Archive for 'Second Life'

Cool Second Life Happening:UW VIBE Future InfoExpo Recruitment

Posted on 24. Jun, 2011 by .

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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 [...]

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Using Virtual Worlds in the Conspiracy to Create an ah-ha Moment

Posted on 04. Mar, 2010 by .

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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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Creating Learning Spaces in Second Life

Posted on 28. May, 2008 by .

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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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Second Life Pictures from Webinar

Posted on 02. Apr, 2008 by .

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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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ASTD Second Life Webinar

Posted on 21. Feb, 2008 by .

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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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Second Life Training Presentation

Posted on 07. Feb, 2008 by .

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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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Fair and Balanced

Posted on 01. Feb, 2008 by .

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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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Second Life Resourses: Supporting NCTT Opening Address

Posted on 04. Jan, 2008 by .

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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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The Office in Second Life…CNN in Second Life

Posted on 14. Nov, 2007 by .

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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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Much Happening in Second Life

Posted on 07. Nov, 2007 by .

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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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