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Launch Your Project » Blog Archive » In The News: Project Launch — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:19:18 +0000

[...] Living Archives – Reflections on an Educational project By admin Project launch – Monday May 26th – 10am Studio Theatre, Confederation Centre of the Arts, Charlottetown, PE, Canada. Preamble Living archives started as a conversation with Elizabeth Deblois about what we could do that might be … Dave’s Educational Blog – http://davecormier.com/edblog [...]

By: Trevor Meister

Trevor Meister — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 21:30:44 +0000

Hi Dave,
Very cool to find out about early OpenSim projects especially with students at that age (The other aspects of the project are also amazing). Your comments about SL are right on target as well. I spent 4 pretty solid months in SL networking with educators, purchasing land and building etc. but found the teen/adult grid barrier to be a major stumbling block. I did manage to stumble across the Immersive Education group which pointed me in the direction of OpenSim as well as Wonderland and Croquet. I have set up local servers in my basement running each of these, (running is perhaps not the best term…brisk walking might be better.) As platform stability increases and more “open-grid connectors” appear to allow isolated Sim installations to interact, I think this will take off. I am concentrating mostly on OpenSim and am exploring a variety of things related to mathematics K-12 that can be made more engaging in a 3D virtual environment. If there comes a time when you think I might have something you could use, everything I do is open and I would be happy to share.

By: Bill Fitzgerald

Bill Fitzgerald — Tue, 27 May 2008 19:06:09 +0000

Hello, Dave,

Great writeup on this project, and, as the other commenters have said, congratulations to both you and Bonnie on a difficult job well done.

Cheers,

Bill

By: Sharon Peters

Sharon Peters — Mon, 26 May 2008 12:19:19 +0000

Dave, I think this is one of the most ambitious and inspiring projects I have seen for that grade level. And you pulled it off! Congrats!
The ripple effect of who has benefited from this project cannot, even now, be appreciated. Not only have educators and students in PEI learned a great deal from this project, but because of your willingness to share the products with the rest of us, potentially many more of us worldwide will gain understanding of the rich culture and history of PEI, as well as approaches and methods to attempt ourselves.

Big kudos to all of you!

By: Clarence Fisher

Clarence Fisher — Sun, 25 May 2008 23:27:58 +0000

Dave; I am really, truly glad to see this project come to fruition for you. It has been a long road and there is plenty for the rest of us to learn from this experience. Thanks for keeping the process open and working out in public for us to watch.