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Iggy's Syllabus: A Series for Educators

Iggy’s Syllabus: A Good Start: One-on-One Orientations in SL
Bounding Over Technical Hurdles
Educators Take Note: Round Table on Assignments in SL
Here We Are Now, Entertain Us
What Should They Read? Where to Start with SL Readings
SLURL or Landmark? How to Orient Your Class?
Choosing Clients: Onrez & LInden Lab's Viewers
Tenchi's Law: Breaking the Ice With Students
A 2500-Year Old Problem: Where to Begin with Students in SL
Student Reaction: Steampunk
Student Reaction: Death in the Metaverse
Student Reactions to Second Life
Student Reactions: Part 2
Student Reactions: Part 3

Guest Writers:

Another Nation’s “Generation Y” by Tenchi Morigi (Sept. 2008)
Sailing, Sailing by Tenchi Morigi (May 2008)
My way: One Year in Second Life by Tenchi Morigi (March 2008)
From the Sewer: I Am Going to Kill Ignatius! by Tempest Homewood (March 08)
“All you need is Faith, Trust, and a little bit of Pixie Dust” by Cynthia Barley (Feb. 08)
Games or Second Life? by Tristan Longino (Feb. 08)

Ask Di, By Dianna Defiant:

Get Rich Quick? (Sept 08)
Unwanted Guests (July 08)
Leaving Second Life (June 08)
Bugging or Ignoring My Friends? (May 08)
To Bling or Not to Bling? (Feb. 08)
Cheating? (Feb.08)
Good Gifts? (Jan. 08)
Fair-Weather Friends? (Jan. 08)

Tales of the Pappyverse: By (and about) Pappy Enoch, Moonshiner

Pappy And A Bot (Sept 08)
Pappy Enoch Shoots Free-Money Celebrity! (Aug 08)
James Dean: Mission Possible (Aug 08)
Fashion Disaster Challenge: Pappy --> James Dean! (Aug. 08)
Trickster: 1 Hellion: 0 at the “Cave of Doom” (June 08)
Pappy’s Son Held Hostage! (Sorta kinda) (April 08)
Family Trouble for Pappy Enoch (Again) (March 08)
Road Trip in Second Life: BAD IDEA (Feb. 08)
I Are A-Movin’ On Up! (Jan. 08)
How Tu Bee a Virtool Hillbilly (Jan. 08)

Iggy's Other Posts:

September 2008
Burning Life 2008 Opens
Racism Up Close In a Virtual World
More on Suffugium
Mysteries of Suffugium
When a Virtual World Ends
Currency Trader

August 2008
Locks of Love
Little Women!
SL: Gen-X Paradise?
At Ortaköy
Where in the (Fake) World is Ida Keen?
Camping Update: New Ideas or Last Gasps?

July 2008
Sixth Birthday Wishes
Reality Check: Askpappy.com
Shopping: Just What We All Need!
Hanging Ten in Second Life
Dirt Track for Jezz!

June 2008
Round and Round
New Avatars
Wacky Racers
Some Race!
Road Trip Two: Success!
Elegantly Forbidden: Cecil Hirvi's New Film

May 2008
Die, Bot, Die!
Bliss Bike-Ride Continues: Callahan’s Isle
Send More Avatars….
More Eye-Candy from Bliss Gardens
Bumpy Road?
Pedaling for Africa
State of Bliss
More Illusions

April 2008:
Land Grab!
Jazz Funeral!
The Big Uneasy
New CEO for the Lindens
The Cornfield
The Big Kaboom
Copyright Linden Lab® ?
Reality Check: New Orleans
The Need to Laugh
No More “Black Wednesdays!”

March 2008:
Anarchocapitalism
How Now, Whey-Face?
Action Figures
Dread This
Building a World in This World
Steampunk Dispatches: Into the Air, Into the Depths

February 2008:
The Most Curious Caledonian Adventure of Professor Onomatopoeia and Miss Bristol
Why They Grief
Put Your Shirt On!
Machinanima’s Potential: A New Film by Cecil Hirvi
Ready for the 19th Century!
A New Look for SL

January 2008:
Let’s Get Silly!
Captain Underpants Gets Busted
One Year in Second Life
Real Money?
A Bit of Welcome Anarchy
Virtual Competition for SL
Taking the Red Pill
Boots Made for Walkin’ (Into the 21st Century)