Month: October 2007

Fake U on SecondLife

While real bricks-and-mortar universities are experimenting with creating virtual campuses in Second Life, some fans of the online RPG are creating a make-believe cyber-university all their own, complete with coffee shops, pizza joints, a sports center, a library and classrooms. The Chronicle’s Wired Campus blog reports that Kindly State University set up earlier this month on Second Life. “Tuition is 200 Linden dollars (virtual money), and admission comes with a virtual laptop. Financial aid is available to qualified candidates.”


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No fear of the “Freshman Fifteen” at Kindly State University. Image via Kindly State U co-creator Roberta Beauchamp‘s Flickr images.

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Now playing: Manu Chao – Besoin de la Lune
via FoxyTunes

Friday Five: a little link love

Passing along a little higher ed link love today:

  1. MizzouWire is my alma mater‘s shiny, relaunched new news site. It’s even got an editor’s blog.
  2. templatedata is a recent addition to the blogroll and RSS. Written by four members of the University of Sydney‘s web services team, it’s chock full of thoughtful ideas and links from around the net.
  3. The Old College Try continues to inform and entertain.
  4. Michael Stoner’s mStoner Blog is another fave. A recent post there about strategic planning of all things isn’t the yawner you’d think, given its subject matter. My only gripe about Stoner’s blog is that a login is required to comment.
  5. EducationPR shares an interesting graph showing the differences in how students at the University of Wisconsin use technology versus faculty and staff.

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Now playing: Wilco – Either Way
via FoxyTunes