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eLearning: Interesting Weekly Finds #5

Upside Learning

Alternatives to Second Life. Karl Kapp puts some alternatives to Second Life on his blog. Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art — and share your creations on the web. Windows Mobile for Gaming.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Voice Coming to Second Life

Mark Oehlert

e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « My Blog is Worth $66, 615.72 (any buyers??) | Main | Google and MSFT to Clash Over Copyrights » March 08, 2007 Voice Coming to Second Life Geez.finally right? Of course for some , itll just mean a quicker way to get bored.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): "1st Virtual World Shootout.Forterras OLIVE Platform Smokes Second Life" (Ambient Connections)

Mark Oehlert

Forterra Systems OLIVE (On-Line Interactive Virtual Environment) platform was compared to Second Life and won three of the four application categories (best for Education,Enterprise, Training / Simulation), with Second Life winning forBrands/Marketing in votes by the audience." books futures Web 2.0

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): New Numbers and New Transparency from Linden Lab/Second Life

Mark Oehlert

What kills me though as I read t he comments on the TechCrunch post , comments like " I just get so damn bored walking around second life.that needs to change " and " I explored the second life world for a week to try and understand the hype " - is how people that are so tuned into Web 2.0

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3D Virtual Worlds are NOT Dead, Dying or Disappearing

Kapp Notes

First contrary to the belief of many, Second Life is not dead or dying. They are a partner with Microsoft in a big way, they have an immersive, social, learning & collaboration enterprise environment available in the SaaS cloud. Here are three indicators that I see. Classes in 3D Worlds and About 3D Worlds.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): iPhone: The Music Video (NY Times)

Mark Oehlert

e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « Bandwagon Alert!! We are plainly witnessing a restructuring of the music and newspaper businesses, but their suffering isn’t unique, it’s prophetic."--Clay I got my iPhone! Clay Shirky My latest additions to del.icio.us books futures Web 2.0

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: The Auditory Advantage

Learning Visions

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Here are a few things that I’ve tried in the last couple of years that I’ve pinched directly from my years in front of the Playstation: The use of music to change emotional state; to bypass conscious processing of information.

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