Streaming streaming into Second Life

I am working with the folks at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) on a few different aspects of their Annual Meeting in February.  One of the things we are working on is streaming the general sessions into Second Life.  We thought it might be a bit easier this year, with the new media settings included […]

Reporting or Readers, which matters more to Jeff Young?

Jeff Young is the technology writer for The Chronicle of Higher Education.  In an article not that long ago he asserted that people were leaving Second Life in droves for opensim options.  Actually to summarize the article that way is unfair, there was a lot of other information there that was not entirely accurate and […]

UNC TLT Conference Plenary

The University of North Carolina Teaching and Learning with Technology Conference will be held entirely in Second Life and is free to all those who register.  I will be the plenary presenter at the opening of the conference on Tuesday, April 13th, at 9:00pm Eastern Time (6:00am Second Life Time).  The conference lasts for three […]

SLOODLE Moot Conference in SL this weekend

A great friend of mine is working on the SLOODLE Moot conference that is happening this weekend – FOR FREE – in Second Life.  Here are some of the details. https://www.sloodle.org/blog/?p=187 SLOODLE Moot 2010 is approaching! This weekend SLOODLE Moot – a free, online conference will be taking place in Second Life. A range of […]

NZVWG Visit – Additional ways to configure

As a few folks have tried getting ready for tomorrow (I’ve done so myself and it works quite well, best to cut/paste the long entry in #4 though), two of the folks on the VWER Planning Committee have also written up alternate directions. For those of you using Mac, try these: The instructions they give […]

The Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable visits New Zealand Grid

I realized this is very short notice, and I take full responsibility for that – but the Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable will be holding its monthly “Other Gird” meeting this Thursday, March 11th – from 12:00pm Pacific Time for an hour.  Our host grid this month will be the New Zealand Virtual Grid and Dr. […]

What’s going on at “The Lab”

Over the last few months we’ve seen a rash of people leaving employment with Linden Lab, the owners of Second Life.  Some of the most recent ones are names most people would not recognize but they were important players working “under the hood”.  There have been, of course, some very big departures – many of […]

Technology as place?

Although I attended Sloan-C this year, virtually, one of my colleagues attended on site.  She forwarded to me a slideshow from one of the presenters, Steve Kerby from McDaniel College.  Steve talks about “Technology as Place: Designing Environments for Student-Centered Learning”. You can watch the presentation here: http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/skerby/presentations/Sloan_2009.html it’s about 16 minutes long. The link […]

Upcoming Event for the SLER / VWER

There is a lot going on for the SL Education Roundtable, soon to be Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable.  I thought it might be a good idea to summarize some stuff in one place. We are currently in the middle of a Logo Design Competition.  Everyone is welcome to submit something.  Details on that can be […]

Linden Lab strikes again

It’s a good thing I’m not a conspiracy nut. Over a month ago I created a group for the newly named Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable – a name change, and vision change, de-emphasizing Second Life as the only virtual worlds and expanding our vision and virtual vocabulary.  I kept the group out of search until […]