I recently attended the ASCILITE 2008 conference in Melbourne Australia. I attended a presentation discussing the notion of social networking for learning designers and a social networking application called Cloudworks. The idea was quite simple - apply the concept of social networking to facilitate the sharing of ideas around learning designs. Cloudworks is an initiative... Continue Reading →
Snapzilla, Blogging, RSS, and Second Life
Last month, I developed a Second Life Workshop and came across an interesting web 2.0 problem. The workshop is comprised of many small layered activities that participants complete as they build up the knowledge and skills in using Second Life. I wanted the participants to be able to document their exploits as they worked through... Continue Reading →
Second Life for education – the minor divide
I have been asked to prepare a workshop for students enrolled in an E-Learning management course which provides an introduction to Second Life. The objective is to provide students with a basic level of competency in navigating SL such that they can explore and discover some of its educational possibilities. This relates to a larger... Continue Reading →
Taxonomy for application of social-networking applications to education
In my previous post, I discussed a project where I was asked to prepare a training workshop introducing educators to Second Life and provide them with skills to be able to navigate this virtual world. Skills they could then use to explore and learn more about how this technology can assist their teaching and students'... Continue Reading →
Second Life – Bringing it to the educators
Background I am working on a research project where we are trying to work out how CQ University can make use of 3D immersive environments to improve learning experiences for students. Second Life has emerged as a major player in the world of immersive 3D environments and has a considerable following in terms of application... Continue Reading →
Linden Scripting Language – First impressions
After using Second Life for some time, I decided to take a look at the glue that makes things happen. By glue, I mean the scripting language, or more completely the Linden Scripting Language that allows your objects to interact with each other, yourself and other avatars/agents. Without the ability to script entities, SL would... Continue Reading →
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers…
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked; If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked? Pipping - an audio engineer's nightmare. What is it? When recording your voice, pronouncing some letters such as "p" cause you to expel air rapidly from your lips, passing... Continue Reading →
Second Life as a cameraman
From the creative side, my involvement with the machinima project has mostly centred around the audio aspects, camera work, and some writing. I spent some time working out how to use the camera views available in SL. When you are using your avatar, that is your avatar’s view, however by holding the Alt key down,... Continue Reading →
Second Life as a film studio
I have not been blogging as I go, and so the start of my blog posts are recollections and may be a little fuzzy. Some time ago, we were discussing how we could leverage the reality aspects of SL for teaching materials. At the time we were working on a Financial Auditing course and looking... Continue Reading →
Welcome to Damo’s World
Welcome to the world that is Damo. Let me introduce myself. My name is Damien, and I'm an Academic for a regional Australian University working in curriculum design. My background is computer science, so this new role as a CD has been quite a challenge. It does allow me to combine my interest of education... Continue Reading →
Damo's World 