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 [...]
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Posted on January 23, 2009 by johnwaugh
Xstreet ‘in from cold’
The Linden Lab’s acquisition of Xstreet SL and OnRez – the two leading Web-based marketplaces for buying and selling creations for Second Life - will not lessen marketplace competition, according to Lab executives.
And it could eventually lead to Xstreet SL retail virtual world products being made available to other grids, such as [...]
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Posted on January 15, 2009 by johnwaugh
SL ‘valuable’ for HS science
The value of virtual world education for high school students has been demonstrated in a recent independent evaluation of a Science through Second Life project run in New York last year.
The project integrated Second Life and a wide range of web tools into a standards-based high school science class in New [...]
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Posted on January 12, 2009 by johnwaugh
Full SL instruction ‘pays’
Post-secondary school instructors who conduct classes fully in Second Life are significantly more satisfied than those who use Second Life as only a small supplement to a real-world classes, according to an international research project from the University of Florida, reported in the Winter 2009 edition of the International Journal of Humanities [...]
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Posted on December 4, 2008 by johnwaugh
Count down to SLENZ
‘open’ workshop
December 15, from 9am to 5pm (New Zealand Time) (SL Time 2pm – 10 pm December 14) : New Zealand’s leading virtual world learning research group, Second Life Education New Zealand (SLENZ), has invited interested educators to attend a free, one-day workshop in real life on Wellington Institute of Technology’s Wellington [...]
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Posted on December 2, 2008 by johnwaugh
REGISTER NOW FOR SLENZ
OPEN WORKSHOP
December 15, from 9am to 5pm (New Zealand Time) (SL Time 2pm – 10 pm December 14) : New Zealand’s leading virtual world learning research group, Second Life Education New Zealand (SLENZ), has invited interested educators to attend a free, one-day workshop in real life on Wellington Institute of Technology’s Wellington [...]
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Posted on November 12, 2008 by johnwaugh
SL learning “fun”
Second Life provides options for multi-modality in communication that “make learning fun – always a desired outcome,” according to two Finish researchers.
This was only one of the findings from their recently completed in-depth study of distance learning in Second Life, published recently in First Monday, the peer-reviewed journal of the University of Illinois [...]
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Posted on October 26, 2008 by johnwaugh
Auckland ‘ER’ in SL
Dr Scott Diener (Professor Noarlunga, pictured) [http://scottdiener.edublogs.org/], at the University of Auckland, has created a simulated hospital emergency room where small teams of medical and nursing students can learn to diagnose and treat patients requiring emergency treatment.
Sited on an University of Auckland island, appropriately called the Long White Cloud [ http://slurl.com/secondlife/Long%20White%20Cloud/31/39/28 ], [...]
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