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Plutons Rising: DID

See also:  -[Plutons Rising - Noeticiity]-
           -[Yeah Olde Sandwhich Shope]- 
           -[Basic M/S Word Skills]- 


Introduction:  So what IS "Plutons Rising" ?


It is an emersive V/R env that is (hopefully) condusive
to learning.


Strategy
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Any process can be broken down into small tasks. To 
address the current problem, there will be two 
models that it will be useful to refer to. 

The first of these is the process involved at
the local grill of making a sandwhich to go.
To limit things, we'll say that they only
carry veggie-burgers and ham-burgers. By doing 
this, we can have a set of tasks that when
completed produce a product and the overall
process is common enough to be understandable
to almost anyone.  Details: -[Yeah Olde Sandwhich Shope]- 

The second of these are some basic text and
file manipulations to be used with MicroSoft
Word. One reason for chosing this, is that
the model (while not as universal as that
of sandwhich prepartion), is well known 
enough to qualify as "computer training"
and particularly encompassing a very usefull 
set of skills in the "modern" era.  Details: -[Basic M/S Word Skills]- 




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Emersive

EMERSIVE - dfn (working, etc)
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According to ??author??

also: should have a ref or a link??? to Jane's hamlet book... hopefulll..

START AGAIN 

According to Joe Blonkowitz ge'schmoigen of THE
be-fU:Ynin Blongigoinigs of Ayers City, New Mars:

  The plasticity of the (human) brain
  (which we now know never completely
  stops being plastic) [note 1]

NOTE 1 

  Yes, Virginia, you *can* teach an old dog new tricks.
  MythBusters ??srch/link??


  is esp able to adapt to the fast-paced,
  actions, conds, and evn of video games.

[QQ] goes here

The eword "emersive" is used here (and by V/R 
aestheticists both in general and broadly to 
encompass *any* env that has one or more of
the following properties:

  believable (or at least reasonable)
  persistent and consistent
  feature-, object-, and action- -rich
  I/A and responsive
  wiht many well-defined objects whose behaviour(s)
       seem logical and even intuitive.

In order to keep from getting boring, the 
emersive enviorns should abound with:

  variety
  surprises
  challenges

To keep from getting (too) frustrating or
too difficult, then env should provide:

  help, hints, demos
  suicide/exit-now/boss-keys, etc.
  guiding documents and/or characters

and *always* with autosave ENABLED (ideally
micro-second to micro-second; see "Forbidden Planet")


V/R is noththing new
====================

When childern (this was written at the dentist's office
where i took - well, you figure it out)

When children play "jump rope" or "hop scotch", they are
temporarily placing themselves in a physical 3d (but
bounded by gravity to the 2d reality with any 3d moves
limited to "hopping upward" (plus of course forward/bac)
emersive environment. 

Note: Acceptance of the "rules of the game" is by 
      social agreement. 

Moving on to something a bit more "V/R-ish", Mario Land,
or any video game invovles this same acceptance of
the rules. Note that the user/viewer/player is voluntarily
engaged in the game. But, of course they can become
adcictive (just ask any oldster about "tetris" even
in monochrome, 2d). But since this isn't reality, the
player can terminate their play at any time.

In the present case, (hello!!! Plutons Rising; remember?)

                     the env is designed to be enticing
(but not maliciously so - don't you just hate spammers!!??!), 

and thus (hopefully) make learning more fun and easier to
self-explolre and self-teach and...

    to self share with others.

MAN (WOMAN, NETH) you have gotta try this!!!!!

       succes has a thousand fathers.
       [failure only one mother]
            - a mod on origina content is shown in
              p[editorial content]
              ^ author or handle - optional.
b2topik

  SIDE BAR on REAL MIME isn't just hanging you r hand on an imaginary shelf!!!
       i *do* so muich miss marchello :,(

Of course, we can build into the model (V/R env, plans, etc0
a traditional lecture method 
          (ie, "method()" ie, read that as "script", 
                          "char", sub-env, room, etc)
ie: lecture-teacher (??name??) and
            learner-student (??you? me? etc)
And that may be just what is needed in "the play".

Refer to "Student Saga" in the rest/rejuvinate area
   BUSINESS ETHICS 101 CLASS

.. expd/expl = save point, rest area, calm centre, etc.

But, of course, part of the goal (of PlR^'s) is to 
provide a lab-like, exploritoium-like 

(ref: Max Oppenheimer, univ chicago or a museum there-in/of)

style env and HENCE

  features (etc++) that the student can play 
  with

as ??name?? said, when she was describing "trying out"
a new env:

   Once it gets boring, i start trying to see
   what i can do with it. I pick up a car,
   walk over to the edge of the bridge and 
   drop it off. If a police man comes up 
   and gives me a ticket for spitting from
   the bridge then that's what i call COOL!
         - by no means an exact quote

but you get the idea. 

NEW TOPIC

The Principle of "Least Surprise"
==================================

this is an old-school term for non-intuitive behaviour(s)
of a system. If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck.....

ref to:  shape-shifters;  eg, ST - DS9 "odo"
         the hyper-evolving "captain" in the radio vers of the h2g2

If something looks like a table, then it SHOULD BE a table.
That is, it is "table-like"; eg, you can put something on it.
And (baring an earthquake) it stays there.

The most common occurence of a table is in the
trad of the "still life" in art. A vase w/flower.



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