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From: Virtual Learning Environments on behalf of Stuart Lee
Sent: Mon 12/03/2007 10:04
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [VLES] Second Life



Has anyone else had difficulty in actually oredring an island in SL? I
realise they have been snowed under and are struggling to keep up demand
but I've made several attempts and had no luck whatsoever.

Please reply off-list if you have any tips,

Stuart

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On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Anna Peachey wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> My colleague and I are Teaching Fellows with the Centre for Open Learning in
> Math's, Science, Computing and Technology CETL at the Open University.  We
> have a research island in Second Life (Cetlment) that we are actively using
> and developing for teaching and learning, plus investigating the exciting
> possibilities afforded by integrating with Moodle (re the Sloodle project
> below) - would be happy to show anyone around in-world on an informal basis.
> Anyone interested in SL might also like to look at schome.ac.uk, another OU
> project that has a SL island and is doing a lot of work on educating in
> virtual worlds.
> Our SL names are Elsa Dickins (me) and Jacquie Sholokov (Jacquie Bennett) -
> feel free to IM one of us in-world or email me off-list.
>
> Regards,
>
> Anna Peachey
> Open University
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Virtual Learning Environments [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf
> Of Michael Penney
>  Sent: 09 March 2007 17:49
>  To: [log in to unmask]
>  Subject: Re: [VLES] Second Life
>
>
>  There is also some fascinating work being done here:
>  http://www.sloodle.com/
>
>  Integrating SL with a VLE:-).
>
>  "Sloodle v1.0 is releasing at the Massively Multi-Learner Workshop on
> March 22nd in Paisley, Scotland."
>
>  Best
>  Michael Penney
>  LMS Project Manager
>  California State University, Humboldt
>  [log in to unmask]
>  http://learn.humboldt.edu <http://learn.humboldt.edu/> 
>  http://www.humboldt.edu/~mmp5
>    ----- Original Message -----
>    From: Philip Butler
>    To: [log in to unmask]
>    Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 5:28 AM
>    Subject: [VLES] Second Life
>
>
>    There has been some discussion about Second Life on the Champs list.
>
>
>
>    Barry Spencer, Bromley College, is doing some remarkable work with
> Second Life to support teaching and learning.  He's bought himself an Island
> and invited people to join him.  If you're interested, he's facilitating a
> Strand of our LEON conference starting Monday.  Please give me a call (0787
> 962 0421) if you'd like to be included, or send me a booking form which you
> can get from our website:
>
>
>
>    http://www.rsc-london.ac.uk/1077/
>
>
>
>    If you don't have access to the Champs list, or haven't seen Second
> Life, take a look at this video posted on YouTube:
>
>    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b72CvvMuD6Q
>
>
>
>
>
>    Best wishes
>
>    Philip
>
>
>
>
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