Teaching in SecondLife (Reflections of a language teacher)

This is a very interesting blog on how to use SecondLife in lagnuage education:

http://slexperiments.edublogs.org/

It also includes an entire course guide (split up into different lessons).

"Mass Migration" from SecondLife to OpenSim?

Quite some people have suggested that SecondLife will be 'replaced' by OpenSim. Along these lines you might want to consider the following article, which considers this issue.

In order to access the article, please click here.

Virtual worlds: Is this where real life is heading?

"Recently a man bought a space station for $330 000, while last month Small Planet Foods, a subsidiary of General Foods, introduced a new brand of organic blueberries. What have these two products got in common? Neither actually exist. Well, not except as pixels in the virtual worlds where they are traded. Only the money is real."


To access the full article, please clik here.

Gartner Says 80 Percent of Active Internet Users Will Have A "Second Life" in the Virtual World by the End of 2011

“The collaborative and community-related aspects of [Virtual Worlds] will dominate in the future, and significant transaction-based commercial opportunities will be limited to niche areas, which have yet to be clearly identified.
[...]
However, the majority of active Internet users and major enterprises will find value in participating in this area in the coming years.”

To access the full article, please click here. 

Diigo Groups on SecondLife / Virtual Worlds

These two Diigo groups deal with SecondLife / virtual worlds in (Higher) Education.

• http://groups.diigo.com/group/education-in-second-life
• http://groups.diigo.com/group/gaming-and-virtual-worlds-in-education