Voice Avatars

I wonder if this will add communication value? This free version can record up to 60 seconds, and my posts are too long-winded for that! But, pegged onto a sidebar, it might be a way to attract comments…
Anyhow, here’s my first voice avatar. I’m putting her in the sidebar–if this works.
UPDATE:  It [...]

The Generations of Narrative.

Oral storytelling. Written story (including recording of many originally spoken tales). Motion pictures. Animation. Live broadcasting. Video.
Transmutation isn’t quite the word for it. Neither is transformation. Nor evolution. I settled for “Generations.” We don’t discard older formats when we add a new one to our story-telling heritage.
Now, the power of [...]

Can I have a simulated virtual reality, to go?

I’d like to give it to the girls in the third grade, and to a couple of Middle School students.
I have been experimenting with my new avatars at Club Penguin and on Second Life, learning how to navigate in these virtual worlds. (I’ll have more to blog about them, soon.) I have [...]