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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
Listen to the waves of Lake Nabugabo
The vEco team in Uganda has been hard at work collecting images, panoramas, and sounds at our new site on the shores of Lake Nabugabo. Enjoy this panorama near the shore, complete with sampled audio.
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.
The Monkey Bible
Chimp-n-Sea’s Virtual Ecotourism project is described in Mark Laxer’s recently released book, The Monkey Bible!
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