KAREN, VLENZ Update 171, June 01, 2010

KAREN goes  ‘independent’ NZ high-speed research/education network in new partnership … All NZ education to get real Broadband speeds A year-old YouTube view of the FX Networks network  … 2200 kms of optical fibre and still counting. Heralding a new era for online education and research  in New Zealand, Research and Education Advanced Network New [...]

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 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 [...]

The SLENZ Update – No 97, June 9, 2009

‘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 [...]

The SLENZ Update – No 87, May 20, 2009

AUCKLAND U’s  VIRTUAL MEDICAL CENTRE Students learn those communication, teamwork, clinical  skills – virtually Virtual simulation in an Auckland University, New Zealand, virtual medical centre  training environment is returning similar results to a  real life training facility at a fraction of the cost of a facility of that type, according to Dr Scott Diener PhD [...]

The SLENZ Update – No 73 , April 29, 2009

SL:  import-export with ‘SLENZ Shuffle’ The new ‘Arfur Daley’? Import-export “expert” bot, SLENZ Shuffle, with creator, Toddles Lightworker SLENZ Shuffle? Well he might not be the new “Arfur Daley” (of TV Minder fame) but it looks like he might be able to do a good job in the virtual world import-export business. He has already successfully [...]

The SLENZ Update – No 39, January 15, 2009

SL ‘valuable’ for HS science The value of virtual world education for high school students has been demonstrated  in a  recent independent evaluation of a Science through Second Life project run in New York last year. The project integrated Second Life and a wide range of web tools into a standards-based high school science class [...]