2013 EDU: Monthly International Workshop on Science Exhibits (MIWoSE) in SL

1st Monthly International Workshop on 
Science Exhibits (MIWoSE)
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• Date: 15 March (Friday), 2013
• Start time: 
• (PDT) 16:00 
• (GMT) 23:00 
• (Japan) 8:00 am of next day 
• Organized by Abyss Observatory

MIWoSE is a workshop on visualization of science contents for educational use in online 3D environment, mainly not from view point of educators but from view point of scientific contents providers or curators. -In each MIWoSE, 1 group presents in 1 hour and has short field trip. and MIWoSE will be held on every month at science related places in SL.-Speakers use voice chat in English and participants use text chat in English to ask questions.

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1st MIWoSE on 15 March

• Finding SL physical laws and astronomical laws by experiments in SL.
• Display of Earth simulation animation on a sphere using "shared media".
• Creating Science Exhibits Network by using one prim Teleport Hub System.
• Yan Lauria and Draceina Pinion, Abyss Observatory, Japan

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Future plans

• April: Navigation and Way finding in VW (Shailey Monica, The Open University, UK)
• May: Self-directed discovery and intuition development (Kenneth Y T Lim, National Institute of Education, Singapore)
• June: Marine Ecosystem (Delia Lake, Center for Water Studies, US

Abyss Observatory personnel

• Yan Lauria
• comet  Morigi
• Draceina Pinion
• Dugong Janus
• Nobu Shim
• Sinosan
• Vianka Scorfield & collaborators

Abyss Observatory Web site:
http://aquarobo.com/abyss/
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Abyss Observatory (article)
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