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October 09, 2008
Learning Innovation study
October 09, 2008
I am part of the Learning Innovation team at Coventry University. At present I am undertaking a study into how education in immersive virtual worlds affects end users and their practice. The research involves meeting with staff and students who have experience with learning in virtual worlds. I am currently seeking about 10 students to interview and about 3 ...
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October 01, 2008
Open Habitat Phase 2 Philosophy Plans
October 01, 2008
We learnt a few things in the first phase of the Open Habitat project which have informed the set-up of our next pilots. I’m currently planning the pilot that will run with philosophy students in Second Life. The main challenge with the first pilot was the sheer speed of debate in SL. The experienced philosophy students are used to ...
From: David White - Read more
September 25, 2008
Nuances that shapes the Internet
September 25, 2008
George brought to my attention comments about issues of using the new Google - Chrome browser to access Moodle environments (Google Chrome and Moodle).I'm keeping an eye on the Moodle 2.0 release - it is expected beginning next year. It is more of a 'clean the code' and inputs from large users Open University type from UK, Netherlands and ...
September 02, 2008
What has the Open Habitat project been doing?
September 02, 2008
As phase 1 of the Open Habitat project draws to a close it is time to take stock. We have run our ‘Multi-User Virtual Environments’ pilots with Art & Design and Philosophy students, gathered our data and are a long way through the process of making sense of it. Concepts are starting to cluster and hypothesis to be tested ...
From: David White - Read more
August 20, 2008
Better TAG management
August 20, 2008
Some enhancements, bug fixes, and qualitative functionality for a better TAG management.Adding or Editing a BLOG The core changes are when 'Adding' or 'Editing' a BLOG post. A 'personal' TAG cloud containing every TAG that a user used in BLOGs are shown allowing a quick-click selection, plus when typing a new TAG it shows a list of site wide TAGs ...
July 23, 2008
Not ‘Natives’ & ‘Immigrants’ but ‘Visitors’ & ‘Residents’
July 23, 2008
This post was inspired by the JISC funded Isthmus project not the MUVE focused Open Habitat but it seems like the sort of thing Emerge could have a good discussion/argument about + I'm not sure I would have come up with the distinction without being on both projects: As part of the JISC funded Isthmus project we have been taking ...
From: David White - Read more
June 27, 2008
Developing Innovation Networks and Communities of Practice – and the Future of Emerge
June 27, 2008
The report from the Emerge small project – Developing Innovation Networks and Communities of Practice – is now available at: The underlying aim of project was to look at how the Emerge Community could develop in the future in a sustainable way. To do this, it created a number of case studies covering a very wide area to ...
From: Jim Hensman - Read more
May 21, 2008
JISC Emerge Elluminate platform
May 21, 2008
First a technical note: The issue of upgrading to Java J2SE6 on Mac OS X 10.5 is resolved, so MAC users can do the upgrade.But this post is to promote an inform on how to use the Elluminate platform by the Emerge community.Upon request, we create (and support) an user with privileges to setup meetings using the Elluminate server. ...
May 19, 2008
How Not to Meet
May 19, 2008
A project meeting in Second Life? How novel! How cutting-edge! What a disaster. Well, I suppose we all learned something from it but when the scenario is as follows… 3 people with text, speakers and mics1 person with text and speakers1 ...
From: David White - Read more
April 24, 2008
Fashon Show Freakery
April 24, 2008
OK, so a fashion show in Second Life isn't everyones idea of fun. Think of a hybrid of a neon eighties disco movie montage sequence, a baroque fancy dress party and Tron and you will be getting close to the effect. The sheer range of cgi textiles was enough to make the make the mind boggle. Even so, being ...
From: David White - Read more
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