Self-Guided Tour
To take this tour, either click the linked world name here on this web page, or choose the world name from the WORLD menu on the left hand side of your screen. Please remember, you may have to click the web back arrow to return to this page, as many of the worlds have their own home pages which will pop up when you enter the world. If you would like to open this web page in a seperate window, click here.
World Name: ^centre^
This is the "centre" of the AWEDU, and the world you are starting in. To the North you will find teleports to some of the worlds on this list, simply click on the teleport or walk up to it to be whisked off to another world.
To the East is a gallery of images of educational projects in the original Active Worlds Universe. These images, and the accompanying web content are provided courtesy of Contact Consortium's V-Learn project.
To the South is one of the AWEDU's meeting areas which will host gatherings and round table meetings.
World Name: VHS
The Virtual High School is an educational demonstration model built for the University of California, Santa Cruz's Virtual High School Feasibility Study led by Vice Chancellor Francisco Hernandez. Through a volunteer collaboration between Penny and Craig Twining of Active Art Design and Bonnie DeVarco, this realistic virtual environment features an office with office hours for real time communication and guidance, a Spanish Language Class with links and teleports to Spanish speaking worlds, a Chemistry Lab with an interactive Student WebQuest Wing, and a Geometry/Art Gallery with animations and artworks linked to more than 40 sites on the World Wide Web. Through the UC College Prep Initiative, the further development of the VHS will offer a compelling and content rich collaborative environment for synchronous learning sessions complete with interactive bots, full course modules and more.
World Name: babel
Born September 1999 located in the Eduverse, Babel was conceived from a World called Aurac, which was created in the dying days of 1997. It is in keeping with the original concept of creating a world in which a sense of place is experienced by the vistor, a place which they will remember and return to again and again.
World Name: SciCentr
SciCentr is a 3D, interactive world built by students, staff, and researchers at Cornell University and around the country. This is the first of our explorations of desktop virtual reality for outreach and education. SciCentr is based on Active Worlds technology (server/browser). It has the scope of a world's fair, but will be run on the model of a traditional hands-on center, with research, tours, science fairs, guest lectures, and more.
World Name: AWStruck
The name AWStruck is a clever pun, equals Active Worlds (AW) + Struck, where Struck is a freeware tool for making geometric structures come alive. And yes, Struck is awesome. With simple mouse clicks and button presses, students have the power to explore dynamic spatial geometries in real time and in stereo -- no knowledge of XYZ coordinates required.
AWStruck opens the field even further. Struck users have populated this world with conversation pieces designed to inspire and instruct. Students with no previous training will have an easy on-ramp into the world of spatial geometry. In AWStruck they'll find knowledgable citizens mingling with tourists, willing to share insights and ideas. They'll discover a rich assortment of links to other worlds and websites (including to the Java source code of Struck itself), all designed to expand their horizons and entertain at the same time. AWStruck takes geometry students to a new frontier of exploration in a hurry, and thereby motivates them to reconnect to material they may have given up on earlier in their careers.
World Name: ACCD
Our plan for ACCD world (in the AWEDU) is to build an environment that continues our AW "accd" world design but that pitches the world's tonality in a brighter key. This sibling world will provide a double look at our design strategy. Two examples will be better than one, and we can test our ideas in a new context.
World Name: TheU
TheU is an exciting concept project for a new type of learning facility, initiated by the Contact Consortium. It is positioned to straddle between traditional campus based universities and the growing number of distance-learning projects. Distance learning using current methodology offers many advantages to students in remote areas and students attending part-time courses. However it lacks the sense of community and social interaction which can be achieved by sharing the same environmental spaces and experiences. In the long term we foresee Virtual Worlds technology becoming a tool for enabling completely new and innovative teaching methods.
World Name: Vetunimi
The aim of this project is to experience any possible application of the 3D technology in the clinical field of Small
Animal Practice. The development of simulations and tutorials inside a 3D scientific environment is going to be
performed in order to achieve interactive educational areas.
The major interest is in the application of tutorial that will be running inside a virtual environment , taking advantage
of both virtuality and web sites. This will possibly lead to interactive areas where it won't be possible to separate
those two components and where components will need to be run together to acquaint data.
The 3D environment will provide a graphic reproduction of a Virtual Veterinary Clinic and Library . Simulators and
tutorials will be placed inside different areas and they will concern a virtual physical examination of a patient and a
virtual guide to the most popular scientific search, URL ,and E_Publications. Besides this, smaller areas will be
developed as to build interactive rooms: i.e.. a laboratory, surgery, radiology, etc.
World Name: Ares
A virtual recreation of the planet Mars, with terrain generated directly from images provided by the Pathfinder Mission.
World Name: Luna
A virtual recreation of the Moon, with terrain generated directly from images of the moon.
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