Have you ever wondered what Catholics or Muslims think about masturbation? Or whether having great sex with your spouse will bring you closer to God? Believe it or not theologians and clergy wonder about these things all the time.
See what a group of UC Berkeley graduate students have come up with as an interactive way to view moral teachings.
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In case you missed the panel go here  for the archive.
I still feel the adrenaline running through my fingers from today’s events and that feeling of bridging two worlds (maybe three since the world of journalists is sometimes said to inhabit a different space or “estate” as it were). I had the distinct pleasure and privilege of watching my fellow journalists and editor unfurl [see entire entry...]

Second Life Event Producer Kara Andrade’s fiance Brad was in the Upper Newsroom DJ’ing both in and out of Second Life. Fingers flying across his laptop keyboard to make sure his DJ avatar remained animated, Brad was also busy in real life keeping the music spinning. Thanks Brad! All of our avatars had fun dancing to Brad’s excellent musical taste before the panel discussion began.

The panel discussion was interesting and topical, especially in the world of Second Life. Here, online avatars marry other avatars and some of our panelists said that they even perform marriage and union ceremonies in the virtual world. It’s bound to bring up a whole “new dimension” of ethical discussion. Isn’t that what new media has always promised us?
Second Life was a great success, if [see entire entry...]

One window open for blogging, another window open for Second Life…here I am standing at the top of the bleachers watching avatars talk about religion. If you’d asked me if I’d be here a year ago…never mind…good stuff going on here.
Second Life has been an adventure, in some ways scary, in other ways fascinating.
It’s [see entire entry...]

At this point, people are begging me to please stop facebookin’ them the “God, sex, family and beats!” flyer, but I am so excited about seeing this thing come together (unravel, spin our brains like tops) tomorrow. I keep getting these mad ideas like what if we live streamed from Real Life to our newsinitiative site so that people from SL see what we’re doing (or people from RL for that matter). It’s [see entire entry...]

My Second Life is becoming intoxicating. First life or RL is beginning to fade, like the background on my desktop which I hardly see between my Final Cut windows and SL. I am quickly entering the world of our panelists.
This morning I woke up with the usual “gotta give the notecards” (said to the tone of “gotta make the doughnuts”) about Sunday’s panel making sure to put out some fires, celebrating some [see entire entry...]

I don’t know if I’m a journalist anymore these days. I mean instead of interviewing today I welcomed people to our Faces of Faith showcase and panel, chatted about inter-faith issues on SL, jumped to the desktop and spent more of my day using every social networking site that any one brain can conceive of to get the word out. You know the usual suspects: Yahoo Upcoming, Facebook, Myspace, to [see entire entry...]

I spoke to Andre Foster this morning, literally five minutes after posting on the Second Life Educators mailing list and we chatted about our Faces of Faith SL project. Then I ran off to meet with our panel for the first time.
So at 1 am (eh, who needs sleep?) I saw on my google alerts for SL that we got written about!
Check it out on The Chronicle of Higher Education:
July 19, 2007
Student Journalists [see entire entry...]