On March 24th at the NUCB Graduate School in Nagoya there was a conference: "Wireless Ready: Podcasting Education and Mobile Assisted Language Learning." The opening keynote address was "Web 2.0 Technologies and iPods for Research and Mobility." That hour (only) was held simulaneously at EduNation in the Second Life 3D virtual world. The conference room had two screens, so the .ppt presentation was projected onto one with a PC and and a Mac was used for Second Life and the voice client Ventrilo, which worked to an extent. During the presentation, occasionally the room speakers would announce the entry or departure of participants in other countries, Europe and the Americas, giving an amusing air of spontaneous unpredictability, not knowing when another world would intrude upon this one. Videos were taken both from within Second Life, showing a participant's perspective, and from the conference audience, which, along with various screen shots and photos, like Kurosawa's "Rashomon" show multiple perspectives on the same event. For photos and screen shots of an avatar interacting with the .ppt presentation in Second life, see: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=djszdhm_31d9vstb For interesting videos, particularly of the presenter's avatar flying, see Video 1, etc., at the Conference site: http://wirelessready.nucba.ac.jp For other links including to the YouTube video from within Second Life taken from Barcelona, see the latest item under Presentations at: http://www.waoe.org/steve/epublist.html
Collegially, Steve McCarty, Professor, Osaka Jogakuin College, Japan President, World Association for Online Education (1998-2007) Mobile phone site (worldwide access, please sign the Guestbook): http://winksite.com/waoe/mall YouTube Educational Group (discuss and contribute videos): http://www.youtube.com/group/educational
