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thekyleguy - Sitting in Teen Second Life presentation at itsummit in Saskatoon. Presenters are Eric Van Dusen & Marcel Lorenz, both Grade 8 teachers from Regina Public Education.

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glassbeed - Regina Public Schools doing some cool stuff in Teen 2L #itsummit

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courosa - Glad one of the #itsummit wireless routers is working ... been flaky so far, this one a bit better.

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courosa - Listening a presentation on #SL at #itsummit

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thekyleguy - Teen Second Life presentation live blog #itsummit http://is.gd/ozhs

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demonte - @thekyleguy Hey #itsummit. Another great live blogging tool is @ScribbleLive.com. Fast, easy and free. You can use your Twitter ID as well.

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thekyleguy - Started with project overview & intro to teen 2nd life. Just touched on curricular connections.

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thekyleguy - Students showed high engagement. Looking at stats on time spent in world. Most time spent btw 12pm - 1pm over lunch + evenings #itsummit

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robwall - @courosa They added another router/access point so hopefully things will improve as load distributes. #itsummit

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thekyleguy - students played a lot. Used 3d tools to build all kinds of things. Some students became building experts. Built trampolines and other cool things. Terra formed landscape, uderstood textures, created animals

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thekyleguy - Emphasis on the "Power of Presence"

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thekyleguy - teachers have an island staffroom. Isolated environment that studentscouldn't listen in on.

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thekyleguy - Large inventory of parcels within inventory. Students would load up clothing, hair styles, textures.

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thekyleguy - Students had a hang out 'student center'. Housed tutorials and offered a place to hang out.

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thekyleguy - Halloween night - # of students in 2nd life building and working in world for fun

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shareski - Mckenzie's computer froze. It's a Mac but he's using PPT. Odd. #itsummit

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Boonblogger - Are all the tweets at #itsummit getting together later?

1:13	thekyleguy - Art Gallery houses images of students work

1:13	thekyleguy - students were each given a plot of land, that no one else could modify. They used their plot to build a culture . Example was Greenland - where everything built represented the culture. Some inaccuracies but goals were met

1:13	thekyleguy - students are in world & demo'ing building process. In 10 min they built a hotub & were drinking virtual red bull.

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