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If you have never been in a virtual world, here is your chance to visit one of the most popular, Second Life, and see how people are using this online environment to address real world environmental issues ranging from tackling climate change to fostering more sustainable consumption patterns. The Second Life Eco-Tour was developed by […]
We invite you to try out the National Oceanic and Atmospheric (NOAA) second island in Second Life called Okeanos. There you can hop aboard a survey vessel and map the ocean floor, assist in the clean up efforts of an oil spill, observe the effects of harmful algal blooms known as red tides, and […]
There’s a good article about government agencies getting into Second Life over at GovernmentExecutive.com.
Education World columnist Doug Johnson also wrote a nice “One-Afternoon Second Life Tour” on the TechProof blog, where he points to NOAA’s Meteora, the International Spaceflight Museum and Genome sim.
James Dearnley, who moderated the SciLands panel discussion at SLCC 2007, recently posted a link to this blog on Facebook. I’m taking the liberty of reposting it here:
Second Health and the SciLands is a comprehensive look at both the Second Health project and NOAA’s new Second Earth installation. Tara5 Oh (SL name) has written a […]
zazen Manbi has posted an audiovisual recording of the SciLands panel, which occurred at 4:30 PM Chicago time on Saturday, August 25, 2007. Check it out.
