Taxonomy

I have been doing research for my graduate studies and thought this would be a great way to catalog my progress and resources. Open Learning Resources seems to be an up and coming topic in that learning is not limited to location any more. The vast resources of virtual simulations is something I am just getting into and see a tremendous opportunity for extended learning. The first entry is for Open University which is physically located in the UK, but extends around the world.
 * 1) **The mission of the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) is to provide world-class leadership in the innovative use of ICT to support education and research.**

[|http://www.open.ac.uk]


 * Cohere seems to also be a good resource for online mind mapping -

http://cohere.open.ac.uk/login.php

Islands can be owned by individuals and leased or subdivided and rented. Mainland represents around 327 square kilometers of virtual land. || http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massively_multiplayer_online_game) || Mark W Bell Defining Virtual Worlds and Virtual Environments Ralph Schroeder
 * Affordance || An affordance is a quality of an object, or an environment, that allows an individual to perform an action. It can also refer to the property of an object or system's action possibilities being easily discoverable, as in the usability of a web page or object. ||
 * Animation || Movement that has been programmed or scripted into an object. Residents program (script) many aspects of Second Life in order to simulate real life phenomenon. Examples include scripting trees to sway, water to run and people dance or sit. ||
 * Augmented Reality || Term for a live direct or an indirect view of a physical, real-world environment whose elements are augmented by computer-generated sensory input, such as sound or graphics or GPS. Elements are added to the real view through computer augmentation as elements are added to a sports event like the first down line in a football game on television. ||
 * Avatar- || A Computer user's representation of himself or herself as a 3D figure as used in in computer games and virtual worlds, or as a 2D icon (picture) used on Internet forums and other communities. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar_(virtual_reality) ||
 * Co-presence || Relates to group cognition and sharing environments in which multiple people interact. ||
 * Connectivism || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Theory of learning based on the premise that knowledge exists in the world rather than in the head of an individual. Connectivism proposes a perspective similar to the “Activity Theory” of Vygotsky as it regards knowledge to exist within systems which are accessed through people participating in activities ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">constructionism ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">constructivism ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">digital natives/immigrants ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">embodied ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">engagement ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">experiential learning ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">fidelity/representational fidelity ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Folksonomy - || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing categories. Folksonomies differ from taxonomies in they are generated not by “experts” but by the users and creators of content in a domain. Folksonomies became popular on the Web in 2004 with social software (social bookmarking, photograph repositories and blogs) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folksonomy ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">flow ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Game || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Draw def. from Aldrich ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Greifing/griefers - || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A slang term used to describe an avatar who harasses or annoys others sometimes causing them and their activities harm. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Group Challenges - || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Aldrich 13 ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">identity ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">IM – || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">IMing, Instant Messaging. Similar to instance messaging in social networking sites, Residents can hold private chats with each other by IMing whether they are in the same location or different locations. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">immersive/immersion ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Lurker - || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">One who watches and listens, without active participation. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">machinima ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mainland – || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The large contiguous land mass. Linden Labs is the Estate owner, whereas
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) - || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">An online game able to support hundreds or thousands of players simultaneously and featuring at least one persistent world. Players cooperate and compete with each other on a grand scale, and sometimes to interact meaningfully with people around the world. They include a variety of gameplay types, representing many video game genres. Players often invest large amounts of their time into the game and most MMOGs require a monthly subscription fee although some can be played for free. (Wikipedia, 2008
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Metaverse ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mediated Reality ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">MMO ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">MUD ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">multi-user virtual environment (MUVE) ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Muting Residents - || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">means you will not hear their voice, receive their IMs, see any lines from them in Local Chat, hear any sounds they generate, nor see their particles. Any items offered by a muted object or Resident will be silently ignored (i.e., you will not be notified, and you will not accept it). If avatar impostors is enabled, muted Residents and attached objects will be replaced by a gray avatar impostor. When a Resident is muted, all items owned by that Resident are automatically muted; You won't be able to receive messages or items from objects you've muted. (Second Life Wiki 2009 http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/How_to_mute_another_Resident_or_object) ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">neo-millenial ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Official Partners - || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Users can designate a partner on their profiles in-world. The purpose is to make the relationship visible to the community. A Residents sends a proposal to another Resident using a web-based form provided by Linden Labs. To create a partnership will cost each partner L$10. Divorce costs the person requesting it L$25. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Pedagogy - || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">More thought - Include Pedagogy of the Oppressed, wikipedia, Paulo Freire's, Dedicated to what is called "the oppressed" and based on his own experience helping Brazilian adults to read and write, Freire includes a detailed Marxist class analysis in his exploration of the relationship between what he calls "the colonizer" and "the colonized." The book remains popular among educators all over the world and is one of the foundations of critical pedagogy. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Particle Effects - || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Two-dimensional graphic images created by adding a script to a prim. Examples of particle effects are the flames of burning fires, the glistening bling of a piece of jewelry, or floating hearts that pop out of a greeting card upon opening it. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Persistent – persistence || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Refers to the fact that virtual worlds and games are there even when users log off. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Presence ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Proteus effect ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">proximity/proximity based || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">physical/audio ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">RL - || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Real Life ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">role play ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sandbox - || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">a place where avatars go to learn and practice building. Taken from software development its an online environment in which code or content changes can be tested without affecting the original system. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Script/Scripting/Scripted – || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A form of computer programming language that controls software. Second Life has its own scripting language (Linden Scripting Language). People familiar with other scripting languages can usually figure it out. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">SL - || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Second Life ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sim – || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The physical server machine simulating one or more regions. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Simulation - || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Compare/contrast between gaming and simulations. Simulations = real life actions, (things students do), reflected in the interface. How actions affect revelent systems. How systems provide feedback. Aldrich pg.22 ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">situated learning ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">SLOODLE ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">social constructivism ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">social presence ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">synthetic world ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Terraform – || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The SL® editing tools that allow Residents to shape a land mass to create mountains, rivers and underwater seascapes. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Themed sim - || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A sim whose regions all follow a particular theme, such as an Elven fantasy theme. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Worldbuilding – || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Taken from science fiction, the term traditionally describes the formal process of constructing a fantasy or fiction world for computer games and MMOGs. While in virtual worlds no such formal process occurs, the term still connotes the activities in which users engage to construct the virtual world. These include but are not limited to constructing landscapes, buildings, avatars, clothing, jewelry, animations and gestures for objects and avatars. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructed_world. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Virtual Classroom - || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Synchronous classes/meetings, integrating voice, slides, and other participatory behavior, as demostrated in possible group challenges. Aldrich pg. 13 ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">virtual world || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Toward a Definition of "Virtual Worlds"

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">http://jvwresearch.org/index.php/past-issues/volume1issue1 ||

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Maybe make a learning theory section.