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On behalf of the DEN in SL, I want to thank everyone that came by and said hi throughout the conference. Also thank you to everyone that attended our Bring Your Own Laptop session. It was great fun.

We had the following winners at our session. Each of these people won L$500.

1. Makayla Charisma
2. Witchyrichy Witherspoon
3. Eleanor Anderton
4. Mellie Bookmite
5. Christy Millar
6. Fang 2essinthal
7. Denulus Parx
8. Atomic Thespian

We reconnected with old friends and made lots of new friends this time. Some of the people we met will be presenting at the DEN in SL so keep a watch on the events schedule or subscribe to the Google Calendar of events.

Rip

Yes sometimes it all boils down to great hair. The link above takes you to a blog I read and the author has gracioulsy made it easy to visit many if not all of the hair designers present at the Hair Fair. If you find the links useful make sure you comment on THEIR blog and say thank you.

Closing the day will be the second in the series of DEN Forums. The topic this week: Technology Must-Haves vs. Bells and Whistles. This forum will be facilitated by Celestia Cazalet. Come prepared to not only share your favorite technology tools, but ready to defend its use in your classroom. We’ll discuss what technologies are good, which are bad, and which might be being overused for the sake of technology. Through discussion, we’ll attempt to learn how to balance technology with other teaching tools. We’ll meet in Room 201 at 2DP.

Take a break from the NECC madness and relax with us at the forum!

Image by krossbow via Flickr

This post is to let everyone know that with the recent Leadership Council election process we have had some changes to the Discovery Educator Network in Second Life Leadership Council (DEN in SL LC).

Our blog chair – Laelia Laval will be taking a much needed breather and becoming a blog team member. While not leaving the LC, she is looking into ways of moving us forward. I know I’m joined by everyone in thanking her for getting us off to such a strong beginning and leading on the path to an award winning blog.

Celestia Cazalet will be stepping into what might be thought of as the Cruel Shoes of the blog chair position. Cel has been co-chairing our building and land team. She is ready and able to lead our blog team.

Lor Fredriksson is staying as our fabulous events chair person. She will be joined by Beth Kohnke and JessieMarie Flanagan. Both of whom have worked tirelessly since our inception.

That brings us to the announcement that we have expanded our leadership council to include three new members. They are Valaina Shepherd, Vita Demina and Telos String. All three will be joining our events team as well as posting the occasional blog entry as all of our LC members do. These active members will add much to our team as we look forward to bringing even more to our members in the way of professional development, sharing, networking and fun social events.

Our new members will be introducing themselves to all of you here in posts that will be coming. So stay tuned.

Please put your virtual and real life hands together to congratulate the new DEN in SL Leadership Council.

*UPDATE* I did forget to mention that I, Riptide Furse, will be continuing as chair of this wonderful group of people.

We will meet at the 2 DP roof pool June 22 at 5 PM SLT ( 7 PM CST, 8 PM EST)

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Eduisland%20II/80/77/55

If you are attending NECC, the first place to look is the online program and start using the conference planner.  Anita explained that there are many choices starting with featured keynote and spotlight speakers, lectures, poster sessions, student showcases, research papers, birds of a feather, various lounges and of course the exhibit hall.  Some events required pre - registraion like the workshops and BYOL. Of course don’t forget there will be lots of DEN Stars presenting as well.

If you aren’t able to make it to Washington DC, then check out all the ways to join virtually.  There will be an SL Playground, and a 21st Century Media Center Virtual Playground  and docents  will be at ISTE HQ. There will also be backchannels, Ning,  tweets and NECC unplugged.

Some of the veteran NECC attendees suggested to pack for all kinds of temperatures and possible rain, wear layers as it could hot and muggy outside, but cold in the Washington DC Convention Center. Also comfy shoes are a must. Bring your laptop and even a power strip. This are just a few of the suggestions from last night.

Join Riptide Furse and others on Monday, June 22nd, who are from the Washington DC area and can help with your questions, concerns and general tidbits about how to make the most of your visit to the Nation’s Capital. We’ll go over last minute things to pack. A few hidden secrets of what to see, how to get around, and how to have the best time ever at NECC.

We will meet at the 2 DP roof pool June 22 at 5 PM SLT ( 7 PM CST, 8 PM EST)

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Eduisland%20II/80/77/55

Unklar also made a great point “how can something be stolen in a virtual world?” Nothing exists! Winners include: Telos String, grand-prize winner of 2500L$. Telos was the only participant who had deciphered all the clues and determined that Unklar was the culprit. Two runners-up were drawn from all the names of the people who had been participating and sending emails to Celestia. The two who won 750L$ were Emilia Cornwall and Moriarty Finesmith.

Since there wasn’t an evil villain in our midst, we all adjourned to the roof, where music, dancing, and swimming in the pool commenced. It was a great way of relaxing after several weeks of solving the mystery.

Stay tuned: there is great interest in another IDiscover Sleuthing game, so watch for details soon! If you participated in the game and wasn’t able to be at the reveal party, you can still get your t-shirt by visiting the scene of the crime one more time.

We’ll be doing this ‘NECC Newbie’ session with ISTE.  We’ll be meeting here.
Don’t forget to join us for a ‘NECC Newbie’ session.

If you’ve got questions or if you’ve ‘been there, done that’, then please join us tonight, Sunday, June 14th and Thursday, June 18th as the DEN in SL hosts a ‘NECC Newbie’ session.  This is not a formal workshop session, it will be more along the lines of asking questions and sharing tips to make your NECC experience a fabulous experience.

See you at 5 p.m. SLT (7 p.m. CST, 8 p.m. EST)

First of all, there is a suspect dossier that narrows down the list of suspects to twelve. Bookmark the site, then consider all the clues that have been given. All clues are listed here, in case you missed one in-world or one of the extra Twitter clues.

Clue #1: The evil villain who committed the crime is someone that has been thought to be a true friend of the DEN in SL.

Clue #2: A crumpled note was also found by the blood spatter. It said “Your absence has been noticed.”

Clue #3: You find a star talisman. It may have fallen out of the suspect’s pocket. You turn it over and find something engraved on the back. It says “Friendly”.

Clue #4: A mobile phone was found by the fountain. The screen had the following numbers on it: 8 6 5 5 2 7

Clue #5: Receipt for 1 pr Laredo  4242 Boots - Purple     200L$

Twitter Clue #1: A friendly state may guide you.

Twitter Clue #2: it seems there is an increase in injuries around the DEN in SL.

Now you have all the clues. You have all the suspects. Do you have the answer? Find out Wednesday, June 17, at 5:00 p.m. SLT. It’ll be fun, there will be prizes for SLeuths and everyone will get a t-shirt for participating!

Please note the TIME CHANGE for Sunday ONLY!!!!!   6 p.m. SLT (8 p.m. CST, 9 p.m. EST)

Hope to see you there!  Gotta run, I’m off to buy a suitcase (my husband is wondering why one of the 15 under the stairs just won’t do.  Uhhhh, honey, ‘They’re NOT purple!” LOL).