Project Name
Immersive Environments Readings
Description
Below are the links for various articles that will be assigned as homework. Further below, are questions designed to facilitate your understanding and guide us in our presentation of our design ideas.
Readings
Johnson, L.F., & Levine, A.H. Virtual Worlds. Inherently Immersive, Highly Social Learning Spaces. Available online: http://immersiveeducation.org/library/Immersive_Learning-Johnson_and_Levine.pdf
In Class Activity
http://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AaeVMXyVa5juZDNxdDV2al8xMmNwZmgzc2c3&hl=en
Useful videos
Virtual World http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMOqI3hH9Gs&NR=1
Intro to second life http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b72CvvMuD6Q&feature=related
Fire fighter's training Simulation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nxWbvixapw&NR=1
Groups for Group Activity
Please put your name under the specific immersive environments you would like to be a part of.
1. Second Life Tour
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2HQGxbNMNY
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2. Wii Fit game (physical, health, multi sensory)
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- Nathan
- Dominika
- Courtney
- Alyssa
3. SimCity (City building Simulation game)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCity
SimCity tutorial (Video) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFedr7-WTK4&feature=PlayList&p=2C075763C81A22EB&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=5
\Anne\
Jim
Andrea
Bodong
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4. World of Warcraft ( Goal oriented popular massively multiplayer roleplaying online game)
What is world of warcraft? : A preview ( video): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRVz0gnJ1dA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_of_Warcraft
: Perkins, B.. (2009, November). World of Warcraft In the Workplace. Computerworld, 43(32), 30.
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Collaboration - Comments
Instead of collaborating on these articles within this wiki space, we've created an Immersive Environment on Facebook groups, as a place to leave your comments within our discussion board. You could also chat within the space as well.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=277186199732
From Cresencia:
Here's the Jensen & de Castell (2009) paper that I mentioned in class today. I believe they're saying that simulation play is 'as if', whereas imitative play is 'just like' . Imitative play (just like) would leave a smaller transfer of learning gap.
