Missed Conversations in Urban Spaces An RL-SL experiment/experience Dancer and arts lecturer Mike Baker (SL: Rollo Kohime) believes in a “real” life of departures – involuntary departures leading to “a state of ‘ leaving’ which co-mingles with and unerringly erodes our efforts to engage with another in the here and now.” This belief in [...]
Filed under: Online identity, Second Life | Tagged: AUT, avatar presence, Baker, dance, departures, Kohime, strangers | 2 Comments »
A pattern of NZ islands? Long White Cloud The original initiators of the SLENZ Project, Dr Clare Atkins (SL: Arwenna Stardust), joint project leader, and Aaron Griffiths (SL: Isa Goodman), lead developer, have always dreamed of creating an Aotearoa -New Zealand education archipelago within Second Life. It now seems that their dream is about to [...]
Filed under: Education, Education in Second Life, Education in virtual worlds | Tagged: Atkins, Blackall, Boise, Davis, Dierner, Educause, Griffith, Koru, Kowhai, Long white cloud, midwifery, Nelson-Marlborough Insitute of technology, NMIT, QUT, slenz, SLENZ Project, Stewart, University of Auckland, University of Wollongong | 2 Comments »
Making SLENZ work! Learning by doing Learning by doing … Aaron Griffiths, building developer, Terry Neal, joint project leader, and Merle Lemon, lead educator (foundation leaning). Background: Sarah Stewart (lead educator midwifery). The SLENZ project team has continued to test and modify the design and development processes, despite some on-going communication challenges which are similar [...]
Filed under: Education in Second Life, Education in virtual worlds, SLENZ Project | Tagged: Atkins, communications, CPD, Griffiths, Hulser, Jennings, Kemp, Kirriemuir, LIANZA, Linden Labs, Livingstone, Luo, Neal, Ogborn, Second Life, slenz, SLENZ Project, SLENZ Project Development Roadmap, Stardust, Stewart, Trevenna | 2 Comments »
SLENZ pilot progress An outsider’s view … The creation and melding together of the design and development phases of the SLENZ pilot programmes has proven a slightly more difficult process for the SLENZ team than initially envisaged. “We are making progress, albeit slower than I anticipated or would have liked,” joint project leader Terry Neal [...]
Filed under: Education, Education in Second Life, SLENZ Project | Tagged: 3DXplorer, ActiveWorlds, Atkins, Ball State, Blackall, CleverZebra, Cochrane, Foundation learning, Kelley Executive Partners, kzero, Lemon, midwifery, Mitham, Multiverse, Neal, OLIVE, OpenSim, Project Wonderland, Protosphere, Quaq Forums, Robbins, SecondLife, SL, Stewart, team communication, Tully, Vastpark, Virtual Worlds, web.alive, Wilson | 2 Comments »
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