Blog Posts Across eLab City

eLab City is now open. During Summer 2008, we will be in a soft launch period. As we still have work to do, the sim may be temporarily closed to the public from time to time, but we expect it will be open nearly all of the time. So - we wanted to invite you to stop by and visit! All the major structures are in place, and our first exhibition is ready for viewing at the Design center. This… Continue

Virtual Virtual
an exhibition of new work by Peter Stanick

coming to eLab City in Spring 2008

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The Sloan Center for Internet Retailing is very pleased to announce the selection of eLab City's development team:

Cezary Ostrowski, aHead
http://www.tutaj.com.pl/ahead/

Nadia Hennrich
http://nadiahennrich.com

Visual artist and compos…

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When the Virtual You Changes the Real You from Scientific American, MP3

A podcast by 60-Second Psych gives a brief report of a study by Jesse Fox at Stanford University's Virtual Human Interaction… Continue

As of yesterday, two islands - eLab City West and eLab City East - have been ordered. Estimated delivery time is 10-14 days according to Linden, but maybe a bit longer since this is an educational purchase. Continue

About eLab City. This web site is for everyone interested in the eLab City project. This includes academic researchers who have an interest in virtual consumption and consumer behavior in Second Life, as well as Second Life residents who may want to take a role in creating an active user community in eLab City. eLab City will be devolped over the months ahead. It is intended to be a platform for creative approaches to consumer research in virtual worlds. Our philosophy is tha…

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The following video was shown during the Alliance Library System panel discussion and presentations on libraries and community in a virtual world, education track at SLCC, Chicago, Aug. 24-26. Renaissance Island is home of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, a replica of the 1599 Globe. HVX Silverstar Continue

I am working hard coordinating my first-ever workshop about SL for educators. See my blog

http://sloancsecondlifeworkshop.blogspot.com/


I am fascinated by Second Life and hope what I recently read about the ability to travel between metaverses will become a reality. Ray Schroeder, Director of the Office of Technology-Enhanced Learning for University of Illinois Springfield, led our institution's efforts to start e… Continue

i'm totally excited about elab city for a number of reasons. i think this will be a great way to gain a statistical background on the spending habits of SL residents, for entrepreneurs to better assess the market. the city also seems to be one that will be inclusive- in many neighborhoods i've lived in, the residents were not only antisocial, they were just plain rude. i'm also interested in setting up shop there- hey, why not! ;o) i also totally love city living, and have been searching for a g… Continue