Posts Tagged ‘second life’
Kinect plus Second Life
Posted by: ashleytan on: January 23, 2011
Video source First came news of Kinect hacks for controlling personal computers. Then there was information about playing World of Warcraft with the Kinect. So it’s no real surprise that someone is experimenting with Second Life. It takes personification to another level.
A second life
Posted by: ashleytan on: July 9, 2010
Source This is a boy and his avatar. Enough said.
Life after Second Life?
Posted by: ashleytan on: June 20, 2010
I wasn’t too surprised when I read rumours that the Second Life (SL) office in Singapore was closing and that Linden Lab was scaling down internationally. The local press confirmed the Singapore office’s demise soon after. Virtual environments (VEs) are about a dime a dozen. In that case, you’d have about 60 to 70 cents. [...]
Second Life course
Posted by: ashleytan on: September 18, 2009
Warren Sheaffer of Saint Paul College offers a course called Second Life Basics. This is part of a certificate for its Computer Information Systems Technology programme [article]. Here are some choice quotes that I extracted from the article: We’re challenging the whole notion of concrete, sequential learning by offering a rich learning environment that allows [...]
Misrepresentation
Posted by: ashleytan on: September 12, 2009
This was recently featured in the Straits Times. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Second Life (SL) is not a game. There are no levels to go through, points to get, or game bosses to kill. It is a multi-user virtual environment (MUVE). There are MUVE games like World of Warcraft, but [...]
Virtual Orchard Road
Posted by: ashleytan on: August 6, 2009
Image source The Straits Times online reported how anyone in the world can visit Singapore’s Orchard Road from Aug 9. It’s no coincidence that Aug 9 is also our National Day. As the ST link will not last long, I am providing links to SG Entrepreneurs which has its own take on it, and to [...]
Magazine article 3
Posted by: ashleytan on: June 29, 2009
I introduced readers to Second Life in my third article (pp. 26-27) as a guest writer for iknow magazine.
Second Life still alive
Posted by: ashleytan on: March 15, 2009
Second Life in the news. Just because it is not as popular as FaceBook or Twitter does not mean that it is going away.
Second pedagogy?
Posted by: ashleytan on: March 9, 2009
Sometimes I wonder how I would function as an educator without the Internet to help me with resources both human and non-human. My four classes of teacher trainees started exploring Second Life (SL) this week. Over the weekend, someone I met a few years ago by email (and only this year in person) sent me [...]
My Prezi presentation on Second Life
Posted by: ashleytan on: February 21, 2009
I have just completed my draft of a revised presentation on Second Life that I intend to use with my classes in two weeks time. I used a new presentation tool called Prezi to do this. One thing I like about Prezi is how you can break out of the linear presentation mode that is [...]
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