Posted on July 8, 2009 by johnwaugh
New spirit of NZ tertiary ‘cooperation,
collaboration’ across virtual worlds
ADA Symposium Poster
With New Zealand tertiary institutions – polytechnics and universities – sometimes at loggerheads with each other its good to see a spirit of cooperation and collaboration in their working with and within virtual worlds.
This was brought home to me 10 days ago when The 6th [...]
Filed under: Education, Education in Second Life, Education in virtual worlds, Second Life, Sl Conferences, Virtual Worlds | Tagged: ADA, Aotearoa Digital Arts Symposium, Creative New Zealand, De Balie Centre for Culture and Politics, Dr Clare Atkins, Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Eric Kluitenberg, Koru, Leonardo Education Forum, Matthew Fuller, Mike Baker, None Gallery, Ongens, Otago Polytechnic, Phil Dadson, rollo kohime, slenz, Su Ballard, Victora University, Victoria University School of Design, Wellington Railway Station | 1 Comment »
Posted on July 7, 2009 by johnwaugh
SLENZ PROGRESS
Otago’s birthing centre pilot
goes live with real students
Open for class… SLENZ Project lead developer Isa goodman (RL: Aaron Griffiths)
“polishes” the Te Wāhi Whānau (The Birth Centre) build before students “arrive”.
Otago Polytechnic and Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology midwifery students have begun taking part of their midwifery course on the SLENZ Project island of Kowhai [...]
Filed under: Distance education, Education, Education in Second Life, Education in virtual worlds, SLENZ Project, Second Life, Virtual Worlds | Tagged: Atkins, Christchurch Polytechnic Insitute of Technology, CPIT, Foundation learning, Goodman, Griffiths, Kiwi Educators Group, Koru, Kowhai, Midwifer, Nelson-Marlborough Institute of Technology, New Zealand Government, Otago Polytech, Petal Stransky, Sarah Stewart, SLENZ Project, Stardust, Te Waihi Whanau, TEC, Terry Neal, The Birth Centre | Leave a Comment »
Posted on May 29, 2009 by johnwaugh
‘TRIPPY” JOURNEY WITH ROLLO KOHIME
“Getting close by going far away,
going far by staying here …”
‘Departed – In the Company of Strangers’
The ineffable sadness of departure – of leaving, of death – is mirrored more and more in the work of Mike Baker (SL: Rollo Kohime) who has used Wellington Railway Station [...]
Filed under: Online identity, Second Life, Uncategorized | Tagged: AUT, Baker, Bushwick, dance, Kohime, Koru, Levy, Monash University, New York, SDHS, Stanford, Valverde, Wellington Railway Station, Yoshida | 1 Comment »
Posted on May 12, 2009 by johnwaugh
MIDWIFERY TUTORS ‘ENTHUSIASTIC’
Exciting introduction to SL with bonding and play
Trainers, Dr Clare Atkins and Todd Cochrane with Kate Spencely, Dr Deborah Davis
and Sarah Stuart. (Pictures from Sarah Stewart)
The importance of a time for “play” when people are initiated into Second Life was reinforced for the SLENZ Project’s joint leader, Dr Clare Atkins (SL: Arwenna Stardust), when [...]
Filed under: Education, Education in Second Life, Education in virtual worlds, SLENZ Project, Virtual Worlds | Tagged: Atkins, Blackall, Cochrane, Davis, Koru, Kowhai, midwifery, NMIT, Otago, Otago Polytech, Spencely, Stewart, Weltec | 1 Comment »
Posted on March 3, 2009 by johnwaugh
As real as it gets -
architecturally speaking
Almost since the inception of MUVEs such as Second Life, architects have seen the potential of being able to create exact, real life, fullscale, 3D, building models within virtual reality for such things as architect/designer/client walk throughs, design visualisation and tweaking. No one has been [...]
Filed under: Education, Education in virtual worlds, Virtual Worlds | Tagged: architecture, Bouchard, Brouchoud, Cockeram, Crescendo, Google 3D Workshop, Kapua, Koru, Kowhai, Long white cloud, NMIT, OpenSim, realXtend, Revit, Sketchup, SLED, The Arch, University of Auckland | Leave a Comment »
Posted on February 23, 2009 by johnwaugh
A pattern of NZ islands?
Long White Cloud
The original initiators of the SLENZ Project, Dr Clare Atkins (SL: Arwenna Stardust), joint project leader, and Aaron Griffiths (SL: Isa Goodman), lead developer, have always dreamed of creating an Aotearoa -New Zealand education archipelago within Second Life.
It now seems that their dream is about to come true with [...]
Filed under: Education, Education in Second Life, Education in virtual worlds | Tagged: Atkins, Blackall, Boise, Davis, Dierner, Educause, Griffith, Koru, Kowhai, Long white cloud, midwifery, Nelson-Marlborough Insitute of technology, NMIT, QUT, slenz, SLENZ Project, Stewart, University of Auckland, University of Wollongong | 2 Comments »
Posted on February 4, 2009 by johnwaugh
Strangers: off to the world
UK-born Mike Baker (SL: Rollo Kohime), a senior lecturer in the Degree in Arts and Media programme in the School of Arts and Media at Nelson-Marlborough Institute of Technology, Nelson, NZ-Aotearoa, has had papers on his Masters project accepted for three national and international conferences in February and June.
The papers will [...]
Filed under: Education, Education in Second Life, Online identity | Tagged: Au, avatar identity, Baker, Blumenthal, Booker, dance, hoststranger, Intellagril, Kingdon, Koru, LBJ, Linden, Linden Lab, Metaverse, MySpace, NMIT, nwn, presence, proof-of-age, Robbins, rollo kohime, Rosedale, sex offenders, SL viewer, slenz, Stanford, strangers, Teen Grid, verification | Leave a Comment »
Posted on January 20, 2009 by johnwaugh
Birth Centre takes shape
The beginning …
The SLENZ project’s “ideal birthing unit” is taking shape quickly with the basic walls constructed on the floor plan and already trialed for ease of avatar use (movement, camera views etc).
The trials were done by Aaron Griffiths (SL: Isa Goodman), the Lead Developer for the SLENZ Project, Deborah Davis (Aastra [...]
Filed under: Education, Education in Second Life, Education in virtual worlds | Tagged: Twinity, Koru, Kowhai, Forterra, Stewart, SL education, Birth, midwifery, Griffths, Goodman, Davis, University of Teeside, Meta-mole, Riley, Blink 3D, University of Auckland, Cockeram, Badger, Masie Centre, OLIVE, ACS Learning Services, Roundtable, Free Dove, Noob Island, Free Union, Accenture | Leave a Comment »
Posted on November 24, 2008 by johnwaugh
YOU ARE INVITED
‘Open’ SLENZ workshop
New Zealand’s leading virtual world learning research group, Second Life Education New Zealand (SLENZ), has invited interested educators in both Second Life and “real life” to attend a one-day workshop in Wellington, New Zealand.
The open workshop will be held on Wellington Institute of Technology’s Wellington campus and in Second Life from [...]
Filed under: Education in Second Life | Tagged: American Anthropological Association, Connie Yowell, digitallearning, ekids, elearning, Irvine, Jokay, Koru, MacArthur Foundation, Manukau, Michael Carter, Mizuko Ito, Neal, Otago Polytchnic, Peter Lyman, SLENZ workshop, Susan.Jenkina, Tertiary Education Commission, University of California, Weltec | Leave a Comment »
Posted on November 15, 2008 by johnwaugh
SLENZ NAMES ‘PILOT PROJECTS’
The SLENZ project steering group has chosen educational institutions at opposite ends of New Zealand as the successful applicants for the first two innovative pilot education projects in Second Life.
The two projects, named to participate in the SLENZ project are the Manukau Institute of Technology, with a foundation learning proposal , and Otago [...]
Filed under: Education in Second Life | Tagged: European conference, games-based learning, Hayes, Koru, Kowhai, Linden, Manukau, metrics, Neal, NMIT, Otago Polytechnic, personalizedmeda, playability, playthinklearn, Sanchez, Second Life, SL, slenz, SLENZ pilot, Whitton, Zea | Leave a Comment »
