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SCL joins NEESPR!

June 17, 2009

A post to announce that Souter Consulting Limited has joined the North East Service Provider Register. Quick quote from the e-mail: Dear Justin, I am pleased to tell you that you have now achieved Full NEESPR approval. Your NEESPR Pin number is 12640. You may be asked for this pin number in the future by [...]

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Visit to D|Lab, Institute of Digital Innovation

June 10, 2009

Last week I was lucky enough to visit Philip McClenaghan and Dan Riley at D|Lab: a multi-disciplinary team of designers, researchers and digital specialists located within the Institute of Digital Innovation (IDI) which, in addition to developing product and service innovations for a range of industry clients, works extensively with business partners wishing to explore [...]

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#RSCN09 – Learning in Virtual Worlds conference: my thoughts

April 22, 2009

This post is my immediate feedback from the event at the University of Sunderland yesterday, details of which are here. A great opportunity to find out more about Virtual Worlds, the issues involved and how best to use them. Also some excellent advice about how to help those in your organisation wishing to exploit VWs [...]

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Virtual Worlds in Education – Keynote

April 21, 2009

The afternoon’s main presenation by Kate Boardman, with a very helpful exposition of how best to help those who come to you wanting to commission builds in Virtual Worlds. Virtual Worlds in Education: Keynote Technorati Tags: virtual worlds,second life,sl,how to,useful,helpful,north east england,keynote,learning in virtual worlds

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Real Needs – Virtual Solutions

April 21, 2009

Full title of this session was “Real Needs – Virtual Solutions: how can Virtual Worlds enable us to deliver more inclusive learning experiences?”, and delivered by Dr Simon Ball. My interest relates to previous posts here about Locked In Syndrome. Real Needs â?? Virtual Solutions Technorati Tags: inclusive learning,virtual worlds,second life,schizophrenia,autism,asberger’s syndrome,DDA,upside

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At Creative Arts in Second Life session with AngryBeth Shortbread

April 21, 2009

This was an interesting and accomplished introduction to building in Second Life by Annabeth Robinson. The tools are clearly sophisticated and it was tantalising to see what could be achieved, and daunting at the same time in terms of a steep learning curve. At Creative Arts in Second Life session with AngryBeth Shortbread Technorati Tags: [...]

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John Kirriemuir keynote – Learning in Virtual Worlds Conference

April 21, 2009

John works for www.virtualworldwatch.net: “Surveying virtual world use in UK universities and colleges”, and lives in an annoying beautiful place off the coast of Scotland. This was a useful introduction to his research. VW Keynote presentation Technorati Tags: second life,metaverse,education,success,research,interesting,opensim,opinion

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Are Virtual Worlds a Refuge from the Recession?

March 17, 2009

PRESENTERS Lauren Bigelow – WeeWorld Maura Welch – WeeWorld DESCRIPTION Virtual worlds could be recession-proof because the economy won’t change the fundamental desire users have to evolve their identities and express themselves creatively. Virtual worlds allow this in ways never before possible. Some claim that virtual worlds are in a recession, based on low currency [...]

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That Doesn’t Suck! Inspiring Creativity With Spore

March 13, 2009

A post about the game ‘Spore’, using Live Blogging tool – CoverItLive PRESENTERS Caryl Shaw – Maxis DESCRIPTION Spore took the concept of creating and sharing User-Generated Content in video games a step farther than any other game. The creation of multiple in-game editors that were easy (and fun) to use and the sharing of [...]

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