Learning in Virtual Worlds

It is Monday morning here in New Zealand, Sunday in the U.S., and I just tried to log in to Second Life.  But Second Life had 67,333 current logins and could handle no more load.  They were at their user limit!  C’mon, how un-scalable is this platform?
I recently asked Linden Labs how I could get [...]

 
I’m just back from the Distance Education Association of New Zealand (DEANZ) conference in Wellington, whose theme was My Place, My Space, My Learning.  We had two very thought-provoking keynotes, one by Nancy White and the other by Michael Barbour, and although my notes are unclear on this, one of these two wonderful thinkers used [...]

Kia ora.  After several weeks of development the new Medical Centre is starting to take shape.  Most of the ‘build’ to date has been around the design and physical structure.  For those interested in SL building, this very large structure (50×50×50 metres) was made with mega-prims and required less than 50 prims.  This did not [...]