4 Chosen Topics-Virtual world

-Spore


-Sims


-Activeworlds





A virtual world is a computer-based simulated environment intended for its users to inhabit and interact via avatars. These avatars are usually depicted as textual, two-dimensional, or three-dimensional graphical representations, although other forms are possible
The computer accesses a computer-simulated world and presents perceptual stimuli to the user, who in turn can manipulate elements of the modeled world and thus experiences telepresence to a certain degree.

Hierarchy

"The Hierarchy theory is a dialect of general systems theory. It has emerged as part of a movement toward a general science of complexity. Rooted in the work of economist, Herbert Simon, chemist, Ilya Prigogine, and psychologist, Jean Piaget, hierarchy theory focuses upon levels of organization and issues of scale. There is significant emphasis upon the observer in the system. "

"Hierarchical levels: levels are populated by entities whose properties characterize the level in question. A given entity may belong to any number of levels, depending on the criteria used to link levels above and below. For example, an individual human being may be a member of the level i) human, ii) primate, iii) organism or iv) host of a parasite, depending on the relationship of the level in question to those above and below."

"The ordering of levels: there are several criteria whereby other levels reside above lower levels. These criteria often run in parallel, but sometimes only one or a few of them apply. Upper levels are above lower levels by virtue of: 1) being the context of, 2) offering constraint to, 3) behaving more slowly at a lower frequency than, 4) being populated by entities with greater integrity and higher bond strength than, and 5), containing and being made of - lower levels."

"A SUMMARY OF THE PRINCIPLES OF HIERARCHY THEORY" By
Timothy F. Allen, Professor of Botany,
University of Wisconsin Madison

Planning

"Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people
Strategic planning is the formal consideration of an organization's future course.
All strategic planning deals with at least one of three key questions:

1. "What do we do?"
2. "For whom do we do it?"
3. "How do we excel?" [1]

"an act of formulating a program for a definite course of action; "the planning was more fun than the trip itself"
the act or process of drawing up plans or layouts for some project or enterprise
the cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening; "his planning for retirement was hindered by several uncertainties" [2]

"Planning in organizations and public policy is both the organizational process of creating and maintaining a plan; and the psychological process of thinking about the activities required to create a desired goal on some scale. As such, it is a fundamental property of intelligent behavior. This thought process is essential to the creation and refinement of a plan, or integration of it with other plans, that is, it combines forecasting of developments with the preparation of scenarios of how to react to them." [3]


[1]- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_planning
[2]- wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
[3]- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planning

Save Custom Materials in Sandbox 2

Step One:
Navigate to Sandbox 2's top nav bar and locate the Tools drop down menu as shown below.

Step Two:
Locate the Preferences menu and click on it. It can be found in the following image.



Step Three:
The following menu will pop up after you complete Step Two and you will need to locate and click the menu Source Control. If you find it successfully the image below is what you will see on your screen. Continue to Step Four to complete this tutorial.



Step Four:
Finally you need to click the check box next to Enabled so it reads False and looks the same as the image below. Once you have completed this step click OK to fix your material saving problems.