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Virtual 3D World for Teacher Training

Kapp Notes

The West Virginia Department of Education (WVDE) launched an online resource for potential and current educators in West Virginia called Teach West Virginia and as part of the initiative, a 3D world is playing a key role in the process. Tags: virtual immersive environment.

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Second Life Created Virtual Documentary

Kapp Notes

Second Life and movies have had a history. In my post Second Life at the Movies , I discuss the possibility of a full-feature length movie being created in Second Life. Molotov Alva turns the virtual camera on his virtual self. Well it has finally happened as a documentary.

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Blended Learning: Not your Mother’s, Grandmother’s, or Possibly Even Older Sibling’s Training

Association eLearning

Remember the days when you looked forward to field trips to the planetarium, hovering over a formaldehyde preserved frog with your lab team, or seeing the movie version of Lord of the Rings on a Friday afternoon? Make no mistake, today blended learning goes beyond merely tagging on a movie or performing a Web Quest on the internet.

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Alternatives to Second Life (continued, again)

Kapp Notes

Here is a companion post to two previous posts on the topic: Alternatives to Second Life Alternatives to Second Life Continued If you know of more, please feel free to add in the comments section. For educational users, Activeworlds launched The Active Worlds Educational Universe (AWEDU).

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TCC09: Digital User-Generated Content and Our Emerging Digital Literacy

Experiencing eLearning

This preliminary study uses examples of digital user-generated content, specifically digital stories and movies, to examine the types of information that appear to convey effectively. Story about home life–gave a list of questions about facts, feelings, & projections to answer. What is their potential role in learning?

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Create E-Learning Scenarios By Bringing the Virtual World into the Real World

Rapid eLearning

Originally, I was going to write about using Google Lively’s virtual world to build scenes and characters for your elearning courses. You’ll just need to find a different virtual world tool. If you’re not quite sure where to start, there’s always Second Life. Any of them should work.

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How Virtual Reality Became 2015’s Comeback Kid

eLearningMind

File this under “Topics Most Likely to Have Been a 1980s Sci-Fi Movie Plotline”: A 26-square mile real-life Sim City is currently under construction deep in the New Mexico desert, designed to test new technologies on a grand scale. Enjoying its moment in the sun at the turn of the century, virtual reality has dipped out of popularity.