Posted on August 13, 2009 by johnwaugh
SLENZ Project
Arwenna, Petal find the light
at the end of the SL Tunnel …
“Authenticity of the scene” … inside the Birth Centre. (picture Sarah Stewart)
“The first words I heard were, ‘This is so much FUN …’
The listener was Arwenna Stardust (RL: SLENZ Project co-leader Dr Clare Atkins) and the words were from one of the midwife [...]
Filed under: Distance education, Education, Education in Second Life, Education in virtual worlds, SL Medicine, SLENZ Project, Second Life | Tagged: Birth Centre, Clare Atkins, Kowhai, Midwifery training, Otago Polytechnic, Sarah Stewart, School of Midwifery, SLENZ Project | 5 Comments »
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 June 24, 2009 by johnwaugh
SLENZ PROJECT PROGRESS
‘Machinimas’ show the benefits,
comfort in learning virtually
It’s often difficult for an outsider – especially one with little experience in virtual technology - to get a real impression of what happens in an education environment in Second Life and just what the benefits can be.
As part of the on-going SLENZ [...]
Filed under: Education, Education in Second Life, Education in virtual worlds, SLENZ Project, Second Life, Virtual Worlds | Tagged: Aaron Griffths, Birth Centre, Deborah Davis, Foundation learning, Interviewing, Kowhai, Manukau Insitute of Technology, midwifery, Otago Polytechnic, Sarah Stewart, slenz, SLENZ Project, Te Waihi Whanau | Leave a Comment »
Posted on June 15, 2009 by johnwaugh
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 learning easier for Merle’s students.
Their [...]
Filed under: Education, Education in Second Life, Education in virtual worlds, SLENZ Project, Second Life | Tagged: Aaron Griffiths, Foundation learning, Interviewing, Kowhai, Midwifery Pilot, slenz, SLENZ Project | Leave a Comment »
Posted on May 25, 2009 by johnwaugh
Distance education with a difference
Otago Midwifery students to learn
about birthing in virtual world
Today, for the first time, New Zealand midwifery students began to enhance their regular study programme with learning in the virtual world of Second Life.
The 27 first year students and 23 second year students were introduced to the Otago Polytechnic’s virtual “model” birth [...]
Filed under: Distance education, Education, Education in Second Life, Education in virtual worlds, SL Medicine, SLENZ Project, Second Life | Tagged: CPIT, Davis, Distance Education, Kowhai, midwifery, Otago Polytechnic, School of Midwifery, SLENZ Project | 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 April 20, 2009 by johnwaugh
PERFORMANCE ART
Bridging the Second Life,
Real Life divide …
Dancing fingers from reality – Butler2 Evelyn (RL: Isabel Valverde) and
Toddles Lightworker (RL: Todd Cochrane) in Second Life.
What are we losing through living more and more encapsulated lives in crowded urban areas, following the consumption driven “modernist-technical” standard of living, becoming disconnected from sensing ourselves, one another and [...]
Filed under: Online identity, Second Life, Virtual Worlds | Tagged: Cochrane, dance, Insitutute for Humana Studies and Intelligent Sciences, Kowhai, New Zealand, performance art, Portugual, School of Information Technology, Valverde, Wellington Institute of Technology, Whitireia | Leave a Comment »
Posted on April 8, 2009 by johnwaugh
SLENZ PROJECT
Foundation Learning Kowhai build begins
The contrast between the build for The Birth Place (Te Waihi Whanau) and
The Foundation Learning project’s new build is quite striking.
There is a futuristic, almost organic building growing out of the ground on the Kowhai Island, where the three-pilot SLENZ Project – Midwifery, Foundation Learning and Orientation – is being created [...]
Filed under: Architecture, Education in Second Life, SLENZ Project | Tagged: Education, Foundation learning, Kowhai, Lemon, Goodman, SLENZ Project | Leave a 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 »
