SDK 1.0 launches, Consortium created

It looks like a little commercial interest in the form of Qwaq.com has spurred this community to release a packaged product.

Barry Joseph of Global Kids reports: “The geography of Teen Second Life is going to be restructured to clearly delineate teen-property from adult-property. This has occurred, in part, due to the conversations over the past three months, spurred by Global Kids, initially supported by the MacArthur Foundation, about the role of adults in the teen grid. The teens spoke and were heard. Thank you Linden Labs.”

For the longer story, go to:
http://www.holymeatballs.org/2007/04/sl_global_kids_and_tsl_residen.html

See the NASA eEducation Roadmap: Research Challenges in the Design of Massively Multiplayer Games for Education and Training. The author, Daniel Laughlin, spoke at my Second Life Teacher’s Lounge in August, 2006.

See presentation digests and Powerpoints from Dan Livingstone’s conference in late March: http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/events/displayevent.php?id=142

My excerpt:
Virtual Learning Environments and Virtual Worlds: The Sloodle Project
Jeremy Kemp, San Jose State University
As mainstream educators slowly get to grips with the enhanced potential of using web-based virtual learning environment, others are forging ahead with 3D virtual environment. This presentation will outline where the web-based environments provide support for learning that may be lacking in richer 3D environment - and introduce the Sloodle project which aims to integrate the web-based and the 3D virtual learning environments.

Episode #2 of the SLEDucating Podcast

James Hayton is Assistant Professor Bocconi University Milan, Italy. His research focuses on people, innovation and entrepreneurship.

http://James-Hayton.com
http://stream.sdabocconi.it/tedplus/research.html

DOWNLOAD EPISODE #2 HERE

Episode #1 of the SLEDucating Podcast.

Show notes

Hi there this is Chris Hambly, director of audiocourses.com and your host for the Sleducating Podcast. Welcome to the first episode of Sleducating, a podcast for academics and new-media people operating in SecondLife.

The podcast will be as frequent as I can manage and/or as frequent as you the listeners wants, I really want this to be your cast, so do get involved. Each episode will be fairly short and will usually feature an interview along with voice comments from anyone that has something to say.

The voicemail numbers can be found on the “About” page at sleducating.com and they are:

USA/world: +1909-313-4254

UK/Europe: +44-207-8714760

My email is chambly AT gmail.com

To kick off the first episode we have CC Chapman, VP of Crayon Marketing discussing why colleges and universities should podcast.

Have fun and see you in-world soon.

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