Paul ‘Fire’ Preibisch has recently released an opensource gameshow for Second Life, where the teachers can create a virtual contest show host for their students in Distance education classes.

Sloodle is not just another tool related to Moodle, but an amazing set of oportunities to integrate moodle with Second Life.

AVALON stands for Access to Virtual and Action Learning live ONline. The partners’ goal is to explore Second Life for scenario based language learning.

The metaverse is emerging, through the increasing use of virtual world technologies that act as platforms for end-users to create, develop, and interact, expanding the realm of human cooperation, interaction, and creativity. The conference focus is scientific research on applications and developments of these metaverse platforms: Second Life, OpenSim, Open Croquet, Activeworlds, Open Source Metaverse, Project Wonderland, and others, providing a forum for the research community to present and discuss innovative approaches, techniques, processes, and research results.

Behind headlines on the conflict in Iraq and global terrorism, a much deeper battle is raging over children and the values they should adopt. Political and religious leaders including Blair and Bush have been joined by the popular press in Enlightenment-bashing and bitter attacks on ‘liberal parenting’, calling for a return to authority and religious tradition.

The Bayeux Tapestry is one of the most important Medieval items from the British history (…)

Given the potential for self directed language learning in a MUVE (Multi User Virtual Environment), what is the role of the classroom? This talk, illustrated by several years of experience in Languagelab

he Institute for LiveLong Learning of the University of Barcelona (IL3-UB) with the collaboration of OPERA JOVEN (www.operajoven.com) organizes the Week of Immersive Virtual Environments “Second Life: Innovation and Applications on Science, Culture and Enterprise”, integrated at the same time as local chapter of the International Conference SLACTIONS (www.slactions.org) to be held on September 24-26, 2009 in Barcelona, Spain. We would like to invite you to submit participation about the application of virtual worlds. ———– El Instituto de Formación Continua de la Universidad de Barcelona (IL3-UB) con la colaboración de OPERA JOVEN (www.operajoven.com) organiza la Semana de Entornos Virtuales Inmersivos “Second Life: Innovación y Aplicaciones en la Ciencia, la Cultura y la Empresa”, integrada al mismo tiempo como capítulo local del Congreso Internacional SLACTIONS (www.slactions.org), que se celebrará del 24 al 26 de septiembre de 2009 en Barcelona, España. Queremos invitarle a proponer una participación sobre las aplicaciones de los entornos virtuales

The second video I’m going to publish was a presentation on the democratization of creativity and cultural production as a challange for regulation. Brent Renard also showed us some interesting features of his Opera Joven SIM and the different recreatins of Jalisco (Mexico), such as some restaurants (With the possibility to taste mexican food), their cathedral or even their beach. It was a really nice presentation, though it had few assissteners (probably because the title of the conference was displayed in spanish, which could lead to the confussion that the conference was going to be held in spanish.

I begin this series of videos with an Introduction to Scripting workshop from Dudeney Ge (Gavin Dudeney [RL]). He introduced in a very comprehensive way the history of scripting (do you know why most comands in scripting begin with LL… ?) and some very simple and some key notions about scripting. He also showed us his method of working (to make it easy to the resident to use and customize the script, by means of self-error checking devices, auto-update …) and we had a deep look at one of his scripts (a Notacard giver). It was a presentation from really-really beginers in the world of scripting.

Aunque la cara más conocida de Second Life sea la comercial, hay una gran cantidad de entidades o personas que, de manera altruista, crear su propia SIM con fines culturales o educativos. (…)