Was Second Life Engaging?

January 4, 2008

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Playing Metanomics :: Higher Education in Second Life | SLCN

November 29, 2007

from www.slcn.tv

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Chisel CSV Visualisation

September 13, 2007

I attended a Dr. Doobs Life 2.0 session a few weeks ago to see a demonstration of something called Chisel.
Chisel allows you to import CSV data, from an Excel spreadsheet, and import it into Second Life so you end up with a 3-D version of your data. As you can imagine I’m […]

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Week 1 Update - Orienting

August 28, 2007

Our first week is over, and things have gone pretty smoothly in Second Life . In the past day my visitor counter has logged 48 visits from Saturday to Sunday, and 52 from Sunday through Tuesday morning . Undoubtedly the more adventurous students are coming in-world first. While I have received information […]

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Students!

August 21, 2007

The first day after my orientation lecture and I have students in Second Life. They are pretty much just poking around the place, though when I left tonight a few were watching lectures. Anyway not much to this post other then a few pics of the first two students who showed up […]

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First Day

August 20, 2007

Class begins today, well at 6:00 PM tonight and a journey that started almost a year ago when I first went into Second Life to “look around” is coming full circle as I introduce 300+ students to the platform. I am very nervous!

The build by Davina Glitter (aka Davina Hovanec in RL)

is incredible (IMO) […]

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Interactive 3-D Accounting

August 15, 2007

Wow, it’s been a month since I last posted anything here. It’s not like I haven’t been busy. I’ve been recording lectures, Second Life demos, Second Life How-To’s all with Camtasia Studios. Oh an I’ve been working on the Second Life part of the Financial Accounting course. The Kenneth Dixon Accounting […]

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Beginning Journey

July 12, 2007

One of the greatest hurdles I have when teaching Financial Accounting is conveying to students that accounting can be engaging, really! This hurdle arises for several reasons, and I will be documenting attempts to engage my students through the use of various Web 2.0 and Web 3-D technologies here. Let’s first list the […]

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First Post

June 27, 2007

I have decided to stop waiting for some ephemeral muse to visit me and allow me to create enlightened expositions here on my blog about engaging students. Primarily this blog will detail my quest to make the teaching of the Accounting Information System (currently taught using the transactional based - debit/credit approach) more engaging […]

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