About Education Grid

Learning about Education Grid (TEG)
A network that all iEd virtual worlds including Rocket World and Wonderland are on.

As avatars are for teachers and students, and are associated to each individual and associated school, this environment is secure and private.  Schools can choose to have their environment private or share on a more global scale within the Immersive Education Initiative.  Although, each class has a private channel, so avatars will only be hearing their specific class, even if they are standing with avatars from other classes (parallel access).


You can find out more about the Media Grid Intellectua lProperty Policy

SketchUp - 4 Video Tutorials - New to Google SketchUp

Part 1-Concepts
The below screen shots show the progress of the videos with my screenshots following along and completing what they are demonstrating in the how to videos.

The Pan function

Zooming function

Orbit is blue to the right of the triangle which really allows you to get underneath the objects

Part 2-Drawing Shapes
There were a lot of handy features for drawing shapes, including pulling shapes up and down to make shapes bigger and smaller as we go along.

Some handy rules
1) Draw full loops
2) Red, green and blue planes - Infer as sketch and stay hovered a full 2 seconds, then continue drawing.
3) Use inference points
4) Always draw to and from edges

 Part 3-Modify Tools
Some of the neat things were being able to move parts and whole objects. As a beginner, the one major thing I found very useful in the videos was the esc button for undo, and utilizing the menu function, edit undo, for undo as well. I probably utilized this more than the functions!

Part 4 -  Building A Chair

 

For this first chair, we started with a box shape and pushed various pieces out from the box to create our chair.  We were building with subtractions from the original box to create the chair.

In drawing a shape, we placed lines outside the box, and used the push to get the pieces pushed out.

You are also able  to align the legs with each other.

You can see the first chair to the left, and we are now adding a second chair... using the pulling method.
In this second chair, we are creating the shapes and pulling out from the first and original square we are starting with. This is a much different way to create our chair in comparison to the first chair we already completed.

Now you can see the two newly created chairs!

Class 5 - Roll Call 2

Class 5 - SketchUp 4 New Users Tutorial Videos

The following 4 New User videos are located at the following web site:

 http://sketchup.google.com/intl/en/training/videos/new_to_gsu.html

Part 1 - Concepts
SketchUp Zoom Tool

 SketchUp Orbit tool

 

Pan is the third of the three most important concepts

 

 Use the shapes to make the 3-D items

Part 2 - Drawing Spaces

Part 3 - Modify Tools

Part 4- Create a Chair

Class 5 - #5 SketchUp Installation

SketchUp most up to date and free version is available at the following site:  http://sketchup.google.com

Class 5 - Part #4 Call Issued at the Time Second Life Was De-listed

There are many concerns regarding dangers and liabilities in the virtual world with children entering Second Life due to offensive content and anonymous users,  and this call was issued at the following site: http://mediagrid.org/news/2010-04_Call_For_Legal_Opinions_On_Second_Life.html .  It is recommended that educators don't let students utilize this virtual world, and if they are, there will be signing off of their liability for participation.  You can read more about it at the following link.  Basically Second Life was replaced by Open Simulator because of these liabilities and grievances.

Rocket World, the virtual world we have been utilizing in this class, was built on Open Simulator.

For more detailed information, you can read the article in detail.

Class 5 - Part #3 - Listen to Audio and look through http://ImmersiveEducation.org/events/#HIGH_RESOLUTION

This audio discussion was based on differences between creating prims in Second World and Rocket World as opposed to the mesh creation in Open Wonderland.  Meshes, which are 3-D wire framing, are great to work with for 3-D content creation in Open Wonderland.