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 [...]

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 142, October 6, 2009

THE SLENZ WORKSHOPS AT Teaching and Learning/eFest 2009 Five lessons from the creation of education pilots  in Second Life SL’s Arwenna Stardust and RL’s Dr Clare Atkins make a point. The five SLENZ Project workshops attended by mainstream tertiary educators at  the  annual, national Teaching  and Learning/eFest 2009 conference, at UCOL, Palmerston North, New Zealand, [...]

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 [...]

The SLENZ Update – No 28, November 24, 2008

YOU ARE INVITED ‘Open’ SLENZ workshop New Zealand’s leading virtual world learning research group, Second Life Education New Zealand (SLENZ), has invited interested educators in both Second Life and “real life” to attend a one-day workshop in Wellington, New Zealand. The open workshop will be held on Wellington Institute of Technology’s Wellington campus and in [...]