LLL3D is a project that is looking at better understanding how Virtual Worlds can be used in Lifelong learning.
On the LLL3D web site we have just put Google Translate, we also have the facility that links any posts I make on RedGloo, tagged with LLL3D to the LLL3D site.
This screenshot shows a couple of my posts now showing in French.

There is an interesting blog post at New World Notes. A consultancy group has built a simulation of a meths lab in the hope that law enforcement agencies will use it to train staff to recognise a meths lab when they see one.  The simulation was created from sets of photos.

Below is a copy of a notice from barry Spencer at Bromley. It will be of interest to anyone looking at educational uses of virtual worlds,I'll try and visit soon and blog about my visit.

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I have just read an article Veterans Collaborate In Virtual World about an island in SL for veterans of the US military giving them a place to meet with comrades and share information. In 18 months they have gone from 40 members to 700.
The island is paid for and maintained by 5 founding members, they hold fund-raisers such as beach parties in world and selling virtual objects such as T shirts.

There are lots of examples of businesses in Second Life, I haven't seen much about other worlds and business so i was interested to see that Twinity were offering a series of talks by the University of Heilbronn, Germany,  starting on May 13th, at 19.00 CET. The sessions will be in German, so not for me as my understanding is very basic.

My communication problems continue.
The phone line and broadband at home still not working, talktalk do not answer their phone, but have acknowledged our logging of the problem on their website - which says they will respond in 2 days.
So last night went back to the university for Connected Futures workshop conference call and field trip to Jokaydia in SL.

There is a popular New Yorker cartoon showing two dogs at a computer - one is saying: "On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog."

Yesterday I was in Second Life and one of the avatars appeared to be a dog. This left me musing about what having a dog avatar says about a person? perhaps we need a line:

I have managed to get Second Life to run on a couple of Linux-based EeePCs (701 and 901) it is a bit laggy - but can be handy if you are trying to catch up with someone in world, or check something out.

However I was finding that sometimes Second Life would freeze, this seemed to always happen on teleporting and on other occasions. I was looking into installing other viewers, but I hadn't found one that stopped the freezing. Then I did something I should have done a long time ago, I read the file README-linux.txt, it says:

In Second Life the term "teleport" is often used.  What actually happens is the user is offered the option of teleporting to a particular place and then accepts or rejects.