Excellent list on the SLEducation wiki on the use of Second Life for immersive learning. Some very interesting islands are highlighted like the ISTE island. Explore the list here.
Posts Tagged ‘virtual world’
Stigmergy in Virtual Worlds
Many researchers have been talking about stigmergy in Web-based environments. Sarah Intellagirl Robbins has been doing research in facets of Virtual Worlds and their potential for education. Stigmergy is one of the affordances she identified (or put the name to the face) in working with Virtual Worlds. From Wikipedia we have: Stigmergy is a mechanism of [...]
Project Wonderland’s New Features
Project Wonderland is a project run by Sun Microsystems that aims at developing a tool kit for the creation of custom virtual worlds (MUVEs). The upcoming .5 release promises some interesting features as well as some powerful improvements to the interface and system as a whole. Videos here: http://slx.sun.com/1179271798 https://slx.sun.com/1179271797 https://slx.sun.com/1179271796 https://slx.sun.com/1179271795
