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Second Life and movies have had a history. In my post Second Life at the Movies, I discuss the possibility of a full-feature length movie being created in Second Life. Well it has finally happened as a documentary. Filmmaker Douglas Gayeton has created a documentary-style film about an avatar’s search for “the creator.” In the […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Today I am presenting on the topic of Designing Problem-Based Learning Environments in a 3D On Line Virtual World at the 19th International Conference on Teaching and Learning. And I am receiving an Award for Innovative Excellence in Teaching,Learning and Technology (I was nominated by Bloomsburg University for the award, I am honored.) More impotantly, […]
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Leave a Comment (1) →Thanks to Tony O’Driscoll at Learning Matters! for pointing this out. He let everyone know on his blog posting The i-web Singularity Redux that at Virtual Worlds III this week the announcement was made that Second Life has worked out a deal with IBM to move Second Life behind the IBM corporate firewall. If this […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →A few weeks ago, I was interviewed along with a number of other folks for an online article about the corporate implications of virtual worlds. The resulting article is titled Online Communities Go Corporate:What Can Virtual Worlds Do For Your SME? The article, appearing in the online publication Processor, describes how different organizations are replicating, […]
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Leave a Comment (2) →In the future this… May morph into this…Here is a piece from a software review I did for the March/April issue of APICS Magazine… There is a Second Life factory called the Double Happiness Jeans factory. The factory specializes in customized jeans. The production process at the manufacturing plant enables a customer to customize an […]
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Leave a Comment (3) →Tony O’Driscoll explaining his “Seven Sensibilities of 3D Worlds” in Second Life class on MSIT Island. If one of your New Year’s Resolutions is to learn more about 3D worlds, check out the workshop being done by Tony O’Driscoll who recently joint the ranks of academia. You can learn more about Tony’s workshop on his […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Bart Pursel of Virtual Learning Worlds and an alumni of our program presented on Virtual Worlds. He defined a Virtual World as a computer-based environment intended for users to inhabit and interact via avatars in a 3D represented world. Bart gave a list of different 3D worlds and provided a great comparison between a Internet […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Here are some thoughts I have about designing a 3D learning event…please add other thoughts…I am working on a paper about designing learning events for 3D worlds and welcome input from others concerning the proper design for these types of learning events. Prior to Class Make sure everyone can access the 3D world prior to […]
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