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Media Zoo
The Media Zoo provides a supportive, exclusive to staff, experimental environment to facilitate transfer of understanding of the design of learning activities using learning technologies.
Second Life Video
The Media Zoo has evolved!
In addition to the physical & virtual environments, the Media Zoo has now developed a Second Life… The presence in the 3D World of Second Life will open up new avenues of disseminating the research findings of the Beyond Distance Research Alliance and support the integration of learning technologies into everyday teaching regardless of level, subject discipline or mode of instruction
Physical Media Zoo
Virtual Media Zoo
Second Life Media Zoo
Physical
Situated in the Attenborough Seminar Block (SB111) the physical zoo is a safe space to experiment and interact with learning technologies and their associated pedagogies…
Virtual
Available on the Internet, 24/7, the Virtual Media Zoo links detailed information and support material from each of the research projects as well as a resource of some of the world’s latest learning technologies: Media Zoo Website
Second Life
The 3D world of Second Life is the most rapidly expanding online worlds available on the Internet today, with nearly 10 million users, creating themselves as avatars in all shapes and sizes. The world is developed by its users for many purposes.
The Media Zoo’s presence in Second Life is as a part of the SEAL project which will elicit viable and preferred futures for learning in formal education through and with the Second Life environment. It is hoped the SEAL project will create communities of learners, teachers, technologists and creative practitioners who will interact in the Second Life Media Zoo.
Visit Second Life Media Zoo
Use this link to teleport to the Second Life Media Zoo. To visit the zoo you require Second Life on your computer and a log-in for an Avatar, download and register for Second Life at www.secondlife.com.
Second Life Media Zoo Videos
To watch the latest video of the Second Life Media Zoo, prior to its immanent launch on the 18th December 2007 (16:00 - 18:00).
Further information on the SEAL project is also available online: http://www.le.ac.uk/seal