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 [...]

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 [...]

VLENZ Update, No 160, January 20, 2010

A NEW START FOR 2010 NZ virtual world group off the ground and running … At the  NZVWG inaugural meeting: Arwenna Stardust, Rollo Kohimi and Briarmelle Quintessa. Fourteen  leaders in virtual world education in New Zealand attended the inaugural meeting earlier this week of  the New Zealand Virtual World Group (working name) on the NMIT [...]

SLENZ Update, No 158, December 23, 2009

THE SLENZ PROJECT Yay! It’s a 2nd runner-up EDUBLOG ‘Oscar’ to  SLENZ  Project Team ‘Phenomenal’ result for team from Aotearoa/New Zealand The SLENZ Project Team at work … the final 2009 meeting.  Key players, Terry Neal and Aaron Griffiths at the head of the table, and Dr Clare Atkins, in black, left. A chance meeting [...]

SLENZ Update, No 156, December 13, 2009

SLENZ PROJECT SLENZ in 14  international finalists for top Edublog 2009 award Your vote will count! Click Button TOP RIGHT and vote. The SLENZ (Seoncd Life Education New Zealand) Project team has been  honoured by being named among the 14 finalists  for an EduBlog 2009 Award  in the category, “Best Educational Use of a Virtual [...]

SLENZ Update, No 155, December 11, 2009

ascilite 2009 VW leaders establish  New Zealand virtual worlds’ education group The University of Auckland’s Dr Scott Diener presents at ascilite 2009 ….  he is one of Australasia’s leaders in virtual world tertiary education. The New Zealand Virtual Worlds Group (NZVWG), an independent, not-for profit association for people interested in virtual worlds and their use [...]

SLENZ Update, No 148, November 4, 2009

SLENZ PROJECT – final F2F SLENZERs celebrate ‘completion’ of virtual world  work … now  team awaits official evaluation The SLENZ Project team … final face-to-face meeting and debriefing. The SLENZ Project team celebrated its successes last week at a real life face-to-face meeting in Wellington, New Zealand. The meeting, which  included a warts-and-all debriefing of [...]

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 140, September 28, 2009

THE SLENZ PROJECT Virtual world makes mastering interview skills  much easier … when virtual ‘really feels real’ “Fabulous”,  “amazing” and “fantastic” were only three of the superlatives used by the  more than 20  educators and researchers who toured the SLENZ Project’s two builds on Kowhai  in Second Life and listened to commentary from educators, developers [...]