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Second Life avatar for John O’Connor: academic – teacher – designer. European Cultural and Technology Lab at European University of Technology. Technological University Dublin www.johnoconnor.org https://virtualenvironmentsmodule.com/

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In episode 7, we reflect on ‘Metaliteracy and Digital Citizenship’ class over the years. Dr. Valerie Hill (Valibrarian in Second Life) examines how post-Gutenberg reality is shaping education. Generated by Google NotebookLM from content on virtualenvironmentsmodule.com

pod.link/1826888323

13.08.2025 09:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Virtual Environments: Is one life enough? A record of the course delivered at Technological Univeristy Dublin

‘Team Work and Collaboration’ the sixth episode of The Deep Dive podcast looks back on how team building and collaboration has been taught over the years on a TU Dublin module. The podcast is a conversation generated by Google NotebookLM based on www.virtualenvironmentsmodule.com
pod.link/1826888323

06.08.2025 21:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Deep Dive The Deep Dive is a series of short podcasts exploring the undergraduate university module “Virtual Environments: Is one life enough”. The class, developed by the Second Life academic Acuppa Tae (John ...

The fifth episode of The Deep Dive podcast is about how the professors and students took on the VWEC Student Challenge. Project Teams had Irish, Turkish and Romanian students working together, mentored by a professor who supported them · 14 minutes

pod.link/1826888323
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31.07.2025 09:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
YouTube: The Deep Dive episode 1 Teaching in a Virtual World
YouTube video by John O’Connor YouTube: The Deep Dive episode 1 Teaching in a Virtual World

Here’s a video of the first episode of podcast ‘The Deep Dive’ exploring topics tackled in the class ‘Virtual Environments: Is one life enough?’ The module is offered by TU Dublin, taught exclusively Second Life. Podcast reflects on student engagement and conversations.

youtu.be/WmL0c7-iAyU

23.07.2025 11:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Deep Dive Education Podcast · The Deep Dive is a series of short podcasts exploring the undergraduate university module “Virtual Environments: Is one life enough”. The class, developed by the Second Life academ...

🎧 Just launched a new podcast: The Deep Dive
Based on my Second Life module “Virtual Environments: Is One Life Enough?”
Topics include virtual identities, online communities – all drawn from student & guest insights since 2009.
New eps every Wed (10–15 mins).

🎙️ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

18.07.2025 22:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Donate to Help the Curran Family Rebuild After a Devastating Attack, organized by john c In the early hours of last week, at about 2:20 AM, my family’s home w… john c needs your support for Help the Curran Family Rebuild After a Devastating Attack

This shocking tragedy almost destroyed a family. Support teir efforts to rebuild if you can gofund.me/a4c0bb3f

01.06.2025 07:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Speaking at Europe House in Dublin Minister Lawless gives his support to longer term financial support for Irish Universities in European Universities Initiative alliances #StrongerEuropeEUI

27.05.2025 15:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Make treatment Pluvicto available for men with prostate cancer I've just signed this petition calling on the HSE to make the drug Pluvicto available to men with prostate cancer in Ireland. Will you sign too?

I've just signed this petition calling on the HSE to make the drug Pluvicto available to men with prostate cancer in Ireland. Will you sign too? my.uplift.ie/petitions/me...

03.04.2025 15:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Hugs and relief as replacement astronauts arrive following nine-month wait The stranded astronauts expected to be away for just a week but it’s taken nine months for them to return.

Hugs and relief as replacement astronauts arrive following nine-month wait. Global cooperation and collaboration offers so much more opportunity for the human race than greed and violence www.thejournal.ie/nasa-strande...

16.03.2025 10:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Gene Hackman: Two Oscars, A Badge and A Bad Attitude Gene Hackman: Two Oscars, A Badge and A Bad Attitude

Great piece on BBC website with lovely clips of Gene Hackman in his prime. RIP www.bbc.com/articles/c89...

27.02.2025 09:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Just sayin'

23.02.2025 18:05 — 👍 7423    🔁 821    💬 92    📌 39
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The other Brigids: the forgotten mighty women of Medieval Ireland St Brigid may have led the way, but there were other powerful, inspiring and influential women who blazed a trail in Medieval Kildare

Meet the forgotten mighty women of Medieval Ireland.
St Brigid may have led the way, but other powerful, inspiring and influential women blazed a trail out of Kildare, writes Tiago de Oliveira Veloso Silva @maynoothuni.bsky.social @researchireland.bsky.social www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

30.01.2025 09:31 — 👍 13    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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AI entrepreneur says DeepSeek’s rise proves Ireland and EU are ‘sleepwalking’ Ireland and the EU are “sleepwalking into inertia” in the wake of DeepSeek’s rise to disrupt the global tech and AI industry, according to the founder of one of Ireland’s AI firms.

Deepseek shows us that Europe is approaching irrelevance in AI race

Read: www.independent.ie/business/tec...

Today's pod ep: www.independent.ie/podcasts/the...

30.01.2025 11:26 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0
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A good reminder that cycle lanes and footpaths don't appear congested as they (mostly) allow people to move through quickly and efficiently.

Video taken from charlemont luas stop on a rainy morning.

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Front cover of Private Eye.

Front cover of Private Eye.

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Photo of snowscape.

Photo of snowscape.

Exhibition by landscape photographer Nikolay Kovachev outside the Bulgarian Embassy. Lovely work, but difficult to eliminate the reflections when trying to capture with my iPhone!

15.01.2025 16:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Almost full moon over house chimneys and bare trees.

Almost full moon over house chimneys and bare trees.

Beautiful moon over Dublin earlier this morning

15.01.2025 09:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
An image inviting ATU graduates (including those from legacy institutions GMIT, IT Sligo and LYIT) that they can now register to vote in Seanad Eireann elections.

An image inviting ATU graduates (including those from legacy institutions GMIT, IT Sligo and LYIT) that they can now register to vote in Seanad Eireann elections.

Calling all @atu-ie.bsky.social #ATUAlumni!

You are now able to register to vote in Seanad Eireann elections!

seanadvoter.ie#msdynttrid=U...

14.01.2025 15:33 — 👍 10    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

No

13.01.2025 17:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Full moon reflecting on the sea.

Full moon reflecting on the sea.

There is an absolutely stunning display of astronomical photography outside the Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies #DIAS on Burlington Road in Dublin at the moment. Difficult to pick one but this struck me as particularly beautiful.

13.01.2025 16:16 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I stand by this.

04.01.2025 00:53 — 👍 23705    🔁 4196    💬 320    📌 178
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Your Guide to Graphic Design Salaries in the USA So, you're curious about what graphic designers actually make, right? It's not just about the cool projects and creative freedom. The money matters too.

Interesting information to compare with salaries in Ireland…
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30.12.2024 14:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Whoa, what a singer!

24.12.2024 11:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

‘Climate change is the biggest threat to security that modern humans have ever faced.’

23.12.2024 09:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Fun at the bookstore 🤫

20.12.2024 17:16 — 👍 2296    🔁 266    💬 55    📌 16
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Beyond imagination!

A zoom out from the sharpest view of the Andromeda Galaxy ever, showing more than 100 million stars!

(Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton, B. F. Williams, L. C. Johnson, the PHAT team, R. Gendler / video by Universal-Sci)

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