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Ian Hughes: "I have been completely blown away by listening to the audiobook version of Seth Godin’s new Tribes book. (Thanks to @ids for shining the light on this one for me)
Why? Well Seth articulates not what we should have done as our Eightbar tribe, but what we actually did. Every line had me nodding in agreement. He has saved me the bother to write the story of eightbar and how our particular tribe formed in and around virtual worlds as he has documented what has happened and can happen when anyone, anywhere steps up to lead people with something they believe in."

The emergence of the networked information economy is unleashing two powerful forces. On one hand, easy access to high-speed networks is empowering individuals. People can now discover and consume information resources and services globally from their homes. Further, new social computing approaches are inviting people to share in the creation and edification of information on the Internet. Empowerment of the individual -- or consumerization -- is reducing the individual's reliance on traditional brick-and-mortar institutions in favor of new and emerging virtual ones. Second, ubiquitous access to high-speed networks along with network standards, open standards and content, and techniques for virtualizing hardware, software, and services is making it possible to leverage scale economies in unprecedented ways.

Multiverse enables development teams to create high-quality, unique, and engaging virtual worlds and MMOGs faster and for less cost than ever before.

The basis of this document is to describe how the interoperability story of http://www.interopworld.com/members/node/22 can be implemented in reality, between heterogenous virtual world providers.

Personally speaking I much prefer PLN’s/PLE’s to VLE’s because of the notions of personal empowerment of learning and continuity. As useful as many centralised platforms are, the key issue for me is they retain user contributions, so learner contributed content isn’t necessarily portable.

Here you can view all SL and mixed reality stories by Draxtor Despres. Draxtor's wife Momi and friend Marmaduke Mertel also contribute. Unless otherwise obvious, all music used was written and performed by Bernhard Drax.

Virtual Worlds brings together the developers, programmers, and visionaries required to build virtual world platforms and their interconnected applications. Meets fourth Monday of every other month, 6:30PM at Pillsbury Winthrop Office, 2475 Hanover Street, Palo Alto.

At least 7 industry leaders and innovators will discuss their views on the most pressing questions and issues for the coming year(s) ahead. All of the panelists have recently released products in the virtual world space in the fields of enterprise, government, and entertainment applications.

What does the industry most need to succeed and grow in 2009? What “out-of-the-blue” scenarios may be lurking in the cards? Where should developers and users look for opportunities in this space over the coming year?

This 12 min video is a mid-course review of progress in CCK08 to date...

Stephen Downes gave a inssightful talk about his current work on connectivism. In his presentation he explained the core concepts of connectivism and gave as a practical example a web based class on connected learning he is currently doing together with George Siemens and 2200 students across the globe.

Connelly's Goody Goody Diner featured in the cover story of Gateway Heritage, the Quarterly Magazine of the Missouri Historical Society, written by Editor Josh Stevens.

The WikiEducator is an evolving community intended for the collaborative:
* planning of education projects linked with the development of free content;
* development of free content on Wikieducator for e-learning;
* work on building open education resources (OERs) on how to create OERs.
* networking on funding proposals developed as free content.

The LTG has built a series of concise simple to use guides that introduce some of the new technologies and the ways in which they can be used to support tutorials, lectures, assessment, communication and other teaching and learning activities at Oxford.

Latest figures estimate that three-quarters of British higher education institutions are involved in Second Life in some way. Professor Austin Tate, in charge of Edinburgh University's Second Life campus, says the virtual world is becoming crowded. “Heriot Watt University is just next to us, a few squares south is Princeton and just across is MIT.”

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