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Alternatives to Second Life Continued

Kapp Notes

In my listing of Alternatives to Second Life , many packages were missed. MPK20:Sun's Virtual Workplace "Wonderland" The MPK20 virtual world is also known as Wonderland. Sun employees can accomplish their real work, share documents, and meet with colleagues using natural voice communication. Here are two more.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: eLearning Guild Demo Fest: Sun MicroSystems

Learning Visions

Thursday, December 06, 2007 eLearning Guild Demo Fest: Sun MicroSystems The eLearning Guild hosted a webinar this afternoon featuring the winners of The eLearning DemoFest which took place at the DevLearn Conference & Expo on November 7, 2007. Sun added a lot of page-level restrictions. She saw the first two presenters.

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Getting Ready for the Next Disruptions in Training and Education

Learningtogo

A radical idea (Earth revolves around the Sun). For example, I can remember a time when many learning professionals predicted that Second Life would become the norm for immersive training delivery. When astronomer Galileo Galilei pointed it to the sky, he found the perfect storm of disruption: A new instrument (telescope).

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Where is Everybody?

Kapp Notes

One of the most interesting things about the aricle was that it stated " despite entering Second Life to much mainstream media fanfare, companies like Sears, Sun Microsystems, Dell, Coca Cola, Reebok, and Calvin Klein have so far failed to attract even 500 weekly visitors." So are these ventures failures?

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Interview with 3D Pioneer Randy Hinrichs, CEO of 2b3d–Part One

Kapp Notes

Prior to founding 2b3d, Randy formed the Learning Science and Technology Group in Microsoft Research, served in Advanced Strategies and Policy in Microsoft in eScience and ePublishing, and marshalled in Web based learning at Sun Microsystems producing transformative books on web page design and multimedia.

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Definition: Metaverse

Kapp Notes

In the Metaverse, status is a function of two things: access to restricted environments (such as the Black Sun, an exclusive Metaverse club) and technical acumen (often demonstrated by the sophistication of one's avatar). The best known actualized example of a metaverse is probably Second Life but, it is by no means the only example.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Top Posts in 2007

Learning Visions

Instead, I cracked open Google Analytics and pulled up my top 5 posts for the year (well, my top posts since September 1 when I started using Google Analytics): The Real World, Second Life, and Facebook/MySpace : Over the summer, I conducted a series of interviews with over 20 current college students and recent graduates. All female.