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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Thanks for the warm welcome :). I will
check out the Educators list as well.<br>
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On 08/20/2012 06:34 AM, core wrote:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Welcome to the extended virtual
family Lisa :)<br>
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My first suggestion (if you haven't already done so) is to sign
up with an OpenSim grid and begin exploring. My personal
recommendation would be OSGrid (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.osgrid.org/">http://www.osgrid.org/</a>).
It's the largest and oldest and has a wide variety of
established regions to visit. It's also the main testing grid
for OpenSim users and developers so pretty much anyone who knows
anything about OS is there at one time or another. There are
many helpful people around who can give you advice and help get
you started. Ther are also tons of freebies and building tools
there too ;)<br>
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Sarge's links are also a great place to start. Excelsior
Station and Enclave Harbour are two of the most ambitious and
impressive undertakings in OpenSim at the moment. Good examples
of just how far you can take your ideas and apply them
effectively.<br>
<br>
There is also a sister mailing list to this one aimed at
educators which is populated by many of the same users here.
The info:<br>
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Good luck with your endeavors and I hope to see you around the
metaverse.<br>
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- core<br>
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On 8/19/2012 1:31 PM, Sarge Misfit wrote:<br>
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type="cite">Hi Lisa, and welcome to the MetaVerse.<br>
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While my own tastes run to future tech sci-fi, I can tell you
that there are others who have and are building historical and
geographical recreations. Research is going to be your biggest
job right now. And there are lots of resources. Check out
HyperGrid Business <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/">http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/</a>
Maria has a lot of resources listed in various articles. Ener
Hax at <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://iliveisl.com/">http://iliveisl.com/</a>
is building Enclave Harbour which will be used to conduct
virtual field trips for students. She blogs daily on a wide
variety of things. On my site, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://excelsior-station.wikidot.com/">Excelsior Station</a>,
I have lists of bloggers, content providers and more, though
they are not comprehensive. Its just a place to start.<br>
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And you can pretty well count on others responding with help,
too.<br>
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Good luck<br>
<br>
Sarge<br>
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Hi all,<br>
<br>
I'm very new to OpenSim and just signed up to this list to
ask a few questions. Sorry if I come across as a bit of a
newbie, although I've been studying OS for a few days and
I have my own standalone grid up and running at home.<br>
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I'm putting together a proposal for this educational
portal run by the ABC here in Australia:<br>
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target="_blank">http://www.abc.net.au/learn/proposals.htm</a><br>
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My project is all about teaching history, the idea being
that students and history classes could put together
simple sims telling stories about the history of their own
local area, linking them up with videos, photos, essays,
etc (which you could hopefully launch from within the
sim). Their sims would all be linked up in a hypergrid, so
students from all over Australia (later maybe the world)
could get into a virtual time machine and visit different
places at different times, to see what was happening.
Students would be able to chat with each other and show
each other around their creations. Hopefully the act of
collaborative world building would engage them in learning
about history, but I would want them focussed on just
telling small stories, involving a small number of
characters (which would be created as NPCs if that's
possible, with simple, looping animations if not more
complex behaviour) and buildings, objects, etc. (I have
ideas about how to source lots of 3D content, which I need
to explore more). <br>
<br>
I'm sure none of this is an original idea, but it seems
like a good opportunity to put an idea like this forward.
I just was wondering if anyone could tell me whether it
would work in OpenSim or if there are some big barriers to
creating something like this.<br>
<br>
My main issue right now is trying to work out how you
create sims that represent not only a region in space but
also a period in time. I've been thinking that I would
have a grid that contains regions in which only stories
from, say, 1950 to 2000 were created. Then another grid
would represent the same real world area, but contain
stories from 1900-1950. The further you go back in time,
the longer the time intervals would get, along an
approximately logarithmic scale, so if you were telling
stories about the dinosaurs one grid would represent the
entire Jurassic era, for example.<br>
<br>
Would this be the right way to go? I've been reading about
regions and grids and hypergrids but I'm pretty sure
there's a lot I don't understand.<br>
<br>
My own background is that I've been working in 3D
animation for film, TV and games for the past decade, as a
3D all rounder and a technical artist. I've worked on one
big MMO for three years that was never released. So I know
about 3D modeling, animation, worldbuilding, etc. but I've
never spent much time around Second Life or OpenSim, so a
lot of this is new to me.<br>
<br>
Thanks for any help!<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<br>
Lisa Evans<br>
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