2.Would you believe Kermit?
Although I don’t agree with a lot of what she says I would recommend that you should read knowledgeable educationist/researcher Eloise Pasteur’s (pictured above and left below) reply to my blog (SLENZ Update No 42) on the necessity – or not – of providing oneself with a “credible” avatar when either doing [...]
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Would you believe ‘Kermit?’
People like to have fun with their avatars but, is a big, green, frog credible as a senior Linden Lab executive (no don’t say it), a large organisation’s Chief Financial Officer authorative as a friendly Beagle pup, or a renowned educator and SL guru believable as a flittery, monarch butterfly?
It’s a shame, [...]
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Xstreet ‘in from cold’
The Linden Lab’s acquisition of Xstreet SL and OnRez – the two leading Web-based marketplaces for buying and selling creations for Second Life - will not lessen marketplace competition, according to Lab executives.
And it could eventually lead to Xstreet SL retail virtual world products being made available to other grids, such as [...]
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SL ‘valuable’ for HS science
The value of virtual world education for high school students has been demonstrated in a recent independent evaluation of a Science through Second Life project run in New York last year.
The project integrated Second Life and a wide range of web tools into a standards-based high school science class in New [...]
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Full SL instruction ‘pays’
Post-secondary school instructors who conduct classes fully in Second Life are significantly more satisfied than those who use Second Life as only a small supplement to a real-world classes, according to an international research project from the University of Florida, reported in the Winter 2009 edition of the International Journal of Humanities [...]
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The year that was …
I feel sure that during the year a lot of New Zealanders lost their embarrassment over being residents/participants in virtual world’s like Second Life and began to see MUVEs as part of their “real” world.
Although the Lindens do not disclose the number of Kiwis accessing Second Life on a regular basis [...]
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