Advertise your projectIf you wish to feature your project on this site JLIB_HTML_CLOAKING 2011 Horizon ReportThe annual Horizon Report describes the continuing work of the New Media Consortium’s Horizon Project, a research-oriented effort that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have considerable impact on teaching, learning, and creative expression within higher education.
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ReactionGrid Mobilizer Expands to Game Based Learning & Sim StudioReactionGrid's "Mobilizer" group for Android publishing is expanding to become our division for start to finish rapid Game Based Learning & Simulation production and publishing for our Jibe platform. Like a video game producer that works with partners and contractors to create great titles but in this case focused on game based learning and simulations. Read more at the original source.
Authoring Tools for Immersive Training survey resultsThe results of an Authoring Tools for Immersive Training survey have been released by Daden Limited (Daden). The survey indicated that educators want to be able to easily create 3D training exercises themselves without needing the help of technologists nor expert knowledge of how to build the "sets" in their chosen virtual world. The survey asked questions about current uses of immersive worlds for learning, experiences of PIVOTE (Daden's existing system) and users' requirements for the future development of authoring tools. Read the full report at the original source.
Teaching Spanish in Second Life groupAre you interested in teaching or learning Spanish in Second Life? Check out the monthly meetings of the Teaching Spanish in Second Life group at Penn State. The next meeting will be held on Tuesday, February 21st at 5 PM SLT (PST) at the Penn State Island (http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Penn%20State%20Isle/174/55/31).
Would you kill one person to save five?Imagine a runaway boxcar heading toward five people who can’t escape its path. Now imagine you had the power to reroute the boxcar onto different tracks with only one person along that route. Would you do it?
Read more at the original source. Visit C. David Navarrete's Morality and Intergroup Relations website.
Altadyn introduces 3D-VirtualEvents.comFrom the Altadyn press release of January 11, 2012: Altadyn announced our new platform today: 3D-VirtualEvents.com. Offered in SaaS mode on the cloud, it has been designed for corporations and event professionals who want to stay away from boring slideshow-driven webcasts, in favor of more engaging and entertaining ways to run virtual events like virtual conferences, virtual trainingVirtual classrooms, virtual tradeshows and other virtual meetings. Read more at the original source. Check out 3D-VirtualEvents.com.
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Random ArticlesNanotechnology IslandThe nanoscience and nanotechnology hub of SL, Nanotechnology Island is sponsored by the UK's National Physical Lab. You can reach the Island at this SLurl. Instructor needed for graduate course in virtual world developmentHarrisburg University of Science & Technology has an opportunity for a Corporate Faculty (adjunct) to design and facilitate a graduate course in virtual world development. The course is part of the Learning Technologies Master of Science program's Games & Simulations concentration. Read more...iliveisl Minecraft versus OpenSimFrom the blog of iliveisl: i thought subQuark’s post last night was an interesting take on graphics and you probably know that i like pure in-world building for speed, user lag, and teachability. simpler graphics have a certain charm to them and, for me, they let my imagination run more freely soror Nishi, Paul, Sarge, and bristle all commented similar sentiments on subQ’s post and i think they represent the passionate virtual world perspective very well it’s easy to point to things like Habbo Hotel and Farmville and show that simple graphics can be very successful and along similar lines is Minecraft. i have never tried it but found this video which is quite compelling (that or i have a thing for sheep!) =) Check out the YouTube video. Read more about the "i live in science land" blog. Support UsYahoo's RSS Feed
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