2013 EDU: Virtually a disaster

Not if, but when

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Tour of the Virtual Emergency Exercises

• A tornado 
• A fire in a high-rise
• A shooting at  a high school
• A subway evacuation

Not a CNN retrospective of the top news of the week.  Not the scenario for an upcoming disaster movie.  

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 Real training in a virtual world.  For emergency responders.   I picked this story up in my blog scanner:

In fair weather, prepare for foul...

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It was in the blog:  Al-Qantara Library.  That is one of the blogs you will find on the right side of this blog, whenever it has a recent post.     
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Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen:

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info%20Island/61/94/24/
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So I slurled over there to look around.  Conveniently, I found the promo for a tour.  Just what I wanted.  

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Tour Pod, By YavaScript

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The tour was provided by my good friend Yavanna Llanfair.   (It's a small world, after all.)  She is the person I told you about in  YavaScript pod tours.  This tour, of course, was set up by the builder here,  TRP360 3D Works.  

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I took the tour.  I'll show you some pictures below.  But on  the tour, I met Freecilla Kuhn, the main builder here.  She builds for TRP360 3D Works, which builds simulated worlds for real life companies & educational institutions.   She also teaches Virtual Emergency Exercises (VEE). She showed me around the place 

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Freecilla changed into a police uniform

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This is the area where the VEE participants pick up their equipment, such as police uniforms, fireman's protective gear, and bloody outfits.  Freecilla offered me a police uniform, but I declined, preferring to stay in my blogger's casuals.  
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Posters show the builds around here,

 all by TRP360

Here is more information about 
TRP360 3D Works
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I ride the YavaScript pod

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Meanwhile, back at the tour, her are some of the things I saw.
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A Toronto street corner

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The bus keeps a regular schedule. The scene is supposed to be a good simulation of a part of Toronto.  Maybe somebody from Toronto will offer an opinion in the comments. 
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A high school waiting for a shooting

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First responders can't just look at the ouside. 

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First responders have to deal with flaming walls

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Would you open this door?  

What if you heard scream from inside?

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• Suppose you had been told what to do.  
• Suppose you had practiced what you should do.
• Does practice work better than hearing a lecture.
• Would VEE be better than hearing a lecture? 
• Would VEE  be more affordable than "real" simulations? 

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The tornado lives around here

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The tornado is coming!  

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Mere minutes after we began, an enormous black funnel came whipping around the corner. Buildings started collapsing around us so I immediately reached into my inventory, glopped on my fake blood, laid down on the ground, and started moaning.

I don't think we're in Kansas any more
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Video-Machinima

• Videos from virtual worlds Summary 
• Hobbies: Doing video/machinima in virtual worlds
• Music Videos from virtual worlds Summary 
• Art videos from the virtual world
• Comedy videos from the Virtual World

      

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