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, 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 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 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 141, October 6, 2009

THE SLENZ PROJECT SLENZ teams finds new ‘acceptance, enthusiasm’  at    education  gabfest … Need seen to retain team skills, post-SLENZ Project Almost full house … Aaron Griffiths details a Developer’s work. as the SLENZ Lead Developer/builder. Growing “acceptance” of Second Life as an education medium  and a new  “enthusiasm” for  virtual world education  was [...]

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 134, September 02, 2009

Lest we forget unsung heroes … Design and building  in Second Life really is hard ‘yakka*’ … an ‘Oscar’ for Isa/Aaron? Isa Goodman (aka Aaron Griffiths), Second Life builder It’s easy to forget that the often unsung heroes of virtual worlds are the builders – the on-the-virtual-ground developers, scripters, animators but  especially the builders. As [...]