Kapp Notes

MARCH 9, 2007

This semester as part of a larger class project where students are required to respond to an e-learning Request for Proposal (RFP), my students are going to need to create some spaces and areas in Second Life. The wiki is called MSIT Second Life and is designed to provide information to students.

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Assisting us expertly was Matt Monahan my graduate assistant who has been helping me with many Second life tasks. Which, of course, was a perfect use of Second Life. We provided a little tour with Brent Schlenker discussing the uses of Second Life for providing learning solutions.

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Kapp Notes

JANUARY 4, 2008

This morning I am giving an opening address the the National Center for Telecommunications Technologies Information and Communications/Convergence Conference at the Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA on the topic of Second Life so I wanted to provide some resources: Second Life (the web site) Second Life Wiki (a wiki with "how to" information and (..)

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Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

Click here for the SLURL if you want to check out Hollywood, Second Life.(you you need to have a Second Life avatar to visit.) However, what has happened is that HBO has acquired the rights to a short-form documentary shot entirely within Second Life. Also, in Second Life News.

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Old Classroom Space In honor of the Second Life workshop I will be starting next week (still time to sign up, click here for more information ), we have given the MSIT Second Life classroom space a little make over. Great work! __ Recommended Games and Gadgets Recommended Books Content Guide

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 10, 2007

Wednesday, October 10, 2007 Second Life and Gaming Poll Results I dont claim to be a researcher, nor can I claim that the results of polls conducted on this site are in the least bit statistically significant. Last week, I asked "Have you ever been in Second Life?" Unfortunately, the Second Life poll is closed.

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Kapp Notes

JULY 2, 2009

This Soapbox session will introduce you to exciting and interesting places within the 3D world of Second Life. If you want to sign up for the initial session or the entire workshop, go to InSync Navigating Second Life Class. In a few weeks, on August 12, 19, 26 and September 2, 2009. What do you do? How do you dress?

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 5, 2007

Wednesday, September 05, 2007 Continuing in Second Life Im still at it. Slogging away in Second Life. link] -- if youre in Second Life you can also try searching for Meteora or NOAA Virtual Island ). If, like me, youve been reluctant to try Second Life, I can only say just do it and see for yourself.

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Learning Visions

JULY 30, 2007

Monday, July 30, 2007 A Deserted Second Life An interesting read from Wired.com on Second Life and Corporate America. How Madison Avenue is Wasting Millions on a Deserted Second Life (Wired 7-24-07) Whats behind this stampede is not that hard to divine. "A Do you have a Second Life?

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 13, 2007

Monday, August 13, 2007 Second Life Backlash and Controversy The Second Life naysayers seems to be gaining ground lately. And Im not implying that Im a Second Life naysayer. A thoughtful post on one educators experience in Second Life (and a nice historical perspective). IT Security Risks 2.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 24, 2007

Friday, August 24, 2007 Building Community in Second Life: Renaissance Island As you know, Ive been trying to walk-the-talk and experiment a bit with Second Life, role my virtual sleeves up and see what all the fuss is about. Last week, I visited Renaissance Island and wrote about it in My Second Second Life Experience.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 24, 2009

When writing the whitepaper about Casual games , I did a fair bit of research and looked at several hundred web links. So here they are – a Top 100 Learning Game Resource list. If you are already developing learning games, these links will broaden your horizons, as they did mine. What Makes a Learning Game?

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Upside Learning

JUNE 24, 2009

When writing the whitepaper about Casual games , I did a fair bit of research and looked at several hundred web links. So here they are - a Top 100 Learning Game Resource list. If you are already developing learning games, these links will broaden your horizons, as they did mine. Marc Prensky - Digital Game-Based Learning.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 17, 2007

Friday, August 17, 2007 Plodding Along in Second Life In the spirit of plodding along , I had another positive experience in Second Life. You know when youre on the first level of a game and you get target practice to learn how to shoot, or you get to practice riding a horse? I got stuck in a car on Nissan island.

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 23, 2007

But Virtual Worlds should not be used to automate existing learning approaches and models: A virtual classroom with virtual students and a virtual PowerPoint deck is not the end-game for learning in VWs. It might just change your perspective on what's possible today in informal and generative learning.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 3, 2007

Friday, August 03, 2007 My First Second Life Experience Not so good, I must say. Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. I spent about 25 minutes trying to make my avatar look sort of like me. Its sort of me-ish. Then I wandered around Orientation Island, which gets boring fast.

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Kapp Notes

AUGUST 14, 2009

Also, several people asked for some resources related to virtual worlds so here are a few: Here are links to Virtual Worlds (beyond Second Life): Alternatives to Second Life (one) Alternatives to Second Life Continued (two) ProtonMedia's ProtoSphere Forterra Systems And here is a great tour of many virtual worlds, all in 8 minutes.

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Kapp Notes

JUNE 1, 2011

Here are a few of virtual world research papers that contain some interesting information: Virtually Face to Face: Enriching Collaborative Learning Through Multiplayer Game by Johanna Bluemin. Best Practices in Virtual World Teaching: A Guide to Teaching Problem Solving in Second Life by Simon Bignell and Vanessa Parson.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Photo by William White on unsplash Still other virtual clans are emerging from the cultures surrounding online leisure activities such as massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs), strategy games and transnational special interest groups that meet en masse, online. Tomorrow: The Tribal Web Reference Childress, M.

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Kapp Notes

JULY 29, 2009

Class visits the Holocaust Museum in Second Life. Heather provided a great tutorial on how to build a building within Second Life. She provide advise on creating phantom walls, how to make a roof and other key building information. Tags: Second Life 3D worlds. We then had guest speaker Heather Gee.

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Kapp Notes

AUGUST 6, 2009

Recently I did a recording for InSync and my friend Jennifer Hofmann titled Postcards from the 3D Edge: Learning in Second Life. You'll need to download the WebEx installer as requested when you click on link) Session One Session Two Now we have teamed to provide a 4 week course on the topic to provide even more indepth information.

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Kapp Notes

AUGUST 4, 2009

We started in Second Life and then we went to ProtoSphere and then to Centra and then back to Second Life. One really cool web site we visited allowed us to create automatic Second Life scripts. Hillary's page also has other great Second Life information.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 14, 2009

“Video mashing, game modding, Youtube, wikis, blogs, and the communities that rise up around them are becoming yet another facet of our communication landscape. Computer game mods were a big early source. Initially game companies resisted, but figured out they could have a bigger market if they sold editors.

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Kapp Notes

JANUARY 23, 2007

Employees of tomorrow will inhabit virtual worlds like Second Life to hold live weekly meetings with co-workers, catch up over lunch with financial advisers, and join friends on virtual shopping excursions after work. However, I am not sure the actual vehicle will be Second Life.

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Kapp Notes

MARCH 4, 2010

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). The Virtual World Best Practices in Education Conference originated from the 2007 Second Life® Best Practices in Education Conference.

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Kapp Notes

JUNE 10, 2010

First, it looks as though Linden Labs, the developers behind Second Life, may be downsizing their corporate efforts ( Second Life Enterprise Edition ). And Massively , a blog that provides daily information about MMOs. Here is the 411 (information) on the Virtual World Certificate program.

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Kapp Notes

JANUARY 8, 2010

and Smart Phones for Educational Excellence at the Mid Pacific Information and Communication Technology Center. Here are some resources: Games Discussion of some of the key value of games for learning. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA island in Second Life. Nuclear PowerPlant in Second Life.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 28, 2007

Tuesday, August 28, 2007 3D & Serious Games My company has some experience doing 3D modeling and simulations for government clients, so I found this recent acquisition of this 3D learning company by Lockheed Martin quite interesting. The equation of 3D graphics with "serious games" is something to note. United States License.

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Kapp Notes

JUNE 25, 2010

Air Force’s Global Learning Forum (GLF) group in Second Life at Huffman Prairie Chi. The group now have over 300 educators, from across several universities, engaged in various collaborative efforts within the 3D world of Second Life. Second Life is used as our primary open access platform for collaboration.

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Learning Visions

APRIL 9, 2009

Thursday, April 09, 2009 Building Better Learning Games Interested in building casual games for your learners? Focus on casual video games. Games in a variety of shapes and sizes: Console Games (for the Xbox or Wii) MMORPG (Massively Multi-player Online Role Playing Game): World of War Craft, Club Penguins.

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eLearning Weekly

APRIL 2, 2008

I finally made my way into Second Life this week. I went in with a group of peers, and we were evaluating Second Life’s potential for holding training events. Why do I have to take on some goofy alias/username in Second Life? So I probably missed some important information from the very start.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 22, 2007

Thursday, March 22, 2007 Games vs. Gaming The topic that kept me thinking late last night: the difference between games and gaming; between people who play computer games and so-called gamers. Heres my novice view on the differences between games and gaming: Games are short, finite experiences.

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Kapp Notes

MAY 5, 2010

3DNA is not a replacement for Windows - it works seamlessly with your current set up, while providing 3D environments in which to view your information. Five The company 3DNA provides different 3D Add-on Worlds to explore and customize for an immersive and entertaining desktop.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 29, 2010

So I am reading this book as a scavenger hunt (leave it to Karl to turn it into a game!)…my My Experience in Virtual Worlds A few years ago, when Second Life was first coming onto the scene as the next big thing, I sat in my office and scratched my head. Authentic, realistic and immersive, like Second Life”.

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Tuesday, September 15, 2009 Lance Dublin: Formalizing Informal Learning [My notes from a webinar. Lance Dublin: Formalizing Informal Learning … &#%!? Examples of informal: Water cooler, SoMe Informal learning is never intentional. Lance asks: What happens if you add intentionality to an informal activity?

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Kapp Notes

AUGUST 10, 2010

What I like about Lesley's presentations about Cybergogy are that they are informative from the perspective of thinking about teaching in a 3D environment but that they also incorporate aspects not possible in the 2D world. Columns and information appearing in 3D before the audience members. I took some screen captures of the event.

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Kapp Notes

JUNE 22, 2010

Venuegen has offered to help Second Life Enterprise users move from the SL Enterprise edition to the Venuegen platform for free. it looks as though Linden Labs, the developers behind Second Life, may be downsizing their corporate efforts ( Second Life Enterprise Edition ).

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