The SLENZ Update – No 121, July 31, 2009

VIRTUAL WORLDS “BOOMING” despite doomsters “Twitter makes the noise while Second Life makes the money” -Victor Keegan, The Guardian UK Second Life can do his … Tribute to Lachlan Campbell from the Second Life Relay for Life benefit event – July 11, 2009. LabGraal: Vocal, Rosalba Nattero While Facebook and Twitter are lauded to the [...]

The SLENZ Update – No 120, July 29, 2009

SOME THINGS YOU MAY HAVE MISSED … Research: VWs may help put you at ease when dealing with your own health University of Toronto researchers put their avatar through the paces of a virtual mammogram. Picture itbusiness. Health researchers believe that the Web 2.0 world may be able to teach them something that the medical [...]

The SLENZ Update – No 119, July 25, 2009

THE SLENZ PROJECT Midwifery tutor passes on ‘lessons’ from 1st SL  class Lead educator for the SLENZ Project’s Midwifery pilot for Otago Polytechnic and Canterbury’s CPIT, Sarah Stewart (SL: Petal Stransky) (pictured),  after running her first  teaching sessions in Second Life, has come up with  nine interesting and valuable  lessons for  any neophyte virtual world [...]

The SLENZ Update – No 118, July 23, 2009

Dayam … I missed this Brouchoud, Cockeram  work  together for a striking  architectural machinima The University of Auckland Jon Brouchoud (picture right) (YouTube: Keystone1111 SL: Keystone Bouchard ), of the ARCH Network has mounted a striking  machinima  of  the work of  Judy Cockeram (SL: JudyArx Scribe)  and her Second Life class project from the School [...]

The SLENZ Update – No 117, July 23, 2009

IT’S BLOWING IN THE WIND … Universities must adapt roles for students changed by Web 2.0 UK REPORT Some rapprochement will be necessary between  Web 2.0 – the social web – system and the current  “hierarchical, substantially introvert, guarded, careful, precise and measured” tertiary system if higher education is to continue to provide a learning [...]

The SLENZ Update – No 116, July 22, 2009

The Saint Leo experience Building a university ‘community’ on a Second Life campus … and gaining real new students virtually Saint Leo University, Tampa, Florida  has only been  active in Second Life for one year but, according to an interview published by  Pathfinder Linden,  has already  succeeded in a surprising way:  it has  enrolled new [...]

The SLENZ Update – No 115, July 22, 2009

Upcoming Aotearoa New Zealand events GNI Project Symposium ’09 An invitation has been issued by Melanie Middlemiss to the GNI Project Symposium ’09 to be held from  8.30 am – 5 pm on Friday, September 4, 2009, at the  School of Business, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Online Registration is free but must be [...]

The SLENZ Update – No 114, July 15, 2009

SECOND LIFE BUILDING OPTION Import builds from easy-to-create Google Sketchup  3D models … at a (very) small cost A demonstration in real time (9 minutes without preparation) of how a 70 metre square can be created in SketchUp (using the Sketchlife extension) from 10 metre square tiles, textured using a single texture image spreading over [...]

The SLENZ Update – No 113, July 13, 2009

Case Study: Loyalist College Big Improvement in  tests, training outcomes with use of Second Life Canada’s Loyalist College has often been held up as the benchmark in training benefits  for  the use  of Second Life  – not least by this blog -  but now a case study,  even though done by and being promoted by [...]

The SLENZ Update – No 112, July 09, 2009

ThinkBalm makes data live This machinima should be  in everyone’s SL PR toolkit … One of the most difficult things to explain to  virtual world neophytes or non users – particularly  if one is seeking funding from them – is just  how useful virtual world technology can be in conveying information in a practical, easy-to-understand, [...]