2017 EDU: TKR: Working together apart: Collaboration and teamwork in virtual worlds

Working together apart: 
Collaboration and teamwork in virtual worlds

We can collaborate and work in teams in virtual worlds.  Here I have collected some articles about teamwork, group functioning, and the special aspects of collaboration in virtual worlds.

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We are used to working with other people in the world of work (after we get out of school).    In the past that meant getting people together in a room.  In the virtual world, we can get together in a virtual room.  That kind of collaboration is cheaper, faster, better, if we know how to do it.  But we never got Collaboration 101 in college.  It wasn't offered, although a few places, used  like engineering and business, and computer science taught it as part of the standard practice in their fields.
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Virtual worlds are naturally suited to collaboration and practice in collaboration skills. Here are some articles about how to develop and use these skills.  

• Creative Collaboration. Not just a slogan anymore
• Tools: classes, windows, rezzers, holodecks, collaboration
• Content creation: Build, script, texture, color, classes, video, particles, collaboration, tools
• Remote collaboration: methods in virtual worlds
• Gamestorming, visual thinking, creative collaboration, virtually
• Building communities in virtual worlds. Common interests, easy communication.
• Virtual worlds are about people. Communities, communication, shared goals
• ENCKE Virtual University Collaboration

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French Lai Poetry Workshop-Tue, 1/31, 7pm SLT

This week the Short Poetry Workshop presents the French Lai, which is a 13th century French poetry form. It has 9 lines and two rhyme schemes and deals with tales of adventure and romance.

• http://slurl.com/secondlife/Cookie/160/134/21/ 

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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Remote Collaboration

• Kitely Megaworld. Over 2 KM on a side. With a server to itself. The area of 64 traditional sims. With no sim borders to cross.
• Working together apart, virtual worlds, social media
• Brainstorming, ideation, getting ideas in virtual worlds
• Group projects in virtual worlds: How to make them work
• Series writing in virtual worlds: plan for a project
• Remote meetings: Manage distractions, Live Minutes 
• Creative Collaboration. Not just a slogan anymore

All collaboration

• Group projects: Task oriented meetings: best practices 
• Group Projects: Tools for group meetings: Vocabulary
• Tools for task oriented group meetings: Agenda 
• Group Projects: Tools for getting it done: action items 
• Tools for organizing a group project: SWGs
• The Seven Imperatives to Keeping Meetings on Track

Other collaboration articles in this blog

• Tools: classes, windows, rezzers, holodecks, collaboration
• Content creation: Build, script, texture, color, classes, video, particles, collaboration, tools
• Gamestorming, visual thinking, creative collaboration, virtually
• Building communities in virtual worlds. Common interests, easy communication
• Virtual worlds are about people. Communities, communication, shared goals
• Build traffic to your blog about virtual worlds
• Among the cranial nerves. UKY collaboration with UWA - Anatomy & Human Biology
• Training and Collaboration in Virtual Worlds

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News and Notes

Previous Articles from the WIP show 

• Glimpses of Hypergrid Work-in-Progress (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

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• Entertainment on the Hypergrid, a G+ community   
• HYPERGRID EVENTS   
• Hypergrid Destinations
• Hypergrid-related articles in this blog

HG links-- depending on your interests 

• Use your head! They always tell you that. They never tell you how
• About  education
• About art
• Dinosaur
• Sailing in virtual worlds
• About Videos
• Sights of the virtual worlds
• People of the virtual worlds
• About business  
• The incomplete works of Ann Tree Prenyour
• Outworldz One-Click Hypergrid  (Install your own HG)
• Binder's OSWorlds Stats and Status (past week)
• Google Calendar tutorial (Used for notices of HG events)
• Hypergrid Tour 2016-01-- 167 virtual worlds
• Sign of the Kite
• Events on the Hypergrid: HYPEvents

Communities in the virtual worlds

• Arcadia Asylum All Around   
• G+ community: Hypergrid Safari
• G+ community: Metaverse Tours
• Opensimworld. Destination guide for the Hypergrid
• Best metaverse communities 

Radio in the virtual worlds

• OpenSimWorkingRadioStreams (OSWRS). Invited article by shawnkmaloney
• Aviation radio: Music to fly by. And to promote your aviation event.
• Radio for your place - Radio for the metaverse. Anyone for podcasts?

Metaverse beginner help

• NMA entry path 
• 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/zone into Google search to get your time 

Schools in virtual worlds

• Heritage Christian Online School
• HCOS Brochure

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