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Big Virtual World Event on the Horizon

Kapp Notes

Here is a press release about one big virtual world event where Tony and I will be speaking about Learning in 3D. 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).

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Expelled: Woodbury's Second Life Silencing

Learning with e's

Most recently, the brick-and-mortar university Woodbury was booted off Second Life ā€”thousands of students were affectedā€”by the virtual world's moderators, a company called Linden Lab. Linden Lab has remained largely silent in the press, a silence that has infuriated many. He welcomes your comments at his email Id: tim.handorf.20@googlemail.com.

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Online Educa (4) Opening keynotes Ć¢?? Informal Learning Blog

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Next, Dr. Mitra lodged a PC in a wall in a community where no one had ever spoken English. s written in books or the press. s one professor against a community of thousands, not a lone teenager. The next day a friend and I walked down Unter den Linden to Bebelplatz. Community Ć¢?Ā¼ How had they accomplished this?