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If you would like to experience the Virtual Design Lab in full immersion as an avatar you need a high-speed internet connection and a computer with a video card. If you click below and you don't yet have an avatar you will make a "stop" at secondlife.com (see photo below) to sign up for a free avatar. If you have one (or once you receive one) you may go on to the SSU Virtual Design Lab's Entry Area. Enjoy!
The Shawnee State University Virtual Design Lab was designed by retired Chairperson, Professor Thomas D. Stead, as a teaching tool for students taking classes in the Dept. of Fine, Digital and Performing Arts. The lab has two virtual floors. Each floor (107,584 sq. ft.) could nearly hold two NFL football fields including the end zones. This is an immersive, virtual world site located on one of about 30,000 second life servers. Funding to build this experimental classroom project came from a US Dept. of Labor WIRED Grant for Appalachian Ohio to explore interactive digital technology in training and education.
You may enter this world using your web browser and a free avatar from secondlife.com. using the included second life url or SLURL: www.http://slurl.com/secondlife/WIRED%204/107/113/995
When you enter this url in your web browser it will take you to secondlife.com where you can download the small client side SL software, get a free avatar then move on to our location. If you get in-world and get lost, use the SEARCH tab at the bottom and look (under the PLACES tab inside SEARCH) for Shawnee State University or WIRED ISLAND #4. Just outside the front door (north side) of the main SSU building there is a sign with a teleport pad and directions to use it to get here (see blog for a photo).
An avatar (not unlike in the popular movie) is your digital representative in a 3-D virtual world. It can look like a person, animal or thing....your choice. You can hear through its ears and see through its eyes (or free ranging camera). You can meet with, talk (or text) with other avatars, who like you, are people from somewhere on Earth with high-speed internet access. Please treat them with courtesy and remember they may or may not speak your language. Second life has over a million users from around the globe and only about one half are from the US.
Most of the hundreds of art objects in this lab are web-linked to allow you further explore artists, designers and architects you find interesting. There are also notecard posts that when you touch them with your cursor, offer you information on virtual cards about artists, styles and even additional images of their work that you can store in your inventory. There are also projects you can do with real sketchbooks at home such as two-point perspective and diminution (looking down a long railroad track). Basically this is like a book you can walk through and interact with. Whole classes can enter and relate much like in a physical classroom. It is much larger than the sum of its parts as it opens social networking in-world, offers a chance to dialog here and leads out to the web on hundreds of items. Enjoy!
You may enter this world using your web browser and a free avatar from secondlife.com. using the included second life url or SLURL: www.http://slurl.com/secondlife/WIRED%204/107/113/995
When you enter this url in your web browser it will take you to secondlife.com where you can download the small client side SL software, get a free avatar then move on to our location. If you get in-world and get lost, use the SEARCH tab at the bottom and look (under the PLACES tab inside SEARCH) for Shawnee State University or WIRED ISLAND #4. Just outside the front door (north side) of the main SSU building there is a sign with a teleport pad and directions to use it to get here (see blog for a photo).
An avatar (not unlike in the popular movie) is your digital representative in a 3-D virtual world. It can look like a person, animal or thing....your choice. You can hear through its ears and see through its eyes (or free ranging camera). You can meet with, talk (or text) with other avatars, who like you, are people from somewhere on Earth with high-speed internet access. Please treat them with courtesy and remember they may or may not speak your language. Second life has over a million users from around the globe and only about one half are from the US.
Most of the hundreds of art objects in this lab are web-linked to allow you further explore artists, designers and architects you find interesting. There are also notecard posts that when you touch them with your cursor, offer you information on virtual cards about artists, styles and even additional images of their work that you can store in your inventory. There are also projects you can do with real sketchbooks at home such as two-point perspective and diminution (looking down a long railroad track). Basically this is like a book you can walk through and interact with. Whole classes can enter and relate much like in a physical classroom. It is much larger than the sum of its parts as it opens social networking in-world, offers a chance to dialog here and leads out to the web on hundreds of items. Enjoy!
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