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Shock! Horror! Second Life can educate!

April 24, 2008 – 2:14 pm

This article comes from eSchool News for April 22. Educators attending a webinar on gaming in education agreed that online gaming can help students develop many of the skills they’ll be required to use upon leaving school. such as critical thinking, problem solving and creativity.
Many education groups, such as ISTE and the Discovery Educator Network […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, learning environments, virtual environments | Comments (1)

Virtual Worlds and Education

February 27, 2008 – 2:45 pm

It occurred to me last night when I was writing a posting about virtual worlds on my “book review” blog, that I should re-visit the concept of virtual worlds and the role they could play in education.
I read crime fiction and in the book that I have recently finished, WICKER by Kevin Guilfoile, the author […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, Australian education, virtual environments | Comments (4)

edna’s 10th birthday - 1 sleep away

November 26, 2007 – 12:08 pm

We’ve had our final logistics run-through, and tried to work out what we’ve missed! Kerry Johnson (aka Pandora Kurrajong) will be on the island of Terra Incognita in Second Life, Gemma Mayfield and I will be in Live Classroom in various guises, the draft programme for the event here in Adelaide has been honed, the […]

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edna’s 10th - beginning the countdown

November 22, 2007 – 10:02 am

Only 5 sleeps to edna’s 10th birthday.
Today we got greetings from Luisa Marquardt in Italy who sent a link to her blog posting.
http://biblioragazzi.wordpress.com/2007/11/21/i-primi-10-anni-di-edna/
 
One of the staff translated the Italian for me (mine is only good for reading railway timetables) as:
EDNA (EDucation Network Australia), the Australian network of interesting resources, easily accessible online and useful for […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, online technologies, Australian education, virtual environments, edna10, Live Classroom | Comments (2)

edna 10th birthday celebrations

November 21, 2007 – 9:42 am

On Tuesday 27 November, edna is celebrating its 10th birthday, a remarkable achievement in the online world.
edna’s 10th birthday celebrations give you a chance to celebrate with us, and experience a live event through either the Live Classroom web conferencing tool in Sandpit Groups or the 3D space Second Life.
Details are available at http://www.edna.edu.au/edna/go/about/pid/2040
Live Classroom
Our […]

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More on 3D environments

April 16, 2007 – 11:27 am

Some useful links that have emerged today:
Judy O’Connell has a posting Second Life Classroom - Not School, Not Home in which she talks about the difficulties in getting ’system’ colleagues to take 3D Virtual Worlds seriously. Discussion is emerging but is the reluctance to think about it all linked to the fact that everything, even […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, communication tools, online technologies, SL, learning environments, 3D, virtual environments | Comments (3)

Thinking about Second Life, VLEs, and other 3D environments

April 13, 2007 – 1:00 pm

A good friend, Lindy McKeown, ACCE and ISTE ICT Leader of the Year 2006, is ‘doing’ her PhD on use of 3D learning environments. She has set up Terra Incognita in Second Life as an island for educators. A dozen of us have become her “lab rabbits” and have begun thinking about how such environments might be used […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, online technologies, Australian education, professional development, professional learning, community development, SL, learning environments, 3D, virtual environments | Comments (4)