From: angus1@cris.com Subject: ADMIN: 3rd RFP - misc.education.virtualreality Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 03:07:03 -0400 (EDT) REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD) unmoderated group misc.education.virtualreality This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) for the creation of an unmoderated Usenet newsgroup misc.education.virtualreality. This is not a Call for Votes (CFV) ; you cannot vote at this time. Procedural details are below. CHANGES from previous RFD: After discussion it became obvious that the acronym MOO in the name was confusing and did not clearly reflect the purpose of the proposed usnet group misc.education.moo, therefore the has been changed from misc.education.moo to misc.education.virtualreality After discussion following the posting of the 2nd RFD minor editing changes have been made in all sections of this rationale and charter including a change in the Newsgroup line which was: Discussions on the use of Virtual Reality for educational purposes. Also the has been changed slightly to better explain text based virtual reality. All references to moo have been changed to: virtual reality Moos/Mudds/Mushes Newsgroup line: misc.education.virtualreality Educational text based virtual reality. RATIONALE: misc.education.virtualreality Subjects related to the use of text based virtual reality (extremely feature-rich text-language-based multi-user object oriented virtual reality) for education, information, culture, research and support. Text based virtual reality is created using the moo, mudd or mush programming language. It has two main features: 1) it is interactive like IRC; 2) it is extensible so anyone can create the kind of setting they want. There is not yet a group dedicated to the specific discussion of this fast growing and vital internet resource for the use of education, information, culture, research and support. Most interMoo/Mush/Mudd discussion takes place via "pages" from one Moo/Mudd/Mush to another or on the various Moos/Mudds/Mushes themselves which is slow and laborious. There is a need for a central and very public discussion group where announcements can be made and ideas and problems specific to educational virtual reality technology can be exchanged and discussed. misc.education.virtualreality would provide a dedicated forum strictly for exchange of information and ideas regarding virtual reality Moo/Mudd/Mush technology for education, information, culture, research and support as opposed to already available usenet groups dedicated to the discussion of the technology for games and chat. CHARTER: misc.education.virtualreality Appropriate posting would include, but not be limited to: 1. Advice for parents and teachers regarding the use of Moo in schools for and by children in formal Learning situations. 2. Problems with and ideas for use of virtual reality Moo/Mudd/Mush technology in education, information, culture, research and support. 3. Strategies for the use of educational virtual reality Moo/Mudd/Mush technology for cultural and informational exchange and health-related information and support. 4. Announcement of new educational virtual reality Moos/Mudds/Mushes and updates on established educational virtual reality Moos/Mudds/Mushes. 5. Discussion of remediation, and specialized education on educational virtual reality Moos/Mudds/Mushes. 6. Discussion of the programming, maintenance and pedagogy of educational virtual reality Moos/Mudds/Mushes. 7. Discussion of theories and methods to study educational virtual reality Moos/Mudds/Mushes. 8. Discussion the ethics of virtual reality Moos/Mudds/Mushes studies 9. To spread information about educational virtual reality Moos/Mudds/Mushes-related conferences, articles, call for papers and special issues of journals, call for papers to conferences etc. 10. To point at and/or summarize discussions in related mailing lists 11. To discuss published articles (perhaps together with their authors). 12. To discuss safety, censorship, privacy on educational virtual reality Moos/Mudds/Mushes issues. 13. To create a serious-educational virtual reality Moos/Mudds/Mushes www homepage with: - a list/database with references/links to papers. - links to homepages of moo researchers and projects. - a FAQ. Inappropriate posting would include, but not be limited to: 1) Commercial advertising 2) binaries 3) flames, spams and trolls END CHARTER. PROCEDURE: This is a request for discussion, not a call for votes. In this phase of the process, any potential problems with the proposed newsgroup should be raised and resolved. The discussion period will continue for a minimum of 21 days (starting from when the first RFD for this proposal is posted to news.announce.newgroups). All discussion should be posted to news.groups. At the end of the discussion period, a Call for Votes (CFV) will be posted by a neutral vote taker. This RFD attempts to fully comply with Usenet newsgroup creation guidelines outlined in "How to Create a New Usenet Newsgroup" and "Writing an RFD". Please refer to these documents if you have questions about the process. DISTRIBUTION: This RFD has been posted to the following newsgroups: news.groups, news.announce.newgroups, misc.education, alt.education, school.general, sci.virtual-worlds, alt.mud Pointers to this RFD will appear in the following newsgroups: misc.education.adult,misc.education.home-school.christian, misc.education.home-school.misc, misc.education.language.english, misc.education.medical, misc.education.multimedia, misc.education.science,alt.education.alternative, alt.education.disabled, alt.education.research, alt.support.learning-difficulties, alt.support.learning-disab, school.teachers, k12.council, k12.lang, k12.lang.art, k12.library, k12.math-ed, k12.news, k12.projects, k12.sys, k12.ed, k12.ed.art, k12.ed.comp, k12.ed.comp.literacy, k12.ed.lang, k12.ed.life-skills, k12.ed.math, k12.ed.science, k12.ed.soc-studies, k12.ed.special, k12.ed.tag, k12.ed.tech, k12.chat, k12.chat.elemenatry, k12.chat.ib, k12.chat.junior, k12.chat.teacher, schl.sig.k12admin, schl.sig.lmnt,misc.kids,alt.mud.programming Pointers to this RFD will appear in the following listservs: cyberspace-and-society@mailbase.ac.uk moo-ed@ucet.ufl.edu cbnvee@mcmuse.mc.maricopa.edu Proponent: Cleo Kiernan ...............Cleo angus1@cris.com