Monday, September 28, 2015

2015 NEW: Beginner instructions for virtual worlds, another example

Beginner instructions for virtual worlds, 
another example 
To help develop the best beginner instruction for virtual worlds, I collect and report on good examples.  Anyone developing their own instruction place can look over the examples and borrow the best ideas.  
Entry point
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  • Hop to welcome island:
  • Put the line below in the World Map, next to Find.  Click Find, TP
  • edugrid.3dles.com:8002
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  • In Edugrid use Firestorm hop to Arcadia beginner's island:
  • Put the line below in the nav bar of Firestorm, enter
  • hop://edugrid.3dles.com:8002/Arcadia/129/128/45

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    Wider view of entry point
    • Freebies are offered 
    • Destinations include a Linda Kelley sim
    Entry to the beginner instructions
    • The instructions are in support of the TILA project
    Six languages
    • English, Dutch, German, French, Catalan, Spanish
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    Instruction and practice
    • Here you are in a corridor with no way to go forward.  Stymied 
    Until you practice flying
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    I can use the window exit
    • Now that I know how to fly.
    I can go to the next unit
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    Only when I master the unit about flying
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    Other units 
    • are on the wooden deck
    How to get things
    • Buy and copy things
    • Things to get 
    Another game of skill
    • Outside of a school setting people will pay money to play games of skill.
    • In school people hate to take tests, which are also games of skill.
    • Have you ever wondered how the educational system managed that?
    Destinations when you are ready for them 
    • I did not see instructions on how to teleport
    • A sand box and a place to hold meetings

    • The information desk has a talking head.
    • It is browser on prim.   VOKI

    Other examples of beginner help in virtual worlds

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    News and Notes

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        • Summer of Arts 2015
        • Open to artists now.
        • Open to everyone September 25, 2015, 12 pm PST
        • Go there:
        • HG address: Put the line below in the world map, next to Find. Click Find.  TP.
        • hypergrid.org:8002:*Metropolis*

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