Kapp Notes

MARCH 4, 2010

The Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Conference (VWBPE) will feature more than 150 presentations and a keynote address by Mark Kingdon, the CEO of Linden Lab® creators of Second Life® (SL). We expect more than 5,000 attendees at VWBPE10 ( www.vwbpe.org ) with participants from every continent,” she continued.

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Kapp Notes

MARCH 4, 2010

Yesterday, I had the privilege of touring a fascinating project in the 3D virtual immersive environment of Second Life. What better place to start than in a 3D Virtual Immersive Environment. Abbott Bundy with his backpack and walking stick ready to embark on a story quest with his guides. A better explanation was provided by Marty.

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Kapp Notes

AUGUST 4, 2009

Visit Hillary Mason's AutoScript page to create your own Second Life scripts without having to know anything about the Linden Scripting Language. The Particle Laboratory contained all types of interesting tips and techniques for incorporating particles into your Second Life environment. The class checks out the particle lab.

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Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Participate in a study that examines the experiences of individuals collaborating in virtual environments. If you desire, payment may be made in Linden dollars (L$),e.g., Some colleauges of mine have asked me to forward on this important announcement about Second Life Research. For participating you will receive US$20.

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

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 Service Provider and Linden Labs (the company behind Second Life.)

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

Although Linden Labs disputs that finding. Once you put in several hours flailing around learning how to function in Second Life, there isn't much to do." Then the Yankee group made a statement that the average person in Second Life only spends 12 minutes a month in world.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 7, 2008

A virtual world is a computer-generated environment that more-or-less replicates the real world. Its currency is the Linden Dollar (L$) which avatars can use to buy virtual goods and even virtual property. Linden Dollars are bought with real money and can be exchanged back again. Which world? The virtual world.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 23, 2007

Second Life ReadyGo Web Course Builder Desire2Learn Learning Environ. XStream Software Linden Research, Inc. Impatica for PowerPoint KnowledgePlanet Firefly RapideL Lectora (OpenOffice-Impress/T. RapidBuilder® (Software Simul. Harbinger Knowledge KnowledgePresenter Brainshark, Inc. Respondus Harbinger Knowledge WebEx Communicatio.

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Mark Oehlert

OCTOBER 22, 2008

What we have are multiple channels ( Virtual World News , Massively ), including official ones from River Runs Red and Linden Lab , bringing us the news that Immersive Workspaces 2.0 has launched. This news has a couple of important points I think.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 19, 2007

One of the main criticisms of Second Life is that it takes so damn long to set up a 3-D environment, and for many moving around is a little like learning to walk all over. Whatever has been said already, it looks like Linden Labs (and There.com) have a serious rival.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 20, 2009

He takes a critical approach to the evaluation of Second Life as a learning environment. Through an in-depth examination of SL, this article explores its potential and the barriers that multi-user virtual environments present to educators wanting to use immersive 3-D spaces in their teaching.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

He ran Michael Milken’s Knowledge Universe Interactive Studio before he became VP, Platform & Technology for Second Life at Linden Labs. One of my aspirations for this year has been to find a way to embed what we know about learning process into social business environments. He did early stuff with Atari, EPYX, SEGA, and Leapfrog.

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eLearning Weekly

APRIL 2, 2008

Sure, the graphics are decent, and you can do tons of things in the environment, but we ran into several roadblocks that hindered the experience. Or does the environment provide too many distractions and too much fun? I contacted Linden Labs for assistance, but they wouldn’t help me unless I paid for support.

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Learning Visions

MAY 22, 2007

Key Finding #4: Gaming has potential, but growth likely slow Expense prevents people from using them "Games" has negative connotation in corporate environment Serious gaming -- still not quite the best game Chris Howard calls them "advanced simulations" Trend towards collaborative gaming platforms (SecondLife) -- simulate a real life environment Emergence (..)

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 16, 2008

There are many places to visit in Berlin, including Alexanderplatz, the excellent Berlin Zoo in Budapesterstrasse, the Reichstag building, The Brandenburg Gate , Unter-den-Linden and of course, the Checkpoint Charlie museum. The first thing that stikes you about this Catalonian city is the scale of the built environment.

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Mark Oehlert

MARCH 8, 2007

e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « New Numbers and New Transparency from Linden Lab/Second Life | Main | My Blog is Worth $66, 615.72 (any buyers??) could be good.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Moderator (Harold Jarche): all internal departments are "artificial" boundaries - need to rethink roles in a networked environment. leslie lannan: @littleasklab Linden Labs new HR platform for 3D and whuffie points has some big implications for performance reviews. Holly MacDonald: focus on performance and outcomes.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 17, 2008

In-world economy of Linden Dollars. Q: Community college environment is more concrete and don’t see this as part of their academic environment. She thinks its a little ahead of its time–we’re catching up, but it’s slow. Free software, but land costs. Grid: how land is laid out. Archipelagos for land.

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Learning Visions

JULY 10, 2007

I review my list of elearning blog feeds every morning and it would be easy to think that the elearning world is obsessed with SL/Virtual Worlds and Personal Learning Environments as the next-generation LMS. Its especially interesting to us in Brighton as Linden Labs are opening a development office here! 3:17 PM Karl Kapp said.

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Mark Oehlert

FEBRUARY 28, 2008

Second, look at some of the quotes from the RFI and/or associated Web site: "There is increasing recognition that these synthetic environments can serve as powerful “hands-on” tools for teaching a range of complex subjects." First, its a request from NASA for an MMOG. Prima facie interesting. 425 million IN THE FOURTH QUARTER.

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