Jokay Wollongong announces another big Second Life event. http://www.nswlearnscope.com/go-virtual-07 Go Virtual 07! is set to be an exciting day of sharing and exploring this cutting edge domain – with participants invited to engage in both presentations and hands-on workshops in both Second Life and Adobe Connect during the event. Don’t forget to pack your laptop!! […]
I gave my presentation here on Saturday morning – immediately after Lindy McKeown’s keynote. Between the two presentations we had several overlaps – not surprising considering the similarity of our work in Second Life. Online Sites for Generative Play This paper proposes an alternative concept for thinking about engagement in online environments as a form […]
On Aug 22, 9:30 (Singapore time) Aaron Delwiche of Metaversality, Grace Lim of Temasek Polytechnic, Scot Osterweil of MIT, and Catherine Bracy and Gene Koo from Harvard hosted a workshop at the State of Play Conference in Singapore. Part of the conference was convened inworld at Berkman (run by Harvard Law) in Second Life. Avatars […]
I have recently returned from Hong Kong where I spent 3 weeks involved in a range of academic programs. The first was the ICT2007 conference where I spent a couple of days with some really creative IT educators from school and university sectors. I presented a couple of papers and attended several others. The second […]
In response to a discussion with a colleague about representations of disability in Second Life I started wondering about “The Appropriation of Disability” what an interesting concept. I have met a few people who are wheelchair bound in SL and I don’t think they are in RL… there are also people who appear to be […]
Dan Zellner in collaboration with the NMC is offering his drama workshops for a special Aussie and NZ friendly time zone. A few of us have already signed on to participate and there are probably a few places left. The commitment is 5 weeks on Sunday 8PM SLT – that’s 9AM Monday in Perth (Singapore […]
In response to some of the recent coverage of Second Life in the Australian press I posted this: I think there are some unresolved issues about what Second Life is. Interestingly, many gamers (such as Tim who commented earlier) find that SL does not match their vision of WoW… they find the controls and interface […]
Well, having solved some of my bandwidth issues (now I have 60Gb monthly limit!) I have been able to better use my time in Second Life and really started to establish a presence. SL is a real bandwidth slurper. Like many newbies I wandered aimlessly around the SL world seeing what I could see, and […]
Thanks to an entry at Jean Burgess’s creativity/machine I found my way to Museumr. I’m not sure of the potential at the moment beyond ‘vernacular’ pleasure and artistic expression. But it is vaguely subversive and as Jean comments its a bit like “sneaking into the master’s house”. I generated several images in my first few […]
http://simteach.com/simteach12_06.pdf Jeremy Kemp at SimTeach has published an interesting overview “The Who, Where, When and How of Second Life as a Teaching Tool in 2006” Well worth tracking and perhaps a very useful starting point for anyone consodering venturing into Second Life.