Day 3

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Karen Maki, research

Richard, re: COU Doc

Ken Hudson, Loyalist Second Life=

Paradigm shifts

  • the future can change quickly
    • e.g. the vision of the 1950s home computer and now Google Lively
  • open SIM project, host SL locally (IBM)
  • can perhaps communicate across platforms- ubiquitous & open

MUVE

    • 3d, 3rd prson graphics
  • accessed over the Internet
  • simultaneous users
  • 5000 educators in SL
  • incredible leap in usership from Jan. 2006 (250,000) to March 2007 (10MILLION) users
    • educational community took notice to possibilities of SL
    • compelling, engaging, interactive, immersive

Desktop Virtual Worlds Revolution

The Skeptic

  • what's the point of this??
  • e.g. Get a First Life

The Believer

  • went to Harvard and bumped into Law students, doing a project, needed some art
  • Harvard Law CyberOne
  • included students, extension students, community
  • students didn't get a different version b.c. of the technology

The Evangelist

  • founder of Canadian educators in SL
  • senior fellow Beale institute, at OCAD
  • focus on social media and virtual worlds

Loyalist

  • in Belleville
  • disruptive change- add SL, uptake increased in LMS (from 13-50%)
  • first Canadian campus in 2006
  • establishing a campus AND started teaching at it
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