Walking with Avatars The Vertex Project: Children creating and populating 3D virtual worlds
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This paper introduces The Vertex Project, a school-based action research project currently underway at Middlesex University, which sets out to explore the educational applications of shared 3D virtual worlds. Working with three primary schools, the project aims to actively involve children in designing, constructing and populating their own virtual community on the Internet and, in doing so, will investigate and evaluate the technologies potential as a creative, cross-curricula tool.
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تاریخ انتشار 2001