What a great conference!
This was the first time I managed to attend (and present at) HighEdWebDev in Rochester, and this was really time and money well spent.
The organizers did a great job at planning and organizing the whole event (although a lapel microphone would have been a great addition for the “soft-spoken” presenters like [...]
There’s still time for your institution to sign up and you don’t even need a campus in SL to participate.
As of today, the following 20 institutions have expressed interest in participating in this virtual college fair organized on the Teen Grid of SL:
Front Range Community College, Colorado
Bradley University, Illinois
Florida State University
Montana State University
University of Kentucky
Johnson [...]
Lately, I’ve read more and more negative comments about SecondLife. Many inside and outside of higher education have questioned the return on investment of SL campuses for universities and colleges as Jeff Young from the Chronicle of Higher Ed wrote a few days ago in the Campus Wired Blog:
More than 100 colleges have set up [...]
I usually don’t cover vendor-related news, but BlackBoard has really done a nice job using YouTube to promote an upcoming conference to a specific audience while surfing on a very popular phenomenon, i.e. the growing popularity of Second Life in academic technology circles.
I came across this video titled “Adventures in First Life Redux” on Educate/Innovate, [...]
This month, in my Internet Technologies column for University Business, I discuss what SecondLife, the 3-D virtual world, can offer to higher ed institutions.
The best way to understand the possibilities of Second Life is to sign up for a free account. You just need to pick the name of your Second Life avatar (the first [...]
My third UB column for 2007 is now available in the June issue as well as online: “A Second Life for Higher Education?”
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I don’t know if any of you got a chance to pop up in Second Life last Friday as I suggested in my last post.
I did (and I have a snapshot to prove it ;-).
I spent about an hour listening to the presentation by the IBM folks after walking through the poster sessions. I [...]
Sorry for the short notice, but I completely missed the boat on this unique, exciting and FREE event happening in Second Life tomorrow: Second Life Best Practices in Education.
Whether you have an SL avatar or not (if you don’t, you can sign up - it’s free), this is a great opportunity to get up-to-speed on [...]
In a previous post titled “Professor Wesch from KSU featured in a great video report from The Chronicle,” I raved about the first online video report produced by Jeffrey Young, Web Editor at The Chronicle:
Produced by Jeffrey R. Young, the video report does an excellent job presenting Professor Wesch’s work at KSU as well as [...]
I’m just back from a short and random tour of campuses in SecondLife. I typed “university” and “colleges” in the search engine of the application to see what any regular visitor will find.
My journey took me to a few different places including the SL Island of Vassar College. On Vassar Island, a small but nice [...]
