Education/Courseware Affinity Group

<H1> Education/Courseware Affinity Group </h1>

This group was originally charged with providing support for
instructors to operate courses.  Their primary initial artifact was
CVE interoperation with <A href="http://www.moodle.org">MOODLE</A>.
They also designed CVE-internal course navigation aids.
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Over time, it was decided to broaden the CVE to
contain in-game educational activities.  A set of NPC's
and CS and library skills content activities has been designed
with the help of the University of Idaho CS 383-384 software engineering
class.

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This group is looking for new members and ideas.
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Past Members:
<li> Rashmi Ramagiri
<li> Poonam Agarwal
<li> Gustav Verhulsdonck
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Ideas about maps and tours (from a CS 579 guest lecture):

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<li> Integrate Notepad, Electronic Blackboard, Calendar/Schedule in the main
map interface

<li> Use size distinctions between nodes (Large = Important, Small = not so
important), and perhaps use animated gifs or color coded nodes

<li> Nodes are involved in the text (I am not sure what this is, but I wrote it
 down).

<li> History of tour node (when a node gets updatedm, say, on the collaborative
line, the old node has a link to the new node)

<li> Multiple collaborative lines (instead of just one)

<li> Add a lounge line to chat & interact with other avatars. So you can
click on the lounge line and get transported to the lounge, while the map is
in the background.

<li> Whether we should have a central point as FTP, or whether we should use
 context based FTP (i.e. Right mouse click on the video screen to ftp
 there), or both

<li> Separate rooms for learning concepts (you literally get to walk through
the map with a 2d presentation perhaps in the right uppercorner?)
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