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 151, November 20, 2009

SLENZ PROJECT: Useful lessons Team debriefed on  unit tour, presentation techniques … Learning lesson: part of the Gronstedt ‘Train for Success Group’s tour. It’s very easy to be wise with hindsight. That is  not to take anything away from the  outstanding performance of  Otago Polytech tutor and SLENZ Project’s lead educator (Midwifery) Sarah Stewart’s (SL: [...]

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 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 139, September 24, 2009

IN THE SPOTLIGHT SLENZ members  on  international virtual world conference  circuit 1. Cochrane at SLaction 2009 The Valverde conceptual design … as envisioned in Second Life. There are two Second Life conferences over  the next few days which will feature  the work of members of the SLENZ Project team, underlining just   what can be achieved [...]

SLENZ Update, No 131, August 24, 2009

The SLENZ PROJECT “Students can experience the authenticity of the moment” Te Wāhi Whānau, The Birth Place, on the SLENZ Project’s Second Life island of Kowhai is a place where midwifery students can experience the authenticity of the moment of labour and birth even if in a virtual world. A new machinima demonstrating  just how [...]

SLENZ Update, No 127, August 13, 2009

SLENZ Project Arwenna, Petal find the  light at the end of the SL Tunnel … “Authenticity of the scene” … inside the Birth Centre. (picture Sarah Stewart) “The first words I heard were, ‘This is so much FUN …’ The listener was Arwenna Stardust (RL: SLENZ Project co-leader Dr Clare Atkins) and the words were [...]

The SLENZ Update – No 122, August 03, 2009

The SLENZ Project Walk-through  demonstrates the emperor  does have clothes … but shows where  reworking/enhancements needed Practising in the Birth Centre .. “midwife” Petal Stransky and “mother-to-be”,  Tere Tinkel (Picture Terry Neal) Working for months on a project  – especially in a virtual world, where one does much of the work alone even if in [...]