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
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Realising a virtual worlds industry in Australia
Christian Salles, Olivier Lamirault, Serge Soudoplatoff, Jean Michel Billaut and Franck Bellido are five impressive individuals. All from France, they have played various roles in France's technology sector (their full bios follow at the end of this post) and they intrinisically understand virtual worlds. One (Franck Bellido) developed his company's Second Life island … [Read more...] about Realising a virtual worlds industry in Australia
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
PacRimX, Skoolaborate and Global Challenge merger: the beginning of an Education Grid?
PacRimX (Pacific Rim Exchange) Stan Trevena, director of technology for Modesto City Schools, is the man responsible for the PacRimX project, developed in 2007. The idea was that kids from Modesto and their counterparts from Kyoto Gakuen in Japan would be able to interact with each other in a virtual environment, prior to an international student exchange in which 20 Modesto … [Read more...] about PacRimX, Skoolaborate and Global Challenge merger: the beginning of an Education Grid?