<div dir="ltr">I thought, just to clarify the 'malleability' of linksets I mentioned to point to two examples, because I do realize it might be confusing. So clarify, when I mention 'tailorability of objects', I mean tailorability of linksets. Here are two examples, <div>
example 1 : <a href="http://youtu.be/Hm-VhY_Fi24?list=UUhVKXSwoxC524IGHl-F1wPw">http://youtu.be/Hm-VhY_Fi24?list=UUhVKXSwoxC524IGHl-F1wPw</a></div><div>There is a house and objects in it. You will find that I open the fridge, remove a cake and place it on a plate, and then proceed to feed an NPC with the cake. The house and the contents in it, sofa beds, food ..etc... all are linked into one object. That is why I can rez it as one object from the RezMela library.</div>
<div>example 2: <a href="http://youtu.be/9ZYHvJiVzp4?list=UUhVKXSwoxC524IGHl-F1wPw">http://youtu.be/9ZYHvJiVzp4?list=UUhVKXSwoxC524IGHl-F1wPw</a></div><div>This is a ludo like board game, here again, everything is linked ... </div>
<div>Sorry for any confusion.</div><div>R</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 9:14 PM, Dr Ramesh Ramloll <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:r.ramloll@gmail.com" target="_blank">r.ramloll@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Doug,<div>It also depends on what we mean by malleability of objects, for basic applications such a game board, where the whole object is complex of linked object.... the parts are not changed in itself e.g. game pieces or cards, but the whole is. Another example I have is an application that generate shapes of molecules, or that students can assemble on their own, and even have a whole chemical reaction play out infront of them ... again there is one object,will linked subparts e.g. atoms, bonds, and so forth ... from this perspective, before we have any really meaningful discussion, we must first establish the boundary between objects, in my case, this boundary is between scripted linksets. With this background, I have yet to find one application that does not benefit from the ability to change each linkset state. Just my two cents.</div>
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<div>Ramesh</div></font></span></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 8:28 PM, DrDoug Pennell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:drdoug.pennell@gmail.com" target="_blank">drdoug.pennell@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>I am with Tom on this one. For many educational uses, adapting and changing objects is not needed. Of course there are educational uses where adapting and changing objects is critical, however many (most?) educational sims I visited in SL did not rely on students working together to create things, and there are plenty of uses where it is simply not needed. Simulations are a perfect example and an area where Unity excels over SL or OpenSim. I built some fairly involved simulations in SL and have since essentially abandoned the platform and switched to Unity. </div>
<div><br></div><div>As has been said many times, SL/OpenSim is great for collaborative content creation. If you are doing that then sticking with SL/OpenSim makes perfect sense. If you don't need your students to work together and make widgets on the fly, then Unity might be a better choice. </div>
<div><br></div><div>It is all about using the right tool for the job.</div><div><br></div><div>Doug Danforth</div><div><div><div><br>On Jul 19, 2014, at 1:02 PM, Dr Ramesh Ramloll <<a href="mailto:r.ramloll@gmail.com" target="_blank">r.ramloll@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 12:45 PM, Tom <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tom.willans@bessacarr.com" target="_blank">tom.willans@bessacarr.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">For many educational uses adapting and changing objects is not needed. </blockquote></div><br>I respectfully beg to differ. This is the core of the my research efforts. A learning environment needs to provide user level tailorability from the core. The fact that it is not available does not mean that it is not needed. I cannot count how many times, subject matter experts felt that their teaching is being canned by the environment, or that students find their expression (through actions) limited. This is the result of extensive evaluation on the ground, both from an ethnographic evaluation perspective and for a user level evaluation perspective. I hope to publish these findings soon (well after I get some time away from writing grant proposals or doing actual building work)<br>
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