There is an old saying that states:
Life is what happens when you have other plans.Definitely holds true for me.
Since I lasted posted to this blog lots of things have happened with the enCore Learning Environment.
Some good some bad.
The Bad is that the enCore Consortium folded. Partly as a result of the unfortunate passing of one of the key movers and shakers, Barbara McManus, and difficulty in getting access to the old domain to maintain the mail list.
The Good is that we now have a JAVA free client for enCore V4 MOOs that is a drop in replacement for the JAVA based Mootcan applet. Jack Lewis at Western Michigan University created and supports the client at Literary Worlds and they have kindly made the client available to all enCore systems.
So where to from here?
I know there is still a lot of interest in enCore, more so now that we no longer have to fight with JAVA restriction policies at many educational institutions.
I know that those of us who have used these systems over the years have collected a fair amount of information tricks and tools and new users and builders could benefit mightily from access to that.
Community support via the old encore mail list was excellent and really helped those of us struggling with making enCore perform all the tricks our imaginations wanted it to.
Thus I have created a new Google Group to become the hub for support of this system.
You can access the Group here: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/encore-learning-environment
This group is not currently open to the public but feel free to request membership and I'll add you.
The Barn is hosted still at Literary Worlds here: http://brn227.brown.wmich.edu/Barn/news.htm
Watch the group and this blog for more interesting MOO news over the coming months.
Thanks for reading.
KJ
