In what is being billed as a 'world first', new school buildings funded by the UKs 'Building Schools For The Future' initiative have been created first in the virtual world of Second Life in order that staff, students and other stakeholders ca explore and give feedback. The work has been carried out by theMiddlesborough City Learning Center which in itself looks like an amazing IT resource for Middlesborough schools. New buildings for the Acklam Grange School, which hosts the MCLC facility, have been built in Second Life and transferred to the Teen Grid so that pupils can explore them.
From a great video on the Project A page of their wiki, it seems that the MCLC have created some kind of technology for converting the building plans into a set primitive objects inside a controlling object (rezzer) which then instructs them all to move themselves into their correct positions. I've contacted the creators in the hope that they'll tell me more about how the data is fed into SL.
Sadly, despite having such a wonderful ICT resources and futuristic ideas, the old problems don't go away. The most recent news on the Acklam Grange school website is from 2007.
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Acklam Grange School built first in Second Life
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Re: Acklam Grange School built first in Second Life
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on Wed 28 Jan 2009 00:20 GMT | Profile | Permanent Link
Hello! The builder in that video is my partner, Kisa Naumova. (Graham Hibbert in the real world.) He's been working on that script for some time and used it to build the LeedsMet sim as well as some other projects. I will be sure to pass this post along to him to see what he can tell you about it. Thanks for the lovely post about Acklam Grange! We had a lot of fun building it for the MCLC and it's great to see some coverage about it. Cheers!
Re: Acklam Grange School built first in Second Life
Thanks for the write up, this ia Mark at the Middlesbrough CLC. We see this as a first step for schools into exploring SL. This is a practical use for the VW that all can benefit from. The next stage will be to get schools/students to re-imagine what curriculum based learning might look like in the metaverse. We have put a package together for schools wanting a BSF visualisation and it is proving quite popular. mark.mullis@mclc.org.uk
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