Posted on September 22, 2009 by johnwaugh
Why aren’t NZ secondary schools
using virtual worlds, video games?
or are they … but just below the radar?
Ahead of the game … Christ’s College, one of New
Zealand’s oldest schools, is in Second Life.
Given the ever- burgeoning popularity of video games, Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs) and virtual worlds, or Multi User Virtual Environments (MUVEs) [...]
Filed under: Education, Education in Second Life, Education in virtual worlds, Second Life, Video Gaming, Virtual Worlds | Tagged: Telstraclear, Telecom, Christ's college, Skoolaborate, University of Texas, Max Burns, Dana Oshiro, Pixels and Policy, ReadWriteWeb, Tufts University, Charter Schools | 4 Comments »
Posted on June 9, 2009 by johnwaugh
‘Exciting’ Kiwi development
Major New Zealand universities seek funding
to establish national virtual world grid
Proposal pdf here
Three major New Zealand universities are planning to establish an open-access, open-source New Zealand National Virtual World grid based on the ONGENS OpenSim grid which is currently under development.
The universities are Otago University, the University of Canterbury, and the University of [...]
Filed under: Distance education, Education, Education in virtual worlds, ONGENS, Virtual Worlds | Tagged: GNI Project, KAREN, Melanie Middlemiss, New Zealand National Virtual World Grid, NVWG, NZNVWG, Ongens, ONGENS Testbed, OpenSim, Otago University, REANNZ Donald Clark, Telecom, University of Auckland, University of Canterbury, Weltec | Leave a Comment »
Posted on January 2, 2009 by johnwaugh
The year that was …
I feel sure that during the year a lot of New Zealanders lost their embarrassment over being residents/participants in virtual world’s like Second Life and began to see MUVEs as part of their “real” world.
Although the Lindens do not disclose the number of Kiwis accessing Second Life on a regular basis [...]
Filed under: Education in Second Life, Second Life, Virtual Worlds | Tagged: 2009 forecast, Actrix, Bainbridge, FXnetworks, Home, Linden, Orcon, Sony, Telecom, Telstraclear, TMJ, Turse, US Army | Leave a Comment »
Posted on November 20, 2008 by johnwaugh
Mercy killing gets Lively
Google has taken the hatchet to its virtual world, Lively, after less than six months operation.
Initially damned with faint praise and sometimes ridicule the Lively virtual world was launched in July by Google Labs with much overhype “because we wanted users to be able to interact with [...]
Filed under: Education in Second Life, Education in virtual worlds, SL Medicine | Tagged: Dusan Writer, Google Lab, Lively, ScienCentral, Snow World, Telecom, Telstraclear, Thompson, Univeresity of Washington, Younis | 1 Comment »
Posted on October 30, 2008 by johnwaugh
From the top of my head!
It might be simplistic but it appears to me that Virtual Worlds, although attracting a claimed 160 million users around the world, need someone to recreate something like the virtual world equivalent of Tim Berners-Lee (Pictured -From Wikipedia) and Robert Cailliau’s 1990 WorldWideWeb browser for multi-user virtual environments to really [...]
Filed under: Education in Second Life | Tagged: Berners-Lee, Bjorkman, Entropia, Language in SL, Metaversum, MindArk, Mosaic, NASA, OpenSim, Project Whitecard, Saber Astronautics, Singapore, STEM, Telecom, Telstraclear, Twinity, Videotex, WorldWideWeb | 1 Comment »
