Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 9, 2007
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.
AFP Blog
MARCH 2, 2010
After Frustrations in Second Life, Colleges Look to New Virtual Worlds - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education: "Some colleges that have built virtual classrooms in Second Life—the online environment where people walk around as avatars in a cartoonlike world—have started looking for an exit strategy.".
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Museum 2.0
MAY 9, 2007
In January, I interviewed Sibley about the potential use of virtual worlds and Second Life by museums, but in the four months since then, the virtual world platform--and the hype around it--has exploded. It seems that Second Life is both the closest and farthest thing from many museum professionals' minds.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 2, 2007
I was attempting to summarize a three-way dialogue about Second Life from three brilliant thinkers with differing views about the value of SL. We also must remember that there is no such thing as second hand learning -- second life learning is first person learning. Henry Jenkins [link]. Clay Shirky [link].
Gyrus
MAY 31, 2016
Virtual Environment and Avatars: Virtual learning environments bring the social interaction part of traditional classroom training into the e-learning world. Companies are exploring online virtual platforms such as second life, Minecraft, Unity, etc.
Tech Soup
JUNE 24, 2015
One teacher expressed how the tablet PCs facilitate learning in the classroom: "We work with a lot of photocopies; luckily the child can scan the page and then work at the same pace as their friends. The copies are submitted on a USB flash drive or directly. There are plans to develop the project in Belgium, Canada, and Switzerland.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 19, 2006
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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