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Tag: Simulation

  • Soda Play

    One of my colleagues on campus sent this out and it seems to be really “playing on constructivism” to say the least. Soda Play is a manner of simulation that lets the user create a robot based on intelligent points. It would likely take a fair while to play with to create something truly “fun”…

  • Simple Simulators

    Modelling the human body for 3D sims is something that is called on from time to time as is creating simple animations.  Over the last week, I’ve found two interesting tools. The first is very simplistic, Scratch, designed by the MIT Learning Labs works like the old LOGO. The second is Endorphine that has a…

  • (not yet) A second with Second Life

    Well it seems that I’m certainly behind the ball when it comes to Second Life (or maybe that it’s I’ve got enough with my First Life (TM)) to go off into a virtual world like SL or WOW to see what is available there – even though I know that one of the guys I…

  • Sunday Homework Presentations and a bit on the keynote.

    Cool papers: Design and Evaluation of SimBuilder (Gupta, Seals, Wilson) Auburn University Use Of An Online Simulation To Support Pre-Service Teacher Knowledge Of Literacy Instruction (Ferry, Kervin and Carrington) University of Wollongong Simulation and Advanced Gaming Environments (SAGE) for Learning (Ireland, Kaufman – Simon Fraser, Sauvé – TÉLUQ L’université à distance de l’ UQÀM )…

  • SimSchool

    I’m prepping a presentation on SimSchool that I’ll be giving tomorrow and as impressed as I was with it at SITE 2006, I’m more so now that I’m starting to work with it a little more, it is becoming even more impressive in what it can do to help get those sticky classroom situations under…