Yesterday I was at the Virtual Web Symposium on eLearning in Amsterdam. I joined co-bloggers Frank Husman and Johan Vermij amongst 20-30 other present in the real world in a very interesting afternoon/evening of presentations on various themes (some indirectly) related to Virtual Worlds. In a reasonably smooth cross-media presentation of joining both real life, [...]

Posted on: February 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »

After the inspirational Dutch Virtual Worlds meet up of last month, the Eduverse team presents the ’sequel’ - The Eduverse Symposium. A meeting to take place this afternoon in deBalie - Amsterdam on the ever increasing phase we add information to the world, and how this influences our educational system. With a wide range of [...]

Posted on: February 27, 2008 | No Comments »

Tuesday and Wednesday I logged into the ‘Learning Grounds’ of IBM’s ‘What’s Missing‘ Learning summit. After a remarkably easy download process I found myself in one of the most boring environments ever to be part of the 3D web. I wasn’t really shocked with the poor visual quality of the Active Worlds set up, but… [...]

Posted on: February 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Who thought Virtual Worlds could only be used for good is sadly mistaken. The axis of evil have found wicked ways to exploit virtual ‘role playing games such as Second Life’, and threaten the free world from within their illusive virtual headquarters, enjoying the dark cover of anonymity. The Washington post tells us:
“U.S. intelligence officials [...]

Posted on: February 7, 2008 | No Comments »