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This past week, I hosted several events in 2nd Life.  I enjoyed serving as a tour guide for a group of school librarians from Syracuse University.  Read about it here: http://www.3dlibrarian.com/2010/04/syracuse-university-in-2nd-life.html.  Later, I attended this month’s AASL-ISTE SIGMS virtual learning community meeting where I learned about libraries and accreditation.  Read about it here: http://www.3dlibrarian.com/2010/04/aasl-iste-sigms-mtg-in-2nd-life.html.

I’m always trying to learn new technologies.  I’ve been making videos lately by using Cam Studie and MovieMaker.  I needed to improve the audio, so I’m learning about Audacity.  It allows me to have a bit more control of the quality of the audio input.  I hope it works better.  I’m making a second video about wikis now.  I hope the quality doesn’t get too degraded when I upload it to Blip.tv.  We’ll see….