Archive for the ‘opensim’ Category

Opensim/Drupal integration for education - proposal and call for help

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Well... i'm finally getting my teeth back into opensim and finding that there are a couple of things i'd like to get built over the next couple of months. We've already gotten a good start on the automated installer for opensim, but what i'd really like to do now is ...

Openhabitat Opensim

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Well... time to put rhizomes aside for a bit and move onto working on some of the other interesting projects that I'm privileged enough to be involved in. It's been quite a spring really... my partner has been on bedrest for the past 13 weeks, and with conferences and projects ...

Living Archives - Reflections on an Educational project

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

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 interesting for the 2008 anniversary of the publication of Anne of Green Gables. She wanted to ...

Opensim in education (with alpha software)- lessons learned

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

just some quick notes... so i don't forget them. More will get posted at openhabitat. Well... for those of you following, the second run at it went MUCH better than the first one. We rejigged our plan, forwarded our initial goals to the front end, used a little more scaffolding, ...

Our first run at getting the students in Opensim

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

Well... well well well. What we wanted to do was get a bunch of students to come into our computer lab, sit at a computer in pairs, wander around opensim, take their photo from their blog post and post it into a picture frame. That was the bottom line. Simple quest ...

Living Archives and Opensim - Virtual PEI curriculum beta.

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

Well folks, tomorrow morning is a big day. I started writing the grant on this in the summer of 2006, have had piles and piles of help along the way and have now come down to it. We've got a website, we've got some great content researched and written by ...

Opensim (and soon Edugrids) - a month later… I still love it.

Monday, October 8th, 2007

Well... I've been in and out of Opensim now for over a month. I've presented on it and had some pretty serious discussions with different folks about running projects with it. I've installed the server on XP and Ubuntu and Debian, I've connected to the server from XP, Linux and ...

OpenSim - open source multi user blah blah (sl). dave is in love.

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

The living archives project is running on apace... and I think we've finally come across the solution to the one snag that has been driving me crazy. How do we get kids into a virtual space... a virtual space we can control... where we can do what we want. Where ...