Immersive Libraries and Museums

As technology advances, our use of the tech world is widening. What used to be searching for a books in a library by aisle became to looking for documents and resources online by simply typing in the key words. What used to be in print is now all available online. The change in immersive education libraries and museums has also brought change into the classrooms. These changes has brought cooperation and collaboration easier by allowing students to work out of class.

The changes in immersive education is has not only brought changes into the classroom, but also among librarians. The addition of new sources, such as digital literature, the job as librarians are becoming more complex. Librarians must familiarize these new sources, for them to communicate and be accessible to others. Although the immersive education libraries and museums is not physical, the need of assistance is necessary.

The purpose of the Library and Museum Technology Working Group is to go beyond the physical libraries with print resources. The addition of interactive 3D graphics and animation, video game and simulation technology, virtual reality, full, augmented and mixed reality, voice over IP, web cams and many other digital media can now become resources. The development of the new resources can bring more advances toward Immersive Education, such as virtual collaborative study spaces, virtual information literacy programs, virtual research and course consultations, and virtual service delivery.

The mission statement of "the Libraries and Museum Technology Working Group (LIB.TWG) is responsible for defining, implementing, evolving and maintaining applications and open standards related to the provision of library and museum services associated with Immersive Education". In order for the Immersive Education Libraries and Museums to succeed, this group must be up-to-date, prepare and publish documents constantly, develop designs that are fit for the Immersive Libraries and Museums, and have a community with researchers and practitioners for meeting in the virtual world.

"Immersive EDucation Libraries and Museums Technology Working Group (LAM.TWG)"
http://JiED.org

Class 9, Exploring Second Life

I went onto the Second Life website and downloaded the program. 

I made my own account and chose the avatar I was going to use.

When I entered the world I was in some kind of island.

I followed the arrows to see which way I had to go.

I used other keys like running and jumping. 

I arrived at some kind of temple and went into the middle where there was the Second Life logo.

When my avatar stood on the logo it teleported to another world.

I saw many other users in this world.

I went to some kind of club and saw another teleport sign and stood on it.

I realized there were options I could chose when teleporting.

This is a screenshot of another world I entered through teleporting.

Class 9: M 3D Rocket in Meshmoon

I entered the virtual world on Meshmoon and set the setting as building mode.

I changed the layer settings several times and created a red cone.

I tried moving the cone.

I created a silver cylinder for the body of the rocket.

I used edit to change the placement of the cylinder by moving the arrows.

I made another cone, this time in blue, for the bottom of the rocket.

This is a final screenshot of the rocket I made in a wide view.

I set all layers to show and this is another screenshot of the 3D rocket I created.

Class 9: Customizing My Avatar

This is a screenshot of my original avatar on meshmoon.

I tried changing my avatar to John, but there weren't any options.

I changed my avatar as Kate and saw there were two options: casual and superhero. 

This is a screenshot as casual.

A screenshot of Kate with the superhero option.

I went into the BC leader board virtual world and took a screenshot of the board.

I realized how to change the motion of the avatar and this is a screenshot of my avatar pointing.

This is a screenshot of my avatar waving.

Class 8 Scratch Animated Greeting Card

This is a screenshot of the background I first chose for the greeting card.

I eventually changed the background and added several sprites.

This is another screenshot after adding some motion and sprites that I made myself.

Some of the sprites that I made were a present under the tree, a snowman, bells, and a pink wave.

I switched around bitmap and vector graphic when making the sprites.

This is a screenshot of checking how the greeting card is working.

http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/39206340/#player

This is a link to the greeting card I made through Scratch.

Using some of the sprites and some of my own made sprites I added motion, sound and some text.

Class 8: Getting started with Vector and Bitmap graphics in Scratch

This is a screenshot of reading about Vector Graphics.

This is a screenshot of starting of with scratch in Vector Graphics.

I entered a new background.

I made a new sprite with my own handwriting.

I wrote my middle name Summer in it.

I entered two new sprites and added actions to them.

This is a link to the Scratch project I made in Vector Graphics mode.

http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/39187798/

When you press the green flag, the snowman moves and music comes out.

When you press the space bar the polar bear does flips.

And when you press on the text SUMMER the text moves.

I started a new scratch project using Bitmap.

On the bottom corner there is a selection for bitmap.

I added a dragon as a sprite.

I wrote my name in.

I added another sprite of a dog.

This is a link to the Scratch project I made in Bitmap mode.

http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/39202530/

Click the green flag and the dragon will move and make sounds.

Press the space bar and the dog will move.

Class 7

This is a progress screenshot of the strokes assignment. I made different shapes and changed the thickness of the edges and colors.

This is the final version of the strokes assignment.

This is a progress screenshot of the paste into assignment.

I downloaded images to use for this assignment and through GIMP I made circular shapes and pasted in the rectangular images I downloaded.

Another progress screenshot.

This is the finalized version of the paste into assignment.

This is a progress screenshot of the transparency assignment.

I used the paste in assignment skills and changed the opacity.

This is the finalized version of the transparency assignment.

This is a progress screenshot of the text assignment. 

I wrote four different texts in separate text boxes and changed the color and font of each text box.

For my name I changed the opacity to make my name transparent.

This is the finalized version of the text assignment.

This is a screenshot of the midterm assignment I chose. 

This is a screenshot of the resized midterm image.

Another screenshot of resizing the image.

This is the finalized version of scale1.

This is the finalized version of scale2.