SLENZ Update, No 132, August 25, 2009

Virtual world experiences … Do SL memories  have same quality as RL memories? A “personal” view A question of memory … sailing on the Dreaming Sea, Daedelus, in SL There  is no question one can use  a virtual world to learn or train  but there is a question still hanging over what educational benefits MUVES [...]

SLENZ Update, No 131, August 24, 2009

The SLENZ PROJECT “Students can experience the authenticity of the moment” Te Wāhi Whānau, The Birth Place, on the SLENZ Project’s Second Life island of Kowhai is a place where midwifery students can experience the authenticity of the moment of labour and birth even if in a virtual world. A new machinima demonstrating  just how [...]

SLENZ Update, No 130, August 20, 2009

THE SLENZ PROJECT First classes of Foundation Learners – excited , motivated, enthusiastic … “Even the most unenthusiastic and unmotivated students were “sucked into” the excitement of the virtual environment!” -Merle Lemon, SLENZ lead  educator, Manukau Institute of  Technology, Aotearoa-New Zealand. Smiling Foundation Learning student Aziz Qasimi (SL: a280q Engineer) at the first class on [...]

SLENZ Update, No 129, August 17, 2009

Aussie vid makes case: IMMERSIVE LEARNING: IT’S  REALLY GAME ON There comes a time  in the life of every dreamer/ideas person/creator of change  in education when  one has to go cap in hand to people  who might  have little or no understanding of  what you are attempting – and care even less. They are the [...]

SLENZ Update, No 128, August 16, 2009

THE SLENZ PROJECT There is a difference between immersion and  activity … Learning in Dallas …  Snowflake Lannock has a giftbox  for Aotearoa-NZ learners. Learning in Dallas  … virtually  speaking. [All Pictures: Merle Lemon] Sometimes one listens to the  presentations  and reads the publicity  about  a person’s role in the world – any  world, real [...]

SLENZ Update, No 127, August 13, 2009

SLENZ Project Arwenna, Petal find the  light at the end of the SL Tunnel … “Authenticity of the scene” … inside the Birth Centre. (picture Sarah Stewart) “The first words I heard were, ‘This is so much FUN …’ The listener was Arwenna Stardust (RL: SLENZ Project co-leader Dr Clare Atkins) and the words were [...]

SLENZ Update, No 126, August 12, 2009

SLENZ PROJECT UPDATE Foundation students to learn how to get jobs – in virtual ‘classroom’ Students at Manukau Institute of Technology (MIT) are set to become the first in New Zealand to learn how to succeed in getting a job in real life through training in a virtual world. The initial 31 students in the [...]

SLENZ Update, No 125, August 11, 2009

FEEL THE RAINDROPS Holographic images with touch of  reality … SLENZ Project joint leader Dr Clare Atkins (SL: Arwenna Stardust)  alerted me to this touch of reality in the comments at left. For those of you who don’t read comments *grin* I thought it was worth more prominence as a follow-up  to out-of-body experiments. Displayed [...]

SLENZ Update, No 124, August 8, 2009

Bringing your  avatar to ‘real’ life … Out-of-body experiences may provide the  ‘real’ answers FOR PARALYSED AND  VIRTUAL GAMERS more about “Out-of-body experiences help bring av…“, posted with vodpod The dream of many of paralysed people and  computer-game designers is one step closer to reality with the demonstration of a technique that allows people to [...]

The SLENZ Update – No 123, August 07, 2009

THE COUCH IN THE COMPUTER Virtual psychology, therapy to get own  OLIVE world Using the On-Line Interactive Virtual Environment (OLIVE™) virtual world platform from Forterra Systems, InWorld Solutions™, of Palo Alta, California,  has developed a virtual world specifically designed for behavioral healthcare. Created for use by clinical institutions and individual therapists, the online application, InWorld, [...]