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College of DuPage Island
In: Second Life
19 Jun 2009After two long years, we finally have an island in Second Life to work on. We bought an existing island from the Alliance Library System. Those good librarians have been a wonderful support for us, and a lifeline for me personally. Since the Linden Labs people can’t easily grasp higher order thinking, they [...]
Castronova Virtual Worlds Workshop at IU
8 Jun 2009From Press Release:
The Virtual Worlds Workshop at Indiana University – taking place August
3-7, 2009 – offers proven strategies for future virtual world developers
from business and academia. Whether you wish to create a profitable virtual
world game, an economical consumer engagement strategy, an immersive
learning and research environment, or a media rich tool for collaboration
and training, the Virtual [...]
Online University SL Commencement
6 Jun 2009With the President of Linden Labs giving the address. http://online.bryantstratton.edu/slgraduation/
Here’s the news story on Fox News: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,525273,00.html
I’ve never visited the Fox News site before…”fair and balanced,” my Aunt Fanny. Though I appreciate their reporting on education in SL without making it about their Party. hee!
CC/SL Job Posted
6 Jun 2009From the SLED List:
I’m proud to announce that Prince William Sound Community College (in beautiful Valdez Alaska) has posted a 2 year IT position that will include technical coordination of our Second Life educational sites.
With campuses in Valdez and Cordova sitting on the beautiful Prince William Sound and in the Copper River Basin [...]
The Fed is in Second Life
In: Second Life
1 May 2009Better hide those embezzled Linden dollars! I wonder if they will be in the “adults only” section? I’m kidding, of course. You all know I’m all about using virtual worlds in job training! I’m glad the government is setting some precedent for education here.
http://fcw.com/articles/2009/05/04/feature-virtual-learning.aspx
Congratulations, Damn it.
30 Apr 2009The winners of the Linden Prize were announced today. I’m very happy for the people at Studio Wikitecture and Virtual Ability. I know some of the hardworking and tremendously creative people in both of these groups–they richly deserve this award and need the cash infusion. In my heart was really hoping that the Alliance [...]
The Linden Quickstart Guide
In: Second Life
23 Apr 2009Yea, its pretty good: https://blogs.secondlife.com/community/community/tnt/blog/2009/04/19/quicktip-enjoy-our-second-life-quickstart-guide
I don’t know what Scribd is though and I’m pissed that I have to find out. There’s some new tool every day and I’m getting sick of feeling utterly incompetent for not knowing about and using all of them in order to amaze the room at a conference.
Nursing, Second Life and Educause
4 Apr 2009This new article in the Educause Quarterly http://tinyurl.com/c3ug6e,
Virtual World Learning Spaces: Developing a Second Life Operating Room Simulation by Stephanie Gerald and David Antonacci from the Univ. of Kansas illustrates how SL can be used in medical education. They’ve created some really fantastic simulations for students. My favorite part is that the students’ interactions [...]
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British med students get virtual
In: Second Life
30 Mar 2009This is a great use of virtual worlds. Its experimental now but the work is fabulous. Here’s an SURL if you want to visit: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Imperial%20College%20London/150/86/27
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