Lara Nieberding

The Purple Lara

Archive for the ‘Uncategorized’ Category

Happy New Year!!

leave a comment »

Wishing you a prosperous 2008!

Written by The Purple Lara

January 1, 2008 at 7:27 PM

Posted in Uncategorized

Seasons Greetings!

leave a comment »

Hoping your holidays are the happiest!

Written by The Purple Lara

December 25, 2007 at 10:48 PM

Posted in Uncategorized

Tagged with

Real Life Medical training in a Second Life environment

leave a comment »

The Data Digger: Bringing you the information you need.
clipped from www.massively.com


World of Warcraft
World of Warcraft
Second Life to become largest medical school in the world?

JuniorDr.com talks a bit about what Second Life is, and covers several places where it is being used to provide bioscience and medical training, including Genome Island, Health Info Island, The Ann Myers Medical Centre and the Heart Murmur Sim (Disclosure: Some of the materials covered I have provided to the people running the exhibits). Meanwhile the Student British Medical Journal covers training from Coventry University in some depth and mentions a range of other universities and their activities in the medical field.
  blog it

Written by The Purple Lara

December 24, 2007 at 9:44 PM

Posted in Uncategorized

Are Second Life Users Sticking with It?

leave a comment »

The Data Digger: Bringing you the information you need.
clipped from www.massively.com


World of Warcraft
World of Warcraft
Peering inside – Second Life’s user retention

The really interesting thing is the lack of change in the retention figure itself – despite everything done to improve user experience – it’s not budging, so far as we’ve been told.

  blog it

Written by The Purple Lara

December 24, 2007 at 9:33 PM

Posted in Uncategorized

Cory Linden left Linden Labs

with one comment

The Data Digger: Brining you the information you need.
clipped from nwn.blogs.com

New World Newsfeed: Ex-Lindens on Cory Linden’s Leaving; Philip Linden Responds

In Cory’s leaked internal e-mail, he states that “Philip and my visions for the future of Linden Lab are divergent enough that he decided to lead in his own way.” Considering all the people who now have a livelihood that depends on Second Life, what assurances can the Lindens give them that Philip’s path is the correct one? Or to put it another way, what if Cory was right?
  blog it

Written by The Purple Lara

December 24, 2007 at 9:09 PM

Posted in Uncategorized

Virtual Worlds Conference Anouncement

leave a comment »

The Data Digger: Bringing you the information you need.
clipped from terranova.blogs.com

Virtual Worlds and Social Science: Conference

Virtual Worlds and New Realities in Commerce, Politics, and Society

11 February 2008
Emory University, Atlanta GA
  blog it

Written by The Purple Lara

December 24, 2007 at 8:43 PM

Posted in Uncategorized

Ongoing theorizing on virtual worlds

leave a comment »

The Data Digger: Bringing you the information you need.
clipped from terranova.blogs.com

A Virtual World Winter?

While I’m still bullish on virtual worlds and MMOGs for a number of reasons, that doesn’t mean we won’t necessarily go through a deep winter before we find spring again.   
I’m often asked about what comes after World of Warcraft?  Can this market be
sustained?  Is it possible that we could find ourselves in a situation where we have to say about our entire customer base
that “those who came, left”?  And if so, how do we prevent that from happening?

  blog it

Written by The Purple Lara

December 24, 2007 at 8:26 PM

Posted in Uncategorized

Blogging: An Educational Tool

leave a comment »

The Data Digger: Bringing you the information you need.
clipped from www.techlearning.com

Getting Started With Blogging in the Classroom

In other words, scholars need to read blogs! I cannot overstate this fact enough. If you really want blogging to be transformative and you want it to sustain itself as a powerful piece of the classroom environment, it starts with seeing the philosophy of this genre as authentic literacy: critical reading, connecting and synthesizing ideas, communicating publicly, creating, contributing, community linking and building, and moving cyclically.

  blog it

Written by The Purple Lara

December 24, 2007 at 6:03 PM

Posted in Uncategorized

Embracing Blogging

leave a comment »

The Data Digger: Bringing you the information you need.
clipped from www.techlearning.com

Blogs are not the death of writing but the evolution

There are those who believe that blogs are the death of all that is good and noble about writing… and represent some sort of weakening of the mind.

blogs are a medium.

Just as paper can hold poetry or pornography, penmanship or im-speak, blogs can do the same.

  blog it

Written by The Purple Lara

December 21, 2007 at 6:09 PM

Posted in Uncategorized

Parents, kids & how to handle media

leave a comment »

The Data Digger: This is what I am reading.
clipped from www.pta.org

Media and Technology
  • Learn about the kinds of media and technology your children are using.

  • Talk with your children about their media choices.

  • Check their understanding of the messages and images they encounter.

  • Make media choices together—decide what your family will and won’t view.

  • Encourage sensible and thoughtful use of screen time for your family.

  • Consider ages and needs of your children, and set clear rules and expectations for all family members.
  •   blog it

    Written by The Purple Lara

    December 20, 2007 at 4:54 PM

    Posted in Uncategorized