Forgotton City - fantasy ... "A once-great, clockpunck-ish city where the prosperous Residents were served by the miraculous mechanical automatons. The people have long since disa ppeared, but the automatons remained and still take care of the crumbling stone walls, abandoned halls, and rusty fences.
Welcome to "Virtual Hawaii." An ongoing project sponsored by NOAA. Not everyone will have a chance to experience the wonders of early celestial navigation on the open ocean, but here, visitors can experience life as it might have been centuries ago in the Hawaiian Islands.
Video of "Virtual Hawaii" - Second Life based learning environment
GREAT 3D instructional design principles:
affordances
open layout
customizeable
interactive
consistent
... many principles that parallel good website design
A portion of a recorded Webinar discussing the 7 sensibilities that make learning in a 3D Virtual World different from 2D learning. Speakers are Karl M. Kapp (Bloomsburg University) and Tony O'Driscoll (Duke University), co-authors of "Learning in 3D: Adding a New Dimension to Enterprise Learning and Collaboration".
A portion of a recorded Webinar discussing the basic building blocks for creating a 3D Virtual World learning environment. Speakers are Karl M. Kapp (Bloomsburg University) and Tony O'Driscoll (Duke University), co-authors of "Learning in 3D: Adding a New Dimension to Enterprise Learning and Collaboration".