Broadband in NZ– VLENZ Update, No 181, March 13, 2011

The  New Zealand Broadband network Rural Kiwis  probably wont see ‘true’  Broadband  for decades … will Christchurch quake slow implementation of 2nd-best  RBI solution With the government concentrating on the post earthquake resurrection of Christchurch – and the money needed to rebuild that city – one wonders whether the Rural Broadband Initiative which has been [...]

SLENZ Update, No 156, December 13, 2009

SLENZ PROJECT SLENZ in 14  international finalists for top Edublog 2009 award Your vote will count! Click Button TOP RIGHT and vote. The SLENZ (Seoncd Life Education New Zealand) Project team has been  honoured by being named among the 14 finalists  for an EduBlog 2009 Award  in the category, “Best Educational Use of a Virtual [...]

SLENZ Update, No 154, December 06, 2009

Where is education going in Virtual Worlds? An earlier (2008) view of a Duke University  foray into virtual worlds – just one of  the university’s many virtual projects With the  Obama Administration  turning to the virtual world to extoll the virtues of a science education through expansion of the STEM Education Initiative and NASA also using [...]

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 [...]

The SLENZ Update – No 69, April 20, 2009

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 [...]

The SLENZ Update – No 1 August 1, 2008

NZ Educators ‘invited’ New Zealand educators – and their adult students – will soon be able to “live and learn” in a virtual 3D world. The New Zealand virtual world education group, Second Life Education New Zealand (SLENZ), is to invite groups of New Zealand educators to join its research project in the on-line virtual [...]