Virtual+Worlds +Brought+to+Life

Session Description:
Creating Educational 3D Virtual Environments using Opensim is a 5 hour training session for teachers, administrators & technology coordinators to demonstrate how Opensim virtual worlds can be leveraged in their schools and classrooms. This training will provide an overview of the Opensim technology, in-world tool sets, and demonstrate how to get started using the Opensim environment for teaching and learning.

You will learn 1. How to get in-world and navigate within the Opensim 3D virtual worlds environment 2. How to create and build 3D virtual learning objects inside the Opensim Environment 3. How to use the Immersive Education Consortiums web-2-world tools whiteboard tools to create 2D content and send them in-world

Presenter Bio: Rich White, Pittsburg, PA
Richard serves as an emerging technologies & immersive/collaborative education designer, developer, and researcher with advanced technical knowledge of open source immersive education hardware and software solutions. Richard is the application architect for the Edusim project (http://edusim3d.com) which employs a direct manipulation user interface for 3D virtual learning environments using interactive surfaces (Immersive Touch). Rich is also a member of the Immersive Education Consortium's Development and Standards Group (http://immersiveeducation.org) which provides direction, design, and development for the Education Grid virtual world platforms, content, and standards.

Richard has instructed, designed, and developed K-12 virtual world projects with such organizations as Smart Technologies, Appalachian State University, Duke University, Tulane University, Boston College, The Cobalt Consortium, and the Grid Institutes Immersive Education Project.