A Virtual Worlds, Games and Education Tour

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Networking & Social Media Information

Social Media BandwagonPart of the beauty of the MOOC is meeting and connecting with people who share similar interests (and you aren't following or participating in the MOOC without having an interest in virtual worlds and games in education, I imagine!).

So, let's connect. Please comment with your digital footprint and social media presences! Share as much or as little as you want. Feel free to include everything from Twitter to Tumblr to Wordpress to Diigo to even the most cutting-edge/obscure social media that you use. Most of us will be glad to follow similarly-minded people! 

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  • AliceK   March 26, 2012, 7:05 a.m.

    Well, I hope I’m not too late to the party here...

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/my_wonderland
    Blog: http://www.allies-in-elearning.blogspot.co.uk/ and http://www.wonderland-moments.blogspot.co.uk/
    SL: FreyaQ Wirefly
    Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/28931253@N00/
    LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=8549486
    Zotero: http://www.zotero.org/alicekerly
    Facebook: Not currently using for professional networking - personal only
    Google +: https://plus.google.com/u/0/107622646020274004988/posts - but I haven’t really figured out how I want this to fit into my social networking toolset yet.

    Alice

  • Emis.G   March 22, 2012, 11:39 a.m.

    Twitter: @juBk

    Blog:  http://www.jubo.co.uk/blog/

    Second Life: Emisgreen

    Flickr: Emis.G 

  • alysyn   March 22, 2012, 10:51 a.m.

    Second Life: Aly Warrior & Luva Ragu(which I only use Luva for onsite training)

    Jokaydiagrid: Alysyn Middleton

    inWorldz: Aly Warrior

    New World Grid: Aly Cat

    Utherverse:Alysynann

    email: alysynann@yahoo.com

    twitter: @alysynann

    facebook: Alysyn Harvey-Middleton

    linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/alysyn-middleton/30/243/994

    Opensim: (forgot my username) LOL

  • DelightfulDoowangle   March 22, 2012, 8:04 a.m.

    My identity on social media spans many venues in order for me to have a real sense of the differences. There is no personal branding strategy as much as I want to be a part of certain conversations that are happening across domains and professional associations. 

    My SL avatar, Delightful Doowangle, is creating a life of her own and I am along for the ride ;-) so far, so great. 

    Facebook, LinkedIn: Barbara Truman 

    Blogger, Wordpress,Twitter and Diigo: barbaratruman

    Skype, Flickr: btruwoman

    Jokaydia, OpenSim: Lightful Truwoman

    AIM and Delicious: Spidy459  

    YouTube unfortunately does not allow changes in user names so I am 27Vincent72 lol (and no that is not a password for something else)

    Much of my research is in EndNote, but I am about to engage in Mendeley too. 

    My belief in education and research outweighs privacy so my real and online lives intermingle. My indenty(ies) are a work in progress and I look forward to connecting with others. It will be nice to see how you are managing cognitive load, information overload, and distributing knowledge across the metaverse. 

  • Exquisite Corpse   March 21, 2012, 11:50 p.m.

    Second Life:  KK Millet, Di Lectar and Hugo Shores (many genders for sociological purposes) :D

    Fbook, Google+ & Linked In: Private

    Blog (upcoming) Digital Human:  Center4Edupunx.org

    Twitter: ExquisITCorpse

    MOOC Portal:  Exquisite Corpse13

  • pipcleaves   March 21, 2012, 10:21 p.m.

    In Social Media you can mostly find me as pipcleaves: 

    Online Spaces: http://flavors.me/pipcleaves

    Twitter: @pipcleaves https://twitter.com/#!/pipcleaves

    Slideshare: pip cleaves / piphowell http://www.slideshare.net/piphowell 

    Flickr: pipcleaves http://www.flickr.com/photos/pipcleaves/ 

    LinkedIN: Phillippa Cleaves http://au.linkedin.com/pub/phillippa-cleaves/22/834/862

    Blog: Live, Love, Learn http://pipcleaves.posterous.com/ 

    Blog: Workshops and Presentations http://pipcleaves.edublogs.org/

    SL and Jokaydia: both are Pip Mikado 

    Hope to meet some of you somewhere online...

  • Abacus   March 21, 2012, 9 p.m.

    Hello all..

    I'm actually not on a lot of social media :D But I use it a lot.

    LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/chris-luchs/3/112/12b

    Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/30599667@N06/

    Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/abacuscapalini/

     

    Part of a group effort on:

    Twitter: @center4edupunx

    Blog: http://center4edupunx.org/

  • M Starry   March 21, 2012, 8:54 p.m.

    Second Life:      IOWA Bing and Professor Silverweb

    Twitter:              Zilla800

    Facebook:         mary.starry

  • Gridjumper   March 21, 2012, 7:39 p.m.

     

    twitter @gridjumper

    blog http://gridjumper.net/

    flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/gridjumper

    Livebinder:  http://www.livebinders.com/shelf/search_author?terms=Gridjumper2

    PLN: http://www.technologyintegrationineducation.com/main

  • Kae   March 21, 2012, 12:54 p.m.

     

    twitter @kzenovka

    blog www.center4edupunx.org

    Google +  Que Jinn

    flickr center4edupunx http://www.flickr.com/photos/center4edupunx/

    pinterest: Center4EduPunx

    diigo Center4 EduPunx

    jokaydiagrid  - Center4EduPunx

    Linkedin - hang out in Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education group

    Facebook - hang out in Virtal Worlds Best Practies in Education

    and now this seems to be a little bit of a social network outlet also.

  • Merlin Moonshadow   March 21, 2012, 12:32 p.m.

    I have a lot of accounts (for both my real and virtual identities), although I don't actively use them all. I'm still in the process of trying to figure out how to balance my various accounts/identites, and would like to hear some thoughts on how others manage that.

    I use my RL LinkedIn and Facebook accounts the most - LinkedIn for professional networking, and Facebook as an odd combination of personal/ professional contacts. I hardly ever use Twitter, although I feel like I should. I actually started a blog this year, but haven't done anything with it since the initial post.

    LinkedIn (RL) :  https://www.linkedin.com/pub/michael-d-smith/25/78/aa8

    Facebook (RL) :  https://www.facebook.com/smithmichaeld

    Google+ (RL) :  https://plus.google.com/111311720039845291943/posts

    Twitter (RL) :  https://twitter.com/#!/smithmichaeld

    Blog (RL) :  http://lifethemetaverseandeverything.wordpress.com/

    Facebook (SL) :  https://www.facebook.com/merlin.moonshadow

    Google+ (SL):  https://plus.google.com/108837217951760099733/posts

  • Jerry Buchko   March 20, 2012, 11:57 p.m.

    I'm new to this P2PU platform so I'm wondering whether other participants in the MOOC are able to view our digital footprint info in our profiles if we've shared this info?

    ~ Jerry

  • Cat Flippen   March 21, 2012, 8:44 a.m.
    In Reply To:   Jerry Buchko   March 20, 2012, 11:57 p.m.

    Yes, they are! We are just trying to centralize the information so participants don't need to go to every individual's profile page. Instead, they can read through these comments (and I will be compiling a Google Doc of information for everything organizing by person as well as by social media application :D ). 

    Not to encourage laziness, but seeing as we are all busy people, making networking just a little bit easier would be a good thing! :)

  • Jerry Buchko   March 21, 2012, 12:44 p.m.
    In Reply To:   Cat Flippen   March 21, 2012, 8:44 a.m.

    Thanks, Cat! I agree, centralizing the contact info would be helpful, so here's mine:
     

    • Second Life: Jerry Buchko MA AFC

     

    ~ Jerry

  • gardengirl   March 20, 2012, 11:50 p.m.

    Social networking... hmmmm...  I am on twitter, and probably need to follow it more closely.  I access it through an iGoogle page that I have, because that allows me to get news and some of the gadgets that I have found are fun.  Then there is SL, where I have a couple of different groups that I stay in touch with. 

    ... sounds totally lame, but that's it.

    I don't have a smartphone, mostly because I am online so frequently that it would feel redundant to me.  There are a few sites that are part of some of my professional communities, but those are not open social networking.  People who want to contact me can send me a text, and then I'll get back to them, oftentimes using MSN chat.  Facebook?  Nope.  And for two reasons.  First of all, it's one more site to maintain.  I do a LOT for my students on Blackboard, keep up with email for school, keep up with personal email and personal connections, and that is more than enough to keep me busy.  Secondly, when my daughters got into Facebook, so did their father and they complained LOUDLY about him friending their friends.  So I made a conscious decision to not go there... when your kids are at the university age, you pretty much don't want to know everything anyway.