Children's reading in the age of technology.
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As digital media play an ever larger role in children’s lives, how do we develop creative approaches to learning and literacy that capitalize on the benefits of technology, yet remain human-centered and inclusive?
- Watch on YouTube
- Education in Virtual Worlds. Summary
- Allegheny Portage Railroad: a virtual time machine
- Walk through to learn--museum on your desk
- (More after the break)
- Where is Arcadia?
Metaverse events, current and upcoming
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New Media Arts (NMA) on the web
Builds, museums, libraries, media
- Own your own Dinosaur, virtually! (Virtual is better than real in this case)
- Seanchai Library has new immersive literary adventures in virtual worlds
- Anyone for dinosaurs? Hunt them, study them, make movies of them...
- Time Travel. The Drax Files: [Episode 33: Luxembourg 1867]
- A dark place of dark deeds. Whitechapel, 1888
- 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
- Educational resources for virtual worlds: Free. Universal Campus
- 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
- Very virtual short poetry library
- Boyhood home of Johnny Cash, Dyess Colony
- Build your own museum. You can do that in Second Life
- eXtension Just in Time Parenting
- Kansas to Cairo
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 and elsewhere.
Next WIP show
- Next WIP show: Sun. Apr 10, Noon SLT
- Narasnook location (second Sunday of the month)
- Pandora allows presenters to run high threat OSSL functions.
- 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 (second Sunday of the month)
- Pandora allows presenters to run high threat OSSL functions.
- 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 (fourth Sunday of the month)
- 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
- Next WIP show: Sun. Apr 10, Noon SLT
- Narasnook location (second Sunday of the month)
- Pandora allows presenters to run high threat OSSL functions.
- 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 (second Sunday of the month)
- Pandora allows presenters to run high threat OSSL functions.
- 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 (fourth Sunday of the month)
- 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
- 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
- Events on the Hypergrid: HYPEvents
- Entertainment on the Hypergrid, a G+ community
- HYPERGRID EVENTS
- Hypergrid Destinations
- Events on the Hypergrid: HYPEvents
- Entertainment on the Hypergrid, a G+ community
- HYPERGRID EVENTS
- Hypergrid Destinations
HG links-- depending on your interests
- Hypergrid Tour 2016-01-- 167 virtual worlds
- HOW TO HYPERGRID
- Sign of the Kite
- Events on the Hypergrid: HYPEvents
- Maria's OS grid survey, 2015
- Best metaverse communities
- Top avatar outfitters on the hypergrid
- Arcadia Asylum All Around
- G+ community: Hypergrid Safari
- G+ community: Metaverse Tours
- Opensimworld. Destination guide for the Hypergrid
- Hypergrid Tour 2016-01-- 167 virtual worlds
- HOW TO HYPERGRID
- Sign of the Kite
- Events on the Hypergrid: HYPEvents
- Maria's OS grid survey, 2015
- Best metaverse communities
- Top avatar outfitters on the hypergrid
- Arcadia Asylum All Around
- G+ community: Hypergrid Safari
- G+ community: Metaverse Tours
- Opensimworld. Destination guide for the Hypergrid
Metaverse beginner help
- How to Enter Kitely Virtual Worlds
- Metaverse 101 Info
+ Tutorials for getting started in Opensim
- Fr43k Paine/Dealing With Griefers
- 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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