It’s been one month since teachers participated on the MissionV training day at Galway Education Centre and we’ve been delighted with the progress in that short time. In this blog post we’d like to bring you up to date on what students from 20 primary schools all around Ireland, have been creating and learning in their virtual worlds.

A magical house built by Seán, 8, and Aaron, 9 at Gaelscoil an Bhradáin Feasa.
For the first few weeks students on …

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Prepared at the request of Richard Bruton, TD, Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Forfás* has published a new report in co-ordination with Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland.
From the point of view of MissionV the report includes two particularly interesting action points for Discover Science & Engineering and T4 Technology Subjects Supports Services respectively –
 
(1) Promote Awareness at Primary and Secondary School
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On Facebok we’ve been following the work of Indonesian teacher – Ines Puspita – who is doing amazing things with her 5th and 6th graders in Second Life (which is essentially the same as the MissionV virtual world, based on Opensim).
Here’s a wonderful video she’s after putting together of how they studied atoms and molecules in their virtual world.

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We were delighted to hear the primary school students at Clontuskert N.S. in Co. Galway podcasting their first impressions of game-based learning in the MissionV virtual world.
Clontuskert is an amazing little school which has competed in LEGO league championships and piloted the LEGO WeDo learning system in Ireland (among many other sporting and academic accomplishments).

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We were recently interviewed by Michael Hallissy of H2 Learning for a podcast which you can now listen to on the TeachNet website.

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What is MissionV game-based learning? In this 4 minute video, produced by Conn Ó Muíneacháin of Edgecast Media as part of our application to the David Manley Awards 2011, I explain what our 20 school programme is all about and why we’re doing it. You’ll also see a vox pop with the kids from our pilot project in Gaelscoil Eoghain Ui Thuairisc in Carlow and their parents and teachers –

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In this video Margaret talks about how important it was to have the full support of the school and the parents for phase 1 of the pilot project in Carlow last year. Also how important it was that the kids used MissionV not just at school but at home, to collaborate and build things together.
She then discusses game-based learning and how the kids had the same fun as playing a video game while learning in MissionV. And it’s great …

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It was wonderful to see teen (social) entrepreneur and programming whizz James Whelton featured on Wednesday night’s Nationwide programme on RTE1. Not only has James started his own internet company but he’s behind the Coder Dojo movement bringing programming workshops to young kids all across Ireland. I’d love to see kids getting time to watch it in school and to learn just how cool it is to be a geeky developer / entrepreneur.
You can watch the Nationwide episode here.

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Here the school children from our pilot project in Gaelscoil Eoghan Ui Thuairisc talk about how they have constructed the environment of their virtual world.

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In the second of our new series of videos the school kids in Gaelscoil Eoghan Ui Thuairisc talk about changing the appearance of their virtual world avatars. And the commentary might surprise you!
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