NZVWGrid Upgrade – VLENZ Update, No 179, January 24, 2011

NZVWGrid  news Auckland  U Portal ‘upgrades’ OpenSim  hardware Will host 30-50 sims The  “virtual world team” at the University of Auckland will be “productionising” its  Opensim installation – Hypergrid address: akl.nzvwg.org.8002.aotearoa – over the  the next couple of weeks which should see the university’s portal on the New Zealand Virtual World Grid ready to accept [...]

MUVE education at NMIT– VLENZ Update, No 176, August 11, 2010

New Zealand  MUVE activity NMIT launches  course covering 3d immersive environments The Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology  has successfully launched and is into the fourth week of an online course on multi-user three dimensional virtual environments (MUVEs) and their relationships to other multi-user technologies. The 16 students, enrolled in the course (A&M624, Immersive 3D Environments), [...]

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 [...]

VLENZ Update, No 161, February 02, 2010

VLENZ PROJECT Steering Committee named for  new VLENZ Group A new steering committee, which includes some of  New Zealand’s  leading virtual world researchers and educators,  has been named to head  the Virtual Life Education New Zealand (VLENZ) group, formed after the finish of SLENZ Project. The  new leadership group is:  Dr Clare Atkins, of Nelson-Marlborough [...]

SLENZ Update, No 142, October 6, 2009

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, [...]

SLENZ Update, No 141, October 6, 2009

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 [...]

SLENZ Update, No 134, September 02, 2009

Lest we forget unsung heroes … Design and building  in Second Life really is hard ‘yakka*’ … an ‘Oscar’ for Isa/Aaron? Isa Goodman (aka Aaron Griffiths), Second Life builder It’s easy to forget that the often unsung heroes of virtual worlds are the builders – the on-the-virtual-ground developers, scripters, animators but  especially the builders. As [...]

The SLENZ Update – No 99, June 15, 2009

SLENZ PROJECT PROGRESS Foundation Pilot  gets  new ‘stairway to knowledge’ Stairway to knowledge … the  SLENZ Project’s Foundation Learning Pilot’s “rez-on-each step” guide to interviewing SLENZ Project lead developer Aaron Griffths (SL: Isa Goodman) and  the Foundation Learning Pilot’s lead educator, Merle Lemon (SL: Briarmell Quintessa)  have come up with some interesting ideas to make [...]