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Curricular Technology Team Blog

Friday Links, Feb. 22, 2013

Library & Information Services » Curricular Technology - Fri, 02/22/2013 - 10:30am

Change Moodle site availability from the Course Hub

Library & Information Services » Curricular Technology - Wed, 10/10/2012 - 1:51pm

New Course Hub / Middfiles integration

Library & Information Services » Curricular Technology - Thu, 08/16/2012 - 11:14am

What's the Buzz?

Social Networking

A social network service provides access to an online community of friends, business associates or people with whom you share a common interest. Examples of popular social networking websites include Flickr (share your photos), Facebook, Goodreads (review your favorite books), MySpace, LinkedIn (professional networking), and Twitter.

Second Life

Overview

Second Life is a free, Internet based, virtual world platform accessible via desktop clients on both the Mac and PC.

Education

Second Life is used as a platform for education by many institutions, such as colleges, universities, libraries and government entities. There are over one hundred regions used for educational purposes covering a wide variety of subjects. 

Language Education

Language learning is the most widespread type of education in virtual worlds, with many universities, mainstream language institutes and private language schools using 3D virtual environments to support language learning. At Middlebury it has been used as a teaching aid in Spanish and Russian.

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