The url for the SSU Teleportation Station is:
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/WIRED%204/114/212/22
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/WIRED%204/114/212/22
Thursday, November 4, 2010
VIRTUAL CLASSROOM OVERVIEW
Anyone with high speed internet anywhere on Earth can attend class, train or teach in these classrooms. Colleagues and perhaps their students or trainees from far away can visit your virtual space with almost no carbon footprint. Wouldn't that be great for international relations or languages? Create virtual field trips and experiences. The possibilities are endless.
You can see, hear, speak and experience in three dimensions using a free avatar from Second Life.com. Scale and movement mean something here. When you drive a car somewhere it's more likely you'll remember how you got there than a passenger sitting next to you. They didn't get the same "muscle memory" from steering the car that you did. Your in-world movements and the trigonometry of the immersive space is an important part of a holistic memory that contributes to more complete recall.
You can easily build in hundreds of links, videos and sounds by dropping a free script into a virtual object you created using the included digital tools. You then type in the proper url. and your object is then linked when touched. The game generation (Digital Natives) understand learning this way. Build in rewards and secrets to be discovered. Make learning fun and make failing more about learning to redo their attempt another way. Don't we say experience is the best teacher?
Many of these 14 virtual classrooms are not meant to be definitive. They are meant to be an imagination booster. When you build about your favorite subject as I did in the VDL project then you can go deep. I hope you can see the possibilities here and become as excited as I am.
When you select a link to secondlife you will be routed to their website to receive your free avatar and a free download of the viewer. The viewer is a small software package you install on your computer that allows you to experience the virtual space in real time. Almost all the real computation is done on the server this viewer connects to when you type in your password. It feels clumsy for a short while but soon you can fly. Did I mention your avatar can fly? Enjoy!
note:You can learn this easily. I've been teaching 41 yrs and I'm 65 years old. Three years ago I didn't know what a virtual world space was. Last winter (2010) I won first place in a worldwide hyper grid (virtual world) building challenge sponsored by the US military. Welcome to making your imagination exist somewhere where other people can visit.
You can see, hear, speak and experience in three dimensions using a free avatar from Second Life.com. Scale and movement mean something here. When you drive a car somewhere it's more likely you'll remember how you got there than a passenger sitting next to you. They didn't get the same "muscle memory" from steering the car that you did. Your in-world movements and the trigonometry of the immersive space is an important part of a holistic memory that contributes to more complete recall.
You can easily build in hundreds of links, videos and sounds by dropping a free script into a virtual object you created using the included digital tools. You then type in the proper url. and your object is then linked when touched. The game generation (Digital Natives) understand learning this way. Build in rewards and secrets to be discovered. Make learning fun and make failing more about learning to redo their attempt another way. Don't we say experience is the best teacher?
Many of these 14 virtual classrooms are not meant to be definitive. They are meant to be an imagination booster. When you build about your favorite subject as I did in the VDL project then you can go deep. I hope you can see the possibilities here and become as excited as I am.
When you select a link to secondlife you will be routed to their website to receive your free avatar and a free download of the viewer. The viewer is a small software package you install on your computer that allows you to experience the virtual space in real time. Almost all the real computation is done on the server this viewer connects to when you type in your password. It feels clumsy for a short while but soon you can fly. Did I mention your avatar can fly? Enjoy!
note:You can learn this easily. I've been teaching 41 yrs and I'm 65 years old. Three years ago I didn't know what a virtual world space was. Last winter (2010) I won first place in a worldwide hyper grid (virtual world) building challenge sponsored by the US military. Welcome to making your imagination exist somewhere where other people can visit.
The VDL (Virtual Design Lab)
The VDL is an ongoing experiment in virtual classroom development using the newest technology. It is larger than four virtual football stadiums. It has hundreds of web connected objects that allow it as a whole to act as a nexus for arts information on the web. Visitors can view video about many of the artists talking about their own creations and process. It delivers scale and high bandwidth interconnectivity.
There are several project areas that require students to draw on drawing pads in RL from instructions and visual information in SL. Other interactive areas such as the Fallingwater Exhibit offer visitors the option to teleport to a full scale model of the home, grounds and interior where they can explore the spaces as designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. It is literally a book about color and design that you can walk through and experience in 3-D.
Main Entrance VDL:
Virtual Fallingwater Entrance:
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| Virtual Fallingwater guest house in the VDL |
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| Virtual Fallingwater great room in the VDL |
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| Virtual Fallingwater in the VDL (classic view) |
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| Virtual Fallingwater entry in the VDL |
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| The Design Floor 10,764 sq.ft. |
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| The Color Theory Floor 10,764 sq.ft. |
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| warm and cool light |
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| color solid |
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| simultaneous contrast |
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| value & saturation tunnels |
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| giant fluorescent tube |
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| light wave frequencies |
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| balance |
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| space |
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| two point perspective |
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| texture |
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| abstract expressionism |
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| graphic design |
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| color field painters |
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| color field painters |
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| shape and applied design |
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| diminution drawing site |
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| diminution |
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| Entry Area w SL learning ctr. |
Power Station and Grid
This project won Shawnee State University and Prof. Thomas Stead first place in the Visualization Category of the 2010 Federal Virtual World Challenge sponsored by the joint US military training command. The challenge was open to designers from anywhere in the world. We chose to design around orientation and training for a regional power station in Gallia County. The President of AEP Ohio and his staff reviewed the project and were very pleased with the potential. You can see videos etc. of the project on it's blog at:
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| animated power station schematic turbines, cooling tower, condenser, coal mill |
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| carbon capture animated schematic |
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| Gavin Station model |
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| Federal Virtual World Challenge, First Place |
Virtual Tourism Classroom
Shawnee State UniversityWe built of small section of the New Orleans French Quarter that allows the user to experience some of the sights and sounds found in one of Americas premier tourist areas. The posters on the walls are touch linked to the French Quarter websites where visitors can book the real thing! Laissez Les Bon Temps Roulez ! (Let The Good Times Roll)
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| Cafe near St.Louis Cathedral |
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| Laissez Les Bon Temps Roulez |
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| New Orleans French Quarter |
Hydro Electric Field Trip
Field trips on every subject are financially difficult and difficult to arrange. Most hydroelectric plants won't let your students walk through the turbines as they work but ours does! Virtual experiences not only convey scale, but also allow the impossible.
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| hydro plant outflow |
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| turbine generator |
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| inside the turbine |
High Tech Welding Classroom
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| EWI welding simulator |
Many new and exciting things are happening in material welding including simulators with advanced feedback to the user, friction stir welding and high output laser welding.
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| 10 kw laser welder |
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| friction stir welder |
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