Posted on July 15, 2009 by johnwaugh
SECOND LIFE BUILDING OPTION
Import builds from easy-to-create
Google Sketchup 3D models
… at a (very) small cost
A demonstration in real time (9 minutes without preparation) of
how a 70 metre square can be created in SketchUp (using the
Sketchlife extension) from 10 metre square tiles, textured
using a single texture image spreading over all
the 49 tiles, [...]
Filed under: Architecture, Education, Second Life | Tagged: Build your Campus in 3D Australia and New Zealand, EvgeniSergeev, Google Sketchup, Mrs Brandi, newworldnotes, Second Life, Second Life builds, Sketchlife, University of Western Australia, Wagner James Au | 1 Comment »
Posted on June 29, 2009 by johnwaugh
ANOTHER TABLOID BLOG FRENZY
Hysteria over Australian SL-block
rumours: fear-mongering or worse …
Looks like bulldust to me …
I haven’t commented on the latest round of histrionics and hysteria fomented by “tabloid” bloggers about the Australia moves … but as one of the most authoritative writers on virtual worlds, James Wagner Au (pictured), has pointed out in [...]
Filed under: Education, Second Life, Video Gaming, Virtual Worlds | Tagged: Second Life, Wagner James Au, Australia, censorship, newworldnotes, Adult, Zindra, Stephen Conroy, Australian Government, Filtering, Christian Today, Duncan Riley, Inquisitr, SL hysteria, Grand Theft Auto, Fallout 3 | 2 Comments »
Posted on June 8, 2009 by johnwaugh
Teleporting between Virtual Worlds
‘Seamless, intuitive and immediate’
travel between OpenSims
The future is here: a seamless virtual world environment where one can teleport transparently between any OpenSim virtual world – no not SL yet but wait for it - no matter what the OpenSim virtual world is and where in the real world it is mounted.
If it [...]
Filed under: Education in virtual worlds, Virtual Worlds | Tagged: Contra Costa College, Cristina Videira Lopes, Google, hypergrid, Intel, Maria Korolov, Metaverse U, newworldnotes, NorthWestern University, OpenSim, Paypal, Science Sim, Stanford University, teleportation, Tom Murphy, UC Irvine, Wagner James Au, Zonja Capalini | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Filed under: Education in Second Life, Education in virtual worlds, Sl Conferences | Tagged: Linden Lab, Healthcare, Learning research, distance learning, First Monday, University of Illinois, Holmberg, Huvila, Finland, Abo AKademi, browser, Au, Cinquetti, SL Prize, Kapor, Everett Linden, Jennifer Ragan-Fore, SLEDcc, Jeremy Kemp, Samantha Cleaver, ecommercetimes, newworldnotes, Foundations, MacArthur Foundation, Edward Lee Lamoureux, Bradley University, Australasian Virtual Worlds Workshop, Larry Johnson, NMC, Chris Collins, Bruce Joy, Vast Park, Swinburne | Leave a Comment »
