Rich White's Blog (9)

Greenbush has officially launching a series of premium immersive education and virtual world services on June 1st. By leveraging Greenbush's strong infrastructure and long history of providing educational services to schools, teachers, and students - these services will provide yet another example of Greenbush's leadership in providing innovative educational services. Greenbush has, for the past several years, been a national leader in providing immersive education and virtual worlds design, de… Continue

We start pilot testing the GreenbushGrid (powered by Opensim) CSI World Next Week with 4th, 6th, and 7th graders. More on GreenbushGrid here: http://grid.greenbush.us Continue

If virtual worlds software and the available hardware are tools for educators to leverage for improving performance and learning - what are the best practices & pedagogies? Continue

The first three model packages are complete and ready for download with many more to come over the next few months as we prepare for the official Beta release of Edusim. Introductory Pack: The package is here http://edusim3d.com/packs/ContentPack121708.zip Thumbnails of each model in the package are here: http://edusim3d.com/packs/_… Continue

Virtual worlds for education may be finding theirself in the midst of a "perfect storm" - http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/top-news/?i=56330 (Via eschool News). Duke University is about to embark on a heavily funded project for a virtual world assessment infastructure that should be of interest to virtual world developers as it lays out a national standardized framework… Continue

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Its getting closer . The Google 3D warehouse models are not contained in the TMesh object so editing them in-world is not possible yet ... but getting very close ! Below are screen shots of models I have imported into a Cobalt world using the Cobalt KMZ importer Aik-Siong and his team are working on. I grabed these models from http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse .. and soon anyone will be able to build virtual worlds leveraging the Googl… Continue

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Interactive surfaces and virtual worlds in the classroom - Edusim in bringing the experience to the interactive whiteboard in schools with our free opensource lessons driven environment @ http://edusim3d.com Continue