Dean Groom's Page

Ive posted a short project based learning project for my 9th Grade students on TeenSecondClassroom, and they have begun work on developing a 2 minute flick, that ultimately they will post on Machinima.com. This is a 6 week project - (1 hour per week in class, plus one hour self-directed). I've posted the unit here, so anyone can use or modify it. It will be posted… Continue

Innovation is all around. I've been talking to Nathan, who's been working on an Australian 'Open Simulator' grid. He's also been working up the API for user registration, which works pretty well. You can visit the Grid here. Its great to see someone pu… Continue

Alberto Rizzo from the Melbourne Grammar school has posted this on his blog.Part of his Youth Leadership Conference. It will be great to get some kids in there for this event from my school, and an opportunity to invite some of the staff to come along and see what is happening in Skoolaborate.

For those who've been following the development of Open Simulator, then I might suggest a powerful use for it in your classroom by students. In brief, OS runs a 'grid' much like the SL grid. But, you can also create your own 'grid' or islands in their own right. OS does not have all the bells and whistles of SL, but has some things that SL does not too - it is Open Source so like most projects of that ilk where there is a demand, it is growing fast. OS simply boots under the usual SL client -… Continue

This is the code : /Applications/Second\ Life.app/Contents/MacOS/Second\ Life -loginuri http://osgrid.org:8002/ -loginpage http://osgrid.org/loginscreen.php -helperuri http://osgrid.org/?method=login Thanks to Sean for the link to Open Grid. For those Mac Users out there, the site instructions to amend you SL clients desire to connect to Linden - in favour of Open Grid, the instructions and code is missing (at the time of writing). Heres what you need to do.… Continue