If you are looking for inspirations, Virtual Tech is just the right place to visit. It is always amazing to see what pixels and scripts can do in virtual world. My students explored the place and couldn't stop asking questions. See....learning is not just about answering questions. Sometimes it is about asking questions.

Perpustakaan Neil A. Armstrong adalah salah satu exhibit di NASA yang penuh dengan informasi berguna. Banyak sumber belajar yang tersedia di sana. Selain itu, ada lounge nyaman lengkap dengan flat screen TV berukuran raksasa yang bebas kita gunakan.

Energy island is a great place to explore about alternative renewable energy sources. We started the class by taking a cart ride around the island. Too bad the cart could only bring two people. My students started arguing about who should have a ride with me. There they were again...speaking the word of JUSTICE. They stopped arguing when I decided to take them one by one. Peuw....I don't even remember how many times I took the ride.

We take FUN very seriously. Well, going to a virtual amusement park may look like a silly thing to do but there were lots of Physics going on there. (and lots of scream too) Tips for teacher: Make sure your students turn off their speaker...all of them. Otherwise you will have to hear them screaming all the time.
 

 

I was trying to show our Social Studies teacher what is possible in VW teaching. So I brought the kids in Edo town and gave them some challanges.  We had to TP each other for several times during the class because the city was huge.

My klasse fünf students were reaching their last unit in earth science, the violent weather. We took a plane in NOAA sim and flew to the eye of the hurricane.

He is my youngest student (and my math geek) but he has built the biggest house so far. Not satisfied with just the size, he applied some scripts in the objects around his house. Look! He's flying while building the wall. Sher cool!

Who says you cannot be emotional teaching in SL? I had a class about different art movements and artists in a French chateau in one of NC WeBIEE's sims. I love this place so much and visited often but the developer of the island, my dear friend Aedann, said that this place was going to be demolished and replaced by a new building. :( I had fun teaching that night but I felt very sad. That would be my last chance to see the place. I would never be able to come and enjoy the paintings there anymore. The next morning, some of my students IMed me "Ms.Ines, the building is gone", "Are we lost? I cannot see the building we visited last night." Strange enough, I felt a great loss in my heart. (Aedann, thank you for giving my class a chance to enjoy the building for the last time. You waited for us patiently, I could never thank you enough)

My students were learning about hydrothermal vent as a source of energy in a deep sea where organisms have no access to sunlight. There was no better place in SL to show this energy transfer in deep sea environment than the Abyss Observatory. During our visit there, we also learned about the difference between white smokers and black smokers. (The ocean animals piggy back ride was an awesome BONUS ) Thank you Yan!

If you want to learn about tsunami, you shouldn't miss the tsunami demonstration in Meteora island of NOAA.  You will get a first hand experience about tsunami but won't get wet or die because of it. Don't forget to dive deep under the ocean to learn about the tsunameter. It's right under the visible buoy.