University of Buffalo

Department of Media Study, College of Arts and Sciences

Project Coordinator
Elisabeth Cuddihy
ecuddihy@hotmail.com

Beth Snyder
bsnyder@acsu.buffalo.edu

World Name: UBDMSVE
 

Project Description

This world will be used as part of an Advanced Digital arts course focusing on Internet-based 3D Virtual Environments. This course will allow students to develop the skills needed for designing Internets based 3D virtual environments (Ves). During the semester, students will be exploring various VE design problems through readings and hands-on viewings. The students will be encouraged to critically explore these design problems by participating in online class discussion and by creating their own virtual worlds. Students will be expected to meet in ActiveWorlds, explore the already existing environments and build their own environments. Although we will be looking at a few other technologies throughout the course of the semester, we will use Active Worlds as the main meeting place and classroom space. This class will take place almost entirely online, and will make use of email, newsgroups and web pages.