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 [...]

VLENZ Update, No 160, January 20, 2010

A NEW START FOR 2010 NZ virtual world group off the ground and running … At the  NZVWG inaugural meeting: Arwenna Stardust, Rollo Kohimi and Briarmelle Quintessa. Fourteen  leaders in virtual world education in New Zealand attended the inaugural meeting earlier this week of  the New Zealand Virtual World Group (working name) on the NMIT [...]

SLENZ Update, No 146, October 27, 2009

Australasia’s first “complete” virtual school South Island  schools  to take  trade training to  the world – virtually A New Zealand Virtual School classroom developed by SmallWorlds. A group of  South Island, New Zealand, secondary schools, with training partnerships and associations nationally,  is to establish Australasia’s first  virtual,  online school,  New Zealand Virtual School. To open [...]

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 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 81, May 12, 2009

MIDWIFERY TUTORS ‘ENTHUSIASTIC’ Exciting introduction to SL with bonding  and play Trainers, Dr Clare Atkins and Todd Cochrane with Kate Spencely, Dr Deborah Davis and Sarah Stuart. (Pictures from Sarah  Stewart) The importance of a time for “play” when people are initiated into Second Life was reinforced for  the SLENZ Project’s joint leader, Dr Clare Atkins [...]

The SLENZ Update – No 78 , May 7, 2009

STUDENT EXPERIENCE Patience, persistence needed, but  its ‘not boring’ Rittirong Damrongkitkanwong is aey Viper in Second Life. The international nature  of virtual worlds  and of New Zealand education in general  is typified by Weltec student Rittirong Damrongkitkanwong, from Phuket Thailand (SL: aey Viper)  who is in his  third year of  a Bachelor in Information Technology  [...]