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The Learning Registry is a new approach to capturing, sharing, and analyzing learning resource data to broaden the usefulness of digital content to benefit educators and learners. This is the information site for the Learning Registry. Find out what we are doing. Engage in the conversation. The Learning Registry makes federal learning resources, wherever they are stored, easier to find, easier to access and easier to integrate into learning environments around the country and world.

EVE Online is a battle, strategy simulation virtual world. EveOnline is centered around "New Eden," outer space in the distant future. Players are pilots of their own spaceships and can specialize in a myriad of skills. Here are the basics to getting started.

This Special Interest Group welcomes educators, administrators, and educational technologists who are interested in the development of any 3D Virtual Environment platform for connection and collaboration. We are a valuable pivot point for all things virtual environment. Sponsor of the Virtual Education Journal (VEJ).

In my previous post, I invited my fellow panelists to add their thoughts and impressions. Cynthia had a lot to share, so she gets her own guest post: "Here are my observations from our session... Steady as she goes makes sense, especially in the face of incredible growth, as Lisa noted.

Presenter: Craig Kapp, Researcher in Residence, Interactive Telecommunications Program, Adjunct Professor in Computer Science, New York University, USA Description: Imagine being able to rotate around the solar system, navigate through a data set in 3D, and interact with a simulated ecosystem - all from the palm of your hand.

Are students well prepared for future challenges? Can they analyse, reason and communicate effectively? Do they have the capacity to continue learning throughout life? The OECD Programme for International ...

Assessments in Virtual Worlds - Warm-up Exercise I Objective: Identify and discuss how educators are assessing learning in virtual worlds. Resources and Readings

This week, the topic of discussion is: Arathi Basin - Which strategies are most effective in this battleground for both rated and un-rated play? What tips, tricks and tactics have you discovered? What common mistakes have you witnessed? And More...

An alternative virtual world simulator, the New World Grid and OpenSim (OS) are new and provide help assistance to all newcomers.

Inworldz is a free virtual world based on the OpenSim software. Here are the basics to getting started.

A great newcomer, starter place for people in Second Life (SL). With tutorials and weekly classes on building, scripting and designing you'll be ready to hit the sandbox in no time. (And if you want to explore elsewhere, there are tour notecards throughout the building--Caledon and Steamlands on the lower floor, educational stuff on the upper)

The Virtual Pioneers Group on Facebook where further discussion and meetings dates are set up. Come Join Us.