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May 2007

May 03, 2007

What are MUVEs good for?

May 03, 2007

 This is the middle of my blog post but I though it might be a good starting point for a discussion. For me the area of MUVEs breaks down into the following points to consider:Does using an MUVE give a more powerful sense of ‘presence’ / identity to those involved. Is this more powerful / useful than purely text ...

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May 08, 2007

Design degree show on Second Life

May 08, 2007

See: the question is: What is the benefit?  This falls into the category of duplicating RL events in SL. At the moment, given that you can only have about 30 people in the SL room at any one time, I would say that this has more publicity value than virtual value. Of course this should change as the ...

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May 09, 2007

Second Life Best Practice International Conference

May 09, 2007

This is something that might interest you. I already signed up for it. "The conference will be held on May 25, 2007 in venues all over the Second Life world, with exciting presentations, vendors and exhibitors, and everything an educator needs to know to get started exploring the possibilities for teaching, learning, and research in Second Life!" ...

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May 14, 2007

Dave's top 10 musings on the encouragement of community in Multi-User Virtual Environments.

May 14, 2007

This post is the result for too much time spent thinking on trains. Apologies for typos etc..So, if you are interested in building a ‘community of learners’ in or around an MUVE rather than simply diving in, doing a set activity and then leaving this may be of interest. What I am exploring here is what it takes to ...

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May 25, 2007

Emerge online conference - call for assistance in SL

May 25, 2007

hi everyone ... just a quick one. i want to organise a series of Second Life activities during the 3 day event we have coming up on June 5th to 7th. if you are willing to help either as a facilitator or indeed have space/land we can take advantage of i would really like to hear from you ...best, ...

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Calling all those with emerging opinions on Muti-User Virtual Environments

May 25, 2007

Following on from Stevens post… I’m trying to piece together current thinking on MUVEs both positive and negative. This is partially for a talk I’m giving about MUVEs on Tuesday and also to start shaping up more distinctive themes to present in some form in the emerge online activity days. I have a big bag of my own ideas ...

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