Posts Tagged ‘virtual’

VirtuED – Using Wonderland to Promote Learning

This is a great project and here is a post on their efforts to establish Wonderland as a learning tool. Keep up the good work guys!

How NOT to teach in Second Life

An interesting interview with Milosun Czervik on the use of Second Life for teaching and how most people just replicate flawed real-life environments and approaches when using MUVEs for learning. Interview conducted by Kevin Lim.

Handipoints – Virtual World that Helps Kids Do Chores in Real World

Speaking of persuasion power, Handipoints is a clever idea of getting kids’ interest in video games and virtual worlds to get them to do something productive in real life through an “incentive program”. I will not go on an on about how interesting this idea is since Michael Arrington from Techcrunch already wrote a nice [...]

Immersive Education – Education Grid Initiative

An interview with Aaron Walsh, professor of virtual environments and games for learning at Boston University: