http://anya.blogsome.com Thu, 08 Feb 2007 16:12:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Time for an identity makeover…. this blog … well… this “blogger” has now moved to: http://angelaathomas.com It is still under construction while I try and learn just enough css to edit some of the colours etc… and find somebody to help me make a dazzling banner. So far the comments box is all ... http://anya.blogsome.com/2007/02/09/making-a-move/ (Seen on Jo’s blog; Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons.) http://anya.blogsome.com/2007/02/08/somebody-understands-me/ Following my previous post about the dark skinned avatar, Celebrity Trollop, Second Style fashion magazine editor, modelled one of her favourite dark skins for me, and pointed me to these divine Raspberry and Cow Skins, which just goes to show that I haven’t been getting out much in SL! ... http://anya.blogsome.com/2007/02/08/celebrity-in-raspberry-and-cow/ Thanks to Rebecca again (!) I’ve just seen this great youtube video about web 2.0 and digital text. This is a really nice way of explaining some of the new ways writing and literacy have developed in digital spaces. http://anya.blogsome.com/2007/02/07/writing-web-20/ For Rebecca, I have hunted out the original version of the Sesame Street song, “Mah Nah Mah Nah”, with the much nicer “par tip a tippy” words instead of the “do do dos” words which have clearly dumbed the song down considerably. As an impressionable young child, I was ... http://anya.blogsome.com/2007/02/06/the-original-manamana/ Call for Proposals: NMC Online Conference on the Convergence of Web Culture and Video March 21-22, 2007 Proposals for presentations for the NMC Online Conference on the Convergence of Web Culture and Video, a special 2-day, live, online event to be held March 21-22, 2007 entirely via the Internet, are being solicited ... http://anya.blogsome.com/2007/02/06/call-for-proposals-nmc-online-conference-on-the-convergence-of-web-culture-and-video/ (Photo credit: New World Notes) My friend Silelf pointed me to this article in the Uk Register, and article which challenges the lack of avatars of colour in Second Life. The writer comments: But one feature struck me immediately, and hard, when I first joined the game: the whiteness of it ... http://anya.blogsome.com/2007/02/03/big-fat-lily-white-second-life/ (shamelessly stolen from Rebecca) Will it give away my age if I say that when I was little, the “do do do do dos” were actually “par-tippy tips”? http://anya.blogsome.com/2007/02/02/do-do-partippy-tip-manamana/ Larry Johnson from the New Media Consortium has invited me to participate in an online conference in March. I am thrilled that I will be presenting in any context with prolific writer and expert on all new media and culture phenomena, Henry Jenkins! Here’s my title and abstract - comments ... http://anya.blogsome.com/2007/02/01/march-conference-keynote/ Skyping at 2:45am for me, we begin to map out our workshop for this conference. Here’s the overview for the conference program… Embodiment in Virtual Environments: Exploring Literacies, Identity, Research, and Community Charles Kinzer, mathematics, science, and technology, Teachers College, Columbia University Angela Thomas, University of Sydney An increasing number of scholars, researchers, ... http://anya.blogsome.com/2007/01/29/more-on-the-workshop-with-charles/