Final #6

These are screenshots of a virtual library I created in an online world from a website called Meshmoon. It is a final exercise from the Immersive Education course that I am taking at Boston College. The course is called Discovering Computer Graphics. For details, visit the immersive BC portal at http://ImmersiveEducation.org/@/bc  

In the above screenshot, I am linking personal images in my Library to websites that are of interest to me.

In the screen shot above, I am creating an in world webpage that can be viewed in the world or can be used to bring a user to the website in a new window.

In the above screenshot, I am editing an object that I created in the world so it may fit a video that I will embed into it.

This is a screen shot of putting a website into my world.

This is a screen shot of me adjusting the position of the previous website.

This screenshot shows me editing the position of an embedded video.

10 Additional Research Papers

https://www.hetl.org/academic-articles/immersive-learning-in-preservice-teacher-education-using-virtual-worlds/

http://blogs.ubc.ca/hwlmt/2012/12/19/designing-immersive-language-learning-environments-in-virtual-worlds-by-yifei-wang/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9bePpxDmjE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKPwgrWT3xw&list=PLDA157C9ECC03D9EC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-oeCkBbwWo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6hGVvXYKc4&list=PLodJ8ParJmYXsLvPItvrpQjgoFeKmf8uD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmuN_RpXn6I&list=PL4BFC3F13B846707B

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNfPdaKYOPI&list=PL_SwFQrIv_LGy1EJkb8oI3KE_gF8t_5p5&index=4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-frbyXPfqCE&list=PL8_xPU5epJdfIv73J7axx3X1Hy_GCs6bV

http://weacted.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/implications-online-learning.pdf

Immersive Education Research PDF Papers

http://www.naeyc.org/yc/files/yc/file/201205/McManis_YC0512.pdf

http://www.truceteachers.org/docs/facing_the_screen_dilemma.pdf

http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/melbourne08/procs/olney.pdf

http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/papers/2012/1/education%20technology%20winthrop/01_education_technology_shearer.pdf

http://hawthornpress.com/articles/Too%20Much%20Too%20Soon%20Aric%20Sigman%20Chapter.pdf

Immersive Libraries and Museums

Immersive libraries and museums are a way to provide the traditional information in a new virtual way. They creates spaces that are interactive and educational. It will make it easier for people to do collaborative studying and learning in the virtual world.

It will change many of the tools we use in the real world to learn about the information we would have previously had to go out of the comfort of our homes or our current location. It will also change the required knowledge that the workers in libraries or museums must have. They will need to be able to assist people in navigating the information to find what they need in their research.

LAM.TWG is available to people who are currently members of the Immersive Education Initiative.  They helpto maintain the standards of the Immersive libraries and museums.

They are a great resource to have as they make collaborative learning and studying across distance such as different cities, schools, or even continents, possible.

final 6: 3D Library

This is a virtual world called Meshmoon. I am creating a virtual library of research material I have collected for this class in reference to immersiveeducation. It is a final exercise from the Immersive Education course that I am taking at Boston College. The course is called Discovering Computer Graphics. For details, visit the immersive BC portal at http://ImmersiveEducation.org/@/bc

WebGL Chrome Experiments the FAIL IN FIREFOX

The following experiments failed using Firefox rather than Chrome:

Find Your Way to Oz- Says it was designed with Chrome in mind, allows me to attempt to launch, crashed my Firefox browser
Just a Reflektor - Only showed the homepage


The following worked:

Depth of Field
PlayMaps Cube
WebGL Terrain Indras Net
Saint Jean Cathedral of Lyon
Water/Ocean
Squishy Earth
WebGL Attractors Trip
WebGL Bookcase
Digital Landscapes
The Hobbit
Car Visualizer
Spacerun 3D II
FaceTron
100,000 Stars
Interactive 3D Skeleton
Are You Being Watched?
Spherical Normal Mapping
Simple Maze Game
Asterank
Parallax

WebGL Chrome Experiments using Google's Chrome Browser

Parallax

http://wagerfield.github.io/parallax/

This experiment is stationary objects that slightly move. It recommends to open it with a tablet or phone because tilting would enhance the experience and the objects would move.

Asterank

http://www.asterank.com/3d/

This experiments is a visualization of the solar system. Using the drag & click method you can move it around to see the system from different angles and see different stars.

Simple Maze Game

http://eminkura.com/html5/maze/maze3d.html

Using the arrow/WASD keys and the drag & click method, this experiment takes you through a maze.