Web 2.0 Certificate

In my mailbox today I found a course catalog from St. Paul College. Typically I don't spend much time looking at catalogs from tech schools, but this one caught my eye. They are offering a new certificate (16 credits) called "Web 2.0 Development Technologies." Even though I have just spent the last 5 years in school, I just may have to extend that time a bit and go for this certificate. It only consists of 4 courses- Web 2.0 Architecture, Web 2.0 Multimedia Tools, Open Source Software Foundations, and Web 2.0 Programming and Software Tools.

If anyone is interested, click on the graphic below to go to St. Paul College's page describing the certificate and any prerequisites. Based on the cover picture, this could be a pretty fun program. Apparently students get to spend a fair amount of time in Second Life.

Second Life and Dwight Schrute

I am a huge fan of "The Office" and had to laugh when I was watching the show a couple of weeks ago. We have been talking about social web sites in class, and coincidentally, on an episode of The Office called "Local Ad", Dwight was playing Second Life all day at work. The character he had created looked exactly like him, lived in a house identical to his in real life, and was a paper salesman. The only difference in Dwight's Second Life character was that he could fly.

Pretty hysterical concept that someone would spend hours in cyberspace creating a character that was exactly like himself.