Posted on November 7, 2009 by johnwaugh
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 economic, effective and successful in a [...]
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Posted on October 6, 2009 by johnwaugh
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 demonstrated in Palmerston North, New Zealand, [...]
Filed under: Education, Education in Second Life, Education in virtual worlds, SLENZ Project, Second Life, Virtual Worlds | Tagged: Aaron Griffiths, Blended Solutions, Clare Atkins, Education, F/Xual education Services, Manukau Institute of Technology, Merle Lemon, NMIT, Oriel Kelly, Palmerston North, Second Life, SLENZ Project, teaching and Learning/eFest 2009, Terry Neal, Tod Cochrane, Todd Cochrane, UCOL, Weltec | Leave a Comment »
Posted on September 2, 2009 by johnwaugh
Lest we forget unsung heroes …
Design and building in Second
Life really is hard ‘yakka*’
… an ‘Oscar’ for Isa/Aaron?
Isa Goodman (aka Aaron Griffiths), Second Life builder
It’s easy to forget that the often unsung heroes of virtual worlds are the builders – the on-the-virtual-ground developers, scripters, animators but especially the builders.
As educators it should be easy for [...]
Filed under: Education, Education in Second Life, Education in virtual worlds, SLENZ Project, Second Life | Tagged: Aaron Griffiths, Birth Centre, Clare Atkins, F/Xual Education, Foundation learning, Isa goodman, midwifery, NMIT, Oscar, Second Life, SL Builds, slenz, SLENZ Project, Todd Cochrane, WelTech | 2 Comments »
Posted on June 19, 2009 by johnwaugh
An invitation to another
happening on Koru …
Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology’s Mike Baker (SL: Rollo Kohime) will be presenting a paper at The Society of Dance History Scholars Conference 2009 at Stanford University, California, USA, from Wellington Railway Station on the Second Life NMIT island of Koru [Koru: 81,57,21 (PG)] at 3:00pm SLT/PDT on Saturday, [...]
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Posted on May 12, 2009 by johnwaugh
MIDWIFERY TUTORS ‘ENTHUSIASTIC’
Exciting introduction to SL with bonding and play
Trainers, Dr Clare Atkins and Todd Cochrane with Kate Spencely, Dr Deborah Davis
and Sarah Stuart. (Pictures from Sarah Stewart)
The importance of a time for “play” when people are initiated into Second Life was reinforced for the SLENZ Project’s joint leader, Dr Clare Atkins (SL: Arwenna Stardust), when [...]
Filed under: Education, Education in Second Life, Education in virtual worlds, SLENZ Project, Virtual Worlds | Tagged: Atkins, Blackall, Cochrane, Davis, Koru, Kowhai, midwifery, NMIT, Otago, Otago Polytech, Spencely, Stewart, Weltec | 1 Comment »
Posted on March 3, 2009 by johnwaugh
As real as it gets -
architecturally speaking
Almost since the inception of MUVEs such as Second Life, architects have seen the potential of being able to create exact, real life, fullscale, 3D, building models within virtual reality for such things as architect/designer/client walk throughs, design visualisation and tweaking. No one has been [...]
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Posted on February 23, 2009 by johnwaugh
A pattern of NZ islands?
Long White Cloud
The original initiators of the SLENZ Project, Dr Clare Atkins (SL: Arwenna Stardust), joint project leader, and Aaron Griffiths (SL: Isa Goodman), lead developer, have always dreamed of creating an Aotearoa -New Zealand education archipelago within Second Life.
It now seems that their dream is about to come true with [...]
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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 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 [...]
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