February 23, 2010
Today marks the first day of the SL Pro Conference . It started with a key note by Tom Hale and I’ve recapped some of his major points below.
Alluding to the new SL Viewer 2.0, he talked about taking the wraps off the new user experience work that Linden Lab has been working on [...]
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January 8, 2010
Image by shornik via Flickr
As some might know I’ve been using Second Life in my financial accounting class at the University of Central Florida since the fall 2007 semester. Since that time my class size has gone from an average of 200+ to 800+. I have tweaked the learning objects each semester to try to [...]
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September 9, 2009
I’ve just finished playing with a new release of the Second Life™ Snow Globe viewer. In this release, chat is translated automatically. The chat translation is not the default though, you need to select it from your Preferences, Text Chat and select the language the chat is translated to/from.
Once you’ve done this, you can now [...]
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July 30, 2009
On Sunday I’ll be doing a workshop as part of the American Accounting Association’s annual conference. My workshop will be given prior to the officaial start of the AAA as part of the Conference on Teaching and Learning in Accounting (CTLA).
I struggled to figure out how to do a workshop about Second Life in a [...]
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June 17, 2009
http://maxping.org/business/news/meerkat-may-impact-second-inventory-market-share.aspx
I haven’t tried this yet but will later and will update the post with my impressions, but as the video demonstrates at the link above, this tools could greatly enhance the ability to, of course, back up your work (I wonder what it does with the scripts contained in the objects you backup???), but also [...]
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March 15, 2009
Cybertech News ran a post reporting on the company GreenPhosphour which is working on bringing 3D data into virtual worlds. They are currently using the tool for drug discovery and development.
“Green Phosphor’s product is called Glasshouse, and it is a gateway which can take a database query or a spreadsheet and place a 3D representation of [...]
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March 12, 2009
Ernst & Young Uses Avatars to Test the Use of Virtual Worlds as a Way to Enhance Training for New Auditors
Ernst & Young Uses Avatars to Test the Use of Virtual Worlds as a Way to Enhance Training for New Auditors
tags: Second Life, EarnstYoung, accounting, training
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February 11, 2009
It seems as if my fall 2008 class not only caused a spike on the number of avatars coming to Really Engaging Accounting on Teaching 4 in Second Life, but also created a spike in the absolutely wonderful, time and sanity saving New Media Consortium registration and orientation process, click over to the post.
http://sl.nmc.org/2009/02/09/peeking-at-orientation
Here’s a [...]
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August 26, 2008
Well, as my last post indicated I’ve been negligent in posting here, but I hope to rectify that as the semester proceeds. Today’s post is really to serve as a baseline marker on my sanity to look back on as the weeks and months flow by.
As of the last count this morning I have 929 [...]
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August 12, 2008
While I’m gearing up for another semester of financial accounting, I wanted to share some recent presentations I’ve made and interview given related to Second Life. Last week I had the pleasure to do two presentations related to the work I’m doing with Second Life™ at the American Accounting Association 2008 Conference in Anaheim [...]
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