Final #3 (coming soon!)
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Course Evaluation
After clicking on the link again I got this message:
The course evaluation is complete!
The Future of Immersive Education
In ten years, Immersive Education will have taken over the educational world. Today, many people laugh at the idea of online college classes. I believe that in ten years, online classes will no longer be a joke but a serious way to get a degree. There will be competitive students applying to online colleges that will have the same kind of clout that major universities do.
This will not be an email or chat room based class, though. The class will take place in a virtual world like Second Life, but since the technology will be much more powerful, the virtual world will look much more realistic and be much more fluid. You will be able to take a picture of yourself and have that picture made into a lifelike 3D model, much like what Gizmoz does on their website but on a much bigger scale.
There are many benefits to this new technology. Students from around the world will be able to meet up in a virtual world and learn the same things. This will open up the world of education to people whom it would not have been possible for in our current generation. Access to these virtual colleges will be much cheaper than going to a university. All that one needs to access to a computer and the possibilities will be endless.
This will not be an email or chat room based class, though. The class will take place in a virtual world like Second Life, but since the technology will be much more powerful, the virtual world will look much more realistic and be much more fluid. You will be able to take a picture of yourself and have that picture made into a lifelike 3D model, much like what Gizmoz does on their website but on a much bigger scale.
There are many benefits to this new technology. Students from around the world will be able to meet up in a virtual world and learn the same things. This will open up the world of education to people whom it would not have been possible for in our current generation. Access to these virtual colleges will be much cheaper than going to a university. All that one needs to access to a computer and the possibilities will be endless.
Building in Second Life
Get ready for my adventure building stuff in Second Life with help from Marc and Stewart.
We came up with the idea of making a club. Here are the three of us after we made some walls, a dance floor with some fun poles to dance on. Also, check out the bar on the right:
Next up we colored in the dance floor and experimented with backgrounds for the wall:
What's a bar without seats? We added some. We also added some wallpaper to make our club a bit classier:
We expanded the walls and built a couch so you can look at people dancing:
More floors and more seats. By the way...what's the deal with people moving stuff on our building site???
Wood grain floor? Check, please!
Here's a close up of the seats. Leopard skin seemed a fitting choice:
Yup, we have a ceiling:
Here it is in all its glory: The Club
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