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		<title>Togashi Jun:  Library Designer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Togashi Jun is a librarian at the University of South Dakota who came to Second Life three years ago to experiment with library displays.  The University of South Dakota Libraries have been undergoing major reorganization. There used to be two libraries in one building: ID Weeks Library (main library), and Lommen Health Sciences Library. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://educatorscoop.org/blog/?p=314</link>
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		<title>Metaphor Voom:  Multi-Dimensional Educator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Metaphor Voom was interviewed in one of his creations – the Ensemble Pavilion on one of the Educators Coop sims. The pavilion was created as part of a grant from the National Science Foundation for computing education. Metaphor is responsible for the social networking part of the project, called Ensemble. When one arrives at the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://educatorscoop.org/blog/?p=311</link>
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		<title>TracyR96 Sorbet:  Bringing International Home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TracyR96 Sorbet&#8217;s primary work in Second Life involves a project called Hungry Decisions. The project was inspired by one of her master&#8217;s degree students, and today involves more than one student and another faculty member. The project provides students with the opportunity to see what differences exist in student perceptions of third world countries. Some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://educatorscoop.org/blog/?p=332</link>
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		<title>Veritas Raymaker:  On the Affordances of SL</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Veritas Raymaker first logged in to Second Life in 2006 to coincide with the first Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education conference. This is where he met Bluewave Ogee and North Lamar who ushered him into the Educators Coop. Though the time difference makes it extremely difficult to meet with other members of the Coop [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://educatorscoop.org/blog/?p=298</link>
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		<title>Larry Klugman:  Virtually Teaching Teachers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Larry first became involved with Second Life about a year and a half ago, directly via the Educators Coop.  After joining the program at UT, he heard about their involvement in SL and was ushered in by North Lamar and Bluewave Ogee.  They suggested he join the coop to see what others were doing with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://educatorscoop.org/blog/?p=266</link>
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		<title>Black Kelley:  Professional Sandboxer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Black Kelley has been in Second Life for almost three and a half years.  He originally came to SL because he needed a past-time that was quiet enough to do while his daughter was sleeping.  However, he quickly became involved with scripting and has since found many other SL interests, including live music. Black became [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prairie Loon:  The Educators&#8217; Muse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whenever I meet with an Educators Coop member, I ask to interview them in a place that is special to them.  I want to see what they built or what inspires them as participants in the Educators Coop.  To my delight, when Prairie Loon teleported me, it was to my favorite place of all the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://educatorscoop.org/blog/?p=253</link>
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		<title>Eggshell Burks:  Center Stage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Eggshell Burks came to Second Life in early January of 2007.  After being in Second Life for about a year, she began looking for fellow educators in SL and found the Educators Coop.  At the time, the Educators Coop was offering land parcels and many opportunities to learn more about teaching in Second Life.  Eggshell [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://educatorscoop.org/blog/?p=248</link>
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		<title>Lorri Momiji:  Librarian of the Future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lorri Momiji came into Second Life in 2006 – the same year that the Alliance Virtual Library started practicing librarianship in grid.  Lorri is a library and information systems (LIS) educator and former librarian in RL, and so her initial interest in SL was both in terms of how she could use the environment to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://educatorscoop.org/blog/?p=243</link>
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		<title>Sheila Yoshikawa:  Pillar of Inquiry-Based Learning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sheila Yoshikawa came to Second Life in May of 2007.  She attended one of the many events hosted by the Educators Coop where she met North Lamar and discussed their mutual affiliation with information schools.  Already an experienced land owner by then, Sheila had no need to rent Educators Coop land, but she still joined [...]]]></description>
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