SLENZ, VLENZ Update, No 170, April 22, 2010

Latest  SLENZ  Project/NZ VW news SLENZ Project  may be over but lecturers still use the builds Foundation Learning  in use, free builds popular, viewing  by Indian Minister The Wellington-based  Natraj School of Dance welcomes the Hon. Minster Sibal and Indian delegates to WelTec. The Second Life Education New Zealand Project may have been concluded but [...]

SLENZ PROJECT EVALUATION, VLENZ 165, Mar 10, 2010

SLENZ PROJECT EVALUATION RELEASED SL Research project ‘successful’ but marred by technical difficulties  … Full PDF of Evaluation Report available here The SLENZ team achieved “a remarkable success in creating and delivering” the core of the SLENZ Project, according to the official evaluation report of the $NZ500,000, Second Life  research programme released today. This was [...]

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 149, November 7, 2009

ATKINS ADVICE TO POLYTECHS/UNIVERSITIES Collaboration is key to making virtual education work in NZ Nurse educators  ‘convinced’ of value – the question is, how best to use it. NZ nurse educators at the Wellington SLENZ meeting. Collaboration between tertiary educational institutions in the implementation  of  virtual world education scenarios is the key to making them [...]

SLENZ Update, No 143, October 8, 2009

THE SLENZ WORKSHOPS AT Teaching and Learning/eFest 2009 -2 MUVEing towards collaboration – the benefits and pitfalls of working as a collaborative teaching in a Multi-user Virtual Environment,” and “In-world, meets the real world – the trials and tribulations of bringing Second Life to an ITP,” presented by Merle Lemon, lead educator in foundation learning, [...]

SLENZ Update, No 142, October 6, 2009

THE SLENZ WORKSHOPS AT Teaching and Learning/eFest 2009 Five lessons from the creation of education pilots  in Second Life SL’s Arwenna Stardust and RL’s Dr Clare Atkins make a point. The five SLENZ Project workshops attended by mainstream tertiary educators at  the  annual, national Teaching  and Learning/eFest 2009 conference, at UCOL, Palmerston North, New Zealand, [...]

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 [...]

SLENZ Update, No 130, August 20, 2009

THE SLENZ PROJECT First classes of Foundation Learners – excited , motivated, enthusiastic … “Even the most unenthusiastic and unmotivated students were “sucked into” the excitement of the virtual environment!” -Merle Lemon, SLENZ lead  educator, Manukau Institute of  Technology, Aotearoa-New Zealand. Smiling Foundation Learning student Aziz Qasimi (SL: a280q Engineer) at the first class on [...]

SLENZ Update, No 128, August 16, 2009

THE SLENZ PROJECT There is a difference between immersion and  activity … Learning in Dallas …  Snowflake Lannock has a giftbox  for Aotearoa-NZ learners. Learning in Dallas  … virtually  speaking. [All Pictures: Merle Lemon] Sometimes one listens to the  presentations  and reads the publicity  about  a person’s role in the world – any  world, real [...]