Enzo Silva blog » MUVE http://enzosilva.com Learning together... Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:38:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Article by Avatar Languages – 3D Virtual Worlds for Language Learning http://enzosilva.com/blog/2010/01/02/article-by-avatar-languages-3d-virtual-worlds-for-language-learning/ http://enzosilva.com/blog/2010/01/02/article-by-avatar-languages-3d-virtual-worlds-for-language-learning/#comments Sat, 02 Jan 2010 14:53:53 +0000 enzofsilva http://enzosilva.com/blog/?p=657 3D Virtual Worlds for Language Learning

]]> http://enzosilva.com/blog/2010/01/02/article-by-avatar-languages-3d-virtual-worlds-for-language-learning/feed/ 0 Project Wonderland’s New Features http://enzosilva.com/blog/2008/11/05/project-wonderlands-new-features/ http://enzosilva.com/blog/2008/11/05/project-wonderlands-new-features/#comments Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:43:28 +0000 enzofsilva http://tweaklearning.wordpress.com/?p=296 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

]]> http://enzosilva.com/blog/2008/11/05/project-wonderlands-new-features/feed/ 0 A Virtual Forbidden City http://enzosilva.com/blog/2008/10/10/a-virtual-forbidden-city/ http://enzosilva.com/blog/2008/10/10/a-virtual-forbidden-city/#comments Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:07:52 +0000 enzofsilva http://tweaklearning.wordpress.com/?p=269 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.

]]> http://enzosilva.com/blog/2008/10/10/a-virtual-forbidden-city/feed/ 0 Sun Microsystem’s Project Wonderland and The Immersive Education Grid http://enzosilva.com/blog/2008/06/20/sun-microsystems-project-wonderland-and-the-immersive-education-grid/ http://enzosilva.com/blog/2008/06/20/sun-microsystems-project-wonderland-and-the-immersive-education-grid/#comments Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:22:42 +0000 enzofsilva http://tweaklearning.wordpress.com/?p=75 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 the Immersive Education participants. 

I’m pasting some of the thoughts fellow bloggers have had on their posts about the event:

 

 

First Educational Gathering in Wonderland

By timwang

(…) over 60 avatars gathered on the Sun’s island in Secondlife, cuing up to get a “ticket” for the first experimentation of the Wonderland Project by Sun’s Microsystems. The event was organized by the MediaGrid which is a computational grid platform that promotes 3D virtual learning environment. (…)”

On Tim Wang’s eLearning Blog 

 

Wonderland Works!

By Katherine W. Prawl:

“Friday was a red-letter day. I attended an event in Second Life for an education group, hosted by Sun Microsystems, which was intended to introduce the group members toProject Wonderland. Especially exciting was the fact that Sun and its partners (which include NMC) are exploring the possibility of allowing avatars to navigate from theEducation Grid running on Wonderland servers.”

On the NewMedia On the Go blog

 

Sun’s Wonderland & Education Grid Demo

by Chris Collins

“Today the Media Grid Immersive Education Initiative launched the Education Grid onSun’s Wonderland platform.

Aaron Walsh from Media Grid launched the initiative from within Second Life and the island quickly filled up with many more avatars waiting to get in to join the demonstration.”

Fleep’s Deep Thoughts blog

 

]]> http://enzosilva.com/blog/2008/06/20/sun-microsystems-project-wonderland-and-the-immersive-education-grid/feed/ 2 VirtuED – Using Wonderland to Promote Learning http://enzosilva.com/blog/2008/05/21/virtued-using-wonderland-to-promote-learning/ http://enzosilva.com/blog/2008/05/21/virtued-using-wonderland-to-promote-learning/#comments Wed, 21 May 2008 15:18:15 +0000 enzofsilva http://tweaklearning.wordpress.com/?p=52 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!

]]> http://enzosilva.com/blog/2008/05/21/virtued-using-wonderland-to-promote-learning/feed/ 0 How NOT to teach in Second Life http://enzosilva.com/blog/2008/05/20/how-not-to-teach-in-second-life/ http://enzosilva.com/blog/2008/05/20/how-not-to-teach-in-second-life/#comments Tue, 20 May 2008 22:34:05 +0000 enzofsilva http://tweaklearning.wordpress.com/?p=51 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.

]]> http://enzosilva.com/blog/2008/05/20/how-not-to-teach-in-second-life/feed/ 0 Handipoints – Virtual World that Helps Kids Do Chores in Real World http://enzosilva.com/blog/2008/05/12/handipoints-virtual-world-that-helps-kids-do-chores-in-real-world/ http://enzosilva.com/blog/2008/05/12/handipoints-virtual-world-that-helps-kids-do-chores-in-real-world/#comments Mon, 12 May 2008 15:14:31 +0000 enzofsilva http://tweaklearning.wordpress.com/?p=45 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 post about it here.

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