as you know, what i have been doing for nearly two years in OpenSim is make stuff for Enclave Harbour which will be used as supplemental science activity stuff for middle school kids. for myself and subQuark, OpenSim is a great illustrative tool for science concepts. so rather than a nice drawing of something like [...]

both subQuark and i have written about the need for OpenSim (and Second Life) to run on an iPad. that in itself is a no-brainer – the iPad is becoming ubiquitous in general and especially in education there are many K-12 schools and universities who use iPads and even some that distribute them as a [...]

i’ve written in the past about the iPad and how it’s becoming the de facto tablet for K-12 education. tablets work well in the classroom because having a device that lays down on a desk as opposed to a laptop means more students stay on task (can’t hide behind the screen) OpenSim access from an [...]

woohoo! it looks like about 130 unique downloads of Diva’s latest D2 OpenSim 0.7.1 build on sim-on-a-stick have occurred since it went up last sunday night! there have been 336 unique visitors to simonastick.com in that same time period (4 full days). if sim-on-a-stick worked for Macs, you’d probably have another 30 or so downloads [...]

part of the OpenSim, and Second Life, story is the in-world aspect of them. that seems incredibly obvious but to most people – “mainstream” people – virtual worlds are what they read about and see online but not in-world i easily forget that more people have never stepped foot in a virtual world than those [...]

It is no news that iPad fever sweeping the world, but for eLearning it causes grief and some retooling. Many eLearning tools output to Flash and it’s not just video but interactions such as tests, software simulations, and so on. Some of these interactions simply can not be recreated by other means (especially complex, multi-step [...]