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Greenbush officially launches premium immersive education and virtual world services

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

Added by Rich White on June 2, 2009 at 11:40am — No Comments

GreenbushGrid (on Opensim) Starts Piloting CSI World Next Week

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

Added by Rich White on March 29, 2009 at 3:48pm — No Comments

Mashing Up and Augmenting Virtual Learning Worlds

new_mashups 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

Added by Rich White on January 1, 2009 at 3:28pm — No Comments

3D virtual world manipulatives for your classroom interactive whiteboard

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

Added by Rich White on December 21, 2008 at 8:01am — No Comments

A PERFECT STORM FOR VIRTUAL WORLDS IN EDUCATION?

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

Added by Rich White on December 13, 2008 at 10:29am — No Comments

Google Sketchup Models Imported into a Cobalt Virtual World Platform

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

Added by Rich White on November 10, 2008 at 5:47pm — No Comments

Interactive surfaces and virtual worlds in the classroom - Edusim

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

Added by Rich White on April 9, 2008 at 8:05am — No Comments

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