“IDEA” via Flickr (CC license)
I’ve put together a working abstract and annotated bibliography for my course paper on collaborative design in virtual worlds. It’s public on the Hub2 wiki.
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Collaborative Design in Second Life”, url: “http://colinrhinesmith.com/2007/11/26/collaborative-design-in-second-life/” });

“Engage stage of Hub2 project” (Creative Commons license)
We entered the Engage stage of our collaboration project yesterday with a visit from a number of avatars to our space on Boston Island (SLURL). It was great to have so many avatars, who we didn’t know previously, navigate through the space and give us feedback. While [...]

“Upgrage! Boston” photo by Digital Lyceum
As I mentioned earlier, I’m working on a project at Emerson College to research best practices and propose a sustainable model for creating and facilitating “mixed reality” lecture-style events. We’re interested in connecting with others who have experience in this area, particularly those at colleges and universities who are using [...]

The following is my response to a reading assignment and how it might be applied towards our group project in Second Life:
Taylor’s book talks about the social transfer of skills and knowledge in-between virtual and real worlds and the eroding boundaries between each. She makes problematic the ideas of “work” and “play” in order to [...]

I wrote up an edited transcript of David Weinberger’s new book talk for the iDC e-list, which I’ve also posted online. The full audio version is available for download over at MediaBerkman. I received an email from Michel Bauwens (p2p Foundation) who also informed me that the transcript is up in wiki form.
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I’m finished with my first year of graduate school at Emerson College. It was a great start to what I think will be an even better second year based on a number of projects that I’m looking forward to working on.
I’m writing this post to help me organize some of the stuff going on. Let’s [...]

Mark Frydenberg invited me back to Bentley for a CIS Presents lecture this past Monday to discuss creative uses of social networking tools in education. I spoke to a room of about 60 students about my collaborative graduate thesis project and the tools I’m using to allow others to participate in sharing their experience and [...]

Last month I mentioned that I was interested in using a wiki for my thesis. Not for the purpose of dumping my ideas somewhere on the web, but to invite real participation from the community I’m exploring. At that time, I (1) wondered if this was possible to do at Emerson College and (2) [...]

Amy Gahran of Poynter Online’s E-Media Tidbits is looking for News organizations who have in the past or are currently using a wikis. If so, she asks
please comment below, explain what you’re doing, and give us your wiki link(s). Also, if you’ve seen something like this, please speak up. I’d love to have some current [...]

The Center for History and New Media recently launched a podcast titled, “Digital Campus“. Here’s an excerpt from the announcement:
“CHNM is happy to announce the launch of a new podcast, Digital Campus, now available from iTunes and http://digitalcampus.tv
The biweekly roundtable will discuss how digital media and technology are affecting learning, teaching, and scholarship at [...]