Back in December Alex Hayes and I presented a session at the NMC Symposium on the Evolution of Communication. I’ve just been advised by Alan Levine from the NMC that all the videos and transcripts from our session and others are available at: http://www.nmc.org/2007-fall-virtual-symposium/resources Our bits and pieces are here: Evolution | Revolution: Architectures for […]
Larry Pixel: NMC Virtual Worlds plans a big announcement after the first of the year. It will come out first in the NMC Campus Observer, about January 10th.Also, the NMC’s highly influential Horizon Report (75,000+ copies downloaded or purchased in hard copy in 2007) will be released in late January. The contents of the 2008 […]
Australia is slowly waking up to a little publicised ALP policy about “cleaning up the internet to protect our children”. Once again it seems to be a case of apply the most ineffective and intrusive means possible. No-one is saying that we don’t want kids to be safe. The overly simplistic gainsaying of our new […]
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Announcing…. from various members of Ausslers…. “Discover Your Second Life” The Second Life Discovery Day 2007 Introduction The hype surrounding the multi-user virtual environment Second Life has mostly focussed on its negative aspects, which has limited the support for individuals and groups interested in exploring the research, education and business potentials of this exciting new […]
A session presented by Sean Fitzgerald.
This video was produced as a collaborative effort between 200 students and leaves a lasting impact on the question of whether or not we are meeting the needs of today’s learners.If you ever needed reasons to think about why we need to reimagine the role of technology in education then try these on for size…
The latest bit of exciting news to tantalise technophiles and terrify technophobes is the announcement that a team of researchers at Keio University have working device that allows thought controlled navigation… they have it hooked into a Second Life client and this video shows the device in action. There ismore on the development over at […]
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 […]