Just viewed Croquet. Found my way there from the Squeak home page because I promised my OOP class that I would post some other items on my Sakai site about squeak.
I like what I am seeing with Croquet, but I do have to wonder, what is the advantage to taking a web page and sticking it 'in world'. I mean, we have alt-tab. Many people have multiple monitors at high resolution. Why are we forcing web content in to a smaller window? Or is it just a way for people comfortable with text (read: educational Establishment) to feel like they are doing innovative instructional design?
I'm not slamming Croquet. Maybe it's just going to be the "we are filming the stage" version of educational virtual spaces. But it seems like the real promise in this was the moon orbit and the mars rover simulation, and not in the shared collaborative workspace where everything is relegated to a small fraction of your screen real-estate.
Having said that, I may try to bring my multimedia students in to a Croquet world next semester.
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