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Virtual Worlds

Virtual Worlds. Definition: A genre of online community that often takes the form of a computer-based simulated environment, through which users can interact with one another and use and create objects. Common Characteristics.

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Virtual Worlds

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  1. Virtual Worlds

  2. Definition: A genre of online community that often takes the form of a computer-based simulated environment, through which users can interact with one another and use and create objects.

  3. Common Characteristics • 1. Shared Space: the world allows many users to participate at once. • 2. Graphical User Interface: the world depicts space visually, ranging in style from 2D "cartoon" imagery to more immersive 3D environments. • 3. Immediacy: interaction takes place in real time. • 4. Interactivity: the world allows users to alter, develop, build, or submit customized content. • 5. Persistence: the world's existence continues regardless of whether individual users are logged in. • 6. Socialization/Community: the world allows and encourages the formation of in-world social groups like teams, guilds, clubs, cliques, housemates, neighborhoods, etc.

  4. An explanation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O62GHcIVKS4

  5. Philip Rosedale - Founder of Second Life $100,000,000 profit annually “ . . . as we take control of the atoms” “. . .increasingly make the real world virtual” “bring people together again” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3LFqX6YNY0 - Philip Rosedale discusses future of virtual worlds

  6. Virtual field trips Effectiveness? Knowledge v. experience? Role in Education

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