Jokay Wollongong is an Australian Second Life resident with a very active education blog that's well integrated with the Jokaydia islands in Second Life. One interesting project underway is the Virtual Classroom Project. It's a lengthy read but an excellent example of some of the Australian-driven innovation in education in a virtual world context. Check it out in-world … [Read more...] about The virtual classroom project
Why use virtual worlds for collaboration?
Respected site Terra Nova has a simple summary of why virtual worlds are used by some for collaboration. For longer term users of Second Life, the collaborative opportunities seem self-evident, paticularly for the education and business sectors. Although, like every form of collaboration it has its inherent challenges. If you have a collaborative project underway, tell us … [Read more...] about Why use virtual worlds for collaboration?
Latest Second Life service metrics posted
It's all here on the Linden blog. There's now a full set of data for 2007 performance including until end of January 2008: It's fair to say things are still far from pretty on the stability side. Still more than one in five Second Life sessions end in either a viewer or region crash although there's been a marginal improvement in frame-rates. How's your stability been in … [Read more...] about Latest Second Life service metrics posted
Griffith University in Second Life
Griffith University, located over 5 campuses in the real world between Brisbane and the Gold Coast in Queensland, is yet another Australian tertiary institution entering Second Life. It could be considered their sixth campus. The island presence of Griffith University is the brain child of Jason Zagami, a lecturer in the School of Education and Professional Studies. One of … [Read more...] about Griffith University in Second Life
Assisi in SL
In my recent research on foreign language areas in SL, I came across Assisi. It was launched a few days ago and on my initial wanderings amongst different world areas I missed this excellent replica build of the Saint Francis' Basilica in Assisi. To quote from the notes and in-world press release: "The Basilica, built with original proportions and sizes, is unique in its … [Read more...] about Assisi in SL