Captain 11, Myst, and Sidi ROM

In which the about-to-retire college professor imagines a new round of impresario work with students, teachers, and education techies.

Friends, thanks to Garland Green, the colleague at Rabat American School with whom I collaborated on an Al-Musharaka-sponsored cross-cultural teaching exercise, I think I was able to articulate the fantasy behind the "Sidi ROM" persona I developed in Rabat in October of 2004 and which I hope to re-enervate over the next couple of months.  Open the Stetsonvile.com podcast page, and listen to the last 15 minutes of "D2Skype2," starting at 21 minutes 20 seconds, in which I recall my own first experiences with television in the 1950s, nod at the audio technologies available in the late 60s when I was in graduate school, and spin a story about Myst, magic books, and some of the possibilities for 21st-century teaching.

I imagine pointing the folks cited or alluded to in this podcast to it, and drawing them into a discussion about how we might aggregate like-minded souls and proceed.

• An "Ages Beyond Myst"-like production facility (perhaps implemented on Second Life, since Uru's not online),
• a podcast site where the potential creators and clients ofthese technologies discuss their experiences,
• or, for now, just a well-RSSednet of blog discussions we can all use to illustrate the concepts?