Tag Archives: Steven Warburton

New book call – design patterns in teaching and learning

23 June 2009 – 12:37 pm

Practical design patterns for teaching and learning with technology A book for Sense Publishers ‘Technology Enhanced Learning’ series Editors: Yishay Mor (London Knowledge Lab), Steven Warburton (King’s College London) and Niall Winters (London Knowledge Lab) Deadline:- Submissions should be sent…

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Presence layers in MUVEs

21 June 2009 – 3:05 pm

What the elements that scaffold the strong sense of [co-]presence we experience when working and playing inside in a MUVE? When we examine a social MUVE such as Second Life it is possible to identify three layers on which ’sense…

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Stories of digital identity – tales from twitter

5 January 2009 – 5:40 am

The Rhizome project has been helping to organise the Eduserv Digital Identity event which is being held at the British Library on 8 January 2009. Full details of the event are available here. But in brief, the approach for the…

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Herding cats

8 November 2008 – 1:44 pm

I was recently challenged with running a series of events inside Second Life for the JISC Innovating eLearning Conference. These were carefully paced to include a couple of orientation sessions for new avatars, a tour and an evening social event…

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Who am i? … mashed-up, disaggregated and distributed

29 October 2008 – 1:10 am

What does digital identity mean to you? Do you care? As more of our lives, from personal to professional activities, find their way online how do we cope with managing our digital presence(s)? Can we ever keep the ‘personal’ separate…

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One plus one equals three: the seventh barrier to innovation in MUVEs

29 October 2008 – 12:37 am

‘In design, one plus one equals three or sometimes more.’ Josef Albers (1969) ‘Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.’ Herbert Simon (1969) We make design decisions all of the time and…

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MUVEnation programme opens for participants

10 October 2008 – 2:50 pm

MUVEnation – the course, originally uploaded by StevenW Bohm. After several months of hard work the EU funded MUVEnation programme opens its doors to participants. The course – ‘Teaching and learning with MUVEs’ – is a free one year postgraduate…

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Six barriers to innovation in learning and teaching in MUVEs

26 July 2008 – 3:26 am

Preparing to give a conference talk at 6am on a Monday morning is possibly not the most appetizing of thoughts. But when you are speaking to an audience in Kuala Lumpur and you are still in London then the delivery…

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Waiting for myself

4 July 2008 – 3:16 am

An interesting moment in transgressing my own boundaries between self and avatar. Rarely have we appeared together and here only in the name of science. This video came about from a little research that was carried out in advance of…

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How tall is tall in Second Life?

26 June 2008 – 4:13 am

Well about 202m if you are given 15 minutes to build a tower and you have the physics switched on. That was the challenge I presented to all the avatars who came along to the SL social event organized during…

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