Adventures in Corporate Education

or, how my graduate studies are affecting my job in corporate education

“The Bureaucratic Class” isn’t what is holding back Second Life

December 9th, 2008 · 8 Comments

I just got my new issue of T&D in the mail yesterday. Since I have turned in my final report for this semester, I was able to read through some of the articles.
One that caught my eye was by Anders Gronstedt. The title of the article is “All Aboard! The Web 3D Train Is Leaving [...]

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Can Second Life be used as a reliable Corporate Training Tool?

September 15th, 2008 · 11 Comments

Today, I set up a demonstration of Second Life for some of my senior management. I signed up for a conference on how to use Second Life for business, and went through some hoops with our IT department to get IT to open up the firewall for me.
It did not turn out well.
I had a [...]

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I hosted my first Second Life event tonight

August 20th, 2008 · 5 Comments

Tonight I hosted a social event for incoming Distance Learning students to the Instructional Systems program at FSU – in Second Life (SL). I worked with a doctorate student to set it all up. We hung out in SL for the last few nights, helping people get ready for the event.
Alot of prep went into [...]

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