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James OReilly

The Myth of Virtual Worlds as "Global Phenomena" - Pixels and Policy - 3 views

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  • James OReilly on 13 Oct 09
     
    "The Myth of Virtual Worlds as "Global Phenomena""
Nergiz Kern

What learners love about virtual world learning - 2 views

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  • Nergiz Kern on 21 Nov 09
     
    What learners love about virtual world learning (Part 3 + 4)
Nergiz Kern

What learners hate about virtual world learning - 1 views

www.elearningfuture.com/e-about-virtual-world-learning

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    What learners hate about virtual world learning
Nergiz Kern

Making the virtual world learning experience better - 3 views

www.elearningfuture.com/rld-learning-experience-better

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  • Nergiz Kern on 21 Nov 09
     
    Making the virtual world learning experience better (Part 5)
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...
Kerry J

New World Notes: Other World Notes: InstantAction Converts 3D Games Into Web Browsers, ... - 0 views

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  • Kerry J on 25 Feb 09
     
    Update, 3:45pm: InstantAction General Manger Andy Yang confirms, "Yes, this technology could work with Second Life and we'd be happy to speak with them."
Eloise Pasteur

Technology Review: The Virtual World as Web Browser - 0 views

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  • nd since the outside content doesn't pass through Linden Lab's servers, it won't necessarily appear exactly the same way and at exactly the same time to all viewers. The company is currently working on allowing people to associate live Web content with so-called prims, the geometric building blocks that Second Life denizens use when creating virtual objects. Web content could then be stored on a portable object that a user's avatar can carry anywhere in the virtual world. "You can take it out and show it to someone without that land having to be yours," Miller says.
  • A virtual whiteboard, for example, might display a document, which two users could work on at the same time. In addition, he says, the company is building a programming interface that will allow other developers to import different types of media--Flash, for example--into Second Life without any change to the virtual world's underlying code. Miller says that companies or individuals will then have much more flexibility to use the types of media that suit their purposes within the world.
  • However, Rivers Run Red's Bovington says that Second Life tends to be the cheapest, most versatile way for a company or individual to try out Web integration. Although it has fewer security features, he says, it requires a smaller initial investment.
  • Eloise Pasteur on 16 Jul 08
     
    Page 2 of 2 - plans for integrating external content into SL
James OReilly

The Second Life of Second Life - Linden Labs - Involve 3D | Fast Company - 0 views

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  • companies should try to spark user-to-user discussion -- a surprisingly cost-effective option on Second Life.
  • West's epiphany came about by accident. One day, she was sitting on a Second Life art-gallery couch, talking to people from all over the world, and she had their rapt attention. "At that moment, I could have sold my couchmates on anything," she says. "I realized how powerful one-on-one engagement could be."
  • hypercreative users who wanted to interact.
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  • "I describe the mistake companies made like this: Imagine you've never been to Manhattan. You cross the George Washington Bridge, and someone hands you a guidebook. The first place you're going is not the Reebok store."
  • She calmly explained that the previous failures of Second Life were a result of not harnessing the medium appropriately
  • The Weather Channel, Colgate, and CareerBuilder.com have figured out how to interact with Second Life's virtual denizens in ways that impact real-world attitudes.
  • Why A-list companies are returning to the virtual world.
  • a place to engage customers.
  • West has rewritten the rules of corporate marketing on Second Life.
Ole C Brudvik

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

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  • 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]
Benjamin Jörissen

"Long Road Behind, Long Road Ahead" - Ph. Rosedale updates SL Mission Statement - 0 views

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  • But now we seem to have reached a point where the rapid addition of capabilities is no longer the key challenge, and indeed can be counterproductive.
  • talked about how all too often Linden Lab is now simply ‘in the way’
  • a company of almost 250 people
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  • one new platform feature that still seems really important to deploy given the rising use of SL for education and collaboration, and that is being able to browse the web easily from in-world
  • We aren’t there yet in terms of the interface for virtual worlds. There is now a small new internal team doing nothing else
  • keep opening SL up
  • Virtual worlds, in their broadest form, will be more pervasive that the web, and that means that their systems will need to be open: extended and operated by many people and companies, not just us.
Kerry J

Places tagged "education" - Sloog: Tagging the New World - 0 views

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  • Kerry J on 05 Jul 09
     
    Sloog is a bookmarking service for Second Life residents. It allows users to save favourite places and avatars and search for them later, both in-world with a simple plug-in (HUD) or via web browser at www.sloog.org
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
anonymous

Second Life: Official site of the 3D online virtual world - 0 views

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    Official website. Second Life is a 3D virtual world where uses can socialize, connect and create using voice and text chat.
Kerry J

Project Goals : Preserving Virtual Worlds - 1 views

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    Project Goals Our goal is to help develop mechanisms and methods for preserving digital games and interactive fiction by 1. developing basic standards for metadata and content representation; and 2. investigating preservation issues through a series of archiving case studies representing 1. early games and literature and 2. later interactive multi-player game environments. Key deliverables includedevelopment of metadata schema and wrapper recommendations, the archiving of key representative content and the development of generalizable archiving approaches for preserving this content. Our approach is intended to address both the pressing need to preserve the bits and available representation information of early and significant works now, and the need to begin to address more difficult issues surrounding long-term preservation of more recent multi-player interactive virtual worlds.
Shamblesguru Smith

WW/SL Conference in London 30 June09 - 8 views

3D Virtual Worlds: from Inset to classroom, a learning environment for all (Second Life and Virtual Worlds) 30 June 2009 London Designed for Educators Full details on the Google Doc at http://t...

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Nergiz Kern

imohax.com on blip.tv - 0 views

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    Tips, tutorials and general stuff about life and contributing as an avatar in Second Life, OpenSim, and other virtual worlds.
Fred Delventhal

A 'Second Life' For Educators : January 2009 : THE Journal - 0 views

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  • Fred Delventhal on 10 Jan 09
     
    Lauded as a learning tool, the popular virtual world is now being used by teachers for their own enrichment, providing them with a wealth of opportunities for collaboration, peer interaction, and sharing of resources.
Teachers Without Borders

Is there a Second Life for teaching? | Digital student | The Guardian - 0 views

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  • has been heavily colonised by higher education institutions since its genesis a little over five years ago. But how useful to educators is it?
  • The Media Zoo's Second Life island provides a space in which students, researchers and teachers can experiment with learning in a virtual world.
  • Salmon believes that Second Life constitutes a good example of "edutainment" - the idea that students are more likely to learn if they are first amused. An example of how this works in practice is the programme developed for archaeology students at Leicester. While learning about the ancient culture of the Sami, the indigenous people that live in the area we call Lapland, the students used Second Life to meet in a virtual representation of one of the tents that the ancient nomads would have used for worship.
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  • A recent Jisc/Mori report indicated that Second Life remained the least popular technological pursuit among students.
  • As many as 76% have never, or only rarely, stepped inside a virtual world, and some students polled thought that environments such as Second Life were "sad".
  • "If you are an art and design student, then you have a canvass without boundaries,"
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