"Greetings El Camone. Our first member from Portugal I believe. We will be most interested to hear of your involvement in immersive technology, and how you utilize it for learning. Welcome. "
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Gord Holden posted a status"Perfect for DL, looking for another school in a timezone that would facilitate school use at a different time from us."
Gord Holden posted a status"Hey, anyone interested in sharing a suite of 6 virtual classrooms with all the tools with a school in PST timezone. 60 concurrent slots."
Ken Rigby commented on Gord Holden's blog post Selecting a Platform"Would be nice to have a link to the best example of each platform for immersive Learning.
Rhetoric never really describes a immersive environment"
Gord Holden commented on Gord Holden's blog post Selecting a Platform"Indeed. I will call for that. That China Moon still awes people.
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Gord Holden commented on Scott Merrick's blog post KITELY"Great point. I have some thoughts on the driving force behind Minecraft, which I've thought the lack of sex and violence tends to confirm, but perhaps the fact that these these are relatively "non-issues" plays a role as well.…"
Scott Merrick commented on Scott Merrick's blog post KITELY"Well stated. I wonder if this very issue is not the foundation for the upsurge of Minecraft and its Lego character avatars. Who's going to start the Minecraft discussion!?"
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OPENSIM expense factors
Posted by Gwenette Writer Sinclair on May 6, 2012 at 23:21 0 Comments 1 Like
Cost for opensim grids or regions can vary immensely . . . They can be completely free if hosted server is not used and the "costs" are then time of teacher and IT folks at school (and this of course varies) . . . number of students supported are generally 40-60 avatars in one 16 acre region, BUT again that varies depending on the number of regions assigned to each server's core processors, the processor's power and the development/scripting on the region. You can also construct…
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SLvs AW
Posted by Rob Wahl on May 6, 2012 at 13:54 3 Comments 1 Like
Well I'll take Gord up on his idea to start a blog. My virtual world skills are in Second Life, I took a couple of courses through the University of Calgary that made use of SL. I used professional development funds after that to buy and island and learn about the platform. I learned about the platform, made some friends and learned a few things. My primary interest is Grade 10 to 12 descriptive sciences, in particular Earth Science and Geology. The main problem with SL for youth is…
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Posted by Scott Merrick on May 6, 2012 at 7:21 5 Comments 1 Like
...is a subset of Opensim, of course, but I think it deserves its own platform discussion.
This Israeli group has been working consistently over the past year or two and their dedication is moving them closer to being a really viable contender for the platform of choice in education. I think if I were a more facile educator-user of Facebook, the platform's original authentication vehicle, I would already have my high school students and faculty in my experimental build, but I have… Continue
This Israeli group has been working consistently over the past year or two and their dedication is moving them closer to being a really viable contender for the platform of choice in education. I think if I were a more facile educator-user of Facebook, the platform's original authentication vehicle, I would already have my high school students and faculty in my experimental build, but I have… Continue
OPEN SOURCE OPENSIM for immersive educational worlds
Posted by Gwenette Writer Sinclair on May 5, 2012 at 23:23 0 Comments 1 Like
Aloha Folks:) In response to Gordon's platform post: I am all about OPENSOURCE OPENSIM for immersive interactive learning environments - a place where you can mix mesh, sculpties, prims, Media on a Prim (MOAP), inworld and between-worlds voice, hypergrid between worlds travel with assets and avatar intact . . . With OPENSIM you MANY choices. You can use the opensim software platform to create…
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