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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 LabĀ® creators of Second LifeĀ® (SL). It enables its Residents to create content, interact with others, launch businesses, collaborate, educate, and more.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): New Numbers and New Transparency from Linden Lab/Second Life

Mark Oehlert

It certainly isnt Linden Labs responsibility to entertain you - that has never been their business model, all they have done is provide a 3D virtual world development platform where the only limitation (outside of number of prims) to what you can create is your own vision. Clay Shirky My latest additions to del.icio.us

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Mark is very late to the virtual worlds big news about SL and IBM.

Mark Oehlert

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. So after defending Linden Lab, here's the other side. between Stephen Downes and Sean Fitzgerald.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Voice Coming to Second Life

Mark Oehlert

Here are three scenarios that Linden puts out there: Scenario 1 - Residents can teleport to voice-enabled land, andautomatically start speaking, with the volume of speech modifiedaccording to their spatial relationship with others. According to this press release , Voice will be coming to Second Life in Q2 of 2007. books futures Web 2.0

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Great Ad for Newspaper Position (via Judy Brown)

Mark Oehlert

We are plainly witnessing a restructuring of the music and newspaper businesses, but their suffering isnā€™t unique, itā€™s prophetic."--Clay 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. Clay Shirky My latest additions to del.icio.us books futures Web 2.0

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Using Performance Results to Hire

Mark Oehlert

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??) We are plainly witnessing a restructuring of the music and newspaper businesses, but their suffering isnā€™t unique, itā€™s prophetic."--Clay

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LearnTrends: Backchannel

Jay Cross

Amy Graff: I teach students going into business (online). Holly MacDonald: We need to talk about outcomes and business results within our orgs/with clients, not focus on "how" - that is stuff that we talk about with each other. Asif: trust is best in non-competitive spaces/cultures. kelly_smith01: Reminds me a bit of Rummler.