Jul 2nd, 20:36 BNT Brautigan & Tuck Holdings
by IntLibber Brautigan

BNT Secures Contract with Woodbury University

Woodbury University's School of Media, Culture & Design has entered into an agreement with Brautigan & Tuck Holdings (ACE: BNT) to provide two sims, estate management services, and public relations assistance, for the next six months through December 2008 and renewable into the future.

Woodbury University, of Burbank, California, has had a contract with BNT first for a quarter sim, then for an open space sim through the end of June. The new agreement will include payment for a new full sim to be attached to the existing openspace sim Woodbury Sea, and 6 months of prepaid tier on both sims, as well as continuing with estate management services, sim security, and assistance relating and communicating effectively to the SL public about WU's core mission and stringent student code.

"Our relationship with Woodbury is ever stronger and demonstrates BNT's increasing exposure in the Developer community, our dedication to promoting the educational potential of Second Life as well as to principles of equal opportunity for disadvantaged students to build high tech skills as well as to learn to become good virtual citizens," said BNT CEO IntLibber Brautigan, "while Woodbury in the past did not put its best foot forward in SL, we have helped them to rebuild their public image in the virtual world to reflect their strong public image in the real world. While some residents elsewhere remain mired in the past, Woodbury is moving forward, and its students are daily learning the essential skills of being good, responsible, and respectful virtual citizens."

Woodbury has also benefited recently from the donation of another full sim, by well known resident Scout Detritus (founder and owner of Siege Guild and his pirate ship combat products). The Siege Guild sim has been renamed "Longcat" and is located to the south of Woodbury Sea. The WU campus will thus span three sims in SL, making it not only the highest traffic educational facility in Second Life, but also one of the largest virtual campuses. Current traffic averages 4500 daily and occasionally goes over 9000. Three virtual students from this past semesters class in Virtual Media have gotten so much from their experience they have decided to try to get a degree in real life.

"Most college sims in SL are empty museums, replicas of obsolete buildings named for wealthy alumni," said Professor Edward Clift, "conversely, WU's virtual campus is a living breathing educational laboratory where actual classes happen with students who are both resident at our RL campus or attending virtually, creating a whole new definition for 'extention classes'. The limits we are pushing are exactly why virtual education is so vital in the 21st century."

WU faculty and students are leading the way in creating new educational paradigms, and BNT is very proud to be a part of this pioneering effort. Woodbury's unique and successful approach to virtual education has been lauded in various educational publications.