K12 and the Texas Virtual Academy.
Can you teach online?
Updated 8/28/2015
The Hypergrid WIP Show
Can you teach online?
Updated 8/28/2015
A taxpayer supported online school. A public school from the standpoint of the parents. A privately managed school from the standpoint of the staff. A developing industry that is bound to need people and resources appropriate for online instruction.
Empty Classroom
K12 Inc. is a for-profit education company that sells online schooling and curriculum to state and local governments. Its educational products and services are designed as alternatives to traditional "bricks and mortar" education for public school students from kindergarten to 12th grade. K12 is a publicly traded education management organization (EMO) that provides online education services to charter school students. It is paid for from taxes.[3] K12 is the largest EMO in terms of enrollment.[4]
What could the metaverse offer?
- Low cost sets for instructional videos
- Learning environments for inworld learning
- Social learning environments for teamwork practice
- Educators skilled in managing online learning
- Educators and others familiar with immersive games
- Insert your ideas here.
- Career Opportunities
- (More after the break)
News and Notes
HG WIP Show Friday, Aug 7, Sun. Aug 9.
The Hypergrid WIP Show
The Hypergrid WIP is a one hour "show & tell" of works in progress or recently completed. All builders from beginner to pro are invited. Presentations are in voice and text. For text presentations, best bring the text in a notecard and paste it into chat. Voice presentations may be captured in video. Stills and videos from the show may appear in this blog.
- HG address: Put the line below in the world map, next to Find. Click Find. TP.
- grid.kitely.com:8002:Cookie II
- In Kitely: put the line below in the Firestorm nav bar, enter
- hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Cookie II/77/373/22
- Upcoming WIPs: August 7, 9, 21, 23
- HG address: Put the line below in the world map, next to Find. Click Find. TP.
- grid.kitely.com:8002:Cookie II
- In Kitely: put the line below in the Firestorm nav bar, enter
- hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Cookie II/77/373/22
- Upcoming WIPs: August 7, 9, 21, 23
Previous Articles from the WIP show
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PURSUE IMPOSSIBLE: UWA 3D Art & Film Challenges 2015,
The University of Western Australia (UWA) has launched 'PURSUE IMPOSSIBLE, the 6th UWA Grand Art Challenge and MachinimUWA VIII with a starting prize pool in excess of L$400,000. Deadline: Midnight SLT, 31st October 201
SciFi Film Festival
- SciFi Film Festival 2015 has a submission fee but
- For videos shot in Second Life, University of Western Australia
- pays the fee.
- Deadline for Late Submissions: Midnight – 29 August 2015
Summer of Arts submissions open on Metropolis
- Summer of Arts 2015
- Open to artists now.
- Open to everyone September 25, 2015
Scroll down for News, Notes, and Info
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***********************- Online Public Schools
- How does it work?
- Explore your online public school options in Texas today
- K12 Blog
- Florida Virtual Instruction Provider Information
- We have known all along it was coming.
- But this might mean it is here, at least in Texas.
- Not just Texas. I just saw the ad because I am in Texas.
- But Texas had 5,151,925 students in public schools in 2013-14.
- And on the internet, nobody cares where you live.
Related
Students
Schools and courses
Educational Grids
VIBE--Virtual Islands for Better Education
- Why an OpenSimulator Virtual Campus? REDgrid, of Ball State University
- VIBE: Virtual Islands for Better Education: Features for educators
Virtual worlds as a practice field
- Science reports and advocacy. Ball State University honors projects
- Learn English Network Academy: Kitely, Second Life. Free.
- RezMela in Kitely: Simulations for disaster response training
- Etopia Island - Etopia EcoCommunities - Sustainable Living
- Second Life machinima used in driving training
- Virtual Worlds: A practice field for social media and public relations people
- Training, emergency scenarios, clinical content, teamwork, in a virtual world
- Remote collaboration: methods
- Winter safety game, serious games
- English as a second Language. Virtlantis, holodeck
- Group Projects: Tools for group meetings: Vocabulary
- First Responder of Second Life
- Virtually a disaster
Aggregators
Builds, museums, libraries, media
- Micrographia in the virtual world. A museum on your desk
- Murassic Park. Be your own dinosaur
- Public service instruction in virtual worlds: Unofficial 3D ADA Toolkit
- Smithsonian Latin Virtual Museum - Day of the dead-- Dia de los Muertos
- American Museum of Natural History summer camp project, Vesuvius Group
- Bread and Roses Strike, Lawrence, Mass., 1912, interactive course
- Fallingwater, gem of American architecture, at Seanchai Library on Kitely Grid
- The Korean Turtle ship, with work from Arcadia Asylum
- Allegheny Portage Railroad: a virtual time machine (VIBE)
- VSTE Index to Educational Sims
- Virtual Harlem Video, the Cotton Club
- A journey through Museums in Second Life
- Undersea observatory. Pre-fab sim. Free. Displayed on Kitely
- A UWA 3D Creation Challenge: What Makes us Human?
- Tejano Tech. University of Texas at San Antonio
- Art and history at Tejano Tech. University of Texas at San Antonio
- University of Houston, Campus and public exhibits
- Among the cranial nerves. UK with UWA - Anatomy & Biology
- Build your own museum. You can do that in Second Life
- Walk through to learn--museum on your desk
- eXtension Just in Time Parenting
- Kansas to Cairo
Science
International/historical
- Sengoku Japan is set during the "Sengoku era" in feudal times
- Berlin in the 1920s
- Second Life International: Focus on nations and languages
Extension
Conferences, meetings, events, connections
- CyberNetWorlds Part 1: The School. Tech for distance learning
- HomeTown Science 3D University of Texas, Medical Branch, Clinical Laboratory Sciences
- Education communities in virtual worlds expand into social media
- Collaboration and leveling up instructional design
- Monthly International Workshop on Science Exhibits (MIWoSE)
- Why Are We Still Learning History From Textbooks?
- ADHD, The future of education is not the past
Instruction and training
- MA Education in Virtual Worlds, UWE, University of West England
- Top 10 Tips on How to Use Avatars in eLearning
- 3D Virtual Learning environments for experiential learning
- Teaching creative writing in a virtual world: How get the world.
- Agile 3d Atlas
- Agile3d Distributed Agile Study Group
- Second Life machinima used in driving training
- LANGUAGE: ESL: Interview with a Virtlantean - Jeff
- Professional development on your desk
Health
Gamification and quests
- Patterns and Journeys in Quest Based Learning
- Learning games in retail management, leadership and coaching at TELUS
- 9 Techniques For Online Educators To Gamify Their Digital Classrooms
- The University of Idaho and the game of education
- Why games are better than classes. How Success Affects Brain Chemistry
- Games in virtual worlds. Summary
- Edugaming and the BSG project. Game design, content creators for 3D
- Gamification as Discipline for Instructional Design
- Serious Games Award Entries Due May 1
- Games: Play Doctor
- Gamification! Educational Puzzle
Research
- Games help kids fight cancer
- Online courses for professional development or continuing education? A study
- I believe I can fly." UWA 3 Minute Thesis Speech
- Applied Research in Immersive Environments for Learning (ARiEL SIG): conferences and journals
- Environmental Sustainability. Invited Post by Kevin Feenan
Tools, resources, views
- The RezMela™ approach
- LetsDance - OpenSimulator NPCs and animations
- Technology and the democratization of creativity
- VIBE: Virtual Islands for Better Education: Features for educators
- MA Education in Virtual Worlds, UWE, University of West England
- 5 Tips to Market Yourself as an eLearning Professional
- 7 Tips To Integrate Storytelling Into Your Next eLearning Course
- UWA offers free online courses to help newcomers start in virtual worlds
- Remote collaboration: methods in virtual worlds
- Rapid development kit for games. Available on the Hypergrid.
- Opensim resources for learning
- Tips for video tutorials and 3D simulations
- Blogging for beginners, demo of blogging for instruction.
- Groupboard
- Remote collaboration: methods
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News and Notes
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Entertainment on the Hypergrid
Depending on your interests
- Best metaverse communities
- WIP Show at Hobo Sandbox on Cookie II, Kitely
- Arcadia Asylum All Around
- G+ community: Hypergrid Safari
- G+ community: Metaverse Tours
- Hypergrid Destinations
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- Best metaverse communities
- WIP Show at Hobo Sandbox on Cookie II, Kitely
- Arcadia Asylum All Around
- G+ community: Hypergrid Safari
- G+ community: Metaverse Tours
- Hypergrid Destinations
What an awesome post! Thank you!
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Looks like tremendous potential market for producers of online education.
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