Learning with e's

MAY 7, 2010

Today, Tim Handorf writes about the experiences of one university in Second Life. We all know that Second Life, the virtual reality world that has become basically indistinguishable from our increasingly unreal physical worlds, is a powerful tool for learning. The university paid good money for it, too.

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Kapp Notes

DECEMBER 8, 2006

If you want to know more about Second Life, you can jump into the world and attend classes sponsored by NETg. If you already know about Second Life, they are looking for instructors as this sign shows. a Linden is the currency of Second Life) -1.86

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Kapp Notes

MARCH 15, 2010

Terrence Linden discussing the new Second Life browser at VWBPE conference. The conference took place entirely in the virtual immersive environment of Second Life with a venue of presenters from around the world. Terrence Linden discussing the fact that 60% of top universities are in Second Life.

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Kapp Notes

JUNE 22, 2010

Venuegen has offered to help Second Life Enterprise users move from the SL Enterprise edition to the Venuegen platform for free. See Change is under way at ThinkBalm Linden Labs announces layoffs, appears to be contemplating shuttering Enterprise Edition efforts. And Massively , a blog that provides daily information about MMOs.

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Kapp Notes

JUNE 10, 2010

First, it looks as though Linden Labs, the developers behind Second Life, may be downsizing their corporate efforts ( Second Life Enterprise Edition ). Two sources indicate that Linden may actually be shutting down their Enterprise operations. This can't be making IBM happy.

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Mark Oehlert

OCTOBER 22, 2008

How about "Second Life gets its suit on!"? 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 "Hey, Its take your virtual world to work day!"? " Help me out here.

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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). Tags: Second Life 3D worlds 3D Book Tour. Registration for the conference is Free.

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Learning with e's

JULY 10, 2007

We have just been notified that we have been awarded a free land grant in Second Life to set up our own university health education centre. The grant runs until next July, and we have molto-Linden Dollars to spend on the installation. Hope you can join us - see you in Second Life! We're really excited!

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Mark Oehlert

MARCH 7, 2007

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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Kapp Notes

MAY 24, 2010

Linden Labs, makers of Second Life, announce the list of the Top Ten: 2010 Linden Prize Finalists. The prize recognizes a Second Life Resident, or team, for an innovative inworld project that improves the way people work, learn, and communicate in their daily lives outside of the virtual world.

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Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

JULY 1, 2006

Beth Goza (Linden Labs) showing off Second Life Originally uploaded by JoshB. Fellow Intel blogger Josh Bancroft, tinyscreensful.com, is at Gnomedex06. I'm very jealous. He has been blogging the event like crazy and I feel like I'm there. I was happy to here that SecondLife was there and thought you all might enjoy this.

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Kapp Notes

AUGUST 4, 2009

We started in Second Life and then we went to ProtoSphere and then to Centra and then back to Second Life. One really cool web site we visited allowed us to create automatic Second Life scripts. Hillary's page also has other great Second Life information. The class checks out the particle lab.

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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. Tags: Second Life 3D worlds Second Life 3D worlds. Abbott Bundy with his backpack and walking stick ready to embark on a story quest with his guides.

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Big Dog, Little Dog

DECEMBER 8, 2008

Second Life's Second Wind -Forbes. In what tech pundits at Gartner Research call the curve of hype and gloom, Linden Lab's virtual world, Second Life, has officially entered the gloom stage. But Mark Kingdon, Linden Lab's new chief executive argues that Second Life has some life in it yet.

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Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Some colleauges of mine have asked me to forward on this important announcement about Second Life Research. To participate, you must have a Second Life avatar and account, and access to a Second Life client on a PC. Participation will involve 2 online surveys and completion of a team exercise in Second Life.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 7, 2008

Arguably the best known virtual world today is Second Life. Anyone can download the Second Life Viewer from the Internet and set up a basic account for free. When the user logs into Second Life, they can use their mouse and keyboard to manipulate their avatar to walk, run, jump, dance, fly and teleport to other locations.

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

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.) For example an island is analogous to a server.

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eLearning Weekly

APRIL 2, 2008

I finally made my way into Second Life this week. I went in with a group of peers, and we were evaluating Second Life’s potential for holding training events. Why do I have to take on some goofy alias/username in Second Life? Is it a fad? Was it a fad? I wasn’t impressed. Down for maintenance.

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Kapp Notes

MARCH 26, 2010

It has been described as a lot more than Cisco’s WebEx meeting platform, and a lot less than Linden Labs’ Second Life virtual world. Virtual world provider, VenueGen , recently came out of private Beta to a public Beta (whatever that means) and loudly announced their virtual meeting platform. A man and his avatar.

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

Second Life has come under a lot of attack recently because "it's empty." One especially hard hitting article How Madison Avenue Is Wasting Millions on a Deserted Second Life complained that "there's the question of what people do when they get there. Although Linden Labs disputs that finding.

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Mark Oehlert

MARCH 8, 2007

| Main | Google and MSFT to Clash Over Copyrights » March 08, 2007 Voice Coming to Second Life Geez.finally right? According to this press release , Voice will be coming to Second Life in Q2 of 2007. typekey e-Clippings (a division of blogoehlert) Me in Second Life Blog powered by TypePad Member since 08/2003

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 5, 2010

Virtual worlds are a little bit more still in flux (while Linden Labs’ Second Life is going corporate as well, some of the other corporate-focused players are in some upheaval), but the value proposition is clear, and there are still plenty of opportunities. The devices are out there!

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Moodle Journal

JANUARY 30, 2007

Just lately a lot of my time has been taken up with Second Life, if you have yet to try virtual worlds then let me recommend the experience. My principle reason for the whole venture is to see how this new semi-immersed virtual reality can be utilised for teaching and learning, even as an extension to our continuing work with Moodle.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

the ability of Linden Labs to continue to expand Second Life capabilities as they grabbed market share). On the other hand, proprietary standards may provide the capital and motivation necessary to invest in the development of advanced features (e.g.

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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. Joe described an elite group of engineers at IBM that replaced their bi-annual face-to-face sessions with meetings in Second Life. Second Life became a great equalizer.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 23, 2007

Second Life ReadyGo Web Course Builder Desire2Learn Learning Environ. XStream Software Linden Research, Inc. Raptivity KnowledgePresenter Brainshark Presentations Respondus Elicitus WebEx Presentation Studio Vuepoint Content Creator Adobe Acrobat Connect (Pro/Br. RapidBuilder® (Software Simul. Vuepoint Adobe Systems, Inc.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 19, 2007

Critics of Second Life and other 3-D virtual worlds found online should prick their ears up at this one. 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.

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Mark Oehlert

OCTOBER 19, 2007

The good news is that Second Life ne Linden Lab, has announced a partnership with IBM to "develop new technologies and methodologies based on open standards that will help advance the future of 3D virtual worlds. Coverage from the Second Life Insider. So after defending Linden Lab, here's the other side.

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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. Here's the abstract: Second Life (SL) is currently the most mature and popular multi-user virtual world platform being used in education. Tags: MUVE Second Life social presence 3-D Virtual world.

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The Learning Circuits

MARCH 27, 2006

I did want to throw these numbers out though as a discussion starter.they are from Philip Rosedale , CEO and Founder of Linden Lab 'ne Second Life. 500 43% percent female 25% non-US Keep in mind - Second Life is NOT a game - it is a platform.

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Mark Oehlert

JULY 22, 2008

Second Life/Linden Lab is really just a Web-hosting company that lives in San Fran. Because the mimicry is so good. Maybe the Web can be some kind of Habermas-like salon but its not. It rides on commercial pipes owned by for-profit companies and we are largely at their whim.

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Tony Karrer

AUGUST 10, 2010

Liveblogging an Online Conference - Experiencing eLearning , April 17, 2008 Wendy Wickham asked a good question in the comments on TCC08: Second Life: Teaching Tips from the Virtual Frontier: Christy - are you using 2 computers (one for blogging, one for the conference ), or just one? So what’s the purpose of the conference ?

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 17, 2008

In Second Life: Professor Lilliehook. Overview of Second Life. In-world economy of Linden Dollars. Library of Congress has a Second Life. Second Life & virtual worlds are a new movement, but SL isn’t the first world and won’t be the last. Why Second Life Education.

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Mark Oehlert

MARCH 5, 2007

typekey e-Clippings (a division of blogoehlert) Me in Second Life Blog powered by TypePad Member since 08/2003 Its funny and cute but at base it actually tells you an awful lot about the job, the town and the people youd be working with. The Lewin Links This link should take you to the page I have on del.icio.us

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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??) This year's event has an educational Second Life component. Contact me if you are interested in attending.

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Kapp Notes

MARCH 1, 2010

From Whyville The Second Life economy totaled $567 million US dollars in 2009 - 65% growth over 2008. From 2009 End of Year Second Life Economy Wrap up (including Q4 Economy in Detail) In Second Life, the total amount of virtual currency in circulation reached L$6.95

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Learning Visions

MAY 22, 2007

Getting an Informal M.Ed Wendy Wickham This work by Cammy Bean is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.

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