Welcome to VIBE!

Virtual Islands for Better Education (VIBE) is a collaboration to create learning activities and tools in virtual worlds. Our OpenSim islands include biology, archaeology, public health, and a kids-centered grid. Please see The Team and Grids pages for more information

Upcoming Activities

Discussing Science Circle's opensim grid this Saturday (odd time I know, but I'll be up anyway). Will also give a little discussion on opensim for the novice user and why hosting a server might make sense for you.

Recent Activities

OPENSIMULATER COMMUNITY CONFERENCE 2022

Older Activities

Come check out Stephen Xootfly, Rachel Umoren and 8Bit at OpenSimulator Community Conference, Dec 5th, 2015

http://conference.opensimulator.org/2015/

http://opensimulatorcommunity20151914.sched.org/

Science Circle Presentation: BioTown an OpenSim Instructional space

8-Bit Biologist / Enrique Cachafeiro

A working learning area in OpenSim. BioTown is an active Biology curriculum build. It is a virtual learning management system, with the content for the class spread out spatially, and information housed in in-world items that the students interact with at their own pace. It features informal assessment areas, a formal assessment area and a project display area. The entire Biology curriculum fits within a single learning region. (High School) Google Doc Presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/14MuPGwq8C0YL3iq2cD8oOpGLKYXczPch9BQqmlxxnU0/edit#slide=id.p

Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5mWvKSghN0

VEJ Article by Nova Saunders: http://issuu.com/edovation/docs/vej_april_2015/1

"Expanding Horizons for Archaeological and Historical Context for a Virtual Audience"

Publications:

Alexandria - A Virtual Repository of Knowledge

Joseph Michael Graham, Eva Comaroski

https://journals.tdl.org/jvwr/index.php/jvwr/article/view/7085/6356

Write-ups in the Hyperzette:

Nova Archaeology: http://the-hyperzette.blogspot.com/2015/01/education-nova-werowocomoco.html

Genome: http://the-hyperzette.blogspot.com/2015/02/education-hooke.html, http://the-hyperzette.blogspot.ca/2015/02/education-mendel.html

Stephen Gasior/Xootfly Presentation at NonProfit Commons on Oct 3rd

http://www.nonprofitcommons.org/content/vibe-virtual-islands-better-education-october-3rd-nonprofit-commons-meeting

video recap of presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwkw7g5_nFM

VIBE Article on New Learning Times by Kate Meersschaert (free subscription required)

https://newlearningtimes.com/cms/article/1688

Virtual Pioneers Tour of Nova Archaeology (Spiff Whitfield and Serena Offcourse doing the streaming honors)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxX0CJkNEP8#t=134