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The latest report from Linden Labs, the creator of Second Life, is that the economy is up 94% in the last quarter. The robust growth is due to an ever increasing realization that virtual worlds have immense ROI. Cost avoidance is often listed as the number one reason businesses are utilizing the virtual world. Many companies report that using virtual worlds for training and education… Continue

There is an urgent need to transform our educational ecosystems and address the rapid transformations occurring in our world, especially the crisis confronting our survival. Are these needs linked and can we address them together? Educators around the globe are discovering and embracing virtual worlds, such as Second Life, for immersing their students and reinvigorating their pedagogy with 21st Century Literacy’s and Learning Skills--But how do we make our classrooms immersive? What will it look… Continue

Hello and Happy New Year to everyone! Make sure you check out the incredible projects going on in SL at:
http://www.sl-educationblog.org/
Scroll down to see our projects description. But there are many worth visiting--all worth visiting!

And Thank you everyone for all your contributions and posts over the past year. It has been quite a ride and some incredible steps have been taken. I look forward to another ground breaking year collaborating with everyone. Heloisa dn I will be at the Jimmy Wal… Continue

Funglode.ning Newsletter

Number 1, Volume 1 September 2008

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To begin, I want to thank Funglode and Don Frederic for their incredible foresight and support of this project. We are entering an exciting new phase. Our social networking site has passed 200. In three months we have seen a diverse and focused network evolve. I am awed at the skills and diversity present in this group. Combined with the creative and global simulations possible in Second Life, this presents unparalleled opportun… Continue

IBM and Linden Lab Interoperability Announcement

"Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 at 12:01 AM by: Hamilton Linden
This is a historic day for Second Life, and for virtual worlds in general. IBM and Linden Lab have announced that research teams from the two companies successfully teleported avatars from the Second Life Preview Grid into a virtual world running on an OpenSim server, marking the first time an avatar has moved from one virtual world to another. It’s… Continue