Annotations and Metaverses
This is a brief placeholder for further investigations. Metaverses are a interesting potential technology toward seamless virtual collaboration. On this topic the Crouqet Project has developed an open source prototype system, called OpenCroquet. Of the features and uses presented, I find the capability of annotating artifacts really appeling to the collaborative creation of knowledge. Here it is the annotation architecture and a brief demonstration. A nice experiment has been made where students explore a number of worlds (portals) and then collaboratively create an idea map in Croquet space about how Croquet might be used as a learning environment.
