Theatron 3 - Educational undertakings in Second Life

The English Subject Centre and PALATINE the Dance, Drama & Music Subject Centre are collaborating on the educational component of an exciting new project in the 3D virtual world Second Life. The project involves the importing of a range of pre-existing 3D theatre models into the Second life environment and supplementing these with existing and new interpretative content and a spectrum of original interactive tools, scenarios and automated tutorials, incorporating manipulable and customisable actors, props, sound effects, lighting and scenic technologies, streaming video and scripts enabling individual and group movement/choreography.

The new scenarios to be developed and tested will allow a wide range of Higher Education subject areas – including but extending far beyond the performing arts – to take advantage of the social, collaborative and interactive aspects of this shared virtual environment.

We are joining a consortium of organisations to undertake the Theatron 3 Project of which the lead is being taken by the Visualisation Lab at King's College. The project has been funded by the Eduserv foundation. Further details about the project extracted from the detailed project bid are available below as project background material.

Date:	1/6/2007 - 4/6/2009
Contact:	Ralph Brown 01524 593545, ralph.brown@lancaster.ac.uk