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Second Life Outsider art show seen a success
"Winn's talk tied the artwork exhibited in Second Life to the concept of an artwork's “aura,” as first discussed by Walter Benjamin in the 1930s. “As mechanical reproduction of art became more prevalent, Benjamin noted that something unique is lost if you only know an artwork through its reproduction. "
Students, that tweet may be your professor
""When teachers are everywhere, what is the role of the university?" Noah asked faculty members at Thursday's social media discussion."
Texas Universities to build a 49-island archipelago in SL
"The project described here uses a low-cost, online virtual world environment for student learning, research, collaboration, and operations. Hosting almost 200,000 students and 7,500 faculty, the UT System has funded the creation of a virtual 49-island archipelago in Second Life (SL), with three islands per campus and one central island for System-wide collaboration and administrative activities. "
Oct. 23-Nov. 13: UD to host international art show in Second Life
"From Oct. 23 through Nov. 13, the University of Delaware will host an international show of “Outsider Art” in the Second Life virtual community."
Reacting to the Past
“Reacting to the Past” (RTTP) consists of elaborate games, set in the past, in which students are assigned roles informed by classic texts in the history of ideas. Class sessions are run entirely by students; instructors advise and guide students and grade their oral and written work. It seeks to draw students into the past, promote engagement with big ideas, and improve intellectual and academic skills.
Educators attend virtual conference on UD's Second Life islands
The consortium decided earlier this year to add a special summer event: a virtual conference sponsored by UD on its Second Life islands.
SLakai Paris Conference Wrap-up
In early July Wolverine Island played host to members of the Sakai community who were interested in having an in-world event. The island was made available to non-U-M participants from July 1-3, the time period that the real world Sakai conference was being held in Paris.
New UD social networking site for educators established
A new social network, UDSLED (University of Delaware Second Life EDucators), has been established on the social networking site, Ning. UDSLED is for everyone who has an interest in Second Life as an educational tool at UD and allows members to post comments, videos and photos.
Are Educators Ready for Virtual Worlds?
The past week I spent some time in the virtual reality of Second Life, exploring the possibilities for learning activities arranging and for management of a learning process. Also, I read several research papers sharing the gained experience in teaching and learning in SL. It was found that this virtual world:
Case Western Reserve U. Debuts Private Version of Second Life
Case Western is the higher-education test site as Linden Lab, the company that runs Second Life, develops the so-called Nebraska version of the virtual world.
Second Life: Engaging Virtual Campuses
The University of Delaware uses one of the easiest and most effective tools in Second Life to tell the story of their campus--an automated tour. Visitors who opt to take the tour are taken on a 5-and-a-half-minute virtual fly-over of the campus. As the tour arrives at key areas, text appears on the screen explaining the section and how it is used.
University of Iowa in SL
Today I was talking some collaborators on LLL3D about how to visualise concepts in Second Life.
I remembered I had seen some twitterers mentioning that the University of Iowa had a visualisation of Bloom's taxonomy, I did a search and found that they had interactive models of both Bloom's taxononmy and Wenger's Communities of Practice.
Linden Lab and Rivers Run Red launch Immersive Workspaces 2.0
Rivers Run Red and Linden Lab (after a bit of a shaky time with their initial announcements for Immersive Workspaces 1.0), have launched Immersive Workspaces 2.0. The clean, sanitized, and focused leveraging of Second Life for your corporate collaboration needs.
SLedCC Resources
Here are links to presentations, handouts etc from talks at SLedCC 2008 in Tampa. If you gave a presentation and we haven’t linked to your resources please drop a line to intellagirl at gmail dot com and we’ll add it right away.
A Second Look at Second Life Filmmaking
The idea of machinima is really just now beginning to take hold in the minds of educators and yet, the more I think about it the more I think it can have great value to us in many more ways than creative writing.
Google launches virtual world, Lively
Lively has fewer functions than the leading virtual worlds and massively multiplayer online games, and is correspondingly easy to start using.
AR Second Life
In this research project, we demonstrate that MMOs also provide a powerful platform for Augmented Reality (AR) applications.
Second Life Learning Videos : eLearning Technology
If you want to get a sense of what Second Life is like and particularly what it is like as part of learning, here are some videos that help describe this.
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