Posted on May 11, 2009 by johnwaugh
Need a virtual loan?
Creating a ‘real buck’ - virtually-speaking
Picture: Freefoto.com
The Linden dollar has had its ups and downs and Linden Lab’s is probably making a fortune out of of its forex dealings, but there is still no dedicated “real world” banking/forex facility in Second Life, or any other virtual world.
That, however, is now changing with the [...]
Filed under: Second Life, Virtual Worlds | Tagged: Businessweek, Calypso, China Market Research Group, Entropia, Forex, Linden, Linden Labs, Mark Methentis, Mind Bank, MindArk, Olga Kharif, PED, Project Entropia Dollars, Second Life, Shaun Rein, Tom Hale | Leave a Comment »
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 2, 2009 by johnwaugh
The year that was …
I feel sure that during the year a lot of New Zealanders lost their embarrassment over being residents/participants in virtual world’s like Second Life and began to see MUVEs as part of their “real” world.
Although the Lindens do not disclose the number of Kiwis accessing Second Life on a regular basis [...]
Filed under: Education in Second Life, Second Life, Virtual Worlds | Tagged: 2009 forecast, Actrix, Bainbridge, FXnetworks, Home, Linden, Orcon, Sony, Telecom, Telstraclear, TMJ, Turse, US Army | 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 »
Posted on November 2, 2008 by johnwaugh
How ‘real’ are VWs?
A research team, led by North Carolina State University’s Zelnak Professor of Marketing and Innovation, Dr Mitzi M. Montoya, has developed a new way of measuring how “real” online virtual worlds are – an important advance for the emerging technology that can be used to foster development of new training and collaboration [...]
Filed under: Education in Second Life, Education in virtual worlds, Online identity, Sl Conferences | Tagged: Carter, Distance Education, Hansen, Healthcare, Kemp, Lamoureux, Linden, Linder, Massey, Montoya, North Carolina State University, Nursing, OpenSim, OpenSpace sims, Reality measure, Ritter-Gluth, Sorbonne, University of Central Missouri, Wagner James Au | Leave a Comment »
