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The Project Wonderland development team just found out that development resources will no longer be applied to the project, Sun/Oracle resources that is. However, the avid team plans to keep up the great work they have done so far counting on the open source community. The team wiill soon release Project Wonderland v0.5 Preview Release [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
An interview with Aaron Walsh, professor of virtual environments and games for learning at Boston University:
