{"id":904,"date":"2008-07-14T10:26:50","date_gmt":"2008-07-14T02:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=904"},"modified":"2013-07-12T20:53:35","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T12:53:35","slug":"edusim-free-3d-multi-user-virtual-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/learning\/edusim-free-3d-multi-user-virtual-world-904","title":{"rendered":"EduSim - free 3D multi-user virtual world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/edusim3d.com\/\">EduSim<a\/> is interesting and has a lot of potential.<\/p>\n<p>As their blurb says:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Edusim is a free opensource 3D multi-user virtual world specifically for your classroom interactive whiteboard. Edusim is extendable allowing multiple classrooms to connect their interactive whiteboards for collaborative learning session.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Here's a video showing how engaging EduSim can be.<\/p>\n<div class=\"videoBG\">\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"303\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uVFsxev-2sk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>Yes, EduSim is engaging and clearly a lot of fun for the little kids shown in the movie. Edusim provide some <a href=\"http:\/\/edusim3d.com\/?page=parts.php&part=3\">lesson ideas<\/a>, including one on geometry (whose screenshot didn't look too exciting to me). <\/p>\n<p>I'm wondering about applications for older kids. Like SecondLife, probably EduSim's greatest potential is in getting the students to build new 3-D worlds. There is scope for learning about 3-D geometry there. <\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\"><a href=\"#respond\" id=\"comms\">Be the first to comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EduSim is a 3-D virtual world that comes as a free download. It's worth checking it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}