SLENZ Project, VLENZ Update No 168, March 26, 2010

SLENZ  PROJECT DOES IT AGAIN Midwifery Studies Build 1.0 available free to public Much of the SLENZ birth unit featured in this PookyMedia machinima has been made available free of charge. The SLENZ Project  announced today that its Midwifery Studies Build Version 1.0, is now available for free pickup from the  Nelson Marlborough Institute of [...]

SLENZ Build FREE, VLENZ No 167, March 16, 2010

SLENZ Project  Foundation Learning Build now available FREE Creative Commons license The SLENZ Project’s much-praised Second Life Foundation (Bridging) Learning  Build (Version 1.0) is now available FREE, under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license, from the Second Life island of Kowhai. The key section of the  SLENZ Project’s Second Life Midwifery Education Birth Unit build [...]

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 [...]

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 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 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 153, November 25, 2009

THE SLENZ  PROJECT: Formal  in-world Maori Kaumatua’s ‘blessing’  for Foundation build Is this a world first? Historic moment: Kaumatua Matua Wati Ratana  in two places at once – he also is in SL as  Matua (Teacher) Mistwood.* For what is believed to be the first time in the history of Second Life,  and probably in [...]

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: [...]