ABC Island Progressing
ABC staffer Abi Goldflake has provided an update to the ABC Friends group in-world on progress with the island’s development:
“We are very pleased to be working with key Oz creative organisations on the ABC Island
project: LAMP (Laboratory for Advanced Media Production) and AFTRS (Australian Film, TV and Radio School). Gary Hayes from LAMP is [...]
Flying Librarians of Oz
Had a very informative conversation with Emerald Dumont, an Australian in-world librarian. Emerald has been involved in the establishment of an Australian Library service in SL.
Established on Cybrary City in November 2006 it is being co-ordinated by Emerald, with another 14 Australian library folk joining in.
Emerald cites networking, fun, playfulness, a rapid increase in [...]
Health Care – Second Life Style
The issue of Addiction in Second Life has been discussed previously, but there’s a much wider scope in Second Life for the issue of health. Ask any health professional what their definition of health is and you’ll get a very different answer every time. The World Health Organisation states that: “health is a state [...]
Australian media attention grows on SL (and SLOz!)
We’re not the sort of site to brag, but we have to say we’re thrilled with the positive response received from Australian mainstream media and tech bloggers over the past week to our press release promoting Aussies innovating in SL. To date we’ve had coverage from:
1. PC World / Computer World
2. Sydney Morning Herald
3. [...]
University of Southern Queensland is first Australian University presence
I don’t think the electrons had finished spinning when I received comments / emails from Sean FitzGerald and Decka Mah that there was indeed an Australian University that had an SL presence.
And what a presence!
The University of Southern Queensland in conjunction with the Queensland Government have an entire island in-world at SL.
Terra Incognita is a [...]
Linden claim Aussie language skills
In an announcement today on the appointment of two new multilingual Linden support staff, the claim was made that a number of other staff have Australian speaking abilities. If you’ve come across such a Linden we’d love to hear from you to test the claims by interviewing the said staff member
Uni Degrees Way Above Zero!
Second Life will undoubtedly affect the way in which tertiary education is delivered.
I say this after doing a search of the term “university” on SL the other night. Whilst the usual mish-mash of results occurred, what was extremely interesting was the number of universities that had established a serious presence in SL.
As yet there is [...]
