Dragonfly eye up close: List of virtual worlds used for education by David W. Deeds, Exploratorium Tour - SF's Exploratorium's senior scientist Paul Doherty / Patio Plasma with Physics exhibits in Second Life, Immune Attack video game for learning about the immune system

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List of virtual worlds used for education by David W. Deeds, as IT Manager/Teacher for Changchun American International School in Jilin Province, China, has been using 3D virtual worlds in K-12 (international) school education for three years: Second Life, OpenSimulator, Quest Atlantis and Minecraft. Alice and Unity3D ... will look to add to ...

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Virtual_Worlds ...

and ...

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Educational_Software#Virtual_Worlds_as_Fora.2C_Classrooms.2C_Building_Sites.2C_Design_Sites.2C_Art_Studios.2C_etc . ...


A related slideshow vis-a-vis the above presentation ...

http://www.slideshare.net/davidwdeeds/vwbpe-best-practices-showcase-3d-virtual-worlds-in-k12international-schools



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SF's Exploratoriums' senior scientist Paul Doherty's / Patio Plasma in SL Physics in Second Life are creative and push the virtual world science envelope -


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1E53tA7JGvk


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Minecraft is wonderful for young kids - my (GD) son is totally consumed by it. And it is infinitely more redeemable than the usual shoot'em-up games that he used to play before

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Some interesting glimpses into "Immune Attack," an online, video game that teaches interactively about the immune system (at the high school level) ... Here's what students think -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AI2yLjVxnU -

and here's a demo -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l-NNB0ikSA ...

It's been posted at WUaS's free Educational Software, wiki page for a long time -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Educational_Software -

but will look to add these videos.


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I've been impressed with the free Goethe Institute conversation and instruction here in SL, 7 days a week, for free - http://www.goethe.de/frm/sec/enindex.htm )


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glad to have found this about avatars in Google Earth recently, although no activity recently ....

togethearth ...

Experiment with Google App Engine to enable avatars in Google Earth ... http://code.google.com/p/togethearth/ ...

avatars in Google Earth and Google Street View would be great ...

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