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Barbara Lindsey

SLanguages is the conference for virtual world language learning - SLanguages.net - 0 views

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secondlife conference languages

shared by Barbara Lindsey on 11 Oct 10 - Cached
  • Barbara Lindsey on 11 Oct 10
     
    Free 24 hour conference on lang ed held in 2nd life Oct 15-16
Barbara Lindsey

Second Life: Do You Need One? (Part 3) : July 2007 : THE Journal - 0 views

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secondlife virtualworlds

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  • The typical "independent" nature of educators: little sharing of real learning and the tendency to keep the best ideas to yourself in the hope that they will turn into something worth money (egos);
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After Frustrations in Second Life, Colleges Look to New Virtual Worlds - Technology - T... - 0 views

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virtual worlds secondlife

shared by Barbara Lindsey on 18 Feb 10 - Cached
  • It turns out that virtual worlds are at their best when they look nothing like a traditional campus. Professors are finding that they can stage medical simulations, guide students through the inside of cell structures, or pre­sent other imaginative teaching exercises that cannot be done in a physical classroom.
  • OpenSimulator, and it is essentially a free knockoff of Second Life
  • The most ambitious attempt to build an education-friendly virtual world is a project called Open Cobalt,
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  • led by researchers at Duke University
  • Any college with a spare server and some staff time can use the OpenSimulator software and play God to a virtual world.
  • The main request is the ability to limit access to students in a course, which the group can do.
  • To counter these new options, Linden Lab is testing a product that would let colleges install a world on their own servers and limit access to students and professors. Case Western is among those trying it out for its virtual campus.
  • Maybe 3-D online environments are just one of those technologies that sound cool but never fully materialize, like personal jetpacks. Trying to make the World Wide Web look like the real world misses the new kinds of things the Internet can do.
  • "We don't ­really understand what we can do and what we can't do with this tool for education yet, so it's more exploratory now," said Peter J. Ludlow, a philosophy professor at Northwestern University who studies virtual worlds. "We know there's something here, but we don't know what yet."
  • Barbara Lindsey on 18 Feb 10
     
    It turns out that virtual worlds are at their best when they look nothing like a traditional campus. Professors are finding that they can stage medical simulations, guide students through the inside of cell structures, or pre sent other imaginative teaching exercises that cannot be done in a physical classroom.
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