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Second Life is hot.  read more »

At the 1st Second Life International Conference I took a whole bunch of pictures, to try and capture some of the quite mature conference uses of this virtual world. I already showed a glimpse of one one of the presentations. Here are some other galleries of my trek through conference land:  read more »

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On June 14, I was at the University of Twente in Enschede to attend the Interdisciplinary Second Life Workshop. It was organized by the new inter-facultary Center for Information Technology and Society (CITS), part of the Centre for Telematics and Information Technology.  read more »

One of the projects in Second Life that has my particular interest is Schome ("not school, not home"), specifically its subproject SchomePark. Here is the blurb compiled by Mark Gaved (mail to the ciresearchers-list, May 24,2007):  read more »

Click here for the gallery that contains the pictures taken by Al Mohr (Second Life) / Aldo de Moor (Real Life) of Schomer Simpson 's (Second Life) / Peter Twining's (Real Life) presentation at the Second Life Best Practices in Education International Conference 2007.  read more »

Some links which will help you getting acquainted with Second Life:  read more »

About Second Life

• Second Life home page (this is where it all starts)
• Second Life - The Official Guide (comprehensive guide which will give you a good feel of what all the fuzz is about)
  

Everybody interested in Second Life should attend the 1st Second Life International Conference 2007: Best Practices in Teaching, Learning, and Research. Lack of money or travel time are no excuse, since the event will, of course, be held completely in-world. There will be all day events, keynote speakers, and even free bags of goodies from the best SL content creators. So, sign up, and see you on Friday!

Second Life is all about being immersed and feeling that you are inside that virtual world instead of observing it from the outside. One major drawback so far was that the only way of communication was to chat. Wouldn't it be nice to combine Skype's power of natural talking with Second Life's strength of visualization?  read more »

I am currently visiting my colleague and good friend Mark Gaved, who works at the Knowledge Media Institute in Milton Keynes. He is involved in an absolutely fascinating Second Life project, Schome. Basically, it's an exploration of new learning systems for the 21st century. SchomeBase is a pilot of trying out some of the Schome ideas in Second Life.  read more »