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Exploring Magic Cottage: A Virtual Reality Environment for Stimulating

Childrens Imaginative Writing
Monet Brooks
Nevada State College

Exploring Magic Cottage

This presents a study that creates a virtual environment to motivate and create in imaginative
writing for children that interacts the virtual world to stimulate their imagination of writing that is
completely normal for teachers to review. Its really important to choose a subject or topic to learn and
tech about these methods to identify technology that can help to overcome issues or dealing with
current teaching techniques. Its also to seek to develop possibilities for using the virtual reality
technology for teaching and writing to children in primary schools because of educational work with
technology.
Teachers have decided to use a time with children as part of their normal curriculum work to
explore any educational deployment: to give more time to demonstrate more for children to leave
classes for special treatment with the people that does researching and then to train with the teachers
to play along to exercise different strategies on new lessons.
There are also some sound effects on what the children could hear, with interactive features.
Its based on school activities during the days at school. Its really important for children to learn the
basics of creative writing. They can also use activities for drawing inspirational animations from
fairytales, storybooks, educational television like Sesame Street to learn letters, shapes, and to write
letters to teachers. Its very detailed for children. It all starts in a classroom where it takes about 45
minutes to demonstrate to the children about three types of writing. Functional, personal, and
creativity.

Literature Review

Imaginative writing is also a part of an English classes. The activity is conducted around once or
twice in a classroom for children taking 45 minutes after briefing or instructed by the teachers. They
learn to focus on language skills and to express their skills that has something to do with creativity.
There comes with structure and much less more for grammar, spelling, and handwriting. Teachers also
deal with storytelling to the children to use their imagination to inspire them. It gives teachers more
ideas for their own English classes (one day) to develop interactive environments to learn and teach to
engage the childrens interest.
There is a website for children to know about called Teatrix, which is a virtual environment
designed for children to read story creations for role plays. Each piece of childrens imaginative writing is
marked by a teacher who gives them more criteria such as descriptions of senses, emotions, storylines,
fantasies, and sequence of events. Basically, whatever comes along with television, is what they will see
and learn about.
Theres video recordings, data, and lots of fantasies to learn and to show from the teachers. I
have 3 kids that watch lots of educational television like Sesame Street, Barney, etc. They learn in so
many ways. They also like to color on the coloring books, and use their hands so much for writing their
names on a piece of paper.

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There are so many ways for activities. Its all about creativity. Creative writing is the best thing
for children at home that wants to draw or write things, but its best to demonstrate yourself, also as a
parent so they will know at school what to do.
There are two different primary schools that also took part of the study for children. One from
Clydemuir and the other from Christie Park School. The education had started back in Scotland where
children had used a system to present the virtual environment. They have to stand in a 1.8x1.3m wide
projection screen with an active stereo projector behind wearing some crystal eyes goggles to provide a
separate image for both eyes. Thats how they had to learn by.
This has been arranged for around 6-7 years for children for mostly elementary school kids. Its
easier with fairytales (through books) Its a way for them to express themselves. There was a part of an
evidence where it had a stronger effect on certain kids, As far as boys and girls. Boys write less than girls,
never get too motivated to creative writing, the topics just dont interest them too much.
Its difficult for boys to understand what they have to write about, they would rather watch
television and not draw or create anything. It was better for girls because they enjoy writing and they
learn more quickly by paying attention to the teachers on what they say to visualize what they see. The
children can be very talkative (grades K-5) during the discussion sessions with the teachers and it gets
overwhelming at times where it can get harder to put their ideas on a paper for creative writing, takes
even longer to complete their stories from what they saw from the screens.

Method

Both groups that visited the classrooms that enjoyed the outing and especially the digital group
got very engaged in exploring the virtual reality environment. The variables that this study aimed to
measure and evaluate were motivation and creativity. Motivation was important to both by word
counting of the childrens stories and from the video recordings, observation data and teachers
comments.

Discussion

The best evidence for the children is that both schools should get more involved in their
education, maybe to repeat the class again for the 2nd time to pay more attention to the teachers who
try to discipline the children by giving them more feedback about the meaning and the effects on their
creativity. Its hard work and it does takes some time, but the children needs lots of attention and they
need to learn. Who else would be in charge of the kids? How else will they learn the technology? They
will learn once they get older and wiser.
There are plenty of ways to let them children know, just the basics of creativity first by using a
pencil and a piece of paper, starting from when they are at home before they start kindergarten. Even in
the daycare centers, they can create by drawing certain things like pictures of a horse, or drawing their
names for the first time, or to learn how to read a book, learning some shapes and letters. Thats way to
start, or just by starting from at home as an activity.

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