Note from Ener – i love how subQuark teaches science and his approach is what Enclave Harbour is all about. he posted the below on his blog and i thought it was worthy for here too =) Jan Brewer, Arizona Governor, was asked if she believes global warming is man-made and her response was: Everybody [...]

Enclave Harbour will be a virtual municipality where students will come to have science field trips. my part of the project is pretty easy – i just build interesting places. the book part is far less fun and much more exacting work – writing all the content, questions, exercises (including some projects you can make in your [...]

blah blah blah, crane this, power plant that  =p i asked subQuark to create an example of how my nifty tower crane could be used as part of a science field trip dealio and here it is. one funny thing to note is that i thought the counterweights (what his post is about) looked fine [...]

when building, i like to jump in and get going – i hate prolonged planning – you know where every “i” is dotted twice (just make a tiny heart and move on!) and every “t” is crossed so many times that the paper tears . . . planning is important but i also like to [...]

i’ve been asked a few times how i come up with “activities” for the science field trip locations i’m building for Enclave Harbour. mostly it’s based on topics found in middle school Earth and Physical Science which are the grades i taught in the past. in Texas, 50% of ninth graders drop out of school which [...]

One of the tenets of Enclave Harbor is to help raise environmental awareness while teaching middle school kids a little “real life” science via virtual field trips.  It is fitting to look at the environmental costs of computer usage since we are using OpenSim on a dedicated server that is on 24/7. Today a perfect opportunity arose to [...]

The National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) report on Science Education has just been released and science literacy is “unacceptable” according to the executive director of the National Science Teacher’s Association (the NSTA is something that both myself and our OpenSim builder Ener Hax have been a member of in the past). One of our goals [...]

here is the structure of our space station, now to add some details and then the actual activities (how much detail to add is the question – hmm, maybe toss in a history of space exploration with emphasis on women, since Enclave Harbour is targeting the gender gap in STEM careers) *adds to subQuark’s Google [...]

What is Enclave Harbour and why being counted in OpenSim stats don’t matter? Counting the regions that come and go in OpenSim is a bit like counting sites using Flash was ten years ago. Flash was new and allowed for new things to be accomplished in the World Wide Web. Today, Flash has enjoyed a [...]

this is a commercial heating and cooling unit (below) for a high traffic double door entrance at the airport terminal in Enclave Harbour (the hypergid entry point to Enclave Harbour – sort of fitting eh?) possible lessons for this include adiabatic change and how that is used for both heating and cooling and also the [...]

in Second Life it’s easy to find almost anything you want. i had several helicopters and really loved flying them. our one and only machinima from early 2007 has a great shot at the end with a helicopter flying out of the scene. it just worked out perfectly by dumb luck. and buying vehicles in [...]

the dust has settled with our OpenSim hosting move and i am back at it building. i love building, it is a complete escape for me and so nice to be able to build without restarting the server all the time! i’ll do a six week report card about SimHost this week, a state of [...]

there are many things that i have never played with in virtual worlds and one of those is WindLight. i remember when it came out and some awesome photos that Torley did but since it was client side and involved a lot of settings, i never pursued it much (plus there was always plenty to [...]

i lamented last week about how one could measure the load of various objects. i would really like to know how “heavy” this texture is or how much overhead that sculpted prim is. short of creating a standalone test sim (actually a really good idea) i figured there must be some way to approximate how [...]

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