KerryJ’s blog

Explaining 3D worlds with text only is impossible. Images only provide a flat view. So in helping those involved in education and training to appreciate the uses of 3D spaces, video and machinima (video produced using 3D environments) is the next best thing to being there.

The video “Immersive Learning Environments: it’s game on!” is one release of the research into the use of Immersive Learning Environments that I have been undertaking for Education.au’s Immersive Learning Unit. But we didn’t want the video itself to be flat either — and just sit on the internet.

So we’ve licensed it with a Creative Commons, Attribution, Non-Commercial, No Derivatives Australian 2.5 license. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Creative Commons, please reference a blog post I did a few months ago .

What the license means is that you can display this video, in its entirety, anywhere and everywhere you want provided it’s for a non-commercial purpose (unsure? ask us).  While we usually like to make videos available for mashups, this video includes media from other sources.

On the web, we’ve made it available on our blip.tv channel, our YouTube Channel and our web site - http://www.educationau.edu.au/ilu.

The blip.tv channel is particularly useful because you can readily download the video for offline display and have the choice of MP4 or Flash.

The version embedded on the Immersive Learning Unit’s page of the Education.au web site is a 640 x 480 flash file and because the video is stored on our education.au server, you should have no problems with site blocking.

If you’d like to embed the video and player on your own site, please feel free. I’m happy to send you the code - unfortunately the version of Word Press this site uses has foiled all attempts I’ve made at trying to make the code available to you in a widget here.

We also have a large, high quality AVI file available should you wish to show the video in a large venue. Email me at kjohnson@educationau.edu.au for a link.

Many thanks to Loyalist College in Ontario Canada, Carina Girfan at Trinity College in Dublin, Jacinta Ryan and Ruth Fraser from TAFE SA and to the team at Quest Atlantis for sharing their stories and media.