** Reminder Today ***
SPEAKER: Ken Kahn
Oxford University and the London Knowledge Lab
TITLE: Modelling4All: The intersection of computer modelling, Web 2.0, and
Second Life
LOCATION: 624 Agua Fria Conference Room
TIME: Thursday, Jan 17, 12:30p
Lunch will be available for purchase for $5
ABSTRACT: The recently completed Constructing2Learn Project (
http://dfl.cetis.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/Constructing2Learn) at Oxford University
constructed the BehaviourComposer, a modelling tool, and web-based library of
composable "micro-behaviours". Students with no prior programming experience
were able to build serious agent-based models in two hour sessions. The
Modelling4All Project (
http://modelling4all.wikidot.com) aims to take this work
further by re-building the BehaviourComposer to be completely web-based.
Furthermore we are building a Web 2.0 style site where one can build, run share,
discuss, rate, and tag models, model components, tutorials, and model
construction lesson plans. Finally we plan to automate the process of generating
scripts so that models can be collectively experienced within Second Life. Live
demos of the software will be presented.
Thank you to Irene Lee for helping arrange this talk.
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