Archive for the 'implementation' tag

Tweet I suggested in March that I want to research the extent to which institutions - rather than individual faculty – are engaging Second Life. At this point, the first draft of a survey to measure that engagement is 95% complete. When...
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Tweet Funding. After a week or two of exploring Second Life, educators will either drift away from “the grid” to become just another avatar that hasn’t returned in the last 30, 60 or 90 days. Or, the “F” word...
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Tweet I’ve been absent longer than intended, but It’s been an extremely busy, non-SL month. However, things have been moving forward in our institution with interest in SL potentially reaching a critical mass. Given recent events...
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Tweet New Goal. To what extent are institutions engaging Second Life? Certainly, there are colleges and universities represented in SL, but by whom is that SL presence being developed: early adopters only, pilot projects, isolated...
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Tweet Early in this blog, I cautioned against what I thought and still believe is poor use of the SL environment for real life educational purposes. In short, replicating existing classroom spaces for avatars to sit and receive a lecture or...
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