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I Have Seen the Future of Conferences.and it is 3D!

Kapp Notes

Terrence Linden discussing the new Second Life browser at VWBPE conference. If you missed the Virtual Worlds' Best Practices in Education Conference , you missed not only a great conference with really good content and presentations, you missed a glimpse into the future of conferences.

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Interesting Developments in 3D Learning and Collaboration Space

Kapp Notes

First, it looks as though Linden Labs, the developers behind Second Life, may be downsizing their corporate efforts ( Second Life Enterprise Edition ). Two sources indicate that Linden may actually be shutting down their Enterprise operations. Some interesting developments in the 3D Learning and Collaboration Space.

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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 Lab® creators of Second Life® (SL). More than one hundred volunteers will assist presenters and attendees at the 48-Hour conference taking place in over twenty SL Sims.

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Second Life Happenings: CEO Steps Down (again)

Kapp Notes

Yesterday, Philip Linden (AKA: Philip Rosedale ) stepped down as CEO of Linden Labs (yes again). Bob will lead Linden Lab while we conduct the search. He said many longtime Second Life users are angry at the recent decisions by the company that runs the service, Linden Lab. He has done this before and then come back.

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Online Educa Berlin 2011 recap

Challenge to Learn

Example of a learning map, taken from IADIS proceedings from presentation by Schock, Bargel, Roller and Rauner. It is always great to walk underneath the Brandenburger Tor and see the great avenue ‘Unter den Linden’. There is food for thought there and you can take part in the further development of the scenarios, so please join.

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CAC: Penn State-Bart Pursel

Kapp Notes

Bart Pursel of Virtual Learning Worlds and an alumni of our program presented on Virtual Worlds. Bart gave a list of different 3D worlds and provided a great comparison between a Internet Service Provider and Linden Labs (the company behind Second Life.)

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Some accumulated thoughts…

Clark Quinn

To do that, I think we need to take our presentation of the model a little bit further. To do that, I think we need to take our presentation of the model a little bit further. On the other hand, I had lunch the other day with Joe Miller, who is the VP of Tech for Linden Labs.

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