[info] [croquet-user] Today at 4pm EST: Education Grid launches with Project Wonderland [Immersive Education Initiative's Education Grid LAUNCH]

[Eugen Leitl]

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From: "Aaron E. Walsh" <walshag at bc.edu>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:27:55 -0400
To: croquet-user at duke.edu
Subject: [croquet-user] Today at 4pm EST: Education Grid launches with Project Wonderland
 [Immersive Education Initiative's Education Grid LAUNCH]
Organization: Boston College
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Hi all. Earlier today the news announcement was circulated and it also
online at:

  http://ImmersiveEducation.org/#NEWS

and below are details on today's Education Grid launch. Hope to see you 
in-world today (it starts in Second Life at the location noted below, and 
then we move into the Wonderland Education Grid nodes). Aaron

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Visit http://ImmersiveEducation.org/events/ for this event page,
meeting materials (such as images and videos) and additional details
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WHAT: Education Grid launches with Project Wonderland  [Education Grid 
LAUNCH]
WHEN: Friday June 20th, 2008 at 4pm EST
WHERE: Sun island 
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sun%20Microsystems%201/127/165/71

.:: join the Immersive Education Second Life GROUP for in-world event  ::.
.:: invitations (see http://immersiveeducation.org/events/#join_group) ::.

On Friday June 20th at 4pm EST the Immersive Education Initiative will launch
the Education Grid with an array of Sun Wonderland virtual world servers
("nodes") hosted by Essex University (United Kingdom), University of Oregon, 
St.
Paul College, New Media Consortium (NMC), and Sun Microsystems. Faculty and
staff from each host organization will join faculty from the Woods College of
Advancing Studies at Boston College to guide visitors through the Wonderland
virtual worlds that debut on the Education Grid this Friday.

The Education Grid is provided free of charge to the general public and
Immersive Education Initiative members. Starting this Friday, Immersive
Education Initiative members can conduct classes and meetings within 
Wonderland
virtual worlds on the Education Grid. Initiative members can also use the
Education Grid to build custom Wonderland virtual learning worlds, 
simulations,
and learning games.

Immersive Education's virtual world Platform Ecosystem and corresponding
Education Grid provide educators with an open and comprehensive end-to-end
infrastructure for a new generation of learning worlds, interactive learning
games, and simulations. Sun Microsystems Laboratory's Project Wonderland is 
an
official Immersive Education virtual world platform. Wonderland is now being
enhanced to utilize the Education Grid, which is being designed to deliver a
rich library of learning objects, digital media assets, learning games and
collaboration services from which a wide variety of Immersive Education
experiences can be assembled. Friday's event will give educators an early
preview of the emerging Wonderland client-side platform and corresponding
server-side Education Grid.

This event starts at 4pm EST (1pm pacific / Second Life time) in Second Life 
and
then moves into the Education Grid's Wonderland virtual worlds.

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Visit http://ImmersiveEducation.org/events/ for this event page,
meeting materials (such as images and videos) and additional details
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Media Grid: http://MediaGrid.org
Immersive Education: http://ImmersiveEducation.org
Personal page: http://gridinstitute.com/people/aew/

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