Baldric’s Trousers

An exploration of the Educational Possibilities of <a href="http://www.secondlife.com">Second Life</a>

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Building in SL – language learning in context?

January 25th, 2007 · No Comments

One of the things I love doing in Second Life is attending the Second Life Academy group’s building classes . I haven’t been to many, but all the ones I’ve been to have been highly entertaining and educational. You can also learn a lot about how best to teach people in SL, and it’s a [...]

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Virtual Morocco – I’m at the official opening of this sim – today marks the last day of building

December 21st, 2006 · No Comments

posted by Baldric Commons on Casablanca using a blogHUD : [blogHUD permalink]

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Blog Hud

August 23rd, 2006 · No Comments

Blog Hud allows Second Life users to blog easily from within the virtual world.
The avatar-wearable Blog Hud allows you to post an entry to the bloghud web page in the form of a blog and includes a “map location of where you posted from in Second Life, along with RSS feeds to subscribe to for [...]

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E-commerce evolving

May 12th, 2006 · No Comments

How e-commerce is evolving:
Web 1.0 = static web-pages, product photos
Web 2.0 = user-reviews, blogs, podcasts about products, services
Web 3.0 (perhaps better described as Web 3D) = walk in 3D shopping experience. You can chat to avatars in the aisles, to avatar sales consultants, etc.

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Welcome to my blog

May 7th, 2006 · No Comments

Baldric Commons lives at the English Garden in Second Life. He is very interested in the educational possibilities of Second Life, especially for language learning.
He is going to use this edublog to document his investigations within the virtual world, and hopes that you will share your observations and comments with him as he settles in.
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