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... or Facebook a virtual world in its own right even without Vivaty. Are MMORPGs virtual worlds? Presence based interaction ... strong aspects of gaming and social/reputational capital. Habbo is 2.5D but gets 10M unique users. High end features are not ... games/virtual worlds for learning and half are role based. Gaming is huge…average age is in late 20s. Most ... online gaming research, he says…”Read it, digest it and leave it out for your boss to see.” ...

Raph Koster, at the last Game Developers Conference ( 1 , 2 ), shocked a few people when after showing pictures of Club Penguin and Second Life - he juxtaposed those with images of Darfur and Haiti. His point was to ask why game developers are doing what they do - and if they were perhaps squandering the potential of this powerful medium in which they were engaged. Seems that Tim O'Reilly is now asking the same question of the Web 2.0 world. At the latest Web 2.0 ... financial crisis - if developing a Facebook app so that we could 'throw sheep' at each other, was the best use of our ...

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Cheat This Book-Gadgets, Games and Gizmos . Next Cammy's Bean at Learning Visions started with a single post Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning. It is long, thorough and totally complete. Great summary of the entire book...maybe she works for Cliff Notes? But then she didn't stop...she added another post... Women, Gaming & The Guild Master Ceiling . A great post about the perception of women and gaming, she and I have had "words" before on this topic and it sparked a great discussion. (See The Real World, Second Life and Facebook/MySpace ...read the comments to see our points ...

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Second Life Lite A medium size Virtual Classroom / Meeting Tool will announce features in 2008 that are not 3D ... can ask all you want, you will still be doing a lot of work with LMS products this year. Prediction #8 => Serious Games ... example, I just had someone ask about using Facebook in a corporate context as part of on-boarding. I'll likely ...

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... number of sims in virtual worlds (Second Life, there.com), encourage social networking in a productive, learning outcomes-oriented way. For example, you may find a tutor for Spanish in Second Life or through ning. 4---Comprehension ... ► Jun 14 (1) Art and Social Responsibility in Second Life: AM R ... ► May 22 (1) What's Your Favorite Use of Second Life? ► May 21 (1) I Found My Tutor In Second Life: New Ways to ...

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... help explain everything from how to use Second Life to learn to explanations of psychological illnesses. YouTube ... Facebook account. Bookmarking Mark references for later while you’re researching with these tools ... quizzes and educational games to help you study your materials in a more interactive fashion. Quizlet : Quizlet ... . Facebook : One of the most popular social network sites for students, Facebook provides a place where classmates ...

... truly new or are a great application. I dont need to see a screenshot of Second Life or of Wikipedia again, but if theres a ... /Facebook style, where I can put as little or much info about myself as I want. Maybe even update it while there, or ... who attended a session and thought it was interesting. Love the Facebook / real-time ideas! With free Wifi - that could ... Ive ever been to at any conference - the Game Design Challenge session at the Game Developers Conference. Man! This ... Facebook...love it...but lets also make sure we provide the tools and opportunities to maybe self-organize groups around ...