Second Life

eduate.eu wants to use a virtual environment with Second Life to present national and international projects regarding lifelong learning. The presentations shall offer both information about the project works and suggestions for other project executing organisations, in order to implement Second Life as a learning and communication tool for their project work.
People interested in the realisation of education projects in Second Life can stroll on a learning path and follow the individual steps of such implementation. Of course, eduate.eu is also available for other educational institutions, that wish to include Second Life in their project work.

With the preparations, suited to the media, of complex project contents for Second Life, eduate.eu wants to address users, for whom learning and Second life have so far been contradictory to each other.

For the realisation of the plan, eduate.eu engages the consultancy agency y.s. authentics situated in Cologne. y.s. authentics is specialised in the use of virtual worlds as a communication tool and decisively contributed to the development of the first professional TV station in a virtual world. Besides successful projects in Second Life, y.s. authentics is equally active in many other virtual worlds.

During the coming weeks, a virtual European meeting place will be created namely on the island acquired by eduate.eu, that invites to the first information exchange. The offerings will be expanded perspectively through teaching rooms and a sandbox, in which knowledge is conveyed in a practical manner. Furthermore, a learning path will be designed, explaining clearly by means of a detailed example how one can use a virtual environment in order to be creative, to learn and to make money. The completion of this new presence is planned for September 2008.

About eduate.eu
eduate.eu, an independent, non-profit consulting company, develops concepts for lifelong learning, which are implemented in organisations, companies and educational institutions. The aim is the adequate adoption of modern technologies for the inclusion of learners of all age groups independent of social backgrounds.
eduate.eu participates in national and international education projects and offers its services in different languages.

About y.s. authentics
The private limited company was founded beginning of 2007 with the aim to consult firms, that wish to position their brand and/or product in a virtual world. y.s. authentics has sound experiences in the area of immersive environments, ranging from the creation of virtual objects to the use of virtual environments for the integration in an innovative marketing strategy and management of brand communities.

In January this year, together with Hagen Graf, we created eduate.eu, which is an independent, non-profit consultant company with the focus on developing customised education projects for organizations, companies and private individuals. The aim is to educate, provide advice and guidance to encourage social inclusion and skills development.

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Eduate runs a virtual island in Second Life. Present are, at the moment, Pearson Education, cocoate, OpenArtMuseum and Maxie Schneider.

Many of these participants offer services revolving around education and lifelong learning.

Eduate will develop the presence in Second Life into a learning path for the use of this medium in education projects.

The Eduate Second Life Team consists of:

• Tine Stine -> Christine Graf (Business Administration)
• Isapisa Stine -> Isabell Schulz (Business Administration)
• Fitou Foulon -> Hagen Graf (Technical Administration)
• Lara Delgado -> Ruth Prantz (Gardening)

We inform you about the development of this project in the concierge Blog.

I went to London for two days to attend a Second Life conference. I had a couple of hours to walk up Oxford Street and to Picadilly Circus . I saw the Apple Store on Regent Street and had a look at the new iPod Nano. Very nice design indeed

Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.

July, 11 - 11am - 7pm
Pforzheim University of Applied Science, Tiefenbronner Str. 65, Room T 1.5.09

The development of the virtual economy continues and Second Life is making a big contribution to it. For that reason we host a B2B Focus Day to deal with Second Life at the University of Applied Science Pforzheim on 11th of July 2007. To give you an overview about what can be done we invited chosen company representatives to lecture about their work with Second Life. In the following discussion the different points of view can be exchanged.
Attendance is limited to 30 persons alltogether.

Never in my life I visited Pforzheim!
So ... I am coming

more about the event you will find in the xing.com/net/secondlife_forum

Yes, I am still alive, still writing and trying to update my blog. But I have been extremely busy since the second I arrived in France.

I am working for/on this right now: slconference 2007 also documented here.

It's been busy busy busy... A quick update to what happened in the past days. I have been away on a project meeting of OBELFA Yesterday morning, I wrote some news for the slconference website, prepared speaker requests for this event and wrote the today published press release about the Berlin Round Table taking place at the slconference the first event evening (September 16). Besides that, I am in contact with potential speakers and translate various document related to that...so I will stay a busy bee and continue.

I'd like to let you know that we organize a meeting in Camp Darfur next monday (June 25th) in order to show our support to the key meeting of the International Contact Group on Sudan/Darfur.

The idea is to welcome visitors (avatars) from different countries and languages. We will propose a visit of Camp Darfur and some information about the current situation in Sudan and the high stakes of the meeting of monday.
Visitors will find all the ressources available, and they will also find people who can answer their questions and who can tell them how they can help in solving this crisis with different ways: writing letters to governments, signing petition, giving money, organizing meetings IRL and/or in SL, spreading on their blog etc.
There are still some interested and "SL skilled" people for French, English and German speaking.
I'm new on SL and can't build anything nor deal with bringing some videos and/or podcasts in-world. e. g. I'd love to find a way to show some of the i-Act movies, and there are also some interesting movies in French (I think of one the UN refugee agency gave me for the Sudan Vigil in Dijon in 2005) and i'm sure there are some in German. So, if any onet SLer want to give a hand you are welcome!

Today I have created many banner for the second life conference.
Here you can see the results. If you like them, put a banner on your blog or on your homepage.

There is a story behind The lady in the picture.

For all those who not have yet heard about the Second Life conference taking place in Berlin this September, have a look here. I am part of the slconference 2007 team, responsible for the marketing and texts published. I have already started last Thursday reviewing the Topics description of the website, writing the Invitation. I continued with the speaker invitation letter (for those interested click on it and read!! ) and the sponsorship letter. I finalized the first press releases in English and German and started to publish them on several PR websites. If anybody is interested, you can include banners and logos on your website. You find them all here.

Hi, I am Freda Fredriksson, a secondlife resident since 9th of February 2007.

I am a fashiondesigner and a webdesigner.
As I am from Germany and english is not my mother tongue please be generous with grammatical and other mistakes, funny expressions and so on...oh yeah, some people hate me already and I don't know why, must have been misunderstandings...

I do my best, that everybody from all over the world can read this blog about my life and work in secondlife and about my designs.

Have fun!

Freda Fredriksson