vortiCISM- The Middle Passage Experience comes to solipCISM 9 October 2009I’m delighted to announce the arrival of Tamsin Barzane’s Middle Passage Experience installation as a new permanent exhibition on solipCISM. I first blogged the exhibition back in early July when it was curated on Saminaka. Prim limitations at that time meant, however, that the exhibition there could only be temporary, so I’m very pleased […]Chris Hutchison
- Ananse’s Web 9 October 2009I’ve written before about the cultural and educational African presences in Second Life, and documented elsewhere Tamsin Barzane’s impressive Middle Passage exhibition on Saminaka. Back in early August Tamsin invited me to a meeting of Africanists convening on Friday 10th August in the magnificent Saminaka Library. [2009/08/06 4:27] Tamsin Barz […]Chris Hutchison
- solipCISM gets makeover 3 September 2009In preparation for the next academic year, beginning in four weeks from now, solipCISM has had an extensive makeover this summer, with much of the existing content redesigned, rebuilt, or re-textured, as well as much new content added. The Welcome Zone has been largely redesigned and rebuilt, now with well-stocked freebie shops as well as [...]Chris Hutchison
- Demonstration of 3Di OpenSim for education 3 September 2009Other than maybe better integration with the web, I’m not yet sure I quite yet see the point of this–Second Life running in a frame within a standard web browser (available for both Firefox and IE)–maybe because the documenttion is scant in English (3Di is a Japanese company), but it seemed to me worth posting [...]Chris Hutchison
- Second Life running on an iPhone 3 September 2009I first found these YouTube videos almost a year ago, but hadn’t thought to flag it in this blog. At that time, the company that was leading the development of Second Life on mobile phones was streaming mobile game service provider Vollee: Vollee is a technology company which streams PC applications to mobile handsets. By hosting [...]Chris Hutchison
- Student projects, 2009 2 August 2009Many more fine projects this year, too numerous to list … Tower Bridge, the Taj Mahal, a fully functional fairground, the Parthenon, museums, … I leave you with one indicative video:Chris Hutchison
- How to dress in SL when your teacher’s around 22 April 2009An interesting (though not new) issue has been raised in the SL Educators forum with respect to how avatars should attire themselves for formal (non-recreational) contexts such as lectures, meetings, and public events: Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:07:47 -0400 From: “Villano, Paul Mr CIV USA TRADOC” Subject: Re: [SLED] Professional Attire Recommendat […]Chris Hutchison
- The PIVOTE virtual learning authoring system 18 March 2009I first came across this a few months back, but didn’t have time to blog it. I still don’t have the time, but am at least posting a video as a reminder to come back to this. PIVOTE is a virtual learning authoring system for virtual worlds. It was developed as part of the JISC funded [...]Chris Hutchison
- The End of Second Life? 1 March 2009My friend Dzevad yesterday alerted me to a blog piece by Owen Thomas, published in ValleyWag on Sunday 22nd February 2009, entitled “The End of Second Life” in which the author cynically, quite unfairly, but tellingly, writes: Those who can’t do, teach. Second Life, the most overhyped virtual world, has been abandoned even by its most [...]Chris Hutchison
- Making the business case 12 February 2009In my course overview in yesterday morning’s first face-to-face class of the module I stressed to students that we would and should be considering not the technologies alone but also the business case for developing in Second Life. I’d cited Cisco, inter alia, as an instance of good practice. Returning home in the evening, I [...]Chris Hutchison
- The Middle Passage Experience comes to solipCISM 9 October 2009
