Metaplace Videos

Author: machinima Keywords: Bill Gates president computer land state department Africa America machinima news reportage social media web 2.0 twitter facebook Second Life Metaplace metaverse avatar entrenpeneurship internews community radio chad mark frohardt william may philip rosedale linden lab bernhard drax draxtor despres award winning julius sowu kenton keith public diplomacy annenberg usc yt:quality=high Added: October 14, 2009

Final presentations for the New School's Virtual Learning Environments class in Second Life on 29 July 2009.Background: Each of the students chose one of two projects to work on throughout the semester, creating multi-modal educational projects with two NYC nonprofits - an opportunity to put the work done during the semester into real-life action and learn about Virtual Learning Environments while being in them.Syllabus More project infoProject 1: Integrating curricula from regions of conflict The idea is to take educational curricula, like history textbooks, from regions where conflict or tension exists, and compare and contrast them. For example, Haiti and the Dominican Republic have integration issues. We will take sections from historical textbooks culled from contacts in Haiti and the DR, upload the content and deconstruct it. We will roll this out as a pilot for Globalhood's Global Potential program. We will create the underlying online framework and social network in Ning as well as organize the content, create rich media for it, and conceptualize the implementation. The result will be a modular curriculum based in a social network, by which future students can compare/contrast/deconstruct textbooks from conflict regions and therefore become more critical learners. Seesmic thread for this project discussion blog thread for this projectProject 2: News+activism in virtual worlds The idea is to take the Fractor concept which matches news with opportunities for social activism, into a virtual world space. (Think news as 'game', where you could perhaps play the news like a game, by engaging in social change actions). Envision how news matched with activism could be presented in Metaplace, which is a groundbreaking new online virtual world that is accessible from an internet browser. How would you create community around this? What kinds of interactivity do you envision? How could teachers use this information? How would you keep it playful and game-like? Seesmic thread for this project discussion The blog thread for this project Outline for final presentation

Raph is the president of Metaplace a virtual space/tool that will allow anybody to create a virtual world. Here he talks about his own history, his goals with Metaplace and obviously there plans to monetize it.

We have quick profiles of two companies that launched at the TechCrunch40 conference last week. Metaplace lets users build their own virtual worlds and put them on their Websites. Founder Raph Koster takes us through a demo. And Musicshake is a Korea-based service that lets users create their own music. Kihong Bae and Blue Yun do the demo, starting at about 6:00. Tags: TechCrunch40, Metaplace, virtual worlds, Raph Koster, Musicshake, Kihong Bae, Blue Yun