Web-based event-management service Eventful has opened a public portal to the inside virtual world of Second Life.
The Second Life Event calendar is indexed regularly by Eventful, which lists over 1600 searchable virtual happenings each month.
Virtual-world residents can travel directly to event locations via Eventful by clicking an embedded link in each entry containing exact coordinates.
Event-listings, [...]
Archive for July, 2007
Web Links to Digital Events
July 24, 2007MERLOT – one of the first LORs
July 9, 2007MERLOT – one of the very first Learning Object Respositories…
http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm
It was a Spanish course contributed by Barbara Kuczun Nelson of [...]
OpenSource LMS/CMS – MOODLE
July 9, 2007What Is Moodle?
http://moodle.org/
2 California Campuses Choose MOODLE:
UCLA
CCLE Update, December 2006
In November, 2006, the UCLA Faculty Committee on Educational Technology decided that UCLA should converge on Moodle as the single open source platform for its common collaboration and learning environment (CCLE). The decision includes a commitment to remain engaged with the higher education community as it [...]
MIT’s OpenCourseWare
July 9, 2007OpenCourseWare ( OCW) publishes syllabi, course calendars, readings, exams and other study materials from over 1,100 MIT classes – “a free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners around the world.”
MIT’s OCW model is beginning to spread. Tufts University has launched its own OpenCourseWare project, as has The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School [...]
MIT Media Lab
July 9, 2007First announced byMIT MEDIA Lab co-founder Nicholas Negroponte, now chairman of OLPC, at the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland in January 2005, One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is a non-profit association dedicated to research to develop a $100 laptop—a technology that could revolutionize how we educate the world’s children.
Negroponte, author of Being Digital, was [...]
Medical Images, Videos Moving to YouTube & SL
July 9, 2007Medical images and illustrations, long the mainstay in printed textbooks, are now moving into the digital realm, not just as CDs packaged with texts, but appearing on webpages, YouTube videos, and just starting to find their way to Second Life (SL) – the 3-D realm that may just be perfect for the medical imaging [...]
VNEC Second Life (SL)
July 9, 2007http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crM5Ueo7Bto
The Virtual Neurological Education Centre (VNEC) has been developed as an experiential learning environment for health care professionals.
The SL site includes MRIs, etc. Having recently had several MRIs, it looks very familiar.
blogHUDs for Second Life
July 9, 2007what is a blogHUD?
It is a ‘heads-up-device’ for Second Life.
It allows the owner to easily post a blog entry to bloghud.com, or as a PRO user you can post to your own external blog, if supported. Posts come with a map location of where you posted from in Second Life, along with RSS feeds to [...]
Play2Train – Idaho Bioterrorism Awareness & Preparedness Program in Second Life (SL)
July 9, 2007Play2Train is a virtual training space in SecondLife (SL) designed to support StSNS, START, and ICS Training.
(scroll down for all photos & video links)
The virtual environment is spread over two islands in Second Life — Asterix and Obelix — with one island dedicated to a virtual town and the other a virtual hospital.
Instead [...]
iPhone – international calls
July 8, 2007
Awesome! the new iPhone……..
iPhone, which uses a SIM card, is technically capable of working on any GSM network in the world, but AT&T and Apple have an agreement that it must be locked to the AT&T network. AT&T just tucked Cingular into its empire and so having a Cingular contract and trouble with the [...]
