So much has been happening lately, that I haven't been able to keep up with the blog, so I thought I would make an entry while waiting for a video I made about this project to finish compressing on another machine.
Mainly we have been cleaning up some of the building stuff and experimenting with the shared media player and the interactive portions of the sim. We had a show and tell with our boss the other day to show him what we've been working on, so I wanted everything to work just right.
I also called in Dr. Brock Brown who has been in on this project since the beginning. He is our local subject matter expert on El Cerrito, NM, and I felt that I was at a point that I was ready to show him what we have created so far in order to get his input on what we need to concentrate on. We leave to go to El Cerrito in a couple of weeks, and I wanted Dr. Brown to help me come up with a list of things that need to be included so that I can get photographs of everything while I am there.
We discussed doing some video interviews of the villagers with some help from Dr. Nostrand, as well as some animations of long lot irrigation. Dr. Brown believes that one of our next steps is to come up with a concrete lesson plan for college students using the sim. He also suggested that I make a video (screen capture) so that I could show other people what I am working on while we are actually in the village and there is no internet access. That way these individuals can see what it is actually like without logging in, and maybe we can get some ideas from them about how to use the simulation for educational purposes.
Eventually I will do a proper machinima with one of the avatars giving a tour of virtual El Cerrito, but since our departure date is so soon, I decided that I would use Emin's Flip Camera to record what was happening on the screen. For the sake of time, I am going to go ahead and publish this without it being cropped, etc. But I will clean it up later.
View the video.
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