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Second Life Zoning Board at Classroom Updates — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:43:53 +0000

[...] Original post by Kevin [...]

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:23:50 +0000

Gardner, Thank you for your note. I'll be curious to see whether the world leads Higher Education or not in virtual worlds. I think colleges and universities will stay interested in virtual worlds despite economic downturns that will likely bring down individual platforms. I like Revolution. I'm using it here at on the JohnMilton.org web site. I haven't had much time to play with it, but I'm hopeful that I'll get some time after this term's film class has ended. Our campus paper is using the Revolution News theme, and they've done quite a bit with it.

By: Gardner

Gardner — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:02:56 +0000

Glad to see this effort continuing and growing. Joe’s presentation on his work in SL at the NITLE workshop I attended back in January was inspiring. Trend-metrics aside, these new opportunities are valuable precisely because they make us scratch our heads–just like folks used to scratch their heads over the idea of a Personal Computer (who’d want one of those? what would you DO with it?), and then the even more outrageous Mobile Personal Computer. Someone has to carry the Osborne on coach class and get stares from the other passengers until the world catches up.

My hunch is that the world will catch up long before Higher Ed does. I hope I’m wrong about that.

Thanks for this post. P.S. I’m thinking about buying Revolution for our new ATL website at Baylor. I like the look, like the configurability. Have you been pleased?