2016 PROMO: EDU: Own your own Dinosaur, virtually! (Virtual is better than real in this case)

Own your own Dinosaur, virtually!  
(Virtual is better than real in this case)

For the kid who wants to be a paleontologist, for the teacher of  introductory ecology, for the producer of adventure videos, for anyone who wants to keep pets in an apartment, virtual is the way to go.  

• Watch on YouTube
• Anyone for dinosaurs? Hunt them, study them, make movies of them...
• Murassic Park. Be your own dinosaur

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• Where is Arcadia?

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Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Hobo Reserved Sandbox on Kitely
• Selby's daily news collection

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2020 #VWEDU: VW: OSCC (OpenSimulator Community Conference) Exhibits: Educational experiences on offer. Experiences? Yes--In virtual worlds students don't just sit quietly and listen.

OSCC (OpenSimulator Community Conference) Exhibits:
Educational experiences on offer
Experiences? Yes--
In virtual worlds students don't just sit quietly and listen.    

Examples of how we create educational environments in virtual worlds.  Will an environment hold attention better than a textbook?  Maybe that depends on the environment.

Dinos in the shop

Educational?

• Only if students are learning to tell facts from fiction.
• If I were using the scene, I would ask students to report on that issue.
• Jurassic Park
• Era of the entrepreneurial educator. The unbundling of education opens the gate for entrepreneurs.
• OSCC hypergrid address: cc.opensimulator.org:8002
• At any arrival point , look for a big sign offering teleports to exhibit areas (5)
• OPENSIMULATOR COMMUNITY VIRTUAL CONFERENCE: December 5-6, 2020. Presentations Dec.5 on education in OpenSim
• OPENSIMULATOR COMMUNITY VIRTUAL CONFERENCE: December 5-6, 2020. Presentations Dec.6 on education in OpenSim

• Update 12/17/2020 The Dickens Project 2020 Edition. VWBPE2021: RECONNAISSANCE Call for Proposals.

2015 EDU: PEOPLE: Murassic Park. Be your own dinosaur

Murassic Park.  Be your own dinosaur

Paleontology, ecology--come alive! If you are going to play the role of T. Rex, you have to find out how T. Rex made a living.  Is this an accurate depiction?   Can you make a video about T. Rex making a kill? 

• Watch on YouTube
• The really interesting part starts after about 14 minutes.
• SLurl: click to go or drag to viewer screen.
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Isla%20de%20Peligro/67/138/1508

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News and Notes

• Win A Fellowship to Visit UWA in RL Deadline: June 30

• Scroll down for News, Notes, and Info
• The Hypergrid WIP Show, Google+ community
• OpenSimWorld: HyperGrid Destinations Directory  
• Calendars: Entertainment in the virtual worlds
• More news in my blog roll (column on the right)

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2019 WRITE: BLOG: Use auto-curation on your blogs

Use auto-curation on your blogs

If your blog carries evergreen content, you want to think about curating it.  The best curation requires manual intervention, but auto-curating is always up-to-date.

• About curation
• Are some of your blog posts evergreen (of lasting interest)?
• If so, you want to help people to find them in the future. 
• Blogs stay available indefinitely.  
• Here are some ways you can help your readers find articles in your blog.

• MUVE update 1/17/2019 Murder for dessert, OpenSim Fest, blogs, voice

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2017 PEOPLE: EDU: Kayaker's World - Panthalassa. T. rex, Velociraptor, etc. A lost world we found on a Metaverse Tour

Kayaker's World - Panthalassa.  T. rex, Velociraptor, etc.
A lost world we found on a Metaverse Tour

And we found it without the help of Conan Doyle.  You can find almost anything in the virtual worlds.  And you can document it in video, if you know how to do video capture and editing. 

Watch on YouTube

Go there 

• HG address: 
• grid.kitely.com:8002:Panthalassa
• Paste the HG address in the Find bar of the world map. click Find, TP
• In Kitely, use the Firestorm Hop: 
• hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Panthalassa/360/594/24
• Paste the Hop in the Nav bar of Kitely, enter

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Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• Cybalounge updated: now with voice!
• OSCC presentation videos available
• CRASH! Site, the musical under development by people like us
• OSHG: Exploratory project by NMA: Future of Open-Source Virtual Worlds
• 10th Annual Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education. March 29–April 1, 2017. Call for proposals
• Mal Burns: Inworld Review
• Try a browser-based virtual world
• Selby's daily news collection:  Virtual worlds are real   
• Virtual Outworlding news collection 
• Events on the Hypergrid: HYPEvents
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Destination guide: OpenSimWorld
• Opensim AAM Virtual Performers
• Sign of the Kite 
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Virtual world G+ communities:  Communities virtual worlds G+
• In a virtual world, your deodorant never fails.

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2016 EDU: BIZ: The Lost World of Kayaker Magic

The Lost World of Kayaker Magic

You can own your own lost world with the dinosaurs you can buy from Kayaker Magic. T. rex and others prowl this Lost World.  Are they all correctly placed from an ecological standpoint?  Could you use a lost world like this in a class on ecology?   On paleontology?  On education?  

Metaverse tour in Lost World

Go there

• HG Address:  grid.kitely.com:8002:Panthalassa
• Put the HG address in the world map next to Find.  Click Find, TP
• In Kitely and Firestorm, you can put the FS hop in the FS nav bar, press return
• hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Panthalassa/302/589/37

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Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• OpenSim Treasure Hunt. Jan 31 to March 1. An HGProject
• Hypergrid: Upcoming: Opportunities and events
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Hobo Reserved Sandbox on Kitely
• Selby's daily news collection

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2022 Prehistoric metaverse. Yes, the metaverse is good for time travel. And for teaching if you know what to do with it.

Prehistoric metaverse.  

Yes, the metaverse is good for time travel.  

And for teaching if you know what to do with it.

You can build any scene in the metaverse.  You can build scenes that teach.

• Watch on YouTube
• OSfestival 2022 Parcel 153 Kayaker Magic
• On Kitely market
• On Second Life marketplace

Could you use a prehistoric scene in teaching?

• There might be errors.
• Don't try to catch the errors.
• Let the students do that.
• Use inquiry based learning
• Form the students into teams.
• Task: Report on what the scene got right and what it got wrong,
• Task: Report on what the scene did well and what it could have done better.
• Send them to reliable sources,

2019 VID: PROMO: Construction tool. Dynamite Terrain Tool. Terraforming can be fun--and safe

Construction tool.   
Dynamite Terrain Tool.  
Terraforming can be fun--and safe  

A mesh prim that looks like a stick of dynamite. When you click on the prim or chat “boom” it explodes with particles and sound. Then it digs a hole in your terrain. Finally, it “falls” down into the bottom of the hole it just made. The safest way to play with explosives you are likely to find.

• Watch on YouTube

The hole is a shallow circular dent in the terrain with an optional crater lip. Explode the dynamite several times to dig a deeper hole. Or line up several and shout to get them all to go at once. This is how explosive professionals dig ditches! Or use it to put that crowning crater in your volcano.

• On Kitely market: Dynamite Terrain Tool  

This scripted object works on OpenSim 0.9 or 0.8, but it REQIRES Owner permissions, Estate Manager and Threat Level HIGH. Test for these with the Terrain Test Prim which you can buy here  or come to my world Fractalis and pick up a free copy of the Terrain Test Prim on the platform.

In chat type radius=nn to set the radius of the hole to any integer number. Type lip=off to disable the crater lip. You have to re-enable with lip=on before every explosion if you want the lip to grow higher than 1 meter. Type help at any time to get a list of commands and to find out the current radius and crater lip state.

• update 11/7/2019 Linden Lab Lays Off 30 Staff. VWBPE 2020 STELLAR – Sponsorship Opportunities

2022 Prehistoric metaverse. Classes on the Mesozoic? Nessie the Plesiosaur swims in Second Life. And your students can swim with her.

Prehistoric metaverse.  

Classes on the Mesozoic?   

Nessie the Plesiosaur swims in Second Life.  

And your students can swim with her.

The metaverse offers environments that no longer exist,  Ones that in the past you could only read about.

• Watch on YouTube

Related

• Kayaker Magic on the fence. Electric!
• The Boat Race Course at Panthalassa
• Educational experiences on offer. Experiences? Yes--In virtual worlds students don't just sit quietly and listen.
• Kayaker's World - Panthalassa. T. rex, Velociraptor, etc. A lost world we found on a Metaverse Tour
• Panthalassa on Kitely, by Kayaker Magic
• Anyone for dinosaurs? Hunt them, study them, make movies of them...
• Kayaker builds a horse, problems and solutions at the WIP meeting
• The Lost World of Kayaker Magic
• Own your own Dinosaur, virtually! (Virtual is better than real in this case)
• Godzilla and the boats: Testing the sim and the physics. Research can be fun.
• Educational resources on the Hypergrid: Educator places, educational places, education support
• Horse jumping in the virtual worlds

2019 #VWEDU BIZ: Educational resources on the Hypergrid: Educator places, educational places, education support

#VWEDU Educational resources on the Hypergrid: 
Educator places, educational places, education support 

Here is a list I am developing to help the new educational institutions on the Hypergrid find hypergrid resources that can supplement their instructional content.

Approaching Pompeii 
The villa and the road 
Vesuvius looms

• Educator places
• Educational places
• Education support
• Video capture and use

• MUVE update 4/25/2019 Funding sources for education. Entrepreneurial educators

2018 SEE: HOBBY: Kayaker Magic on the fence. Electric!

Kayaker Magic on the fence.  
Electric!

Kayaker Magic describes his new electric fence on his land in Panthalassa, in Kitely.  The fence is particularly suited for a dinosaur enclosure, such as Kayaker has in another part of his land: Gondwana.  

• Watch on YouTube

Go there 

• HG address:
• grid.kitely.com:8002:Panthalassa
• Put the HG address in the Find bar of the world map, click Find, TP
• Kayayker's store on Kitely Market

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Metaverse events, recent and upcoming

• Events on the Hypergrid: HYPEvents
• IMA Social Web and Virtual World Events, Music, and Meeting Calendar
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• OpenSimWorld Events
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• Opensim AAM Virtual Performers
• Promotion for virtual worlds and everything in 'em
• Selby's daily events and news collection:  Virtual worlds are real 
• Selby's YouTube Channel
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• Search this blog with the search bar, upper left.
• OSCC 2017 PresentationsMal Burns: Inworld Review
• Hypergrid Writer's Community
• Metaverse Jobs; Job Listings
• IMA projects
• 3D web-worlds of the browser (G+ community) 
• Virtual Outworlding news collection 
• Destination guide: OpenSimWorld
• Hyperica, Directory of Opensimulator hypergrid destinations
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Hypergrid Destinations
• Hypergrid-related articles in this blog

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2017 WW: MAG: The Web Report: Education and Educators: Planning

The Web Report: Education and Educators: Planning 

Plan for a video-based web magazine reporting on educational activities in virtual worlds.  Each edition/issue would have a lead editor and some others.  The edition would consist of videos  about education in virtual worlds with introductory videos made in web-world sets. 

• Watch on YouTube
• Talk show, presentation facilities available on the web
• Building a talk-show set in Cybalounge: Tutorial

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• Planning for a web report about virtual worlds
• Talk show, presentation facilities available on the web
• Building a talk-show set in Cybalounge: Tutorial
• Valibrarian Gregg is lead editor for the Digital citizenship edition.
• Public beta means that we publish when we are ready, not on schedule.
• First edition is inwork and themed: Digital citizenship 

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Metaverse events, recent and upcoming

• Mal Burns: Inworld Review
• Hypergrid Writer's Community
• IMA Blog
• IMA locations
• 3D web-worlds of the browser (G+ community)
• Selby's daily news collection:  Virtual worlds are real   
• Virtual Outworlding news collection 
• Events on the Hypergrid: HYPEvents
• Destination guide: OpenSimWorld
• Hyperica, Directory of Opensimulator hypergrid destinations
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Virtual world G+ communities:  Communities virtual worlds G+

2013 See: Seen around Second LIfe

Seen around Second Life
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T. Rex is often around Hobo Island

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2017 PEOPLE: Digiworldz dancing at Digiworldz birthday bash. Video by Wwanderer

Digiworldz dancing at Digiworldz birthday bash.
Video by Wwanderer on a metaverse tour

Metaverse Tours visit a place on the hypergrid every Saturday at 1 pm California time, starting at Kitely welcome center.  Often, Wwanderer makes a video, such as the one presented here.  

• Watch on YouTube

Go there

• Hypergrid address:
• login.digiworldz.com:8002
• Put the HG address in the Find bar of World Map, Click Find, TP
• Metaverse tour (G+ community)
• Tips for tour travel on the Hypergrid

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Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• Infinite Metaverse Alliance, organization for the metaverse.
• Want to try Halcyon?  Infinite Metaverse Alliance test grid 
• IMA on G+
• Cybalounge updated: now with voice!
• Javascript for beginners
• Learn Javascript for programmers
• OSCC presentation videos available
• CRASH! Site, the musical under development by people like us
• Mal Burns: Inworld Review
• Try a browser-based virtual world
• Selby's daily news collection:  Virtual worlds are real   
• Virtual Outworlding news collection 
• Events on the Hypergrid: HYPEvents
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Destination guide: OpenSimWorld
• Opensim AAM Virtual Performers
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Virtual world G+ communities:  Communities virtual worlds G+
• MOSES software development
• In a virtual world, your deodorant never fails.

2019 EDU: ART: Air painting. Doodleing in 3D. Skywriting without an airplane

Air painting.  Doodling in 3D. 
Skywriting without an airplane
I can show people what I imagine

A new product by Kayaker Magic lets you paint in OpenSim by creating balls and sticks in the air. You draw in the air with your cursor and the objects appear in living color.  Finger painting without the mess. And of course people can collaborate.   

• Watch on YouTube

This is a HUD that lets you paint balls, sticks and curves in the air around your avatar on Open Simulator. Wear the HUD, go into mouse-look mode, then paint lines in the air with your cursor and the left-mouse button. The resulting objects are full-perm and you can use them as a fun new way to build things in-world!

• Buy it here: Space Paint
• No muss, no fuss, no cleanup after.

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• The WEB home of Kayaker Magic
• Kaker Magic on the web

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• MUVE update 1/28/2019 Murder for dessert, OpenSim Fest, blogs, voice

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2016 HOBBIES: EVENTS: BOATING: The Boat Race Course at Panthalassa

The Boat Race Course at Panthalassa

Here's a video from an afternoon at Panthalassa. One of my favorite regions in Opensim. Kayaker Magic has dinosaurs, surfing, an archery range, and boats that even I can drive.  He has boat races here every Sunday at 2 or 3 pm PT.

• Watch on YouTube
• Thanks to Serene Jewell for the video

More about Panthlassa

• Panthalassa on Kitely, by Kayaker Magic
• The Lost World of Kayaker Magic
• Own your own Dinosaur, virtually! (Virtual is better than real in this case)
• NMA entry path (your low tech guide to the virtual worlds}

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Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• Events on the Hypergrid: HYPEvents
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Destination guide: OpenSimWorld
• Opensim AAM Virtual Performers
• Sign of the Kite (News, not limited to Kitely)
• Selby's daily news collection
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• New Kitely login splash page (not for logging in)
• In a virtual world, your deodorant never fails.

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2019 LIBR: EDU: Let's gather a list of educationally useful places on the hypergrid

Let's gather a list of educationally 
useful places on the hypergrid

Updated  2/13/2019

A call for a database of places that might be of use for instruction. A few examples are given. More may be added. Educator resources 

The villa and the road
Vesuvius looms

Not schools but

• Historically and culturally important places virtually reproduced.
• Or virtual museums
• Like this: VSTE Index to Educational Sims
• But for OpenSim places
• Pompeii
• A scene from Antony and Cleopatra
• The world of John Steinbeck
• Virunga
• Prehistoric animals

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2019 HOBBY: Tessin: Themed place: roleplay adventure: sailing, combat, farming. Utrechtse Statenjacht

Tessin: Themed place: roleplay adventure: 
sailing, combat, farming.  Utrechtse Statenjacht 

Tessin has an adventure theme with several activities.  This article reports on sailing and a ship of historical interest.  The sailing is supported by Kayaker Magic, a ship-builders and scripter of renown in OpenSim.  Tessin has gathered some respected assets of OpenSim to support its adventures.

• Watch on YouTube
• Utrechtse Statenjacht
• You can sail a copy of Utrechtse Statenjacht in Tessin

Go there

Hypergrid address:
grid.kitely.com:8002:Tessin
Put the HG address in the Find bar of the World Map., Click Find, TP

Tessin (Web Page)
Tessin (Place in Kitely)
Tessin is a 4X4 that is 1024 by 1024  (= 16 sims) 


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• MUVE update 1/4/2019

2019 #VWEDU: OpenSimulator Community Conference 2019 Dec. 14-15. Dec 14 events: Selected presentations with emphasis on education and broad interest

OpenSimulator Community Conference 2019 (OSCC) Dec. 14-15.  
Dec 14 events:  Selected presentations with emphasis 
on education and broad interest 

OpenSimulator Community Conference (OSCC) is not all tech.  It is not even mostly tech.  It is mostly about uses of OpenSimpulator, especiallu in education.  And you do have time to catch a presentation--they mostly take 20 minutes.  Here are my suggestions for Sat. Dec. 14.

OpenSimulator Community Conference

Last year

• OSCC conference 2019

The OpenSimulator Community Conference is an annual conference that focuses on the developer and user community creating the OpenSimulator software. The conference features presentations, workshops, keynote sessions, and social events across diverse sectors of the OpenSimulator user base.

• Update 12/12/2019: OpenSimulator Community Conference Dec 14, 15 2019; IMA releases simplified Scenegate viewer

2020 #VWEDU Education in Virtual Worlds. Summary

#VWEDU Education in  
Virtual Worlds Summary 

Updated 10/5/2020

A collection of articles about education in virtual worlds.

The empty classroom

• Era of the entrepreneurial educator. The unbundling of education opens the gate for entrepreneurs.
• Schools, colleges, and universities with classes in user-managed virtual places.
• International, multicultural college MOOC in Kitely: Jews/Arabs/secular/religious students work together in classes
• Starting to teach online? All the tools you need in one place. And a digital classroom in a browser. Demo seminar April 25
• MUVE, the Future of e-Learning: Building a Virtual Learning World (From IEEE)
• A campus on the internet. A front office on the web. A school on a laptop
• No quarantine online. Groups can meet in web-worlds with no preparation. Talk, exchange ideas, exchange documents. Exchange almost anything but germs.
• OSCC19 EUREKA WORLD AN ECOSYSTEM FOR LEARNING. School campuses in virtual worlds: teachers, students, mentors, developers.
• The Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) for MUVES (virtual worlds): Summary
• Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds running in a browser. Summary
• Education-related articles in this blog (search)
• Virtual worlds as a practice field
• Aggregators
• Builds, museums, libraries 
• Conferences, meetings, communities
• Instruction and training
• Gamification
• Tools 
• To search this page for key terms:  Ctrl+f opens search bar, upper right.
• To search this blog for articles about education: Click here