Category Archives: collaboration

26 points about virtual worlds for 2011

Posted on January 28, 2011 by mandy

Here are some ruminations from my research project, Immersive Internet Australia , commissioned by the Smart Services Cooperative Research Centre  and Swinburne University of Technology. The list is neither exhaustive, nor final. Comments welcome. The immersive Internet is a generic term for … Continue reading →

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Please don’t mention virtual ‘worlds’: why does enterprise steer clear of the ‘w’ word?

Posted on January 24, 2011 by mandy

Reading a press release from technology company Avaya, I was reminded of  Basil Fawlty’s desperately funny attempt not to use the ‘W’ word , in this case standing for ‘war’, when German guests come to his stay at his guest house, Fawlty Towers. … Continue reading →

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Are virtual worlds off the boil ?

Posted on October 28, 2010 by mandy

The August release of Gartner’s 2010 hype cycle for emerging technologies, which sees Virtual Worlds lodged in the pit of the disillusionment trough, has generated some interesting discussion in the blogosphere. VW’ds marketing consultant Mary Ellen Gordon asks why this … Continue reading →

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Immersive Learning: on or off the boil?

Posted on October 9, 2010 by mandy

Immersive Learning was very much on the agenda in Australia in 2008, as this video made by Educationau enthusiastically demonstrates. A group from Gippsland TAFE, in Victoria, drafted a set of protocols for immersive learning here but, like Educationau, the … Continue reading →

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Collaborative modes of learning for the future

Posted on September 30, 2010 by mandy

MMOs and virtual environments continue to fire innovative thinking in the education setting, indeed the Games-4-Learning concept is the obvious path to follow, given the way we know young people achieve set tasks through shared quests, especially when these tasks … Continue reading →

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For your next conference : Technique for live blogging with embedded sound and video on the hop.

Posted on October 16, 2009 by mandy

This comes from Jarrod Watt, whose opinion I sought after seeing how effectively he did live blogging from the Youth Council of Victoria State Conference, ‘ Here Now & Next ‘ yesterday. It’s one thing to type straight into the … Continue reading →

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Business Models .01

Posted on August 30, 2009 by mandy

Reading about Box, the US collaboration and storage solution company, I was interested to see the challenge they gave to would-be customers : try us, and  if you don’t like our service we’ll give you a free subscription to our competitor.   ‘Strikes me  there’s  … Continue reading →

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Farewell to the 'Web 2.0' era

Posted on August 28, 2009 by mandy

I recall a documentary which traced the global effort to contain the SARS virus. Pathologists were stumped. Their first task was to identify this mysterious killer disease. The Internet played its hand  in enabling real time tracking of the disease. Harnessing the … Continue reading →

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