I was intrigued by ideas behind the TappedIn website, I now realise that the University of Leeds VLE 'Bodington common' borrowed their structure from the ideology of AREA/BUILDINGS/FLOORS/ROOMS.
I like the way that the whole stucture seems to have a massive amount of flexibility within an intrinsic structure. I'm also astounded by the amount or resources available either as materials e.g. chemsense , virtual offices e.g. Venny Su's Office , groups etc.
I also thought the interface was well designed given the busy nature of the information - see Introduction to the User Interface. Because you can control your own settings and have the ability to join various communities the MOO/MUD becomes a personalised 'gateway' to the learning available - an important factor in motivation, empowerment and ownership.
I think the idea of a 'CAMPUS' is extremely exciting and would be interested to discuss how this idea of 'CAMPUS' can be utilised within a VLE at a university. Indeed does this structure show that the model within the commercially available VLE software is in fact to inflexible and does not match what is th ephysical reality?
There are some useful links to other papers and sites, for example NETC Circuit | Spring 2004 provides some interesting insights into the ideas of building learning communities.
cheers
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It's certainly a wealth of information there, isn't it. I could see that some users could get overwhelmed by it though.
When I was there in the summer, it was much less active, I see that there are now "After SChool activities". I also noticed that while they appear to cater in the main for K-12 teachers, they also mentioned K-20+ - which I'm assuming refers to all teachers - whether you are teaching Kindergarten or postgrad.
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