3D Virtual Worlds for Language Learning
Posts Tagged ‘MUVE’
Project Wonderland’s New Features
Project Wonderland is a project run by Sun Microsystems that aims at developing a tool kit for the creation of custom virtual worlds (MUVEs). The upcoming .5 release promises some interesting features as well as some powerful improvements to the interface and system as a whole. Videos here: http://slx.sun.com/1179271798 https://slx.sun.com/1179271797 https://slx.sun.com/1179271796 https://slx.sun.com/1179271795
A Virtual Forbidden City
Not forbidden (you are allowed to explore it), is the interactive virtual replica of the ancient Chinese Forbidden City that has been released by IBM after a few years of development. Great environment for the History buffs, teachers and students. You can download it here. Check out TechCrunch’s post on the subject here.
Sun Microsystem’s Project Wonderland and The Immersive Education Grid
The Media Grid Immersive Education Initiative led by Aaron Walsh from the Boston University has been on the cutting edge of virtual environments experiments for a learning purpose. They hold constant meetings in Second Life, have been experimenting with different virtual worlds and not was Wonderland’ turn for a more “official” educational event run by [...]
VirtuED – Using Wonderland to Promote Learning
This is a great project and here is a post on their efforts to establish Wonderland as a learning tool. Keep up the good work guys!
How NOT to teach in Second Life
An interesting interview with Milosun Czervik on the use of Second Life for teaching and how most people just replicate flawed real-life environments and approaches when using MUVEs for learning. Interview conducted by Kevin Lim.
Handipoints – Virtual World that Helps Kids Do Chores in Real World
Speaking of persuasion power, Handipoints is a clever idea of getting kids’ interest in video games and virtual worlds to get them to do something productive in real life through an “incentive program”. I will not go on an on about how interesting this idea is since Michael Arrington from Techcrunch already wrote a nice [...]
