Sunday, 9 January 2011

Trying to pull all the strands together for the SL elearning virtual chair project

This is the refined (sic?) Design brief or thumbnail..  

The idea is to prototype a virtual chair graphical and historical repository, linking it to current vocational training curriculum in real world fine furniture.. with examples of 3D virtual chairs, virtual workshop <s>, a movie screen on wall with links to curriculum and videos on You Tube showing real live people showing real live techniques. This could hopefully link primary source to formative curriculum study and test pieces, improve candidates knowledge of detailed isometric projection and scalar accuracies where the original sample is a distance away and maybe difficult to get "up close and personal with..  which is essential where construction and spatial awareness is a must...

The repository is the Lond Met Sir John Cass The Frederick Parker Chair collection http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/jcamd/research/rae-2008/john-cross/portfolio_outcome04.cfm , its representation on VADS http://www.vads.ac.uk/  and a synopsis of its establishment at http://www.vads.ahds.ac.uk/collections/FPC.html

The fine furniture curriculum is based around components within City & Guilds existing courseware, the concepts of this design approach has been discussed with the Frederick Parker Collection Curator John Cross and the Senior Tutor Colon Eden-Eadon at the Building Crafts College http://www.thebcc.ac.uk/ , and conceptually given a tentative thumbs up..

The Concept

Within Second Life a Virtual Chair Museum has live teleporting exhibits... The Avatar approaches the chair they are interested in, sits on it and is teleported to a virtual period work shop or furniture factory that exhibits the processes and component build, that also has a screen with curriculum and video of pertinent resources and build demonstration with additional research resources and a tips for assignment and potential tutor interaction via IM or email etc..,

The Avatar can then be teleported back to the museum to try other chairs and links... I would expect all sites to use the same resource documents but with specific tutorial and curriculum pertinent to that specific chair and workshop experience.

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