15 Minutes of Fame: WoW 101 -- yes, WoW for college credit - 0 views
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"Warcraft: Culture, Gender and Identity," a credit-awarding class being offered at Inver Hills Community College in Minnesota. At the helm of this innovative course is Landon Pirius, Ph.D., also known as Nodnal the Gnome Warrior of Blackwater Raiders-US. No stranger to the convergence of WoW and academia, Dr. Pirius wrote his doctoral dissertation on "Massively Multiplayer Online Virtual Environments: A Potential Locale for Intercultural Training." We didn't go quite that deep in this interview; we simply visited with him about his wildly successful college course and how it's helping shape modern educational methodologies.
Places tagged "education" - Sloog: Tagging the New World - 0 views
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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
Scratch for Second Life - 1 views
Utherverse® Social Center - 0 views
ThinkBalm publishes business value study « ThinkBalm: Immersive Internet insi... - 0 views
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Nearly 30% of survey respondents (19 of 66) said their organization recouped their investment in immersive technologies in less than nine months, once their project(s) launched.
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The top motivations for investment in immersive technology in 2008 /1Q 2009 were enabling people in disparate locations to spend time together, increased innovation, and cost savings or avoidance.
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Early implementers are choosing the simplest use cases first. The most common were learning and training (80%, or 53 of 66 respondents focused on this use case) and meetings (76%, or 50 of 66 respondents). Some intend to take on more complex use cases in 2010 or 2011.
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SLExperiments / FrontPage - 0 views
FRANCE3D - Communauté francophone sur Second Life - S'inscrire en français à ... - 0 views
HUMlab - stream Virtual Macbeth - 0 views
Macquarie University - In Second Life - 0 views
Virtual Learning & Giving Newbies A Good First Experience - AVALON-project - 0 views
3D Virtual Mindmapping - AVALON-project - 0 views
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