Andy Powell: why we funded virtual world stuff

This week’s Start The Week with Virtual World Watch podcast interviewee is Andy Powell.

For historical context, Virtual World Watch was a work colleague of Andy’s from the mid-1990’s at UKOLN (VWW: back row 3rd; Andy: back row 6th).

Andy is now the Head of Development of the Eduserv Research Programme, formerly the Eduserv Foundation. The Foundation funded a number of Second Life and Virtual World research and development projects, as well as Virtual World Watch, an island and several events.

Research Programme / Foundation activities with virtual worlds are described and archived on their website.

Two of Andy’s presentations of note are a recent one, presented at the JISC RSC Eastern event in April hosted by Shri:

… and his well-known “Second Life in 3600 seconds” presentation, the slideshare version of which has received over 17,000 views in the last three years:

In Second Life, and also blogging, Andy is Art Fossett where he has an occasional sideline in making footwear. On twitter, Andy is andypowe11.