The great race, Coopersville:
Hot air balloons
and the Wright Flyer
Coopersville is a MUVE (virtual world) model of a US town of the early 20th Century. It has houses of that era (houses of the Victorian and Edwardian times), offers clothing of that period, has transportation of that period (streetcars, early Fords, and horses), plays music of that time (especially ragtime), and has the early flying things (Wright Flyer, hot air balloons). Just right for a site visit by a class studying that part of history.
Go there
- Hypergrid address:
- grid.kitely.com:8002:Coopersville
- Put the HG address in the Find bar of the world map, click Find, TP
- In Kitely put the Firestorm Hop in the address bar of Firestorm, press return:
- hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Coopersville
- Coopersville website
- Coopersville Kitely location
- #VWEDU: Edwardian Era: Coopersville. The Titanic. Kitty hawk. filling stations. Mary Pickford. The Entertainer
Google research
***************************Learning projects for a historical MUVE place
- These projects are designed to be useful for any historical MUVE place.
- Find the anachronisms in the scene
- Cite references to show that they are anachronisms.
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- Cite a few items that could have been included in the scene, but were not.
- Cite references about the items and point out why they would fit.
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- (Writing) Write a short story set in that era and place.
Challenge-based learning
- Challenge: Hero's Journey. Game. Learning. Schools. Can you connect these?
- Students Virtual Showcase---poster session or presentation for the new century
- Project-based education could produce useful results for the learner and for society
- Educator's challenge: Provide planning template(s) for project-based learning
- Challenge-based education and self-managed learning: on the same team!
- Learn by challenge in virtual worlds: Games, projects, Maker Model
- Virtual worlds can host challenge-based learning
- MALET showcase: Making and Tinkering – Stop Motion Animation Project: By: Marian Read
- Problems and the seven gates to solving them. Like a game. Coincidence? Or something else?
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Visit me on the web
- Drop by my web offices Weekdays: 12:-12:30 Central time (US)
- Cybalounge and 3DWebWorldz (Orientation room)
- I will be in both places, so you may need to speak to get my attention.
- Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds running in a browser. Summary
- And we can visit the Writer's Workshop on the Web
- Don't register -- enter as guest.
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