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Contents 1 Minutes in action 1.1 Developing a national virtual world infrastructure utilising KAREN. 1.2 Dr Annick Jansen 1.3 Andrew Dunningham 1.4 Dr. Faridah Noor 2 Links

Minutes in action

Developing a national virtual world infrastructure utilising KAREN.

Ms. Hailing Situ, the Department of Information Science at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

• Virtual world introduction using different software and the benefits and limitations of each
• Virtual worlds are commonly used for: gaming, social networking, education etc

• Benefits of Virtual worlds
  • Less travelling, resource sharing , enabling collaboration and providing multiple ways of interaction for social networking.

Proposed National Virtual World grid

• • Otago University is providing a national testbed. ONGENs OpenSim Grid
  • This is a platform for NZ collaboration in education institutions using Karen network. They have designed a new architecture for it.

• Benefits for institutions
• Strengthen collaboration, reduce duplication provide national educators with a shared platform, It is proposed to extend new services to Second Life.
• Allow users to edit, add and communicate. Uses the Jain Slee platform as an application server. Provides platform to convert from http to SIP. NVWG uses Jain Slee to make this happen.

Summary: benefits - Provides: fast virtual world communications, a central management system, distributed deployed servers, uses the Karen network, new tools and services; and, applications for researchers and educators.

Dr Annick Jansen

Crafting a Research Agenda to Understand the Potential of ICT-Enabled Learning - meet Marvin Annick Janson (PhD), Centre for Applied Cross-cultural Psychology (CACR), Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand Marvin Research Agenda

This software supports interaction, enhances communications so people can design easily in their own language and this can be used to disseminate information in appropriate ways.

Andrew Dunningham

Scientist at Scion

Inquiry by KAREN: How can a scientist participate in running a scientific inquiry in schools using a high speed network?

A capability programme supported by REANNZ which will run over the Karen network. This is a Science Literacy programme for schools. Desire to have scientifically literate people – not just scientists. Aim to undertake a constructivist inquiry approach in partnership with school students and Scion.

Inquiry approach the stages of an inquiry are:

• immersion – wondering, questions
• Questioning, reflection and prior knowledge discovery
• Hypotheses and method development
• Execution
• Reporting and review

Dr. Faridah Noor

The Culture of Blogs. Mohd Noor University of Malaya.

Ongoing research on local blogs – Malaysia as a case study. This is a four year study investigating the culture of blogs

Links

• APAN26 programme