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Metrics for Virtual Worlds: Can you measure engagement?

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Flickr photo from Carmello. The island is sponsored by Dutch bankers ABN Amro and the Free University of Amsterdam (VUA) and was build by students of the VUA. Rik Riel is has also written about this and has described it as "avatar engagement." "Measuring ???engagement??? engagement??? s a big job and you???re

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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle

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Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle tells the story of four students: Spencer (Alex Wolff), Bethany (Madison Iseman), Fridge (Ser’Darius Blain), and Martha (Morgan Turner) as they follow the same path as Alan Parrish. They turn on the system, choose their avatars, and are suddenly transported into the video game. JustWokeUp.

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Blogging and Liability Class with Lauren Gelman at State of Play Academy

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" She gave us a primer on copyright and fairuse , shared her experienced from a blogging community for law students, talked about her plans for teaching this topic on the 3-D virtual world, there.com. re interested in attending and have never been in There.com, Lauren can get you an avatar ???

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Reflections on Mixed Reality Events in Second Life

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The photo above was taken at last night's TechSoup Mixed Reality Event. Jeska Linden , Community Manager for Linden Labs, has the mike in her hand, while her avatar is behind the podium in Second Life. ") I walked around the space and chatted with the avatar who was the human involved in the project.

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Second Life Education Programs in NY Times, Goes Open Source, and other tidbits

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Photo from Kate in Flickr Social Signal Open House in TechSoup Office last week I'm playing catch up here on a bunch of Second Life stuff happening over the past week that I didn't want to let slip through my fingers: Social Signal held an open house in Second Life to welcome their new virtual worlds manager, Catherine Winters , to Social Signal.

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NPTechTag Roundup: Election Debriefs and Wikis in Your Kitchen!

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It is written, edited and produced by students and other volunteers in the valley. Games for Social Change gaming and libraries was recently published and the author is the Shifted Librarian and My Avatar Wears Tight Jeans and 4 Other Things I learned from Internet Librarian 2006 is worth the read from Michael Stephens.

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