I have had no time for core work let alone blogging recently.  However I did rush something through on the Health & Bioscience blog after a presentation at Herts blended learning conference on 17th June. http://blog.uelconnect.org.uk/hab/2010/06/17/virtual-patient-developments-june-2010/ I do many things apart from Second Life but you could be forgiven for thinking that’s all I do.  [...]

Debates about virtual worlds continue to interest some of us and Eduserv’s ‘Where next for Virtual Worlds’ on 25th January was no exception. Ralph Schroeder of the Oxford Internet Institute argued the case for two end states – 3D video conferencing or computer generated virtual worlds on the one hand and virtual reality environments on [...]

I have spent a huge amount of time and effort on Second Life developments in the last twelve months or so. Only time will tell whether it’s been worth it or not.  See post on the HaB blog. I think we need  to let it bed down, gradually introduce more students, talk to more academics inside [...]

Had an interesting day at FOTE09 last Friday as much because of the people there as the speakers.  Generous breaks and a very convivial drinks reception at the end made for some useful conversation. The morning sessions on the Cloud were dominated by companies such as Amazon, Microsoft and Huddle  and didn’t go down terribly well with the twittering masses [...]

We had a productive meeting with all concerned (or nearly all) yesterday to review progress on UEL HABitat and agree timescales for the completion of phase 2.   The physiotherapy and herbal medicine patient cases are developing well and should be ready on schedule for testing with students in semester A.   The back end [...]