Before, Beyond and Somewhere to the Left of Second Life Virtual Worlds in Education

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Before, Beyond (and Somewhere to the Left of)
Second LifeVirtual Worlds in Education

• Daniel Livingstone

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Before
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• Elizabethan tearoom.
• This cosy, Tudor room is where all adventures
  start. Its exposed oak beams and soft,
  velvet-covered furnishings provide it with the
  ideal atmosphere in which to relax before
  venturing out into that strange, timeless realm.
  A sense of decency and decorum prevails, and a
  feeling of kinship with those who, like you, seek
  their destiny in The Land. There are exits in all
  directions, each of which leads into a wisping,
  magical mist of obvious teleportative
  properties...

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River City Project
Imageshttp//muve.gse.harvard.edu/rivercityprojec
t/view/rc_views_interface.htm
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Quest Atlantis
Imagehttp//atlantis.crlt.indiana.edu/
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Beyond
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Also look at RealXtend - http//www.realxtend.org
/ - OpenSim/Second Life based project with
extensions to the client
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Open Croquet
Image http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ImageCroquet_
Screenshot.jpeg
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Sun Wonderland / MPK20
https//lg3d-wonderland.dev.java.net/ Project
Wonderland Toolkit for Building 3D Virtual
WorldsExperimental Technology sponsored by this
community and Sun Microsystems Laboratories
         
Project Wonderland is a toolkit for creating
collaborative 3D virtual worlds. Within those
worlds, users can communicate with high-fidelity,
immersive audio, and can share live applications
such as web browsers, OpenOffice documents, and
games.
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Somewhere to the Left
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Groups
Discussions
Documents
Noticeboard
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Synchronous Activities in Glow
Whiteboard
Chat
IM
Video Conferencing
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VLE based Virtual Worlds?
http//blip.tv/file/444747
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Second Life Moodle Sloodle
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OLIVE (Forterra)
Image extracted from video from
http//www.forterrainc.com/
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References, Further Information Links

• Achterbosch, L., Pierce, R., Simmons, G.
  (2007). Massively multiplayer online role-playing
  games the past, present, and future. Computers
  In Entertainment, 5(4), Article no. 9.
  http//doi.acm.org/10.1145/1324198.1324207
• http//lambdamoo.info
• Educational MUD lists http//tecfa.unige.ch/edu-c
  omp/WWW-VL/eduVR-page.htmlEducationalhttp//www-
  rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/geosoc/sociology/mud.htmlE
  ducational
• Active Worlds Educational Universe
  http//www.activeworlds.com/edu/awedu.asp Quest
  Atlantis http//atlantis.crlt.indiana.edu/
  River City Project http//muve.gse.harvard.edu/r
  ivercityproject/
• OpenSimulator http//opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_
  Page
• OSGrid http//www.osgrid.org/ RealXtend
  http//www.realxtend.org/
• OpenCroquet http//www.opencroquet.org/
• Qwaq http//www.qwaq.com/
• Project Wonderland https//lg3d-wonderland.dev.ja
  va.net/ MPK20 http//www.sunlabs.com/projects/mc
  /mpk20.html
• Gaming and Moodle, Pieter van der Hijden
  (MoodleMoot UK, 2007) http//blip.tv/file/444747
  
• Sloodle, http//www.sloodle.org/
• TappedIn http//tappedin.org/tappedin/Farooq,
  U., Schank, P., Harris, A., Fusco, J. Schlager,
  M. (2007) Sustaining a Community Computing
  Infrastructure for Online Teacher Professional
  Development A Case Study of Designing Tapped In,
  Journal of Computer Supported Cooperative Work,
  Volume 16, Numbers 4-5, October, 2007, pp
  397-429, Springer, ISSN 0925-9724 (Print)
  1573-7551 (Online), DOI 10.1007/s10606-007-9049-0,
  http//www.springerlink.com/content/r541656187358
  884/?p33b36da521864f52aea291adb71ca7b3pi1
• Informal Learning in MMOs E.g. Galarneau, Lisa
  (2005) Spontaneous communities of learning
  Learning ecosystems in massively multiplayer
  online games. Digital Games Research Association
  (DiGRA), Vancouver, Canada. http//lisa.socialstud
  ygames.com/pubs.htm
• Neverwinter Nights http//nwn.bioware.com/
  Arden World of William Shakespeare
  http//swi.indiana.edu/arden/index.shtml
• OLIVE http//www.forterrainc.com/
• Runescape http//www.runescape.com/
• Club Penguin http//clubpenguin.com/