January 13, 2011
Blog ArchiveseLearning Avatar creation using LivingActor from Cantoche (product review and demo)
The process for creating avatars is simple and straight-forward. Navigation controls are found in intuitive places, are clearly labeled with what they do – and behave as expected.
Learners’ love/hate relationship with virtual world learning experiences
First of a four-article series by Irene T. Boland, PhD. If you will be at I/ITSEC 2010, you can see Dr. Boland present her original research on December 1st. Ask a learner who has been in a virtual world what they think and you may hear that they love that they get to explore new … Continue Reading
Making the virtual world learning experience better
The top recommendations for improvement from the 300+ participants I surveyed focused on having more 3D models, having more instructional videos similar to the ones in the experiment as part of the course, having the choice whether or not to use Second Life (SL) and getting more help learning to use it.












