Cost of virtual land really increasing
Interesting news this morning, Linden Labs the vendor for Second Life, have removed their educational discount from next year, effectively doubling land fees! Not sure what has prompted this move, but...
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Thanks to Virtual World Watch who blogged today that the Virtual World project at the OU have completed (admittedly already slightly out-of-date) virtual world comparison matrix. The results, in...
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Notes from the 9th Virtual Worlds in Education Forum
The one-day conference was held in the amazing new Secole Building at Birmingham City University on the 8th of December, 2010. This being my first such virtual worlds meeting, I was surprised to...
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Notes from the 9th Virtual Worlds in Education Forum: Presentations
Presentation: Missionmaker The first presentation was by Andrew Hutchinson, Project Leader, Midland Leadership Centre, who gave an enthusiastic demo of an interesting and inexpensive tool for...
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Notes from the 9th Virtual Worlds in Education Forum: Presentation_World War...
Lest We Forget: The Sound of the Western Front Csteph Submariner, ready for duty After lunch, Chris Stephens, Senior Developer with Oxford University Computing Services, shared his Second Life...
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Tuesday Retrospective: Virtual philosophers and learning from answers
I’ve been glancing through some of the recordings which were made available from E-Learning Community events here at the University of Nottingham last year. There are several of these recordings so...
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Tuesday Retrospective and a plug for tomorrow’s e-learning community session...
I’m very much looking forward to hearing the speakers at tomorrow’s E-learning Community Session on Social Media in HE (full details here). In my previous post about past e-learning community...
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What Use the Paper Poster Nowadays?
Why put posters on paper when they could go online? Assumedly, a body promoting Technology Enhanced Learning should embrace the medium. Therefore, this year the Association for Learning Technology’s...
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Mission virtually impossible
Track side in the train simulation I recently visited Bryan Denby from Aims Solutions, a spin-off company from the University based at King’s Meadow Campus. They provide innovative training solutions...
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Making Babies in Second Life / Virtual Maternity Unit wins RCM Award
Sometimes hard work does pay off. Colleen McCants and Fay Cross, of the ISLT Section’s Innovation Team, were pleased when their collaborative venture with Jenny Bailey, (Academic Midwifery, School...
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