Posted on October 27, 2009 by johnwaugh
Australasia’s first “complete” virtual school
South Island schools to take trade
training to the world – virtually
A New Zealand Virtual School classroom developed by SmallWorlds.
A group of South Island, New Zealand, secondary schools, with training partnerships and associations nationally, is to establish Australasia’s first virtual, online school, New Zealand Virtual School.
To open in 2011 it will cater [...]
Filed under: Distance education, Education, Education in virtual worlds, Video Gaming, Virtual Worlds, Web 2.0 | Tagged: AgIto, Ann Tolley, ATTTO, Blue Bmoutain College, Caitlins Area School, Cambridge High School, CTITO, ESITO, EXITO, InfraTrain NZ, MITO, New Zealand Virtual School, NIIT GlobalNet, Northland College, NZ Education Ministry, Outsmart, RNZAF, Skype, SmallWorlds, South Otago High School, Southland Times, Taratahi Agricultural Centre, Telford Rural Polytechnic, Waikato Insitutte of Technology, Weltec, Youth Guarantee Programme | 5 Comments »
Posted on October 23, 2009 by johnwaugh
Online-gaming: a mind-altering strategy from Big Red Sheds?
Warehouse CIO launches “virtual games”
strategy to improve Kiwi life outcomes
There is now a considerable and growing body of evidence that on-line gaming and the use of virtual worlds can be mind altering, leading to development of different life skills, either good or bad, as typified by the Proteus [...]
Filed under: Education, Education in virtual worlds, Video Gaming, Virtual Worlds | Tagged: University of Auckland, Owen McCall, The Warehouse, CIO New Zealand, Divina Paredes, Nick Yee, Proteus Effect, Life Game Project, LGP, Aden Forest, Salesforce, John Blackham, XSOL, David gandar, Delta Software, Parkshit Basrur, First Moible, Nicole Fougere, StepUp, Delancey Street Foundation, Ian Howard | Leave a Comment »
Posted on October 14, 2009 by johnwaugh
The Virtual World campus
250+ US universities now offer
degrees linked to ‘virtuality’
Video game/Virtual World design courses boom …
… and at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School too. (logo AFTRS)
The fact that more than 250 of the United States colleges and universities in 37 states are offering degree courses this school year, involving video-gaming and virtual [...]
Filed under: Education, Education in Second Life, Education in virtual worlds, Video Gaming, Virtual Worlds | Tagged: AFTRS. Mara Williams, Australian Film, CISCO, Entertainment Software Association, Glasgow-Caledonian University, Griffin Hall, Kansas City Star, Northern Kentucky University, Rich Taylor, Scinetific Computing, Second Life, South Dakota State University, St Paul College, Television and Radio School, Video Gaming, Virtual education, Virtual World | 3 Comments »
Posted on October 8, 2009 by johnwaugh
THE SLENZ WORKSHOPS AT
Teaching and Learning/eFest 2009 -2
MUVEing towards collaboration – the benefits and pitfalls of working as a collaborative teaching in a Multi-user Virtual Environment,” and “In-world, meets the real world – the trials and tribulations of bringing Second Life to an ITP,” presented by Merle Lemon, lead educator in foundation learning, [...]
Filed under: Education, Education in Second Life, Education in virtual worlds, SLENZ Project, Second Life, Sl Conferences, Virtual Worlds | Tagged: CCSL, Com Educators in Second Life, Education Coffee House, Educause, Foundation learning, Google Teacher Academy, interview skills, ISTE, Jo Kay, Jokaydia, Kiwi educators, Manukau Institute of Technology, Media learning - Danish Visions, Merle Lemon, New Media consoritium, NMC, Oriel Kelly, Second Ability Mentors, Second Life Education, Second Life Mentors, teaching and Learning/eFest 2009, UCOL, University of Arizona, Virtual Pioneers, VWBPE | 1 Comment »
Posted on October 6, 2009 by johnwaugh
THE SLENZ WORKSHOPS AT Teaching and Learning/eFest 2009
Five lessons from the creation of
education pilots in Second Life
SL’s Arwenna Stardust and RL’s Dr Clare Atkins make a point.
The five SLENZ Project workshops attended by mainstream tertiary educators at the annual, national Teaching and Learning/eFest 2009 conference, at UCOL, Palmerston North, New Zealand, last week, provided some [...]
Filed under: Education, Education in Second Life, Education in virtual worlds, SLENZ Project, Second Life, Sl Conferences, Virtual Worlds | Tagged: Aaron Griffiths, Atkins, Blended Solutions, Education, eFest 2009 unconference, Manukau Institute of Technology, Merle Lemon, Neal, Oriel Kelly, Second Life, SLENZ Project, teaching and Learning/eFest 2009, Tertiary Education Commission, Todd Cochrane, Trevor Forest, WelTech | 2 Comments »
Posted on October 6, 2009 by johnwaugh
THE SLENZ PROJECT
SLENZ teams finds new ‘acceptance,
enthusiasm’ at education gabfest
… Need seen to retain team skills, post-SLENZ Project
Almost full house … Aaron Griffiths details a Developer’s work.
as the SLENZ Lead Developer/builder.
Growing “acceptance” of Second Life as an education medium and a new “enthusiasm” for virtual world education was demonstrated in Palmerston North, New Zealand, [...]
Filed under: Education, Education in Second Life, Education in virtual worlds, SLENZ Project, Second Life, Virtual Worlds | Tagged: Aaron Griffiths, Blended Solutions, Clare Atkins, Education, F/Xual education Services, Manukau Institute of Technology, Merle Lemon, NMIT, Oriel Kelly, Palmerston North, Second Life, SLENZ Project, teaching and Learning/eFest 2009, Terry Neal, Tod Cochrane, Todd Cochrane, UCOL, Weltec | Leave a Comment »
