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Game Studies Information!
Hey all – Since we talked about gamification, Jane McGonigal, and World of Warcraft pretty extensively, I wanted to lend my expertise and give everyone some resources for Game Studies if you are at all interested. For those who don’t know, my focus here at The New School is Game Studies. This is a new(ish) [… Read More]
Second Life Session
Hi! I just wanted to say thanks to Josephine for the Second Life session last night. The Prison and the Holocaust Museum were really cool. I had no idea that you could do so much in Second Life, and especially something so important and profound. It really is like a whole other world. I look [… Read More]
Snap shot of July 22 SL Group Meeting
Enjoyed the meeting with the group: SL Meeting 7-22-09
My First Online Experience
For some reason, it wouldn’t let me comment on the previous post, so I am just going to post my own. For as long as I can remember, there was a computer in my classroom. However, this is not e-learning, nor was it a virtual learning environment. Sure, I can type faster than my parents, [… Read More]
Visit Us in Second Life
Hi all, Please visit us in the Globalhood office space in the Nonprofit Commons. Click here to teleport, or copy/paste our slurl into your browser: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Plush%20Nonprofit%20Commons/229/190/26/?title=Globalhood Thanks for a great semester. Have a lovely weekend, -Group 9: Ali, Juan and Theresa Originally from http://vlegroup9.wordpress.com/2008/08/01/visit-us-in-second-life/
Project Summary – VLE Group 9 (cont.)
Your project may introduce a change to the way in which the nonprofit engages in outreach. In order for your project to be sustainable, what do you foresee will need to happen within the nonprofit? The sustainability of our project lies in Globalhood’s commitment to the nonprofit community in Second Life, and commitment to maintaining [… Read More]
Project Summary – VLE Group 9
VLE group 9 was tasked with locating and obtaining free land in Second Life to build an in-world presence for our nonprofit partner. To do so, we became a part of the thriving nonprofit community in Second Life, which is centralized in an in-world location called Nonprofit Commons. The NPC team provided us with a [… Read More]
Applying Srinivasan ideas to Globalhood – HAF posted by J Rubio
As Srinivasan observes in “Indigenous, ethnic and cultural articulations of new media,” much has been written about the ‘digital divide.’ The discussion has focused on the lack of access in undeserved communities that make less use of technology and new media. He writes that the discussion has been framed around the idea of reinforcing “structures [… Read More]
Social Teaching Project: Group Meeting 3
For our third group meeting, we met up in Second Life and sat around a camp fire to discuss and draft our project plan. We used the project plan format suggestions in the VLE Wiki as a guideline.
Notes from group meeting on the Project Plan Format:
*a) what is the “problem” / issue your project [… Read More]
My first VLE
I work for a huge global company, Siemens. My first VLE was there web-based training system. We are required to do classes in “legal compliance” and “financial risk assessment” and other complete snoozers. In addition to the horrible subject matter, the training was just like PowerPoint slides with a narrator reading aloud what is on [… Read More]