Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 8, 2010

As you may know, Linden, on October 4th, announced a plan to raise prices for educational and non-profit users of Second Life and not a little increase, a whopping doubling of the previous discount. Tags: 3D worlds industry.

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Learning with e's

MAY 7, 2010

But, of course, as is true of the "real" world, Second Life does not come without its problems. Most recently, the brick-and-mortar university Woodbury was booted off Second Life —thousands of students were affected—by the virtual world's moderators, a company called Linden Lab. The university paid good money for it, too.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 5, 2010

I expect to see more inspired uses of technology to break out of the ‘course’ mentality and start facilitating performance more broadly, as organizational structures move learning from ‘nice to have’ to core infrastructure. Tags: mobile social strategy technology virtual worlds. The devices are out there!

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

the ability of Linden Labs to continue to expand Second Life capabilities as they grabbed market share). There are entailments, of course; taxonomies and ontologies need governance as do other content activities. Tags: social technology.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 7, 2008

Its currency is the Linden Dollar (L$) which avatars can use to buy virtual goods and even virtual property. Linden Dollars are bought with real money and can be exchanged back again. At first, I found all this is kind of hilarious, but of course Second Life was originally pitched to the entertainment market.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 26, 2008

For me it holds many memories of speaking to large and appreciative audiences, the remains of the Berlin Wall, the Checkpoint Charlie museum, Christmas markets, Unter den Linden, Alexanderplatz, Ka De We, and the Brandenburg Gate. Tags: e-learning oeb08 #oeb08in Online Educa Berlin Tiergarten Germany Michael Wesch.

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Mark Oehlert

MARCH 8, 2007

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. Of course for some , itll just mean a quicker way to get bored.

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