Author Archives: Lucy
vEco flys to San Francisco for the final round of the DML competition
Having successfully advanced through Stage I and Stage II of the Digital Media and Learning Badges for Lifelong Learning Competition, the contest organizers have invited two members of the Virtual Ecotourism team to San Francisco to pitch the project in person! With flowers in our hair, we head to San Francisco for … Continue reading
Gorillas and the Mist, now on YouTube!
The vEcotourism team is pleased to announce the launch of our YouTube channel, which will hosts recordings made by our vEco tour guides in the field, link to amazing videos of the natural world, showcase brilliant conservation projects, bring awareness to environment and wildlife issues, and feature talks by renowned conservation professionals. Our first feature video is a … Continue reading
Stage II – Digital Media and Learning Badges Competition
After winning Stage I of the DML Badges Competition, the virtual ecotourism team decided to take destiny into our own hands and entered our own unique badging system in Stage II of the competition. If we are successful in this stage we will be competing in a live showdown with other winners in San Francisco, USA, … Continue reading
Long-Term Objectives
Previous posts outlined the Virtual Ecotourism team’s current objectives and strategies, as well as plans for the near future. This final blog post briefly introduces two long-term objectives of the project. Although they are ambitious and may not be realized for some time, they remain extremely important to the vEco vision. The mission of the … Continue reading
Near-Future Objectives and Strategies
The vEco team is currently focused on Phase I of the project: Tour Development. However, we hope to finish assembling a template showcase tour by February 2012, and intend to begin Beta testing of the project near that time. This blog post outlines three areas of focus and strategic development for the coming months, including … Continue reading
Current Objectives and Strategies II
Our last post described Phase I of the virtual ecotourism project: the ongoing development of tours and user interface. Although this has a major focus of the past months, the vEco team has also been busy with other projects including the creation of two new blog websites and an encouraging success in an international funding … Continue reading
Current Objectives and Strategy
The overarching goal of the virtual ecotourism project is to connect people to the incredible ecosystems that sustain our planet as well as the diversity of cultures worldwide in order to contribute to the conservation of our planet. But how do we plan to reach that goal? Over the next week, this blog will be … Continue reading
DML Badges Competition: Virtual Ecotourism Advances to Stage II!
The team is very proud to announce that the virtual ecotourism project has been chosen, out of over 350 applicants, to advance to Stage Two of the Digital Media and Learning Badges Competition. This means that our content was deemed compelling and original, and capable of evaluating 21st century learning as part of a worldwide badge … Continue reading
Audio & Video Enabled Panoramic Photo
The Virtual Ecotourism team has been experimenting with an even more interactive form of 360° panoramic photo. In partnership with the MSc in Biodiversity, Conservation and Management (BCM 2011-2012) at The University of Oxford, we have created an audio and video enabled pano.