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TCC08: Second Life: Teaching Tips from the Virtual Frontier

Experiencing eLearning

Tips for Teaching in a Virtual World. Virtual classrooms don’t have to have desks in rows. Site to compare virtual worlds provided in chat: [link]. The world keeps changing, so it affects how objects behave. She is more social in-world than in RL. People are interested in avatars, sense of self.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): "Virtual Worlds Platform Matrix" (Virtual Worlds Weekly)

Mark Oehlert

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!! T2 Subscribe to e-Clippings (a division of blogoehlert) gapingvoid Understanding Comics Quoth he.

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Learning in 3D Blog Book Tour: Success

Kapp Notes

Books were sold, buzz was created, consulting and speaking engagements obtained and the collective conscious of the learning community was raised in the area of 3D virtual worlds for learning. And a group has created an awesome virtual book club to discuss the book. We created a Facebook page that has now over 500 fans.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Virtual Worlds Management Industry Forecast 2008

Mark Oehlert

What challenges do you expect 2008 to bring for the virtual worlds industry? Also examined in the report are the 2008 business goals for many of the leading companies in the industry. We asked participants the following questions: 1. What are your top 3 trend predictions for 2008? What business goals have you set for 2008?

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Croquet Virtual World Demo

Mark Oehlert

| 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.

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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. where I am linking to all the Lewin stuff I find.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Massive Catch-Up Issue #1413 (Games, Virtual Worlds, banking concepts and more)

Mark Oehlert

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.