Archive for the ‘Virtual Worlds’ Category
Getting a Second Life Account!
10 Apr 2008Here’s a video I did with the excellent multimedia services television super heros at my college. It was made for the Soaring to Excellence teleconference tomorrow. The teleconference, Trends, Fads or Folly: Spotting the Trends that Really Matter looks at virtual worlds, folksonomies and new ways of reading. Lori Bell and Tom Peters are presenting. [...]
State and Local Agencies Train in Virtual Worlds
In: Safety| Second Life| Virtual Worlds
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Play2Train , originally uploaded by notmarian.
It seems that state and local agencies are trying out virtual worlds like Second Life to prepare for emergencies. There’s Play2Train’s build for the [...]
A little video
12 Mar 2008I made this little video for a presentation I did today. Avatars, you know who you are!
More on the NMC Initiative
28 Feb 2008I 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 [...]
Exciting News from the NMC
In: Virtual Worlds
26 Feb 2008The 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 suite [...]
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CCSL Meets again!
21 Feb 2008The 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 [...]
Open Croquet
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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 [...]
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- Clara: I cannot believe this. I am sick of big research institutions getting the majority of funds leaving [...]
- Denise: Oh sorry, SocProf. You have to have Second Life on your computer to redirect to that link. Get Seco [...]
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