Monthly Archives: September 2007

Drexel and Villanova Summary

Posted on September 28, 2007 by Bart Pursel

I had a great time yesterday speaking at Drexel’s LeBow College of Business and the Villanova Center for Instructional Technologies to a wide variety of audiences. We had instructional technologists, assistant Deans, faculty members, other administrators, IT specialists, grad students, … Continue reading →

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Drexel and Villanova

Posted on September 26, 2007 by Bart Pursel

This post isn’t very content heavy, more a support post for a virtual worlds talk I’ll be giving at Drexel’s LeBow College of Business and Villanova later today. I’ll post a summary sometime later in the week. IST’s Second Life … Continue reading →

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Basic Class Statistics

Posted on September 24, 2007 by Bart Pursel

This is by no means scientific, just a few hand-raising polls I conducted in my class a few weeks ago. My class is ~45 students, mostly freshman majoring in IST. – 85%+ have Google Accounts. It seems that most of … Continue reading →

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More with Second Life and Open Source

Posted on September 20, 2007 by Bart Pursel

A colleague recently sent a blog post my way about the future of Second Life. Nothing major here, I’ve blogged before about Second Life going open source. I’m just curious how this is going to play out, and figured I’d … Continue reading →

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The Grid?

Posted on September 10, 2007 by Bart Pursel

I was on www.secondlife.com today, and found information on something they are calling “Second Life Grid“. For long-time SL users, the Grid is what the entire server platform has been called for some time now. At the SL loading screen … Continue reading →

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Serious Game Developer Position

Posted on September 7, 2007 by Bart Pursel

I normally wouldn’t post this here, but since this is the second time around for the job posting and we’re all excited and antsy to get rolling on some things… Serious game developer position at PSU Great culture, good group … Continue reading →

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More casual games (with lots of charts!)

Posted on September 3, 2007 by Bart Pursel

The semester is in full swing, so my posts have been lacking a bit. I have a lot of things I’d like to think through and write about, but I’ve been stuck in my office playing catch-up 2 of the … Continue reading →

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