Fleep’s Deep Thoughts

Julynn Lilliehook, Dean of the soon to be opened Second Life Law School, spoke at the “Educational Possibilities of Second Life” series, sponsored by SL’ang Life magazine.
“I have found in both RL and SL that people are very uneducated about the laws that affect them,” she said, “In SL it’s [...]

Sarah Robbins (SL: Intellagirl Tully) of Ball State University chairs a panel with Jeremy Kemp (SL: Jeremy Kabumpo) of San Jose State University and Jeremy Hunsinger (SL: buridan Simon) of Virginia Tech about the future of education in virtual spaces. As long term veterans in SL education, Jeremy Hunsinger points [...]

Aleks Krotoski from the University of Surry and Mark Bell from Indiana University discuss best practices for performing survey research in virtual worlds like Second Life. One key affordance of doing research in virtual environments is the ability to capture reams of data, not just from the avatar, but [...]

On the third day of the vBusiness Expo in Second Life, IBM’s Sandra Kearney, Global Director for 3D Internet & Virtual Business, speaks about the evolution of internet technology and the potential of virtual worlds for work and collaboration. She sees an ecosystem of technology tools, platforms, and services that [...]

Benjamin Duranske moderates a panel about virtual worlds and legal issues that arise from working in them, and Dave Elchoness (SL: Da Etchegaray), Executive Director of the Association for Virtual Worlds, brings up an important point - if a company hires a builder or scripter in Second Life, what are [...]

From the vBusiness Expo in Second Life - On-boarding new hires with virtual worlds, John Boring, Accelerate
John reports on study to gauge barriers and interest in virtual worlds from corporate sector, sneak peek from the report:
Top 5 Barriers to Adoption of Virtual World Tech
1. lack [...]

The SL HIV Prevention & Education Center and the Chilbo Community Building Project are sponsoring the AIDS Memorial Quilt display through June 2008. Stop by to visit this touching reminder of lost friends and family, and view the prim quilt squares that have been contributed by Second Life residents from around [...]

JoannaTrail Blazer and AngryBeth Shortbread below my fabulous party hat to celebrate the Second Life for Dummies book written by Sarah “Intellagirl” Robbins and Mark “Typewriter” Bell. Freebies and give aways and friends galore, come join us!posted by Fleep Tuque on Abracadabra using a blogHUD : [blogHUD permalink]

Chilbo Resident Scalar Tardis has filed a bug report on the JIRA - SVC-1905 regarding an issue with the collision tolerance of the new Havok 4 physics engine. Any physics projects that rely on things to be very close together may not move properly, or may not move at all with [...]

Chad Swansen and Fleep Tuque discuss the merits of headgear at the Texas Distance Learning Association Second Life Bootcamp workshop.posted by Fleep Tuque on OLN Island using a blogHUD : [blogHUD permalink]