========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 10:48:10 -0500 Reply-To: Journal of Virtual Reality In Education Complete Journal Sender: Journal of Virtual Reality In Education Complete Journal From: Dick Banks Subject: Education MOOs copyright DUJVRE and Donald idd@io.org 1994 Donald idd@io.org 53 Education MOOs and Tools Contents: 1) Education MOOs 2) Education Tools 3) Education MOO list 4) Featured MOO: Diversity University 5) Education Tools: Generic objects at Diversity University 1) Education MOOs -------------- This column is the first of a series of articles covering Education MOOs. As new moos are popping up steadily, we can only discuss a few typical examples now. We will try to cover as many Education MOOS as possible in future issues. 2) Education Tools --------------- One of our aims is to compile a comprehensive list of Educational Tools. Most of the Education MOOs have a 'gopher slate' but how many have a World Wide Web client like the 'WWW slate' developed at EON. A core set of Education Tools includes: * writing tools: '$note', 'MOO mail' * standard communications features: 'say', 'page', 'emote' and 'think' * exploration tools: 'look', 'read', and 'exam' * manipulation tools: 'get', 'grab', 'drop', 'move' Added to these, are 'generic' tools created by individual programmers, especially wizards. Every Education MOO needs dedicated wizards! 3) Education MOO list ------------------ Apologies offered now for all errors, as we attempt to classify MOOs. ESTABLISHED EDUCATION MOOs: holding classes for six months or more. * BioMOO: bioinfo.weizmann.ac.il 8888 or 132.76.55.12 8888 Contact Gustavo Glusman Email: Gustavo@bioinformatics.weizmann.ac.il Mostly for professional biologists, BioMOO's Web interface development is very innovative. * Diversity University: moo.du.org 8888 or 192.101.98.8 8888 Contact Jeanne McWhorter Email: gsswky@menudo.uh.edu The first dedicated Education MOO is branching out to multiple servers. Donald idd@io.org 54 * Collegetown: next.cs.bvc.edu 7777 Contact Ken Schweller Email: schweller@bvc.edu Ken designed many existing Education Tools at various other MOOs and runs this one. * EON: mcmuse.mc.maricopa.edu 8888 Contact Greg Swan Email: swan@mcmuse.mc.maricopa.edu Shkoo and others developed the WWW slate here. "MCCD must undertake serious exploration of constructivism if it wishes to retain its position of educational excellence in this country." Swan and Hughes. * MOOville: rolfs-gw.ucet.ufl.edu 7777 or 128.227.140.215 7777 Contact Anthony True Email true@ufl.edu 1500+ take English classes using a local area network with 150 stations connected to a MOO. IBM is a sponsor. * WriteMush: palmer.sacc.colostate.edu 6250 or 129.82.169.4 6250 Contact Maria or Jstrick Email: Maria or Jstrick@netcom.com Tari started holding English composition classes here in Sept. 93. This is technically a TinyMush. PIONEERS LIST: MOOs that played an important part with other themes. * LambdaMOO: lambda.xerox.com 8888 or 13.2.116.36 8888 Contact Pavel Curtis Email: pavel@parc.xerox.com All current MOOs descend from this one. * JaysHouseMOO: jhm.ccs.neu.edu 1709 or 129.10.111.77 1709 Contact jhm@ccs.neu.edu 'gopher slate', 'MOO networking', and an 'internal hypertext system' accessible from the world wide web are early JaysHouseMOO developments. * MediaMOO: mediamoo.media.mit.edu 8888 or 18.85.0.48 8888 Contact Amy Bruckman Email: asb@media.mit.edu "A MOO designed to be a professional community for media researchers." *GNALab: gnalab.uva.nl 7777 or 145.18.70.16 8888 Contact Gustavo Glusman Email: Gustavo@bioinformatics.weizmann.ac.il This is GNA's MOO programming testing lab. Donald idd@io.org 55 K-12 LIST: * Donut: bigbird.stark.k12.oh.us 7777 or 199.218.192.6 7777 Contact Suzie John Email: john@sparc3.sparcc.ohio.gov This K-12 MOO is in Stark County Ohio. (See article by Suzie John in this section) * MariMUSE Global Learning Collaboratory (No anonymous guests) Contact Jim Walters and apply for character Email: walters@pc2.pc.maricopa.edu "A Global Learning Collaboratory serves learners k through gray. Many of the MariMUSE users are elementary school students who MUSE as a part of their daily learning activities. All learners are welcome to join." For more info, gopher pcef.pc.maricopa.edu or http://pcinfo.pc.maricopa.edu/MariMUSE/MariMUSE.html * MicroMUSE: micromuse.musenet.org 4201 or 18.43.0.102 4201 Contact Barry Kort Email: bkort@musenet.org. MicroMuse Mission Statement:"MicroMUSE is chartered as an educational Multi-User Simulation Environment (MUSE) and Virtual Community with preference toward educational content of a scientific and cultural nature. The MicroMUSE Operations Council works towards the development of MUSE technology to enhance the exchange of ideas, the learning process, and the expression of creative writing for individuals of all ages and backgrounds." FTP: ftp.musenet.org, Gopher or Web: web.musenet.org. WEB MOOs: * BioMOO: http://bioinfo.weizmann.ac.il:8888 Contact Gustavo Glusman Email: Gustavo@bioinformatics.weizmann.ac.il Get webpass and instructions from BioMOO. Gustavo Glusman runs this MOO for professional Biologists and holds meetings using its WWW capabilites. * Sprawl: http://sensemedia.net/sprawl telnet://sprawl.sensemedia.net:7777/ WorldMOO:http://sensemedia.net/world telnet://sprawl.sensemedia.net:1234/ Contact S. Epstein Email: sle@picosof.com pr sle@sensemedia.net Chiba's Sprawl is one of the earliest Web MOOs. World, Tinker and Core MOOs are linked to Sprawl. Donald idd@io.org 56 CULTURAL MOOs: * Meridian: sky.bellcore.com 7777 Contact sky Email: deanna@thumper.bellcore.com The theme is understanding between countries through virtual travel and cultural experiences. * BayMOO: baymoo.sfsu.edu 8888 or 165.113.1.30 8888 Contact baymoo@worldbit.com Their official statement is: "BayMOO is a virtual theater for the creation of objects and the weaving of communities and tribes. The overarching themes are the spirit of the San Francisco Bay Area and the metaphor of water. The only rule of conduct is: RESPECT." MOOs FEATURING LANGUAGES: * French: logos.daedalus.com 8888 Contact Mark Horan Email: horan@LCLARK.EDU According to 'Henri': "The streets of Paris provide the model for this French language MOO." * Italian: Little Italy MOO ipo.tesi.dsi.unimi.it 4444 Contact brenna, carbone, aprile, riva, or veggiot @ghost.sm.dsi.unimi.it Or Email: littleit@mora.usr.dsi.unimi.it WWW: http://www.dsi.unimi.it/Users/aprile/HUG/LI.html This is an Italian language MOO in Italy. * Latin: MUGIT at PennMOO ccat.sas.upenn.edu 7777 Contact Ellen There is a Latin Club here called MUGIT. * Multilingual: MOOsaico moo.di.uminho.pt 7777 or 193.136.20.102 7777 Contact Oblivion Email: pmoo@moo.di.uminho.pt This is a multilingual language MOO in Portugal. * Spanish: MundoHispanno kong.syr.edu 8888 or 128.230.1.200 8888 Contact Colega or ThwartedEffort Email: lmturbee@mailbox.syr.edu "an academic MOO for native speakers and second language learners of Spanish." * ESL/EFL: schMOOze University arthur.rutgers.edu 8888 Contact Julie Falsetti Email: jefhc@cunyvm.cuny.edu "schMOOze U. was especially designed as a place where non-native speakers of English could meet and interact." Donald idd@io.org 57 NEW EDUCATION MOOs: holding classes for less than six months. * NovaMOO: nova.edmonds.wednet.edu 8888 Contact Joel Thornton Email: thorntoj@nova.edmonds.wednet.edu This is recent startup in Edmonds school district. * Global Village: tdg.uoguelph.ca 8888 or 131.104.228.200 8888 Contact Paul Graham or Greg Searle Email: searle@tdg.uoguelph.ca "Conspiratorium" and some Guelph classes use Global for virtual classes and conferences. * TecfaMOO: tecfamoo.unige.ch 7777 Contact Daniel This Swiss MOO is in Geneva. * VOU: coyote.csum.edu 7777 Contact Donnelly Email: donnelly@coyote.csum.edu Classes starting up in March 1995 have been announced. HELP WANTED: Pease help me to update and fill in this list! Email: idd@io.org, Thanks! 4) Featured MOO: Diversity University ---------------------------------- NAME: Diversity University ---- ADDRESS: moo.du.org 8888 or 192.101.98.8 8888 ------- CONTACTS: Jeanne McWhorter, Email: gsswky@menudo.uh.edu -------- Wizard-list: Jeanne, Richelieu, Ulf, Dr.Z, Scott and Ken. ----------- INTERVIEW WITH ARCH WIZARD: (See article by Lunar in this section). -------------------------- THEME: ----- The Official Diversity University Mission Statement: "Our mission is to develop, support and maintain creative and innovative environments and tools for learning and research through the Internet and other distributed computing systems, and to guide and educate people in the use of these and other tools, to foster collaboration in a synergistic climate, and to explore and utilize applications of emerging technology to these ends in a manner friendly to people who are disabled, geographically isolated or technologically limited." Donald idd@io.org 58 MOO DATA: -------- * Guest Access: Yes * Guest login command: connect guest Remark: also 'connect peasant peasant' that takes you into Mogue's Agincourt simulation. One of several at DU. * Number of registered characters: 3,000+ * Number of MOO objects: 12,500+ * Size of MOO program in memory: 35 megabytes. * Sample Classes: ('#'numbers refer to DU MOO objects and locations) DU has provided facilities for many classes including: Jeanne's 'MOO 101', 'MOO classes for Teachers', and 'Internet for Teachers classes'. Leslie and Cindy's 'English composition' class simultaneously in Pennsylvania and Wyoming. GNA's WWW94 award winning 'C++ class' @go #2000; 'Commodity Futures and Options', some notes are in #1287; 'Affordable Internet Course', archives are north of #8880. 'MOO Programming' sessions given by Ulf and Doppler at DU. Finnegans Wake (Joyce) reading group held by Michael #7416. Cynthia, Danford, JeanS, JoeW, Van*Faussien, and many others have brought classes to DU. 5) Education Tools: Generic objects at Diversity University -------------------------------------------------------- Some notable Educational Tools at Diversity University including ported ones, known affiliations do not imply development sites. NOTE: These lists are not complete but attempt to be accurate. * Larry and Joe@JaysHouseMOO (Grump and JoeFeedback) - 'MOOGopher'(Copyright (c)1992, 1993, Larry Masinter and Erik Ostrom) was implemented at JaysHouseMOO and is a useful tool found in most MOOs. * Ken or cdr (@Collegetown, @media, @DU) - Media set 'TV', 'VCR', 'Camera', and 'Tape' showing text has an 'Editing room' to transform raw 'Tapes' into a polished product. - 'Lecture note' lines can be prepared ahead of time. - 'Slide shows' can display 15 lines of text at once. - 'Classrooms' include 'blackboards', 'seats' and other features. - Other Education objects include the 'Theatre complex', a 'conversational robot' and introductory MOO Programming tapes. Donald idd@io.org 59 * Michele (@JaysHouseMOO) - Walk through '@Tutorial program' from JaysHouseMOO is very easy to use, even for a beginner. * Gustavo (@BioMOO, @GNAlab, @DU, etc.) - 'Generic Recording device' records activity in a room. - 'InterMOO feature object' allows communications across MOOs. - 'GNA forum' is a virtual conference room that straddles BayMOO, BioMOO, CollegeTown, Diversity University, EON, Global Village, GNAlab, MediaMOO, TecfaMOO and VOU in five different countries. - 'InterMOOwalk' moves characters from GNAlab to BioMOO or back. - BioMOO/WWW interface developers include Eric Mercer, Paul Hansen, Jaime Prilusky, and Gustavo Glusman. * Jeanne with programming by Richelieu(@DU) - 'VSPO', the visting student character class allows teachers to control class and handle some administrative work as well. * Mogue - 'simulation rooms' like 'Agincourt' show 100 year war. Experience history from the perspective of various period characters. * DaveM - 'notice board' is an all purpose tool created to save 'quota'. It finds use as a bulletin board, a note book, a variable slide projector, and a tutorial and, now has its own mailing list even. - 'Tutorial room' also saves quota and is easy to use. Hypertext versions are in development. * Doppler - 'slide show' stores presentations in a variable length format. * Richelieu - 'Generic chaptered Book' (@copyright Richelieu) has chapters. * Shkoo@EON (@BioMOO, nils@DU) - 'WWW slate' is a World Wide Web text based browser. Shkoo first implemented the WWW slate at EON, where the server is. PLEASE! : To 'port' the MOO programming code of any MOO object to another MOO, please contact and obtain permission of the original author. This is a courtesy that also helps the author to distribute upgrades. Donald idd@io.org 60 NEXT ISSUE: ----------- The coming issue will contain reviews of Jupiter features. Mostly a moo extension that allows moo object to generate a window inside microsoft windows or X windows. The resulting whiteboard allows for mouse driven events like lines to be sent back to the moo and to other windows clients. Featured MOO will be BioMOO: an active meeting place for professional biologists, it has pioneered a different approach to graphics using the World Wide Web. Other WWW moos will be surveyed also. ------------------------------------------------------------- Author: Donald idd@io.org