2016 EDU: GAME: Educational games in virtual worlds

Educational games in virtual worlds

The quaint idea persists that virtual worlds are for entertainment.  So we have a  list of educational games. If you are going to be entertained, you may as well learn something at the same time.

• Games in virtual worlds. Summary
• Beginner's building on the Hypergrid. Primland, the building game.  Part 1
• Beginer's building on the Hypergrid. Primland, the building tutorial game, Part 2
• Gamification of Second Life?
• A model for educational games?
• Winter safety game, serious games
• Rapid development kit for games. Available on the Hypergrid
• The University of Idaho and the game of education
• Winter safety game, serious games
• Edugaming and the BSG project. Educators, Game designers, Content creators for 3D
• The Summer Games MOOC (Massive Online Open Course) theme is immersive environments
• Gamification. ADHD-friendly

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• (More after the break)
• Where is Arcadia?

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Timely Information

• Information which may be immediately important to some people
• The case of the vanishing suitcase

Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• Ballet Pixelle presents "The Nut": dance in the virtual world Thru Dec.
• VWBPE Call for papers, Meet 3/9-12/2016. Proposals due by 1/17/2016
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Hobo Reserved Sandbox on Kitely. 

• Next WIP show: Sun. Jan 10, Noon SLT
• Fred.Beckhusen tells a lotl
• Location:  world.narasnook.com:8900
• Put the line above in your World Map next to Find.  Click Find. TP
• At Narasnook, use World Map to search for Pandora

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Metaverse beginner help

• Metaverse 101 Info & Tutorials for getting started in Opensim
• A Dimension Beyond
• Virtual Outworlding Table of Contents. Summary
• Newcomer help in virtual worlds
• Virtual worlds are about people. Communities, communication, shared goals
• Time conversion: put time/time zone into Google search to get your time 
• Scroll down for News, Notes, and Info

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Or do-it-yourself gamification of what you have to learn.  

• Pick a learning objective.  
• If you can't find a learning objective, ask the teacher.
• Figure out what would convince someone that you have met that objective.
• Figure out what steps will get you to that goal. 
• Do the steps one at a time.  
• The winning score is 10 times the number of steps.
• Give yourself 10 points for each step you complete successfully.
• When you get to the winning score, you win. 
• You also learned a bit about reaching goals.

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News and Notes

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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. 

Next WIP show 

• Next WIP show: Sun. Jan 10, Noon SLT
• Fred.Beckhusen tells a lot
• Location:  world.narasnook.com:8900
• Put the line above in your World Map next to Find.  Click Find. TP
• At Narasnook, use World Map to search for Pandora

• Narasnook  location
• world.narasnook.com:8900
• Put the line above in your World Map next to Find.  Click Find. TP
• At Narasnook, use World Map to search for Pandora

• Cookie II location
• HG address below: paste into the World Map next to Find. Click Find, TP
• grid.kitely.com:8002:Cookie II 
• in Kitely: paste into Nav (top) bar of Firestorm, Enter.
• hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Cookie II/68/369/22

Previous Articles from the WIP show 

• WIP Show: How to with NPC, Nara Malone. Storytelling of the future
• WIP on Cookie II, Kitely, 9/20 Dolls, Discos, and Discussion
• WIP August 23, A conversation about being creative
• The WIP show, 7/18/2015: Virtual mobile art by Lucy Afarensis
• WIP Show at Hobo Sandbox on Cookie II, Kitely
• WIP Show, works in progress on the Hypergrid June 3, 2015
• Hypergrid WIP meeting. The creatives of the hypergrid

Entertainment on the Hypergrid

• Events on the Hypergrid: HYPEvents
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid, a G+ community
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Hypergrid Destinations

HG links-- depending on your interests

• Events on the Hypergrid: HYPEvents
• Maria's OS grid survey, 2015
• Best metaverse communities   
• Arcadia Asylum All Around   
• G+ community: Hypergrid Safari
• G+ community: Metaverse Tours
• Hypergrid Destinations

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• I publish about 6 days a week, skipping 1 or 2 days in midweek
• For more on topics like this, circle Selby Evans in Google+ 
• What do we do in Virtual Worlds? 
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• Google search this blog: Search bar, upper left--or:
• Put site:virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com at the end of the search terms 
• What is Second Life?
• Annotated screen shots made with Jing
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