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Welcome to the live BETA of RezEd, your community for everything related to learning and virtual worlds! Each month we will feature inter-related podcasts, brief best practices, digital resources in the library, and featured blog posts and discussions.

Through the month of July, RezEd focuses on non-school uses of virtual worlds including museums, libraries, etc.

Respond to this week's discussion, "What research question would you fund to generate data on learning and virtual worlds? moderated by Barry Joseph of Global Kids.

Listen to the podcast with Jeremy Kemp of San Jose State University and read his best practice on Immersive Environments and their Opportunities. In his best practice, Jeremy explains how he used Second Life "vPortfolios" to mirror ePortfolios in a Graduate Library Science program.

This week RezEd also features a special youth voice podcast from Global Kids youth involved in the production of this year’s virtual video machinima project in New York City.

Featured Discussion

Each week RezEd will feature a discussion moderated by a different guest moderator.
This week's discussion "What research question would you fund to generate data on learning and virtual worlds?" is moderated by Barry Joseph. (If you are interested in moderating in the future, please leave a message for Global Kids.)

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What research question would you fund to generate data on learning and virtual worlds?

The University of Southern California’s Network Culture Project has invited Global Kids to participate in a small forum to discuss the compilation of an upcoming volume on virtual worlds, digital media and learning. The volume, supported by the MacArthur Foundation, is intended to define a collective vision for virtual worlds and to outline a multi-year research agenda. As we prepare for the meeting, I would like to invite members of the RezEd community to weigh in and contribute to what GK can… Continue

Posted by Barry Joseph on June 26th, 2008 at 5:14pm — 16 Comments (Add)

Spore: Creating Creatures

"Spore's Lucy Bradshaw talks about why the game's developers embraced an old programming technique. The Creature Creator, the first piece of Electronic Arts' highly anticipated evolution game Spore, launched Tuesday. Created by Will Wright, who's known for the video games SimCity and The Sims, Spore begins with a player controlling a single-celled organism and progresses through various e… Continue

Posted by Mechelle De Craene on June 22nd, 2008 at 8:08pm — 4 Comments (Add)

Help Barry design a killer mixed-reality event at GLS!

At the upcoming Games Learning & Society Conference 4.0, Global Kids own Barry Joseph will be speaking on the panel "The Future Is Invading! or Games as Youth Media: A 6 Year Review." We will be creating a mixed reality event around the conference, and we want your input on what would best leverage the strengths of virtual worlds. How can we most effectively u… Continue

Posted by Rik Panganiban on June 19th, 2008 at 3:00pm — 4 Comments (Add)

Second Life Toolbox

Originally prepared for my talk at NMC '08 "Getting Started in Second Life" (slides here) Suggestions or comments? Yes! Please :)

Websites, wikis and blogs:

Second Life Education wiki SLED Blog… Continue

Posted by Meghan Deana on June 11th, 2008 at 4:30pm — 2 Comments (Add)

"Inside the Lab" podcast focuses on education in Second Life

Linden Lab's, the creators of Second Life, have released their third edition of their "Inside the Lab" podcast. This one features a conversation with Pathfinder Linden and Claudia Linden about some of the education projects taking place in Second Life. From the Linden Lab blog: "these two expert Lindens share some of what they’ve learned working with educators inworld and at confe… Continue

Posted by Rik Panganiban on June 2nd, 2008 at 11:54am — No Comments (Add)

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[Podcast] RezEd Podcast, Episode 7- Jeremy Kemp on Immersive Environments and their Opportunities

[SUMMARY—The hub for learning and virtual worlds podcast series.] (WORLD) The seventh RezEd podcast, produced by MediaSnackers with Global Kids. Jeremy W. Kemp is an instructional designer at Sa...

Started by Global Kids in Podcasts Jun 30.

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[Best Practice] "Using Second Life "vPortfolios" to mirror ePortfolios in a Graduate Library Science program" by Jeremy Kemp

1. Organization/Institution Name San Jose State University School of Library and Information Science 2. Project Name vPortfolios in LIS 287 - Virtual Worlds 3. Names of project lead(s) at your or...

Tagged: Second Life, ePortfolios

Started by Global Kids in Best Practices Jun 30.

Joyce Bettencourt

[news] EA launches Spore Creature Creator

Yesterday was the official launch of the first piece in the Spore game series. "Spore Creature Creator" went live for download on EA's site at: http://www.spore.com/getSpore. Being launched next th...

Tagged: learning, games, spore

Started by Joyce Bettencourt in News Jun 18.

Rik Panganiban

[news] "Inside the Lab" podcast focuses on education in Second Life 1 Reply

Linden Lab's, the creators of Second Life, have released their third edition of their "Inside the Lab" podcast. This one features a conversation with Pathfinder Linden and Claudia Linden about some...

Started by Rik Panganiban in News. Last reply by Scott Merrick Jun 23.

Global Kids

Using Brainwaves To Chat And Stroll Through Second Life: World's First

ScienceDaily (Jun. 16, 2008) — On 7th June 2008, Keio University succeeded in the world’s first demonstration experiment with the help of a disabled person to use brainwave to chat and stroll thro...

Tagged: second life, brainwaves, mind control

Started by Global Kids in News Jun 18.

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Featured Best Practices

"Using Second Life "vPortfolios" to mirror ePortfolios in a Graduate Library Science program" submitted by Jeremy Kemp of San Jose State University.

Featured Podcast

RezEd Podcast, Episode 7
Jeremy Kemp of San Jose State University on Immersive Environments and their Opportunities.

This week RezEd also features a special youth voice podcast from Global Kids youth involved in the production of this year’s virtual video machinima project in New York City.

Featured Resource

Linden Lab's "Inside the Lab" podcast focuses on education in Second Life

Featued VW News on RezEd

Web worlds 'useful' for children in BBC NEWS.

Or read other VW and Learning news on RezEd, or post your own.

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What would the educational uses of Spore look like? posted by Rafi Santo in the group Spor-ducators!

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