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This weekend I got a nice little piece of news when Zaid Ali Alsagoff sent me an email letting me know I had been named on his list of his “TOP 10 LEARNING SITES FOR PERSONAL LEARNING” now this is an honor because Zaid does some amazing work on this blog, especially in terms of […]
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Leave a Comment (1) →There have been a number of interesting development in term of Google and social game purchases and game related initiatives. Here are some recent highlights; Google purchased a company called Slide, an app developer that works with popular social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace to create community-driven entertainment applications. The deal is worth a […]
Continue Reading →Kauffman Labs for Enterprise Creation Seeks Education Founders Here is some news for anyone thinking of starting an education company. A New Kauffman Foundation program has been launched that is searching for passionate, aspiring founders of high-growth, scalable education enterprises The Department of Education’s Race to the Top competition isn’t the only program focused on […]
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Leave a Comment (3) →Last week we had a class with special guest Ariella Furman, who is a Machinimatographer at FramedIn3D. Here are some tips she provided: 1) Plan your storyboards. Just like a “real” video shot, you need to plan ahead to get the best results. 2) Practice. Set up some shots and do some run throughs to […]
Continue Reading →Last night the learning in 3D class visited the demo version of ProtoSphere to check out some of it’s features. We first gathered at the Welcome Center and got our navigation in order in terms of walking and running through the environment. Next we practiced different first-person and third-person views so we could acclimate to […]
Continue Reading →Here is some information as pre-reading for webinar attendees and for students in the Learning in 3D summer class. Avatar Information Learning about avatars:What is an Avatar? Encourage Avatar Customization Promoting motivation with virtual agents and avatars: role of visual presence and appearance. You are your avatar, your avatar is you. Avatars for Learning Accidental […]
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Leave a Comment (2) →Check out this video showing how researchers used Tweats to determine the mood of the country and individual states. A few highlights from the research: The “early morning and late evening” have the “highest level of happiness.” The West coast is “significantly happier” than the East coast Weekends are “much happier than weekdays. Check out […]
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Leave a Comment (1) →Here is a link to an interesting study of how the 3D simulation software, Thinking Worlds was used to create training to improve the Royal Navy’s “worst performing course” – Engineering Safety Rounds Inspection. The simulation helped to cut failure rates by 54%. Here is the opening paragraph from the case study. What would you […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Here are some emerging events happening in the corporate virtual immersive environment (VIE) space. Aggressive and Targeted Integration with enterprisewide applications:Teleplace just announced that it is now fully integrated with MS SharePoint and now joins ProtoSphere as players looking to meld enterprise applications with virtual immersive environments. Forterra System’s OLIVE integrates virtual meetings into web […]
Continue Reading →Virtual immersive environments come in all shapes and sizes even though many people tend to only think of Second Life when they think of virtual worlds. But there are many alternatives that are being deployed in a variety of applications. Last night the class ventured into VirtualU for a tour hosted by Jim and Steve […]
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