Learning together…
The Project Wonderland development team just found out that development resources will no longer be applied to the project, Sun/Oracle resources that is. However, the avid team plans to keep up the great work they have done so far counting on the open source community. The team wiill soon release Project Wonderland v0.5 Preview Release [...]
Many researchers have been talking about stigmergy in Web-based environments. Sarah Intellagirl Robbins has been doing research in facets of Virtual Worlds and their potential for education. Stigmergy is one of the affordances she identified (or put the name to the face) in working with Virtual Worlds. From Wikipedia we have: Stigmergy is a mechanism of [...]
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
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 [...]
In this blog post Nicole invites Timothy Wright, a Ph.D. candidate from University of Notre Dame, to write a post about his research interest in Project Wonderland and Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVEs) from a security and data storage perspective. His research project has driven him to come up with different “privileges” and status for users [...]
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!
An interview with Aaron Walsh, professor of virtual environments and games for learning at Boston University:
