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Conceptual Orienteering is a learning archetype where learners are given activities or situations in which they are presented with examples and non-examples of environmental or situational conditions for the purpose of discrimination and creating an understanding of key concepts. Orienting a learner to concept of how to properly lift weights without injury and for maximum benefit. Image courtesy of […]
Continue Reading →Agenda for the Global Learning Forum Last night I had the privileged of presenting to the U.S. Air Force’s Global Learning Forum (GLF) group in Second Life at Huffman Prairie Chi. It was a great event. GLF represents a collaborative group of educators from across government and private universities and organizations exploring and prototyping the […]
Continue Reading →One creative element of 3D Virtual Immersive Environments that many people tend to forget is the power to create machinima. “Machinima is the use of real-time graphics rendering engines, mostly three-dimensional (3-D), to generate computer animation. The term also refers to works that incorporate this animation technique.” Wikipedia Definition. Recently, Ariella Furman a Machinimatographer at […]
Continue Reading →EventBy now you’ve probably already heard that the Microsoft Life Sciences Innovation Award 2010 has gone to a project that uses a 3-D virtual environment to hold a virtual scientific poster session. The session, held by the pharmaceutical company Merck was conducted in Photosphere and featured the opportunity for scientists to gather and interact with […]
Continue Reading →Some interesting developments in the 3D Learning and Collaboration Space. First, it looks as though Linden Labs, the developers behind Second Life, may be downsizing their corporate efforts (Second Life Enterprise Edition). Two sources indicate that Linden may actually be shutting down their Enterprise operations. While this has not been totally verified by dozens of […]
Continue Reading →Here is a list of the 3D Slides I’ve posted on Slideshare and some interviews about 3D. (all in one place). Slideshows Learning in 3D Learning in 3D: Examples, Samples and Models Learning in 3D: Postcards from Learning in 3D (Presentation to Best Practices in Virtual Worlds) 3D Learning Archetypes Why 3D? (Presentation given at […]
Continue Reading →Here is a link to the video of the presentation Tony and I did at the ASTD conference a few weeks ago courtesy of Protonmedia. (Once you follow the link, you will need to scroll down to view the video on the post.) Also, here are the accompanying slides if you want to follow along […]
Continue Reading →Last week a lot of 3D news occurred, here is a round up of some of the highlights: I stopped by the ASTD booth of Digitell, Inc. and met James A. Parker, the President, who said his booth was buzzing the entire conference and a lot of people were interested in 3D webinars. Digitell is […]
Continue Reading →Here are five products on the market today that allow you to escape the 2D environment of your laptop and add a third dimension to your file structure, navigation and functionality. 3D interfaces are starting to appear everywhere for your laptop, iPad or other portable computing devices. Check them out. One:Recently, Google has purchased a […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →While venturing into a 3D world is interesting, exciting and opens all sorts of possibilities, it is equally as exciting to have a 3D world surround you. And while some people believe that the 3D and virtual world “bubbles” have popped, I’m not one of those people. There are too many happenings in and initiatives […]
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