April 2011 Blog Posts (29)

GIA presents GLANCE “Front Row” showcase

— Featuring exclusive creations designed for RFL of SL –

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When: April 30, 2011 at 1 PM SLT

Where: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Cherry%20Park/220/173/2047

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“Education should be fun and entertaining and not presented as hard labor”.

Professor Albert Einstein

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Thirty leading designers participating. All their items are exclusive and each is priced L$100.

CAVE is an acronym for Community of Academic Virtual Educators. Within an island space in the virtual world of Second Life, five unique and influential organizations bring their significant resources to bear for teaching and learning. The partners include:

• Boise State University's Department of Educational Technology
• AECT_SL
• iNACOL
• ARVEL SIG
• and the ICT Library.

Perhaps the most exciting element of this…

The Terrametric Analyzer can be used only when anomoly is visible a glowing green ball is visible.  It operates on several simple commands:

"rad"=Analyze Radiation    Type "Rad" into the local-chat to analyze the objects radiation…

Hi friends,



After a year in development, we're very proud to announce that the 3D GameLab quest-based learning management system is ready to launch!  GameLab helps teachers turn their live or diclassroom into a living game, providing students choice in an infinite variety of learning quests, giving them ranks and achievements, and associating learning activities to curriculum standards.  GameLab is fully online, and can support instruction in Second Life--indeed, we are…

Hello…

Quest debriefing for April 15:

This evening the crew was subjected to a role-play scenario in which Commander Dali offered two note cards to each member of the group, and then asked the crew to break up into their respective groups and depart to their crew’s quarters.  Each section was then given an assignment and the recipient of the assignment was a member of the crew with the highest rank of that particular group section. The crew became somewhat…

GIA presents Nefertiti Kimagawa Designs showcase

— Featuring creations by Nefertiti Kimagawa –

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When: February 16, 2011 at 1 PM SLT

Where:…

From April 16th to May 14th, new exhibition at MeiNem Art Gallery,

 presenting the works of: Nathaniel Jehangir.

 Grand Opening: Saturday April 16th at 2 PM SLt (…

MachinUWA III: Journeys (3rd UWA Machinima Challenge - 2011)



We are happy to announce the 3rd Machinima Challenge put forth by the University of Western Australia (UWA). The theme is simply 'Journeys'. We hope you are inspired by this to create many wondrous works as you have been through the years!



PRIZE POOL: $L530,000 (at least)

1st Prize $L100,000

2nd Prize $L70,000

3rd Prize $L50,000

+ L$310,000 in other…

Hi folks!

Recently my good friends Molly and Nic wanted to have a party for Molly's Rez Day in Second Life, so I pitched in and offered to help Nic plan the festivities.

First thing I needed to do was find a suitable place to hold the party...NO homestead properties can be used as they only will be allowed to have about 20 avatars there.

Estate/Full Region areas will hold up to a hundred or more avatars easily and will work…

The following are a compilation of SLURL's that will take you literally hundres of free items found with Second Life.

Feel free browse the them and have fun!

·         Period costumes or clothing including Western, Roman,…

All training simulations are not created equal in either educational value or in their overall ability to provide realistic training experiences. Being able to understand the key dynamics that make 3D serious games and simulations a cut above the rest is a major component in selecting a company to provide your training requirements.

The following five features need to be carefully considered when choosing a 3D game design software company to create your specific online…

After a year hiatus, i am back on avw. It's great to see the association grow so much.

Lots of great events with the ARVEL SIG (Applied Research in Virtual Environments for Learning, an AERA special interest group). We are now in New Orleans at the AERA 2011 Annual Meeting. Great Great sessions, awesome workshop, fantastic innovators to talk to ....and of course, being in New Orleans, excellent food!

Check the ARVEL SIG Ning for Details:…

A special interview with: ROLEPLAYING GUIDE MAGAZINE

(CEO/Founder: FILIPA THESPIAN) & (Editor: TIBERIUS TYRAN)

Discussing the basic education and gameplay elements for all genres of role playing games.

6:00PM SLT/PDT [LIVE/VOICE]

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