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Staying in a Hilton Next Week and the Training Involved

Kapp Notes

Once again, I will be presenting with Matthew Monahan (see Second Life Training Presentation ) The description of the presentation is below. You should have some familiarity with Second Life and have visited the application once or twice to gain some initial comfort with the environment.

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Virtual Hospitals Protocol

Kapp Notes

In an article titled Can Second Life help teach doctors to treat patients? According to the article: After the avatars enter the computer-generated hospital, they check in at a reception desk, put on an access badge, and then stop by professor Martyn Partridge's office to get their assignment.

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Where is Everybody?

Kapp Notes

Here is an interesting article called Virtual World Marketing: Lots of Companies, Few Vistors (So Far). The real value of being in Second Life or any 3D synchronous learning environment now is, as one comment stated: Companies aren't getting into Second Life because of what it is today but what it will become in the very near future….and

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Allison Rossett: ELearning Isn’t What You Think It Is – Not Yet #tk10

Learning Visions

Recap of her recent article for ASTD: e-Learning – What’s Old is New Again When you say you’re doing elearning what are you doing? Authentic, realistic and immersive, like Second Life Include access to e-coaches Include expectations that employees will participate in online discussions as follow up to a class. [

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20,000 US Hackers Wanted.Creating the Computer Elite (or Failing at it)

Kapp Notes

There have already been s tories of terrorist armies attacking residents in Second Life and of terrorists using these spaces for practice of physical world attacks. Recently Newsweek ran an article titled Educating Elite Hackers. Or, more realistically, the laptops are not integrated into the lessons effectively.

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Embedding social learning into texts and enterprise software

Jay Cross

He ran Michael Milken’s Knowledge Universe Interactive Studio before he became VP, Platform & Technology for Second Life at Linden Labs. You talk about the lessons. Joe described an elite group of engineers at IBM that replaced their bi-annual face-to-face sessions with meetings in Second Life.

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Avoiding Virtual World Mistakes

Kapp Notes

Here is a great article highlighting some "lessons learned" for creating a successful virtual world presence called Corporate virtual worlds implode at hyper speed 1) The transition from a traditional web presence to a virtual world presence marks the transition from webpages to web places and a successful virtual presence starts with people.