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Monday, November 25, 2013
FINAL PROJECT: TESTING MY FELLOW CLASSMATES' IMMERSIVE LIBRARIES.
While I was testing one of my classmates libraries firefox and Meshmoon stopped working and forced my computer to restart. So i was only able to get 2 screenshots.
FINAL PROJECT: ADDING 10 NEW CONTENT
Sunday, November 17, 2013
World of warcraft
Building my immersive library
IMMERSIVE LIBRARIES AND MUSEUMS
Immersive libraries and museums are becoming more and more
popular as immersive education continues to grow. Scholars no longer have to
make a trip to a library or museum to gather information from hard copies. They
can cut back on that old book smell that gets all up in your nose. People can
now log onto their computers and retrieve that information that would desire.
Multimedia makes it even easier to obtain information. Being able to look at
pictures, animated or non-animated, videos, listening to sounds and so on and
so on, but the best part of this is that students learn to collaborate on
different projects and actually get to see what is being put into the whole
thing. Without having to leave the comfort of their bedrooms.
Now for librarians they are left to struggle with all the
information constantly updating. Before immersive libraries were so popular
librarians could wait for the next edition of a book to come up and then update
files that way. But having the ability to instantly update information makes it
a little more time consuming which also keeps the librarians on top of
everything.
Museum education gives more visual experience than libraries
do. Immersive libraries also provide
that same visual experience because the internet can provide three dimensional
imaging. So that similar experience is being enhanced by having technology,
take the guiding hand.
The information that can be found in libraries and museums
no longer is bounded by physical boundaries due to immersive libraries. The
amount of information that can be gathered and sent out has exponentially
grown. With all of the technology at our fingertips gathering information is
endless. Collaborating with people has become easier, even big corporations use
all of these advancing technologies to stay on the cutting edge.
Sunday, November 10, 2013
Summary of interview
To begin the Article Lamont introduces Professor Walsh. He
states that Walsh has two courses at Boston College in which are mostly in a
Virtual Reality Word. Walsh informs Lamont that he was misinformed and that he
teaches three courses. But he affirms Lamont that two out of his three courses
are mostly in a Virtual World. “Why not Second life?” was a question that was
asked relatively early in the conversation and Walsh answers that question by
stating “Second Life is a candidate for the new Immersive Education platform
that we're defining today, but it wasn't a viable option for the previous
generation which we selected in 2003.”
Next Walsh was asked about some challenges and advantages
there were. Walsh talked about how it was hard at first because not every
computer was up to par when it comes to the graphic cards. So the classes could
not have been mostly in the VR; also the connection was a problem that arouse.
But once most of the students were either living in residence halls, which has
high speed internet connection, or at home, which has DSL connection, it became
easier to do. “Other advantages include the time saved in traveling to and from
class, which can be significant for students who live off campus. I've had some
non-traditional students live over an hour away from Boston College, meaning
they waste more than two hours traveling ever time we have class in person (on
campus).”
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