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Why Nonprofits Need to Be Early Explorers of the Metaverse

Nonprofit Tech for Good

In this early stage, the metaverse is being envisioned and portrayed as an online reality that we humans enter and experience as avatars through a VR headset, similar to the Oasis experience in the movie Ready Player One. A visit to the Second Life Marketplace can help you better understand the concept of shopping for NFTs in the Metaverse.

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The 6 Hottest Training Technologies That You Can’t Overlook

Gyrus

Mobile Learning enables smaller sized courses to learners without restricting them to a fixed time and place, leading to higher absorption and retention rate of knowledge. Virtual Environment and Avatars: Virtual learning environments bring the social interaction part of traditional classroom training into the e-learning world.

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Social media and the Surveillance Culture

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

things like this happen: I had lunch the other day with a friend who is very knowledgeable about the hacker world within in the so-called "intelligence community". Our conversation focused on Facebook, Second Life, and Skype. The same with Second Life. All the guys have learned to use female avatars and personae on the sites.

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Nonprofit Technology Rockstars: Jason Shim

Tech Soup

Restless Knowledge Sharing. One thing I’ve noticed about the NTEN award winners is their restless knowledge sharing in an array of subjects all over the place – not just in their own organizations. He is a contributing author to the book, Halos and Avatars: Playing Video Games With God. Silicon Valley North.

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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle

Connection Cafe

They turn on the system, choose their avatars, and are suddenly transported into the video game. Once inside the world of Jumanji, the students assume the form of their chosen avatars. Life and leadership are messy. Principle Bently: You get one life… You get to decide how you’re going to spend it.

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Nonprofit Technology Rockstars: Jason Shim

Tech Soup

Restless Knowledge Sharing. One thing I’ve noticed about the NTEN award winners is their restless knowledge sharing in an array of subjects all over the place – not just in their own organizations. He is a contributing author to the book, Halos and Avatars: Playing Video Games With God. Silicon Valley North.

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The Birth of a Field: Digital Media and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That's my avatar, I'm live blogging from Second Life. From my office in the Boston, I teleported myself into the Virtual World of Second Life and headed straight for the New Media Consortium virtual campus where I joined about 65 other avatars representing educators from all over the world (even Austrailia where it was 3:00 a.m.

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