January 8, 2010
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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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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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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 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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April 23, 2008
On Sunday April 20,2008 I conducted an interview with a business owner in Second Life. Below is the transcript from that interview. I spoke with Cathy Ryder from Ink Blots which is a tattoo parlor located in Second Life on the Luck of the Irish sim. The interview turned out to be very informative. I [...]
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April 16, 2008
After being (somewhat forcefully) immersed in the world of Second Life, I’ve come to appreciate the huge potential that virtual worlds hold. This is why I focused my line of questioning on that very subject when I interviewed Lou Mourelatos, Vice President of Business Development at The SL Agency. Providing innovative marketing/advertising solutions, The SL [...]
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March 30, 2008
Lucky for me, I was forced to discover SL through my ACG 2021 course and because of that; I found my new favorite musician and a great new place to meet other interesting people.
Louis Volare (Real Life – Louis Landon) - you have to experience his music in order to believe it! Please be sure to check [...]
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March 26, 2008
The Assignment:
For extra credit in my Accounting 2021 class my goal was to find and interview a Second Life business owner. I searched for businesses in second life and IM’ed some business owners. I got a reply from Adriana Hian, who volunteered to be interviewed. She is from Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, and currently sells [...]
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March 7, 2008
WeGame.com – Gaming Videos
Second Life released a new candidate viewer today, and one of the features with this release is the ability to display new media within Second Life. See the Second Life blog posting here. Prior to this release any land owner could choose to display video and/or music on their [...]
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