New LSL scripting classes are starting at Kitely grid on Opensim. Whether you think of yourself as a beginner or intermediate scripter, you are bound to learn something new from experienced long-time scripters Kayaker Magic and Mike Lorrey. Classes accessible via hypergrid. All times are Pacific time. Beginning LSL Scripting with Mike Lorrey Lesson 1 Nov. 19, 11 … [Read more...]
Insights from virtual ancient spaces
Liz Falconer's Virtual Avebury project is a highlight of Week 1 of History Month in Kitely. Avebury is near the famous Stonehenge site but is much larger. In this blog post, Liz notes some affordances of a virtual recreation of an ancient site. By creating the site without the modern roads and buildings, the original arrangement of the stones can be more easily analyzed. … [Read more...]
Digital models as research tools in buildings archaeology
Visualising the Guild Chapel, Stratford-upon-Avon: digital models as research tools in buildings archaeology Graham discovered this while doing some background reading for his Shakespeare400 build. History builds are of great interest to both amateur historians and roleplayers who want to get a feel for environments that shaped both events and people in bygone times. … [Read more...]
Engineering Active Learning in 3D Virtual Worlds
By Dr. Michael Vallance Department of Media Architecture, Future University Hakodate, Japan. To advance education in the 21st century, experts in neuroscience argue for more ‘active learning’ through experience. A practical implementation for such active, experiential and, we propose, multi-disciplinary learning is for students to consider, analyze, solve and make personal … [Read more...]
Kitely resident presentations at OSCC15
The annual OpenSim community meetup is now in its second year and attracted 270+ registrations with 100+ avatars inworld during most of the day. Ramesh Ramloll presented on the latest iteration of the sim-authoring tool RezMela which now integrates with real world maps. Ghaelen DLareh and Ruby ODegee presented an enchanting holoscene incorporating a Non-Player Character (NPC) … [Read more...]
Kitely resident presents at ASCILITE2015
The proceedings of ASCILITE2015, a major Australian educational technology conference, includes a multi-author analysis of likely reasons for slow adoption of virtual worlds as well as an OpenSim-based occupational medicine simulation by Kitely resident Aaron Griffiths. Aaron is happy to talk about and demo the simulation so let us know if you are interested. LARGE PDF! … [Read more...]