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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

SLENZ Update, No 145, October 23, 2009

Online-gaming: a mind-altering strategy from Big Red Sheds? Warehouse CIO  launches  “virtual games” strategy to improve  Kiwi  life outcomes There is  now a considerable and growing body of evidence that  on-line gaming   and the use of virtual worlds can  be mind altering, leading  to development of  different life skills, either good or bad, as typified [...]

SLENZ Update, No 137, September 19, 2009

LIFE IN A NEW ZEALAND VIRTUAL WORLD ONGENS  gets its first ‘Kiwi Tavern’ as  virtual ‘Aotearoa’  grows … Sign of the ONGENS times … The Kiwi Tavern  at Port Cook. Even though the New Zealand National Virtual World Grid appears to be going through a difficult and, at times, fragile gestation, there is a small [...]

SLENZ Update, No 136, September 17, 2009

CAN NEW ZEALAND USE THIS LESSON? Texas shows the way forward in virtual world education … John Lester (SL: Pathfinder Linden) and Leslie Jarmon (SL: Bluewave Ogee) meet in front of the virtual version of Johnson Claudia Taylor Hall at the University of Texas System.(Picture: Pathfinder Linden) The New Zealand tertiary education system  should probably [...]

The SLENZ Update – No 120, July 29, 2009

SOME THINGS YOU MAY HAVE MISSED … Research: VWs may help put you at ease when dealing with your own health University of Toronto researchers put their avatar through the paces of a virtual mammogram. Picture itbusiness. Health researchers believe that the Web 2.0 world may be able to teach them something that the medical [...]

The SLENZ Update – No 118, July 23, 2009

Dayam … I missed this Brouchoud, Cockeram  work  together for a striking  architectural machinima The University of Auckland Jon Brouchoud (picture right) (YouTube: Keystone1111 SL: Keystone Bouchard ), of the ARCH Network has mounted a striking  machinima  of  the work of  Judy Cockeram (SL: JudyArx Scribe)  and her Second Life class project from the School [...]