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TCC09: Digital Learning Environments: Context Sensitive and Imaginative Classes in Second Life

Experiencing eLearning

Liveblogged notes from the TCC online conference. Summary: “Ready to teach with Second Life, but not sure how to begin? Come prepared to have fun as we explore how to design learning activities for use in Second Life. Conferences. Economy–give students parcels or have them create businesses.

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Second Life and Learning - Tony O'Driscoll

Tony Karrer

I'm sure that once you add presence-based audio (meaning you can hear people who are close to you) that WebEx style systems will begin to look more like second life so you can have easier break-out sessions. So, in a couple of years, we would expect to have virtual conferences, virtual meetings in these kinds of environments.

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Big Virtual World Event on the Horizon

Kapp Notes

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). Registration for the conference is Free.

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Year End Musings, Reflections, Predictions and Thoughts: Part One

Kapp Notes

I was curious one day when the blog for Teleplace was not up dated for months and gave a shout to Maria Korolov over at Hyergrid Business who then wrote an article about Teleplace shutting down. It seems that when they launched the Open Qwaq project, it was basically a closing out of the commercial end of the business.

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Volatility in 3D Virtual World Industry

Kapp Notes

See my analysis of the recognition in What it means that MS LifeScience Award Goes to 3D Virtual Conference Design James A. Venuegen has offered to help Second Life Enterprise users move from the SL Enterprise edition to the Venuegen platform for free.

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

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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. Clay Shirky My latest additions to del.icio.us