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Charter school breaks ground in 'open education'
"The Open High School of Utah is believed to be the first secondary school in the nation (perhaps the world) to use learning materials and textbooks that are freely available for anyone's use, remixing and redistribution. Because the materials aren't produced by commercial publishers, they can be tailored to meet students' educational needs, free of copyright or licensing restraints. "
The Decade Ahead in Higher EdTech
"Well it’s the end of the decade and the new one has just started. I thought that, in the name of a harmless bit of fun, I would stick my neck out and make a few predictions about where we might be going with edtech in universities over the next decade"
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. "
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.
PIVOTE Open-Source vLearning System Launched
Today we officially launched PIVOTE as an open source project. PIVOTE is an outcome of the JISC funded PREVIEW project we've been involved with looking at learning in virtual worlds. PIVOTE allows you to author a learning exercise on the web, and then play it on the web, in a virtual world (or worlds), and even on your phone.
World Builder on Vimeo
This award winning short was created by filmmaker Bruce Branit, widely known as the co-creator of '405'. World Builder was shot in a single day followed by about 2 years of post production.
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.
Study shows that virtual worlds can influence real-world decisions
A group of scientists at Cambridge University has conducted a study that shows that associations in videogames transfer directly to the real world.
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.
Federal Consortium for Virtual Worlds
The Federal Consortium for Virtual Worlds is a newly formed group of federal government employees and contractors interested in exploring the use of virtual worlds in government, sharing best practices and policies, creating shared repositories, and networking.
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.
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