Archive for Second Life
Have you ever had trouble sorting your stuff? Would you like to know who in SL might be a good social connection for you? Need to solve a problem, but don’t know how to organize the information? Researchers from the University of Washington Information School are conducting a research study investigating exciting and useful alternative […]
Continue Reading →Abbott Bundy with his backpack and walking stick ready to embark on a story quest with his guides. Yesterday, I had the privilege of touring a fascinating project in the 3D virtual immersive environment of Second Life. It is called The Virtual Worlds Story Project with the tag line “Weaving the Narrative Threads of Our […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →This morning I received an email message from, Fiona, who provided me with a really interesting link to 50 Tips and Tricks to Create a Learning Space in Second Life. Actually, it is really a listing of great SL resources and ideas broken down by different categories such as: Training Purposes–Employers and educators who want […]
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Leave a Comment (1) →A few days ago, I presented a webinar titled “Second Life in Education” for NETWORKS which is is a National Science Foundation Resource Center that is focused on the advancement of semiconductor, automated manufacturing, and electronics education. NETWORKS has a Digital Repository that contains classroom ready resources that are current, relevant, and easy to implement […]
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Leave a Comment (2) →Yesterday, Tony O’Driscoll, Matthew Monahan and I gave an ASTD Webinar on the topic of Second Life. We talked about it a little and gave a tour. One of the attendees was Tom Werner who wrote a nice post about his participation in the webinar called Simple vs Complex Spaces. Tom has written a great […]
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Leave a Comment (2) →Yesterday, graduate student Matt Monahan and I presented at the Training 2008 conference. Our topic was “Learning in 3D.” We had a great group of attendees who stayed with us for the entire 3 hours with no break. We had a lot to cover from how to navigate in Second Life to simple scripting with […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →So the other day after a presentation, I was asked “you are so positive about this stuff, there has to be some negatives. Can you explain the negatives of Second Life.” Aah, I LOVE half empty people! (oops, I mean people who view the world from the perspective of looking at a glass with water […]
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Leave a Comment (1) →This morning I am giving an opening address the the National Center for Telecommunications Technologies Information and Communications/Convergence Conference at the Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA on the topic of Second Life so I wanted to provide some resources: Second Life (the web site) Second Life Wiki (a wiki with “how to” information and […]
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Leave a Comment (2) →Here is a very funny video put together by a grad student of mine about the tv show The Office and Second Life…The Office is a really funny show and this clip is funny. Check it out. It is very “LOL” as the gamers would say. As you may or may not know…CNN now has […]
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Leave a Comment (2) →Yesterday, I presented with Tony O’Driscoll at the DevLearn event virtually. Assisting us expertly was Matt Monahan my graduate assistant who has been helping me with many Second life tasks. Neither Tony or I could make it in person so we presented virtually. Which, of course, was a perfect use of Second Life. We provided […]
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