Linden Lab have announced the finalists for their US $10000 Linden Prize, and amongst the handful of finalists is Skoolaborate, By its nature, Skoolaborate is an international venture, but some Australian educators are key driving forces behind the project. Good luck to all the finalists - all illustrate some of the significant good coming out of virtual worlds. … [Read more...] about Skoolaborate: Linden Prize finalist
Education
PIVOTE – open source learning for virtual worlds
British firm Daden have been releasing virtual worlds products for a while now - we covered their in-world web browser last July. Their latest launch is an "open-source learning system or virtual worlds, the web and iPhone". Its moniker is PIVOTE and it's the result of a project called PREVIEW funded by the UK Government's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). The … [Read more...] about PIVOTE – open source learning for virtual worlds
Skoolaborate: a growing success, despite government ineptitude
I spent this morning at a session organised for a team of French innovators called 'Lead Educators : Virtual Worlds and the Immersive Web' . I'll talk more about that in another post but I wanted to devote this one to a topic we've covered previously: Skoolaborate. Since that time, there’s been some incredible progress, with more than forty schools now involved. I had the … [Read more...] about Skoolaborate: a growing success, despite government ineptitude
NoviCraft: virtual world team building
NoviCraft is one of the more fascinating virtual world business offerings by Finnish company, TeamingStream. That fascination comes not from the platform itself, but the theoretical underpinnings of it. This is a world designed purely for business-related training and team-building purposes. I took the opportunity to fire a few questions at TeamingStream's CEO, Petri … [Read more...] about NoviCraft: virtual world team building
Virtual Worlds Research Discussion Group
Whilst Linden Lab list their education highlights for 2008, a standout from the past year in an Australian context has been the successful establishment of the Virtual Worlds Research Discussion Group. Organised by organized by Greg Wadley (Uni of Melbourne), Deb McCormick (Monash Uni) and, Sabine Lawless-Reljic (San Diego State), there are weekly meetings held at alternate … [Read more...] about Virtual Worlds Research Discussion Group