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The purpose of this blog/website is to help educators who are interested in integrating OpenSim-based virtual worlds into their educational projects.

Sim-on-a-Stick (SoaS) is a standalone, single user Windows package of OpenSim that runs on a USB flash drive or other convenient location (like a computer hard drive).

Why should educators care about SoaS? Find out here.

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Free OAR file to teach about Flash Fiction

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Flash Fiction Center is an OpenSimulator Archive (OAR file) for educators interested in teaching creative writing online using virtual worlds. The environment is designed to help students learn about flash fiction and to motivate them to write this type of concise story. On this OAR, students will find information about flash fiction, micro-fiction, drabble, nano-fiction, along with writing tasks and working laptops connected to the Internet - in this case to wordcounter.net. Students will also be able to add their stories to ‘story boxes’ placed near each writing task panel. Teachers can later add those stories to the 'writing task libraries'. Free Full Avatar Kits Because entering a virtual world will probably be a new experience for some students, free full avatar kits (for male and female) are provided at the center. Find out more about this project here . Flash Fiction Center OAR file is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4....
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Why should educators care about SoaS?

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Sim-on-a-Stick (SoaS) is a standalone, single user Windows package of OpenSim that runs on a USB flash drive or other convenient location (like a computer hard drive). Basically, SoaS makes it possible for anyone to create and run a single user private virtual world that works offline on their computer hard drive or inside a USB flash drive. Why should educators care about SoaS? Sim-on-a-Stick can be especially useful for educators interested in virtual learning environments who are working in schools where: · there is no access to the Internet, and no OpenSim private grid available; · there is access to the Internet but also a firewall that prevents them from using any public OpenSim grid. Sim-on-a-Stick can also be very useful for educators who want to create a safe, easy to use, single user virtual learning environment that each student can take with them on a USB flash drive, and run on their home computer without having to install anything else on...
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