Category Archives: Other Virtual Worlds
Pandamonium Hits WoW
If you have any gamers at all in your classes, you may not have seen much of them this week. Tuesday, the latest World of Warcraft expansion, Mists of Pandaria went live. The WoW forums were rampant with both kids and adults exclaiming that they were taking off for the next day, some the entire week, just to [...]
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Posted in gamemooc, multiculturalism, Other Virtual Worlds, pandaria, stereotypes, worldofwarcraft, WoWinSchools
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Thoughts on my (Re)Introductions to World of Warcraft, JokaydiaGrid, and Machinima-Making
As I said in the last post, it’s been a whirlwind few weeks. I’m still visiting multiple grids/rpgs per day–I’m just not doing multiples at a time anymore! I’ve been amazed at the people I’ve met in the Cognitive Dissonance and Inevitable Betrayal guilds in World of Warcraft (they’re educators’ guilds on the US Sisters of Elune [...]
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Posted in Conferences/Meetings, Cool Places/Tours, machinima, MMORPGs, Other Virtual Worlds, Personal Experiences, Projects
Tagged Aether, Aevalle, conference, JokaydiaGrid
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Catching up after the Whirlwind
I’ve been really lax in posting of late. The Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education conference was AMAZING. As exploration stream lead, I used the conference to fulfill my internship hours for the IDD program here at South. In preparing for the tours and exploration, I signed up for, played around in, and created orientation [...]
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Posted in Conferences/Meetings, Cool Places/Tours, Other Virtual Worlds, Personal Experiences, Projects, Second Life
Tagged Aether, Aevalle, conference, FCVW, Inworldz, JokaydiaGrid, Moses, networking, tours, visiting, worlds
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Incorporating games in Instructional Design
A very recent research project conducted in September, 2008 by Pew Internet & America Life Project produced an astounding result saying that 99% of boys and, unbelievably, 94% of girls like to play games. Also, the president of United States, … Continue reading
Posted in Early Adopter, eLearning, inworld games, Other Virtual Worlds, Virtual Projects
Tagged Gaming
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Odds and Ends
Here it is, the end of yet another semester. As with the semesters prior to this one, this is the time that I start planning the upcoming tours for the next season. This semester’s wasn’t as well attended as I’d hoped–a big part of that is thanks to the ongoing technical issues we’re having on campus with the firewall–but if [...]
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Posted in Conferences/Meetings, Cool Places/Tours, Other Virtual Worlds, Personal Experiences, Projects, Second Life
Tagged Aevalle, Inworldz, Jag Islanders, jaguarland, Moses, OSGrid, tours
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Sim on a Stick Means Everyone Can Have Their Own Grid
I came across the Sim on a Stick idea on the iliveSL blog several months ago. The idea intrigued me and I filed it away in my head. Now I’m ready to take the plunge. For those educators who have a bit of technical mojo, I think this could be a great way to give [...]
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Call for Papers–Virtual Worlds Graduate Unsymposium
For those who are fairly new to virtual worlds but have started getting their “feet wet” (so to speak) with the research and experience of bringing students into the virtual environment, the Virtual Worlds Graduate Unsymposium may be a good place to start presenting your experiences. The CFP has gone out (http://vw.unsymposium.org/cfp-2011). The conference will [...]
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Posted in Conferences/Meetings, Other Virtual Worlds, Second Life
Tagged conference, education, JokaydiaGrid, research, virtual
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Day 2 FCVW 2011 conference wrapup
Today got off to a bit of a rough start for me. I was thrilled to get to see Chris Dede’s keynote address, “How Immersion in Virtual Worlds Helps Learners in the Real World.” He demo’d some ecology virtual projects in EcoMUVE, pointing out that virtual worlds are useless for education if the contents aren’t [...]
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Posted in 3dxplorer, Conferences/Meetings, Other Virtual Worlds, Second Life
Tagged conference, education, FCVW, research, tools, training, virtual
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A first look at Moses
I love being a member of listservs. You get to hear about the most amazing new things from listservs, just out of the blue! This morning was no exception. A link to a website for a new grid came through on the Hypergrid Adventurers Club. Self: “New grid, you say?” Mouse: Click! Self (upon seeing [...]
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Posted in Cool Places/Tours, Other Virtual Worlds, Projects
Tagged Aevalle, Moses, OSGrid, tours, visiting
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