Just a heads-up to Canadian readers (who make up a decent slice of readers outside Australia and New Zealand). Beautiful Kate, the Rachel Ward directed feature with a small cameo by numerous avatars, is debuting outside Australia at the Toronto International Film Festival on Friday the 11th September at 8.30pm. As we've said before, it's a confronting film but one that seems … [Read more...] about Beautiful Kate – imminent debut at Toronto Film Festival
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Dark Siren: Part 2
Below is the next part of the serialisation of Dark Siren (you can see Part 1 here ) If you like what you read, you can buy the full book as a PDF here for only US $7.95. Payments are accepted via PayPal or credit card. As we said last week, we're not getting any kickbacks, just the warm glow of helping an Aussie virtual worlds fiction author ;) Chapter 3 Australian High Tech … [Read more...] about Dark Siren: Part 2
Education.au and immersive learning
SA-based Kerry Johnson is a an educator who let me know about two projects she's been involved with. The first is a video called "Immersive Learning" it's game on!". Kerry states its purpose is "to help educators start conversations with administrators and policy makers regarding the educational benefits of immersive learning environments." This is one impressive effort that … [Read more...] about Education.au and immersive learning
Jokaydia Unconference: Australian virtual worlds education at its best
Australian Second Life educator and creative whirlwind, Jokay Wollongong, is holding her next Unconference from the 25th to the 27th September 2009 in Second Life and in conjunction with some great events at Macquarie University. You can go here for the draft schedule and there's still some slots left for anyone wanting to do their own session. The sessions proposed to date … [Read more...] about Jokaydia Unconference: Australian virtual worlds education at its best
Dark Siren: Part 1
Last week, Tateru Nino reviewed Dark Siren, and as promised we're really pleased to be able to present the first of a few posts that serialise a large part of the book. Author Clifford Wycliffe is Australian, and has put a huge amount of effort into his creation of Avataria, which draws very heavily on Second Life for inspiration. Reproduced below is the Prologue and the … [Read more...] about Dark Siren: Part 1