AFP Blog

MAY 9, 2008

Wired Campus: Co-Founder of Second Life Says Academics Are Biggest Trailblazers in Virtual Worlds - Chronicle.com: "Co-Founder of Second Life Says Academics Are Biggest Trailblazers in Virtual WorldsCory Ondrejka, the co-founder of the virtual world Second Life who is now a visiting professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University (..)

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Toan Lam is a multimedia consultant, university professor, thought leader, and former TV reporter and host who is on the forefront of the changing landscape of multimedia. Participate virtually at the Aloft Nonprofit Commons Drive-In Theater in Second Life. Watch a step-by-step guide for how to participate in Second Life.).

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Through their use of "Second Life," TechSoup has been at the forefront of virtual meeting and collaboration environments for several years. Second Life is an online, virtual world where you can customize your online personality (i.e. avatar), interact with others, and even conduct business transactions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

One form of online learning that Second Life and virtual worlds platforms are particularly well suited for is simulations. The Whose on Second Podcast has an interview with Ramesh Ramloll who is technical director and Neill Piland the overall director of the Idaho Bioterrorism Awareness and Preparedness Program, IBAPP for short.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2007

second life, ??? but not necessarily in Second Life, according to Gartner, Inc. First Law: Virtual worlds are not games, but neither are they a parallel universe (yet). Second Law: Behind every avatar is a real person Third Law: Be relevant and add value. enterprises) will have a ??? Ah, but what about ROI?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2009

It's been a big week in the TechSoup universe. EcoCommons launched this week in Second Life. We're all excited for NTC. From TechSoup Stock : There's only one more day to request Sage's special donation of Fundraising 50. It's time to vote! Who made the biggest impact?

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

His topic is online marriage rituals in Second Life. When I asked Jason why he is interested in so many different NPTech things, he said it’s probably because he spent his formative years in Kitchener Waterloo in West Ontario where he went to Wilfrid Laurier University. Silicon Valley North.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2006

I've been attending the weekly Friday TechSoup meetings in Second Life and you run into the most fascinating people. Prior to joining GlobalGiving, he completed his Masters in International Relations at the London School of Economics and his Bachelors in Economics/History at Northwestern University.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2006

But wait a second, I could attempt to live blog remotely. because the session will take place in Second Life and will also be webcasted. Second Life: NMC Campus Amphitheater (number 5 on the map) (see picture of me above) (NOTE: Please join "NMC Guests" group for access to Amphitheater).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2007

She is the head of information systems at the University of Reading in the UK. We've participated in online collaboration experiments in Second Life and we are friends on Facebook. Meet Shirley Williams. Her blog is called RedGloo. We met, I think, through CP Squared and Nancy White. It's her birthday on Friday!

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

His topic is online marriage rituals in Second Life. When I asked Jason why he is interested in so many different NPTech things, he said it’s probably because he spent his formative years in Kitchener-Waterloo in Southwest Ontario where he went to Wilfrid Laurier University. Silicon Valley North.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 28, 2008

@amoration of AMO: The Root of Love also suggested Moodle, and Sloodle which integrates Moodle and the virtual world of Second Life. PinkHeels of Pink Heels uses Moodle with her university students. She also said that she uses wikis. Pretty cool, huh? Thanks Twitter pals!

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

So in the past month, the people who have jumped in are mostly people who are already familiar with the platforms we're using (the Web and Second Life ), primarily those already in Second Life. Not that that means that we are attracting solely gamers or the bored wanderers of Second Life. It's social.

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AFP Blog

JULY 16, 2007

Slip sliding away at the Relay For Life snail race: "SUNSET BEACH -- British resident Pyrii Akula, a student studying 3D modeling at Bournemouth University in real life, won the Relay for Life giant snail race yesterday. The event, in its second year, is a race across 45 sims in the virtual world of Second Life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Open Content, Online Privacy, and Virtual Worlds Where Most Needed points out that few US Universities jump on MIT's Free Courseware Bandwagon. A Better World In Second Life Blog is tracking political activism taking place in virtual worlds. It's called saidia.org It's Swahili and means help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

Three out of four of these were on Second Life. We created an Island in Second Life to forward this agenda. We're going to give out 10 $25K grants - one game in particular - University of Denver students created a game called Squeezed. We put out a call and got a number of responses from game programmers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2006

Youth Connection, Part I: Field Building with University Students Moderated by Katie Salen (Parsons, the New School of Design) Description: Aside from creating "future leaders," let's talk about what University students are already contributing to social change gaming by creating a new kind of gaming environment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Jason at DIA tagged it with this note: "The most universal piece of advice about using social networks for fundraising and friendraising is to start small." A screencapture from a recent weekly meeting for TechSoup's Nonprofit Commons project in Second Life. Want to get started in Second Life, check out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

Created an island in Second Life - to share the meaning of digital media in their lives. University of Wisc. Henry Jenkins at MIT - and University of Wisc. Global kids has been working with MacArthur to understand youth s as related digital media. Written essays from kids. Meta level of what the design process is.

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Care2

JUNE 11, 2008

”, where [A] is any cool (or in the case of ‘Second Life’ seriously uncool) new online tool. Enjoy your new life, and don’t listen to the man! The man will come running up to your desk screaming “I just saw a demonstration of [A] and we need to start using this in our campaigns!”,

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Part 1: It's What You Want In 2002, I was finishing a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at WPI, a hands-on, technical university in Worcester, Massachusetts. I had a healthy second life as a slam poet, and I loved the world of artists and performance.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Jason Nelson is a lecturer in cyberstudies/digital art/digital creative writing at Griffith University in Queensland, AU. As an artist and a lecturer at the university, I'm expected to put my work up in competitions as art. I find it fascinating how on Youtube, something will get 2 million hits really quickly, and then it dies off.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

Sometimes, its worth contacting a local university or technical college to see if your video would fit as a student project. But live a/v production of a day-long event is usually more like $1,200 to $2,000. Some nonprofits find creative ways to extend their budget. They can get a donated or subsidized videographer and/or editor.

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