Second Classroom - Students using Virtual Worlds

Students using Virtual Worlds

Second Classroom is a project to explore ways in which educators can use MUVES, Game and MMO in learning

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Second Classroom is the initiative of Dean Groom and Judy O'Connell. Please join and participate in this collaborative venture. Let us know what you are doing and share your ideas with us all.

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Reaction Grid - A Few Random Sims

Added by Judy O'Connell

Why Second Classroom?

We know that the academic and social well being of our students is enhanced when the learning environment provides spaces where students can learn in different ways, at different speeds, and where they feel safe and valued. We also know that the changes that 21st century learning has brought to the ways our teachers teach and students learn are momentous.

Join in the discussions and reflections to help take learning and teaching to the new frontiers of virtual learning. The Second Classroom aims to support students and teachers with opportunities to strive for creativity, knowledge, citizenship, global awareness and personal success in virtual learning environments.

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Kidz on the Gridz - Kids events in Reaction Grid 3 Replies

Started by Dean Groom. Last reply by Mary Del Bianco Dec 4.

A minute post on the critical point in Edu-MUVEs 10 Replies

Started by Dean Groom. Last reply by David Warlick Apr 11.

Blog Posts

Wanted: clothing and hair designers for OpenSim project

Hi everyone

I am looking for leads on clothing and hair creators/designers for a project I am getting up and running in Open Sim. I am in need of a range of clothing for women including autumn and summer casual, neat/business casual, business, food service and construction site and for men autumn and summer casual, neat/business casual, food service and construction site. Hair along the same lines - very casual, neat casual, food service, business, construction. Must be able to be coloured (hai… Continue

Posted by KerryJ on December 15, 2009 at 12:09pm

Reaction Grid: A few random Sims

Just a fast HD fly-through of some random Sims in ReactionGrid. Thankz to Botgirl Questi.

Reaction Grid from Botgirl Questi on Vimeo.

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Posted by Judy O'Connell on December 10, 2009 at 7:34pm

Kidz on the Gridz

Following a short burst of chatter today -- an idea emerged that I liked. Putting together some virtual build project for a bunch of kids -- outside of school. This is going to have to be on Reaction Grid ... but I guess we should start thinking about some bogus-missing thing we could run to get kidz connecting with virtual space ... not like school - perhaps get them just o build something ... or probably just fly about.

Anyway ... I like the idea of a rogue band of kidz on reaction grid.

Posted by Dean Groom on November 30, 2009 at 9:00pm

Larry Johnson - UTS Public Lecture Update

And location is the tower building, entrance level room 06.

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Public Lecture on Second Life, 26/11/09, 6.00pm
As part of the UTS Communities of Practice/Learning Communities in Emerging Technologies for Teaching and Learning grant No Place Like Home Point: Creating a Community in Second Life, Larry Johnson, New Media Consortium CEO, will deliver a public lecture at UTS on the use of virtual worlds in higher education.

Posted by Dean Groom on November 25, 2009 at 11:02pm

Imprudence Viewer

http://imprudenceviewer.org/ is another entry into the multi-viewer space. I've been using Meercat with Second Inventory on Reaction Grid and found it to be great for building, and as I write this, I've only just spend an hour with Imprudence. I'm using mostly OSX, and to be honest found Hippo to be frustratingly un-reliable on OSX Snow.

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Posted by Dean Groom on November 19, 2009 at 9:22pm

Online communities - are now a culture or counter-culture depending on your ideology. Community, c…

Online communities - are now a culture or counter-culture depending on your ideology. Community, culture, churn, sift and drift are the reagents of motivation and at the center of learning anything online.

Communities need culture to operate. Anyone talking about communities in an online wo

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Posted by Dean Groom on November 8, 2009 at 12:08pm

Texture Time

I've added some images of the 'feel' I'm trying to achieve with Judy in a transmedia story we've decided to work on. Currently lost somewhere in Photoshop and Google Documents ... and liking the flexible lighting modes in Meerkat more and more ... just sayin'

Posted by Dean Groom on November 5, 2009 at 12:44am

Larry Johnson, New Media Consortium CEO, Public Lecture @ UTS 26 November 2009, 4.00pm: Down the Rabbit Hole … …or how the NMC took the red pill, got a Second Life, and found love on the 3D web

Dear Colleagues

I would like to invite you to Larry Johnson's lecture Down the Rabbit Hole … …or how the NMC took the red pill, got a Second Life, and found love on the 3D web, on 26 November 2009 at 4.00pm at UTS. (I apologise I do not have a lecture theatre number as yet, but I will post an update).

The lecture is part of a grant project I have been carrying out with colleagues from the School of Software in IT, Nursing and the Institute for Interactive Media Learning at UTS to find o… Continue

Posted by Aleteia Infinity on November 4, 2009 at 8:55pm

Transmedia Approach to learning

I've been looking at the idea of developing sequences of work using a transmedia strategy. The idea that there are a series of modules of work, each taking place in different media. Typically, this is a tried and tested method for advertising - the target people's attention in multiple places, leading to an outcome that is desired.
I wonder if an

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Posted by Dean Groom on October 31, 2009 at 10:49pm

Go!Animate: Interactive Books & Libraries in Second Life

GoAnimate.com: Second Life Tour 1: Interactive Books & Libraries by gwyneth

Like it? Create your own at GoAnimate.com. It's free and fun!
a Go!Animate vid i made for a presentation at the AASL conference (American Association of School Librarians)… Continue

Posted by gwyneth jones on October 31, 2009 at 2:31am — 5 Comments

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