Hey jokay, - just recommended your grid to Lisa I guess u are too slow :p
Chris Sent from my iPad On 20/08/2012, at 1:29 PM, jokay Wollongong <[email protected]> wrote: > HI Lisa and all, > > Just sharing, as I thought it might be of interest... we (at jokaydiaGRID) > actually developed a historical build with the History Teachers Association > of Victoria last year! You can find out more about it here - > http://virtualhistorycentre.com/ . Essentially the project focussed on making > a virtual replica of the Point Nepean Quarantine Station in Victoria and > additionally a museum which provides virtual worlds access to a range of > research materials and resources for students to explore. There are also a > number of quests built into the environment to encourage students to explore, > reflect and recreate content to add to the build. You can view additional > pictures of the here - > http://www.flickr.com/photos/jokay/sets/72157631154100902/ > > Unfortunatey its had limited use so far because of the ongoing challenges of > opening ports in educational environments in Australia (shake fist at > firewall of doom), but it has had some limited use by students in Victoria > and we're currently working on various Sim on a stick options et al. > Additionally, we're hoping it will be open to the public via jokaydiaGRID > very soon... will keep you posted! ;) > > Kind regards, > jokay > Director, jokadiaGRID / Co-Founder Massively Minecraft > > > > > > > > On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Lisa Evans <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Chris, > > Thanks for that! I'm pretty sure we already know each other, years ago at the > FTI during the CADSAGAP course? Am I thinking of the right person? I was > hoping I would run into some local people as I did my research on this! Yes, > I definitely want to talk to people at UWA, I need some input from teachers > and/or academics in this area. It helps that my father is both a science > teacher and a computer programmer, so he's helping me out, but someone who > has done more work on using virtual worlds in education would be very, very > helpful for my application :) > > I'm definitely thinking of cross media, because I think focussing on 3D > worldbuilding could become a bit of a distraction from actually learning, > once you get past a certain point of complexity. I just want the virtual > space to be a meeting place, and to help give context, kind of like a museum > exhibition or a diorama representing a story from history. The rest of the > story, and discussion about different historical sources, would be in more > traditional text format, along with videos, photos, etc. I kind of imagine > that each story within the virtual world would be accompanied by a discussion > page the same way articles in Wikipedia are, where students can argue their > case for why they believe the event happened in one particular way rather > than another. There would of course be differences of opinion, maybe multiple > accounts of the same event. But that's what history really is - the > competition between different accounts and interpretations, not just a series > of facts. > > So it sounds like Moodle would be a great addition to this project! Thanks > for suggesting it. I'm looking out for people I can add to my team, at least > for the purposes of the application (you have to list your team members and > have a two page CV for each one), so if you're available for that it could be > a great help. If we then get funding you can see how much time you could put > into consulting work for us. > > Cheers, > > Lisa > > > On 08/20/2012 12:47 PM, chris wrote: >> Hi Lisa, >> >> nice idea. There was a similar UWA educational research proposal for >> teaching ancient greek using opensim/SL. The idea was to immerse students in >> the culture of the time as well as communicate/learn in ancient greek. That >> one did not get funded but it may be a good idea to join forces with such >> educators and not only go for the ABC grant but also an ARC - industry >> linkage grant. I can put you in contact with those ppl if interested. >> >> Another link suggestion if you wish to meet educators is on the jokaydiagrid >> - a relatively inexpensive grid if you want to meet educators and learn at >> the same time- see: >> http://jokaydia.wikispaces.com/Edusquarelandmarks >> >> Another thing to consider is sloodle: an integration of the open source >> Moodle educational course tools with SL sims. It has its limitations but >> does provide a good way to develop Web based courses with a sim. I suggest >> cross media is the best way to go - not just relying on opensim but do >> Web/sim/film/machinima - which it seems you are already thinking - am I >> right? >> >> My main experience in this area is in SL and Moodle (both deparately and >> combined) but I am doing a little edu project in opensim too atm. Over the >> next year I plan to move stuff from SL to opensim so maybe I will meet you >> on a grid sometime :) >> >> cheers, >> >> chris >> >> On 20 August 2012 01:18, Lisa Evans <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm very new to OpenSim and just signed up to this list to ask a few >> questions. Sorry if I come across as a bit of a newbie, although I've been >> studying OS for a few days and I have my own standalone grid up and running >> at home. >> >> I'm putting together a proposal for this educational portal run by the ABC >> here in Australia: >> >> http://www.abc.net.au/learn/proposals.htm >> >> My project is all about teaching history, the idea being that students and >> history classes could put together simple sims telling stories about the >> history of their own local area, linking them up with videos, photos, >> essays, etc (which you could hopefully launch from within the sim). Their >> sims would all be linked up in a hypergrid, so students from all over >> Australia (later maybe the world) could get into a virtual time machine and >> visit different places at different times, to see what was happening. >> Students would be able to chat with each other and show each other around >> their creations. Hopefully the act of collaborative world building would >> engage them in learning about history, but I would want them focussed on >> just telling small stories, involving a small number of characters (which >> would be created as NPCs if that's possible, with simple, looping animations >> if not more complex behaviour) and buildings, objects, etc. (I have ideas >> about how to source lots of 3D content, which I need to explore more). >> >> I'm sure none of this is an original idea, but it seems like a good >> opportunity to put an idea like this forward. I just was wondering if anyone >> could tell me whether it would work in OpenSim or if there are some big >> barriers to creating something like this. >> >> My main issue right now is trying to work out how you create sims that >> represent not only a region in space but also a period in time. I've been >> thinking that I would have a grid that contains regions in which only >> stories from, say, 1950 to 2000 were created. Then another grid would >> represent the same real world area, but contain stories from 1900-1950. The >> further you go back in time, the longer the time intervals would get, along >> an approximately logarithmic scale, so if you were telling stories about the >> dinosaurs one grid would represent the entire Jurassic era, for example. >> >> Would this be the right way to go? I've been reading about regions and grids >> and hypergrids but I'm pretty sure there's a lot I don't understand. >> >> My own background is that I've been working in 3D animation for film, TV and >> games for the past decade, as a 3D all rounder and a technical artist. I've >> worked on one big MMO for three years that was never released. So I know >> about 3D modeling, animation, worldbuilding, etc. but I've never spent much >> time around Second Life or OpenSim, so a lot of this is new to me. >> >> Thanks for any help! >> >> Cheers, >> >> Lisa Evans >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Opensim-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Dr Chris Thorne >> >> >> http://www.vrshed.com >> http://www.floatingorigin.com >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Opensim-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users > > > _______________________________________________ > Opensim-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users > > > > -- > -- > Jo Kay > ________________________________ > Freelance Design, Virtual Worlds and Facilitation > jokaydiaGRID: http://jokaydiagrid.com > Twitter: http://twitter.com/jokay > Email: [email protected] / [email protected] > Tel: 0405179622 > > _______________________________________________ > Opensim-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users
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