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Open House on Lighthouse Learning Island
From a Group Notice:
Lighthouse Learning Island will hold an Open House from 5-6pm (SLT) /8-9pm (EST) on October 20th. Lighthouse Learning Island is an island dedicated to K-12 educational learning communities. There will be representatives from each of the 5 school districts and 3 educational [...]
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Watch the next Solar Eclipse in Second Life
Here is something pretty cool, and even if you don’t use Second Life, you’ll still be able to enjoy it. On August 1st, the next solar eclipse will happen, and, if you live in the US you won’t be able to see it [...]
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Second Life News for July 2, 2008
From: AIDS.gov Second Life (Part 2 of “We Are Living in a Virtual World”) Quote from the site - This week we build on our June 10 post about virtual worlds and focus on the well-known site, Second Life. To better understand how Second [...]
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Culture of Virtual Worlds
From a notecard inworld:
CALL FOR PAPERS
Journal of Virtual Worlds Research
Special Issue: Culture of Virtual Worlds
Deadline: September 30, 2008
Publication Date: November 20, 2008
Guest Editors
Mark Bell, Indiana University
Mia Consalvo, Ohio University
Early users of virtual worlds trumpeted their potential to bring together like-minded groups to create community, to encourage social [...]
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Kids5B – Celebrating 5 years of kid avatars in Second Life
Kids5B – Celebrating 5 years of kid avatars in Second Life
Press release June 21st 2008 – Written by Johnathan Raymaker
Read this online at : http://www.kids5b.net
Download as PDF from : http://www.kids5b.net/pdf/kids5b-press-release-june-21.pdf
During this years Second Life birthday celebrations (SL5B) one of [...]
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I am conducting a survey for my graduation thesis on the role of fashion in SL as one of the strongest way to communicate our own personality and culture in an effective and straightforward way.
How do we choose to represent ourselves in a virtual dimension, free from any material constraint? Which part of ourselves is coming out?
If you can help me with my research please take this short survey (max 8 minutes!). Here it is:
http://www.questionpro.com/akira/TakeSurvey?id=799045
If you're eager to know about the results as I am , please drop me a line here ju.ricerca@gmail.com and I'll keep you posted about the project updates.
Thanks in advance for your help and your time!
;-)