-presentation.

Watch this site for further posts on the fair including machinima! Check out Flickr with the tag “infoislandcollegefair2008″ for photos.

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