I belong to an enormous listserv of educators in Second Life and have been following the discussions there regarding the NMC’s venture with Sun Microsystems. Some people are a little concerned this new platform may take the place of Second Life since many edu’s have made enormous investments in SL. The NMC is huge in [...]
The New Media Consortium announced today that it is entering into a partnership with Sun Microsystems to form “The Virtual Worlds Project.” Here’s the best part: In launching the Open Virtual Worlds project, the NMC will build on its extensive presence in Second Life and add to the services it offers educational institutions with a [...]
The Community Colleges in SL group met again to talk about issues with some of our colleagues in IT being none-to-thrilled about our wanting to teach in virtual spaces. After much deliberation (and mutinous grumbling), we finally came to the conclusion that it is not so much that our IT people want to stop us [...]
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Croquet, originally uploaded by notmarian. Just attended a session on Croquet at the IOC 2008 conference. Mark McCahill (Duke) discussed this open source 3-D virtual environment for education. Totally fascinating take [...]