Internet Technology
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
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
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
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
Digital Media & Learning Competition
The Virtual Ecotourism project has entered the Digital Media & Learning Badges Competition in a bid to win part of a $200,000 grant for the development of a badging system to reward on-line learning that is difficult to assess in other ways.
Welcome to the vEcotourism News Site!
The aim of this blog is to keep virtual ecotourists, partner organizations, and curious conservationists updated about the vEcotourism project. It will outline our current work, showcase initial vEcotours as they are developed, link to exciting upcoming technologies, promote conservation projects, host visual media from tours, and serve to keep the vEcotourism community informed and connected. To learn more about … Continue reading