Teacher from Brazil Eduardo Martins hold a lesson in vAcademia about music

Inspired by  English lesson in Cafe Eduardo Martins (a teacher from Brazil) held your own English lesson about music in vAcademia.

 He used a little number of user interactive objects features in compare with reference class, but however the result was very impressive. Eduardo uploaded some 3D-models of musical instruments into resources collection and added playing unique melody on click to each 3D-model. During all lesson the teacher and students are discussed virtual orchestra.

See recording of the Class in Virtual World

How to use vAcademia Virtual World

How to use vAcademia Virtual World by Eduardo Martins. See this video

vAcademia Tutorial: main features

User objects in vAcademia

Rich properties and interactivity abilities: teleporting on click, audio attachments, objects exploration, change textures and some other cool features will be added for user objects in next major release of vAcademia (March, 2012)

vAcademia presentation. Record

nordicworlds on livestream.com. Broadcast Live Free

Slides about vAcademia – Educational Virtual World with 3D Recording

vAcademia – Educational Virtual World with 3D Recording

View more presentations from Mikhail Fominykh

vAcademia presents a new approach to educational activities in 3D virtual worlds. This approach is based on a new vision of content and learning process in virtual worlds and related to a new platform called vAcademia. This virtual world is designed and developed specially for educational purposes, and it has an integrated set of tools for a number of learning activities. The main original feature of vAcademia is 3D recording, which allows capturing dynamically everything in a given location in the virtual world. A 3D recording looks like a live virtual class providing students with a collaboration space and giving a sense of presence. In such a manner, vAcademia supports a new type of digital content – 3D recording or virtcast, which is created based on synchronous activities and opens new possibilities to explore. We present the functionality, scenarios of use and challenges of the educational virtual world vAcademia.

Welcome to Presentation on vAcademia

Mikhail Fominykh from the Norwegian University of Technology (NTNU) will present on behalf of vAcademia.
Location: The VCEI – Virtual Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Second Life and Livestreamed on NVWN’s channel.
Time: January 18, 16:00 to 17:00 CET, 7:00 to 8:00 am SLT





About vAcademia
In order to support educational process, an integrated proprietary Learning Management System was developed. The LMS is optimized for vAcademia; however, a Moodle interface is also available. vAcademia provides a set of classroom tools for collaborative learning, such as pointer, drawing tool, slide show presentations, desktop sharing, application sharing, web camera support, and online polls.
The platform is currently in beta and available at http://vacademia.com/. Universities and colleges are welcome to try out the platform.