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Ole C  Brudvik

NMC Announces Parcel Leases in Three New Educational Communities in Second Life | nmc - 0 views

  • Are you or someone you know looking for a low-cost way to get started in virtual worlds — or Second Life in particular? As of today, the New Media Consortium (NMC) is offering land parcels in Second Life that are part of three unique custom-designed educational communities. These parcels are available now for lease exclusively to bona fide faculty, educational departments, or learning-focused institutions. The new sim NMC Campus, “Teaching”
  • The land is full-permissions, and can be used for almost any purpose consistent with research or teaching in Second Life. The parcels come in sizes from 1024 sq m to 8192 sq m. Costs are roughly 10 US cents per sq meter per year. This works out to $100 US per year for the smallest plot (32 x 32; 1024 sq m; 235 prims) and $800 per year for the largest (64 x 128; 8192 sq m; 1875 prims). There are no hidden or additional costs. Common area on the new sim NMC Campus, “Teaching 2″
  • Each educational community has a beautiful central area which has a number of spaces that all the residents on the island can share — these include a multi-media amphitheater, a conference room, a large classroom or other meeting space, a gallery suitable for exhibiting student work, and a resource center that has been stocked by the folks who run the highly regarded ICT Library in Second Life. Scene on NMC new sim available for lease, “Teaching 3″
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  • You can see these sims now in Second Life — they are called Teaching, Teaching 2, and Teaching 3, and each is fully open to the public — no group memberships are required to visit. Soon to open as well are Teaching 4, Sciences, Mathematics, Arts & Letters, and Outreach; those sims each also have “large lot” options — parcels as large as a half-sim — available. Large lot leases include basic terraforming, landscaping, subdividing, configuration, and ongoing maintenance. The cost of the lease can even be folded into a “Special NMC Membership” package if desired, and both the lease and the membership billed on a single invoice — call for details if that is of interest.
  • NMC Virtual Worlds offers the full span of services to support educational institutions in Second Life, and many, including the use of the NMC’s Campus in Second Life for your own events, are free to NMC members. See the listing of services currently offered [PDF, 100k]
Kerry J

Helen Keller Day - Second Life Wiki - 1 views

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    Helen Keller Day is dedicated to raising our level of awareness for our fellow Second Life Residents who cope with disabilities. The 13-hour event PDT will be held on Saturday, June 19 at four sims: The Ye, Olde, Supporte, and Faire SLURL. Presentations throughout the day include topics such as enabling deaf or blind users in Second life, a style-enabled fashion show, and accessibility issues and solutions in Second Life. The day will conclude with a "dance till we drop wrap-up party" at Club AccessibleSLURL.
Kerry J

Siggraph 2008 #10: Interview with the Web 3D Consortium Video by Pixel Heads Network - ... - 0 views

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    An interview about the x3D standard, a standard that allows 3D rendering of content across platforms. For those that know, is the successor to VRML.
Nergiz Kern

IBM Research | IBM Research | virtualworlds | IBM Virtual World Guidelines - 0 views

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    IBM Research IBM Research: IBM Virtual World Guidelines
mesbah095

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Kerry J

censorship of Linden homes « - 5 views

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    The Lindens go off the deep end (again) and SLap a long-time resident without investigation or consultation.
Kerry J

Third-Party Viewer Directory - 6 views

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    Second Life viewer list
anonymous

SSRN-The Virtual Property Problem: What Property Rights in Virtual Resources Might Look... - 3 views

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    'Virtual property' is a solution looking for a problem. Arguments justifying 'virtual property' lie among three common themes - Lockean labor theory, theft protection and deterrence, and market efficiency. This paper goes beyond those who advocate for or against the creation of 'virtual property.' First, Locke's labor theory is dismissed as a justification. Then, two models of what property rights may look like when applied to virtual resources are created. These models are then applied to six different virtual world scenarios in order to see the effects of 'virtual property.' Finally, the failure of property rights to benefit the users, developers, and virtual resources of virtual worlds is explained.
Nergiz Kern

Learning and Teaching in the Virtual World of Second Life | Tapir Akademisk Forlag - Ne... - 0 views

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    by Mats Deutschmann, Judith Molka-Danielsen and others.
Nergiz Kern

11 Virtual Worlds Technologies That Will Change the Way we Work | Clever Zebra - 0 views

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    11 Virtual Worlds Technologies That Will Change the Way we Work
Fred Delventhal

O Brave New World That Has Such Avatars in It! - washingtonpost.com - 0 views

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    The virtual world Second Life, a landscape of primping avatars, ballroom dancing bears, space stations and vampire castles, has a new -- and maybe even more surreal -- inhabitant: the Arlington County government...
wolf hesse

AjaxLife - 0 views

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    runs in webbrowser / useragent
Benjamin Jörissen

Alkoholismustherapie: Wie Shelly in "Second Life" dem Wodka widersteht - Netzwelt - SPI... - 0 views

  • Accelerated Recovery Centers, der ersten Alkoholikerhilfe, die die Online-Welt "Second Life" in ihr Therapiekonzept integriert
  • Patienten werden in Atlanta und auf der virtuellen Insel Identity Island betreut. In "Second Life" führen sie Einzel- und Gruppengespräche und durchlaufen spezielle Trainingsprogramme, in denen sie lernen, auch in Stresssituationen dem Alkohol zu widerstehen.
  • Das Zimmer mit der Bronzestatue gibt es wirklich. Shelly sieht das originalgetreue Abbild eines Therapieraums in Atlanta. Der Mann hinter dem Avatar ist David Stone, Geschäftsführer und Gründer der Firma Accelerated Recovery und seit über 20 Jahren praktizierender Psychologe. Er sieht seinem Avatar verblüffend ähnlich, ebenso wie Shelly dem ihren.
Fred Delventhal

EDUCAUSE Review Magazine, Volume 43, Number 5, September/October 2008 | EDUCAUSE CONNECT - 0 views

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    Virtual Worlds? "Outlook Good" AJ Kelton ("AJ Brooks") Whether it is Second Life or another virtual world, this foundational movement is not going away. The question to be addressed in the coming months and years is how higher education and, subsequently, individual institutions will determine the best way to continue to move forward with virtual worlds. Higher Education as Virtual Conversation Sarah Robbins-Bell ("Intellagirl Tully") Virtual worlds can become an important tool in an educator's arsenal. But using this tool requires a shift in thinking and an adjustment in pedagogical methods that will embrace the community, the fluid identity, and the participation-indeed, the increased conversation-that virtual spaces can provide. Educational Frontiers: Learning in a Virtual World Cynthia M. Calongne ("Lyr Lobo") The use of virtual worlds expands on the campus-based and online classrooms, enhancing learning experiences. Classes in virtual worlds offer opportunities for visualization, simulation, enhanced social networks, and shared learning experiences. Looking to the Future: Higher Education in the Metaverse Chris Collins ("Fleep Tuque") Beyond the capabilities that virtual worlds offer us at the moment, it is the possibilities that we can imagine for the future that may be the most compelling. Virtual worlds technology, like the Internet in general, is changing the way we access and experience information and the way we can access and connect with each other. Drawing a Roadmap: Barriers and Challenges to Designing the Ideal Virtual World for Higher Education Chris Johnson ("ScubaChris Wollongong") When using a roadmap, one can take many different paths to reach a desired destination. Similarly, institutions can take many different turns along the road to implementing an ideal virtual world for higher education.
Fred Delventhal

Take a scuba Lesson. PADI offers scuba lessons and scuba diving certifications to scuba... - 0 views

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    They're teaching how to dive virutally for real life.
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