Project Wonderland: Toolkit for Building 3D Virtual Worlds
Experimental Technology sponsored by this community and Sun Microsystems Laboratories
https://lg3d-wonderland.dev.java.net/index.html
SL, ActiveWorlds? Old School ... New Age is Project Wonderland!
Posted by Amber D. (Evans) Marcu, Ph.D. at 10/20/2008 01:25:00 PMLabels: MUVE, open source, Project Wonderland
Virtual Worlds: 20 Tools for 3D Creation
Posted by Amber D. (Evans) Marcu, Ph.D. at 7/10/2008 07:40:00 PMVirtual Worlds: 20 Tools for 3D Creation
Earlier this week Google launched Lively, a new social network where anyone can create an avatar and virtual room that can be embedded anywhere on the Web. 3D services such as Lively are popping up more and more online thanks to the popularity of virtual worlds like Second Life, Meez
, and more.
Labels: Google, immersive worlds, MUVE, SL, social networking, toolbox, web 2.0
Immersive Worlds & Learning - A place to start with the research.
Posted by Amber D. (Evans) Marcu, Ph.D. at 1/24/2008 01:28:00 PMBelow are a few resources you may find useful to introduce you to the area of research & development of immersive worlds and learning. Keep in mind that these folks are very much
in the socio-cultural/critical theory realm ...
1. Constance Steinkuehler, U of Wisconsin:
http://website.education.wisc
2. Jay Lemke, U of Mich: http://www-personal.umich.edu/
3. I3W: Investigating Interactive Immersive Worlds:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/
Labels: constructivism, education, immersive worlds, in world, learning, MUVE, second life, SL, sociocultural
20 Tools For Creating Your Own Games
Posted by Amber D. (Evans) Marcu, Ph.D. at 1/04/2008 03:20:00 PM20 Tools For Creating Your Own Games
This is AWESOME! Forget Second Life! Make your own RPG or Flash-based game without any knowledge of programming necessary. I think I'm going to try to add this as an FDI workshop to the Spring/Summer roster.
The best part? The storyboarding and writing (because everyone knows that good games come from good writing).
How fun!
Labels: creative, education, free, fun, games, gaming, immersive worlds, Mashable, multimedia, MUVE, original, second life, SL, teaching, technology, toolbox, tools