Tags: second life
Tags: second life
What Educational Question Is Second Life the Answer To?
Posted Friday November 21, 2008, 8:02 am, Over one day old at Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes ~ OLDaily RSS 2.0
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What Happens When Google Kills Your Student Project: The Death of Google Lively
Posted Friday November 21, 2008, 8:02 am, Over one day old at Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes ~ OLDaily RSS 2.0
Major price increases at Second Life. Google's Lively being shut down. Once again, we see the risk of putting our projects into the hands of private third-party entities. Vicki A. Davis, Cool Cat Teacher Blog, November 20, 2008 [Tags: Second Life, Google, Project Based Learning] [Link] [Comment]
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Linden Labs and IBM Break the Metaverse Barrier, Teleport Across Virtual Worlds
Posted Tuesday July 8, 2008, 4:04 am, Over one day old at Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes ~ OLDaily RSS 2.0
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Novel idea: actually learn from users!
Posted Monday July 7, 2008, 5:34 am, Over one day old at Lee's new-look Better Communication Results blog
Examples range from the selling of advertising inside video games to dozens of small, experimental corporate-sponsored spaces in virtual worlds such as Second Life, to the fully realized first-person shooter America’s Army, developed as a recruitment tool for the U.S. Army.
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Proving the Potential of Virtual Worlds
Posted Saturday July 5, 2008, 12:48 pm, Over one day old at OLDaily
I was part of a panel in Second Life on Monday, and what struck me was how it took place in a virtual lecture hall, and one by one, we all went up to the podium, showed some slides, and lectured to an audience of avatars seated in virtual chairs.
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Comments On Proving the Potential of Virtual Worlds
Posted Saturday July 5, 2008, 12:48 pm, Over one day old at OLDaily
Parts of it function rather like a museum, but the pooping llamas leave an impression, as does the giant cell, and the ability to rapidly replicate years of Mendel's work in a way that is far more engaging than any web-based simulation I've ever seen are all strong positives for the platform.
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Gary Hayes on the future of participative creativity
Posted Saturday June 28, 2008, 6:36 am, Over one day old at Lee's new-look Better Communication Results blog
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Cisco chief is keen supporter of virtual worlds
Posted Wednesday June 25, 2008, 7:04 am, Over one day old at Lee's new-look Better Communication Results blog
Says Computerworld : In his summary at the end of the 25-minute press conference, Chambers said that all kinds of virtual interfaces, including YouTube, wikis and virtual reality, "will forever change business models and entertainment. … We may disagree on the time frame.
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Opensim/Drupal Integration for Education
Posted Wednesday June 25, 2008, 3:34 am, Over one day old at OLDaily
Dave Cormier has done some very bleeding-edge work in educational technology using the Drupal open source community management system as well as OpenSim (an open source version of Second Life). He is currently looking for help, so if you have any experience with OpenSim, contact Dave.
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A Conversation with Jean-Claude Bradley About Open Notebook Science and the Educational Uses of Second Life
Posted Tuesday June 24, 2008, 3:34 am, Over one day old at Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes ~ OLDaily RSS 2.0
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