Kapp Notes

JULY 21, 2008

Here is a great article about how learning about other cultures in a 3D world like Second Life can translate into the real world. At the Dubai Women's College, professors saw an opportunity to use Second Life to connect students with the world outside their tiny Arabian Gulf state.

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 5, 2007

Wednesday, September 05, 2007 Continuing in Second Life Im still at it. Slogging away in Second Life. Since I last posted, Ive been back "in-world" a couple of times. link] -- if youre in Second Life you can also try searching for Meteora or NOAA Virtual Island ). Department of Commerce).

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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. Participate in a study that examines the experiences of individuals collaborating in virtual environments. To participate, you must have a Second Life avatar and account, and access to a Second Life client on a PC.

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Learning Visions

JULY 13, 2007

Friday, July 13, 2007 Second Life and Gender Theres been a great conversation about Second Life and gender and the bleeding edge in the comments on my recent post. Should we be looking at alternative virtual worlds such as Protosphere ? Be sure to read and ponder and offer in your own two cents.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 13, 2007

Monday, August 13, 2007 Second Life Backlash and Controversy The Second Life naysayers seems to be gaining ground lately. And Im not implying that Im a Second Life naysayer. A thoughtful post on one educators experience in Second Life (and a nice historical perspective). IT Security Risks 2.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 24, 2007

Friday, August 24, 2007 Building Community in Second Life: Renaissance Island As you know, Ive been trying to walk-the-talk and experiment a bit with Second Life, role my virtual sleeves up and see what all the fuss is about. Manish.there certainly is a lot of interest in Second Life and a lot of skepticism.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 3, 2007

Friday, August 03, 2007 My First Second Life Experience Not so good, I must say. I starting talking with another newbie for about 2 seconds when we were accosted. Apparently, the same thing happens in World of Warcraft. Its virtual, but I didnt feel so safe all of a sudden. Its sort of me-ish. Coage Boucher.

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Kapp Notes

JUNE 25, 2010

Air Force’s Global Learning Forum (GLF) group in Second Life at Huffman Prairie Chi. GLF represents a collaborative group of educators from across government and private universities and organizations exploring and prototyping the use of open 3D worlds in support of learning. It was a great event.

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Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Here are the links and resources from my presentation at the “Learning in Different Worlds&# conference in Lahti, Findland and a small recap which will be expanded later. And, I got to hang out with people who have been impacting virtual immersive environments in a big way for a long time. View more presentations from Karl Kapp.

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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 ). The story seems to have broken in a number of places, Virtual Worlds News reports that Linden Lab Lays Off 30 Perfect Of Staff. Interesting development.

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Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 14, 2010

The planning for the meeting started some time ago and the innovative learning in 3D folks practiced what we preached and had our planning meetings in 3D virtual spaces. Greater Philadelphia ASTD members learn about 3D collaboration and learning in virtual worlds. One such meeting is shown below. An interesting approach.

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Mark Oehlert

JULY 3, 2007

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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Kapp Notes

MARCH 16, 2011

Working in the space of 3D virtual immersive environments (VIE) is a small, but dedicated group of people who are creating some really wonderful and powerful learning. The other day I had a chance to virtually catch up with Andrew Hughes who is the president of Designing Digitally, Inc. Andrew’s company, Designing Digitally, Inc.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 29, 2010

My Experience in Virtual Worlds A few years ago, when Second Life was first coming onto the scene as the next big thing, I sat in my office and scratched my head. I dabbled in SL a bit after that, chronicled my Second Life experiences on my blog, but I haven’t been “in world” in probably two years.

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Big Dog, Little Dog

DECEMBER 8, 2008

"Two British researchers have just completed a study of undergraduate students that found "many young students are far from being the epitomic global, connected, socially-networked technologically-fluent digital native who has little patience for passive and linear forms of learning." Second Life's Second Wind -Forbes.

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Kapp Notes

JANUARY 18, 2011

Will Wright was quoted in a post at New World Notes Will Wright on the Future of User-Generated Online Game Worlds (Circa 2002) as saying: The main limitations on the MMORPG market really seem to be self-imposed: Most developers can’t shake the fantasy/sci-fi mindset or conceive of an alternative way of playing.

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Mark Oehlert

FEBRUARY 27, 2008

Katie Salen) | Main | The Invention of Good Games:Understanding Learning Design in Commercial Video Games (Katrin Becker thesis) » February 27, 2008 Worlds for Study: Invitation - Virtual Worlds for Studying Real-World Business (and Law, and Politics, and Sociology, and.) (by books futures Web 2.0

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 14, 2009

This preliminary study uses examples of digital user-generated content, specifically digital stories and movies, to examine the types of information that appear to convey effectively. Need a wider range of user-generated content–Second Life has a wider range of possibilities. Another study: They created Monticello in Sims.

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Mark Oehlert

JULY 3, 2007

e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « "1st Virtual World Shootout.Forterras OLIVE Platform Smokes Second Life" (Ambient Connections) | Main | TED Videos - Watch em all!! stuff Here are some of my main del.icio.us books futures Web 2.0

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Immersive Learning includes the concepts of games, online Simulations and Virtual Learning Worlds. There is still going to be a steep learning curve for virtual worlds. A survey study by SRI indicated that 58% of the respondents has a strong interest in how virtual world technologies can be deployed in the workplace.

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Kapp Notes

JUNE 28, 2010

Learners studying to be FDA inspectors could be teleported from one manufacturing line to another to see the difference between inspecting a plant that creates medical devices versus one that creates ingestible drugs. The learner can then get behind the wheel of a virtual car and see and feel the effects of trying to drive while "drunk."

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Mark Oehlert

MARCH 8, 2007

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? According to this press release , Voice will be coming to Second Life in Q2 of 2007.

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Usable Learning

MARCH 25, 2014

but one that’s already out in the world is Koreen Pagano’s Immersive Learning: Designing for Authentic Practice: It’s great, for a few different reasons: Reason 1: The subtitle — Designing for Authentic Practice. Remember when everything L&D was going to start happening in Second Life?

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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. British Journal of Educational Technology, 40 (3), 414-426.

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Kapp Notes

JUNE 23, 2008

Here is an example of using a 3D world as a back drop for creating a video to highlight desired changes or to show a "What-If" scenario. To that end, an entire hospital was built in Second Life that filled an entire sim. Check out the operating room in 3D.

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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

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Everyone wants to do a study comparing serious games/immersive learning simulations with classroom or online instruction to see which is better. Please, we’ve done comparative research studies for decades and always found the same result, well designed instruction, no matter what the medium is effective.

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Mark Oehlert

JUNE 25, 2008

What challenges do you expect 2008 to bring for the virtual worlds industry? and check this one as well e-Places to visit copyright game studies anthropology mobile learning e-learning things you should read stat counter View My Stats kaboodle Oehlerts Book. We asked participants the following questions: 1. books futures Web 2.0

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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. He told me about an iPad app he’s working on that will support study groups. Imagine you’re studying, say, Roman History. Most preferred the virtual meetings.

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Mark Oehlert

OCTOBER 19, 2007

. | Main | "A Vision of Students Today" from the Creators of "The Machine is Us/ing Us" » October 19, 2007 Mark is very late to the virtual worlds big news about SL and IBM. So yes, Ive fallen a bit behind in my virtual world reading but that just means I get to see all the interesting stuff all at once. " Yea!

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Facilitador

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

The success of “The Legend of Zelda,” “World of Warcraft,” “Second Life” and “Candy Crush” bears witness to this. Because of that success, gamification — the strategy of bringing elements of a game to real-world experiences — has become a buzzword in the learning world. Games are masters at engaging us.

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Mark Oehlert

SEPTEMBER 24, 2007

| Main | We Lost A Good One Folks.Well Miss You Philip » September 24, 2007 Croquet Virtual World Demo The development of multiple platforms for virtual worlds like Croquet speaks, I think to the power of these environments to form new mediums. Beautiful video BTW. stuff Here are some of my main del.icio.us

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Learning with e's

MAY 29, 2009

Recently, psychologists have been getting quite excited about multi-user virtual environments. Several studies have drawn the same conclusion: that people behave similarly in virtual worlds using avatars as they do in real life. Evidence for social influence in the virtual world. and Gardner, W.

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Mark Oehlert

OCTOBER 31, 2007

e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « Universal Widgets | Main | "US House approves extension to Net tax ban" (Washington Post) » October 31, 2007 How about a Virtual Room instead of a Virtual World? Back to Webware again.So Back to Webware again.So books futures Web 2.0

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Learning with e's

MARCH 18, 2011

One of the new skills that teachers will need to master in the future will be the ability to manage virtual learning spaces. The use of web based resources and networked computers enable students to enter worlds previously inaccessible, allowing them to explore within that imagined world we call 'cyberspace'.

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Mark Oehlert

JUNE 11, 2008

Main | Help Firefox 3 Set a Guiness World Record!! An arts degree is now perhaps the hottestcredential in the world of business." Grockit Gets $8M Series B for "Massively Multi Player Online Learning Game" U pdated virtual world data for Q2 2008 : Nice visual of the virtual world universe.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 24, 2009

Learning in Immersive worlds: A review of game-based learning. For a Better World: Digital Game and the Social Change Sector. 36 Learning Games to Change the World. Where games, sims and 3D worlds meet- Clive on Learning, June 24, 2007. World Bank: Serious Games and Urban Planning, October 30, 2006. Lego Games.

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