On March 8^th we met in Mendoza (Argentina) the Ambassador of India R . Viswanathan to submit our proposals for collaboration for V-language.

V-LANGUAGE is a v-learning English Course that we are developing in Dot. We will comment on it later on.

Some facts: according to the British Council, between 2000 and 2010 students studying English in the world will move from 1000 to 2000 million, due mainly to the Chinese market (250 million students of English in 2008, 20 million more each year). Hundreds of thousands of teachers of English are needed in the world (only China needs 1 million new teachers right now). Moreover, India is the second country in the world of English speakers (90 million), behind the United States (250 million).

Thanks to Raul Carrizo, president of FUMPADES (World Foundation for Social Development), who was with his wife Alejandra, the DOT people (Eduardo Valencia, Javier Selva, Mauricio and Karina Magni and Rodolfo Giro) had the opportunity to have a full day of meeting with the ambassador, his wife Kasthuri, and their children Vijay and Raja. The meeting culminated in a visit to the wineries of Mendoza La Rural. Finally ate the typical Argentinian asado in the traditional wineries Salentein.

Compártelo

OpenSim to buid a Parliament

After signing the contract with the Parliament of Navarre, DOT has initiated the construction of the Virtual Parliament of Navarre. This project is framed within a broader construction of a virtual classroom in which students will find various materials for insight into the Parliament of Navarre (news, videos and the Virtual Parliament itself). 

Building the Virtual Parliament of Navarre

These are the main features of the project: 

1.-Create a configured server with Open Sim.

This is a project in which the coexistence of teenagers and adults will happen pretty oftehn and therefore the security and privacy needs are of the highest importance. 

In addition to that, an entity such as the Parliament of Navarre also called for guarantees of security and development in a server. Thus development in Open Sim facilitated the work that was unlikely to be developed in Second Life. 

Moreover DOT is developing new tools and applications in Open Sim, which is making this company a benchmark in the field of virtual worlds. 

OpenSim can be installed on any server server, which offers privacy and scalability of the solution. Its open and modular nature provides flexibility to adapt to new requirements

Building the Virtual Parliament of Navarre

2 .- Recreation spaces 

We are recreatin the main venues of the Parliament. Those who are actually visited by the students when they come to know the facilities. 

Exterior Building 

Advances in the reconstruction of the exterior of the Parliament of Navarre

Entrance and atrium space

Hall

Chamber of Deputies

Top view Chamber of Deputies

Hall: Equipped with a presenter, where students may receive explanations 

Construction of multipurpose hall

3.-Creation the custom avatar of the President of the parliament.

This avatar is also the protagonist of a video that will be the main features of the project. 

All this in two languages, Castilian and Basque, to visit that are guaranteed their educational success.

5.-Development of a customized edition of the connection software (client open sim), configured to connect to the virtual and downloadable from the website of the parliament.

6.-Making of a virtual QUEST application, for students to implement what they learned. 

Our virtual QUEST application is  to some extent similar to a WebQuest, but it would be developed in the virtual parliament. Our virtual Quest will allow an overview of the contents of the teaching unit. 

Students must move through the virtual spaces of the Parliament of Navarre to solve and respond to the challenges proposed in the quest. 

There are two different levels of difficulty in the quest.

Virtual Parliament of Navarre

Compártelo