SLENZ Project, VLENZ Update No 168, March 26, 2010

SLENZ  PROJECT DOES IT AGAIN Midwifery Studies Build 1.0 available free to public Much of the SLENZ birth unit featured in this PookyMedia machinima has been made available free of charge. The SLENZ Project  announced today that its Midwifery Studies Build Version 1.0, is now available for free pickup from the  Nelson Marlborough Institute of [...]

SLENZ Build FREE, VLENZ No 167, March 16, 2010

SLENZ Project  Foundation Learning Build now available FREE Creative Commons license The SLENZ Project’s much-praised Second Life Foundation (Bridging) Learning  Build (Version 1.0) is now available FREE, under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license, from the Second Life island of Kowhai. The key section of the  SLENZ Project’s Second Life Midwifery Education Birth Unit build [...]

NZVWG Update, VLENZ No 166, March 14, 2010

NZ Virtual World Grid hosts international  guests NZVWG Auckland portal now accepting ‘resident’ avatar applications … The  University of Auckland portal of the New Zealand Virtual World Grid (NZVWG)  has successfully hosted its  first international seminar, attracting  a number of leading MUVE educators and researchers from  around the world. The meeting coincided with the announcement [...]

SLENZ PROJECT EVALUATION, VLENZ 165, Mar 10, 2010

SLENZ PROJECT EVALUATION RELEASED SL Research project ‘successful’ but marred by technical difficulties  … Full PDF of Evaluation Report available here The SLENZ team achieved “a remarkable success in creating and delivering” the core of the SLENZ Project, according to the official evaluation report of the $NZ500,000, Second Life  research programme released today. This was [...]

Second Life Financials/Future, VLENZ No 164, March 08, 2010

SECOND LIFE Financials/future Second Life still going from strength to strength … and Philip Rosedale on the future For the doomsayers who keep denigrating Second Life, the latest figures from that world – now  a few weeks old – demonstrate just how  successful  the Lindens  are with their  world created  by their residents. Of course,  [...]