NZVWGrid Upgrade – VLENZ Update, No 179, January 24, 2011

NZVWGrid  news Auckland  U Portal ‘upgrades’ OpenSim  hardware Will host 30-50 sims The  “virtual world team” at the University of Auckland will be “productionising” its  Opensim installation – Hypergrid address: akl.nzvwg.org.8002.aotearoa – over the  the next couple of weeks which should see the university’s portal on the New Zealand Virtual World Grid ready to accept [...]

NZVWG – VLENZ Update, No 172, June 03, 2010

Does the Emperor have any clothes? New Zealand’s NZVWGrid  ‘newbies’ get free avatar skins, hair, eyes and clothing A ‘noobie’ appearance is no longer necessary in the  NZVWGrid … free avatarskins, eyes and hair have been made available for users  … New Zealand academics, researchers and  virtual world builders,  using and testing the alpha phase [...]

NZVWG Update, VLENZ No 166, March 14, 2010

NZ Virtual World Grid hosts international  guests NZVWG Auckland portal now accepting ‘resident’ avatar applications … The  University of Auckland portal of the New Zealand Virtual World Grid (NZVWG)  has successfully hosted its  first international seminar, attracting  a number of leading MUVE educators and researchers from  around the world. The meeting coincided with the announcement [...]

VLENZ Update, No 161, February 02, 2010

VLENZ PROJECT Steering Committee named for  new VLENZ Group A new steering committee, which includes some of  New Zealand’s  leading virtual world researchers and educators,  has been named to head  the Virtual Life Education New Zealand (VLENZ) group, formed after the finish of SLENZ Project. The  new leadership group is:  Dr Clare Atkins, of Nelson-Marlborough [...]

VLENZ Update, No 160, January 20, 2010

A NEW START FOR 2010 NZ virtual world group off the ground and running … At the  NZVWG inaugural meeting: Arwenna Stardust, Rollo Kohimi and Briarmelle Quintessa. Fourteen  leaders in virtual world education in New Zealand attended the inaugural meeting earlier this week of  the New Zealand Virtual World Group (working name) on the NMIT [...]

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 157, December 22, 2009

ascilite 2009 – AUCKLAND, NZ Virtual worlds might not be quite  there but ASCILITE shows  the way forward Second Life – ‘This will change everything…’ Scott Diener The Auckland University-Boise State collaborative post-partum haemorrhage nurse training scenario, presented by Scott Diener (Pix: Merle Lemon) When Scott Diener (pictured right),  associate director, IT services, Academic Services, [...]

SLENZ Update, No 155, December 11, 2009

ascilite 2009 VW leaders establish  New Zealand virtual worlds’ education group The University of Auckland’s Dr Scott Diener presents at ascilite 2009 ….  he is one of Australasia’s leaders in virtual world tertiary education. The New Zealand Virtual Worlds Group (NZVWG), an independent, not-for profit association for people interested in virtual worlds and their use [...]

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 150, November 17, 2009

The potential: “Daddy, Miss America wont share her toys.” Obama vision could be crippled by rich, greedy US institutions … and commercial interests who want an arm  and two legs. 1. Sharing knowledge – The Gronstedt Group begins tour  of the SLENZ birthing unit. The more time I spend in Second Life and  other virtual [...]