BC Immersive Ed: February 2011

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Roll Call - Class #6 2/27/2011

http://ImmersiveEducation.org

The students all checked each other's completeness for the mid term

missed assignment from week2

These videos show a bunch of students working in Real World, Virtual Reality and a mix of the two. There is some Mars wandering, some rocket launching some space exploration and a lot of fun learning. The coolest part is that some Alabama kids get to interact live with NASA folks miles and miles away.

creating in Open Thing

This was an interesting little experiment with the Google Sketch Up program to create stuff for 3d worlds.

fifth and sixth open world pics

Here's a little town full of buildings and trees and streets and sidewalk.

No people no dogs and no squirrels.

The Immersive Ed Testing Ground

I guess we will be making, importing and royally screwing up a lot of stuff here.

Roll Call Class #5 pt2

http://ImmersiveEducation.org

we messed around with sketch up and other things

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Forth

Here is the Medical ICU.

I'm looking at a chart of the human body which would be used to train students and would most likely be a prop for discussion on different things.

The Education Grid

Here's a couple shots from the Education Grid

I don't really know what to say about the place. It's an intersting take on interactive immersive education that can change the way the world interacts and learns. It is highly based around Second Life.

It's gettin sketchy

Third

Well, I guess it's not all there yet.

Second

And here we are in our local Japanese - Oh, wait - crashed out... lemme get back to you on this...

FIRST!!

First shot upon entering the wonderful world of Open World!

Open Wonderland Video

This is Nicoel - She taught me all kinds of cool, nifty and useful information.

Open wonderland has a ton of functionality to help with business and academic instructional environments. Users are able to create interactive meeting areas where others can watch video, brainstorm, and colaborate on a number of levels. She first sets up a PDF viewer and drag/drops some pdfs for everyone to look at. Then she sets a web page as the home page in a in-world web browser (firefox in this case).

Later she demonstrates how a live meeting takes place where users can raise their hands to ask questions, draw on white boards with each other, wander off to speak in private and SO much more! Nicole explains the security of different areas and even how to bring in a phone conversation and have a user move this call around to talk to different groups in different areas.