Applied Research in Virtual Environments for Learning

Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin's Blog Posts Tagged 'SL' (6)

UK Developer Gets $1 Million in Funding for Language Training in Second Life

In case you missed it (posted on March 12, 2011 on New Worlds Notes): "Interesting news for several reasons: Language Lab (http://www.languagelab.com/), a UK school that uses Second Life as a platform for teaching English, just received $1 million in investment from Avonmore Developments, Stephen Bullock, and Huda Associates to continue developing English City (…

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Added by Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin on June 18, 2011 at 12:00am — No Comments

SL Tools: from ArtiZan Creative Solutions Tools for Business, Marketing & Communication

Reposting Jenn Forager's 5/31's post on Immersion:Tools.Jam

..."Zanara Zenovka of ArtiZan has been kind enough to share her products with Tools.Jam previously and so I was excited when she offered to update us on some new tools that she has created....From the Catalog: (Copy included in the Second Life Notecard)

ArtiZan Creative Solutions…

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Added by Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin on May 31, 2011 at 1:26pm — No Comments

Article: Science thrives in virtual worlds

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"Does the virtual-reality world known as Second Life have anything to offer for real-world scientists? Absolutely — and a trailblazing researcher says the payoffs are sure to increase when the Internet goes 3-D.

"We are really meant to interact in 3-D, with other people and with information," Caltech astronomer George Djorgovski, director of the Meta Institute…

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Added by Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin on March 28, 2011 at 10:27am — No Comments

Pandora Radio in SL

I don't know about you, but I am a big BIG fan of Pandora Radio. It's on my PC, my laptop, my HTC Evo, my iPad.

Now I can have it on my land in SL. Just found it on SL Marketplace (L$250 = $1.37 USD), allows 3 access levels: owner, group and anyone. Awesome for a party when you can't find a DJ.

buy it here: http://tinyurl.com/4wdw62v…

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Added by Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin on February 17, 2011 at 11:36am — 1 Comment

Remedial Math vProgram

Greetings, I am reposting here this email for your consideration. I am familiar with the Dream Realizations team and they are just plain outstanding folks. ARVEL SIG invited them to introduce us to their research a few month back (Go to Library > Inworld Discussions…

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Added by Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin on December 14, 2010 at 9:30am — No Comments

RezLibris releases Fall issue

CONTACT: Bookie Balogh (SL)

DATE: September 20, 2010

EMAIL: rezlibris@gmail.com

RezLibris Magazine releases Fall issue

RezLibris magazine is proud to announce the release of a new information-rich issue available at: http://www.rezlibris.com

ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS:

• Banned Books Week in Second Life

• Closet Organizing for Avatars

• Trendy Topics 2010

• SLACTIONS conference…

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Added by Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin on September 20, 2010 at 2:52pm — No Comments