Tuesday, July 31, 2018

2018 COMEDY: July: Lauren's place, Tuesdays at 5:00 PM Pacific



July: Lauren's place, 
Tuesday at 5:00 PM Pacific

  • July: collection of comedy from Lauren's place:  WyNott,  Braydon, Catboy, Randy, Synnove, Selby

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      Monday, July 30, 2018

      2018 WRITE: VIDEO: Arrivals and Departures, a short story by Judith Cullen (Caledonia Skytower)


      Arrivals and Departures, 
      a short story by Judith Cullen 
      (Caledonia Skytower) 

      The 15-minute film, premiered today, Sunday, July 22nd, 2018, and takes the audience into a moment of time in the lives of two people who come together for one last, shared moment. It reveals how their individual journeys have become intertwined, and the essential role each has come to play for the other. Though the word is never uttered in the film, it essentially addresses aspects of our attitude towards death.


      "Eloquent and poignant with an elegantly told story, Arrivals and Departures is an outstanding film and not one to be missed." ~ Inara Pay

      Sunday, July 29, 2018

      2018 WRITE: EDU: Writers of Nara's Nook: Story seeds: The last werewolf of Blanken, part 3


      Writers of Nara's Nook:  Story seeds:  
      The last werewolf of Blanken, part 3

      Virtual worlds offer a unique opportunity to use the environment and character appearance as supports for ideation in a writers workshop.  Here is  a third report on a developing plan to do that the Virtual worlds of OpenSimulator.
      Murky Mansion

      Meeting place/time for the Greyville Monday Writers

      • Mondays: We gather at Greyville, on Nara's Nook, at 6 PM Pacific Time 
      • HG address:
      • world.narasnook.com:8900:Greyville
      • Put the HG address in the Find bar of the World Map. Click Find, TP
      • If you can't get to Nara's Nook, come to WebWorldz
      • WebWorldz is a virtual world that runs in your browser.
      • Just like a flat web page. But you can move around and talk to people.
      • It offers typed messages and local voice.  
      • We have imported a copy of the Kelley swamp and are developing it as a writer's workshop
      • We will probably start in this place: SandBox: Fantasy region.  

      Saturday, July 28, 2018

      2018 ART: WW: Art Gallery in your browser: Luna Gallery: a virtual field trip


      Art Gallery in your browser: 
      Luna Gallery: 
      a virtual field trip. 

      Jamie and Selby take a virtual field trip to an art gallery in 3DWebWorldz.  And we never leave home, even though we are about 350 miles apart.  The field trip used only a browser--something everyone has on their computer.   And we made a video to show what we saw.   

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        Friday, July 27, 2018

        2018 EDU: WW: The long and short of learning: Web worlds fit microlearning. Thinking out of the box


        The long and short of learning:  
        Web worlds fit microlearning
        Thinking out of the box

        Learning in small increments is well known to be the best learning practice.  It is hard to accommodate in the old-style school system, but can easily fit into a curriculum making use of internet resources, especially those available in a browser.  Web-worlds can provide virtual environments for learning in a browser--accessible on a laptop or tablet.   These can offer prepared lesson units approved by subject matter experts.
        The Empty Classroom

        The box

        • Classes in school have to be an hour long.
        • Students can only learn by sitting at chair-desks in a classroom.
        • Students can only learn from an instructor talking to them.
        • Students can only learn when an instructor tells them what they are supposed  to know.  
        • All students learn at the same rate.
        • Students demonstrate learning by showing that they remember what they have been told.
        • For thinking out of the box, read on. 
        Distributed practice (also known as spaced repetition or spaced practice) is a learning strategy, where practice is broken up into a number of short sessions – over a longer period of time. Humans and animals learn items in a list more effectively when they are studied in several sessions spread out over a long period of time, rather than studied repeatedly in a short period of time, a phenomenon called the spacing effect. The opposite, massed practice, consists of fewer, longer training sessions. It is generally a less effective method of learning. For example, when studying for an exam dispersing your studying more frequently over a larger period of time will result in more effective learning than intense study the night before.  --Wikipedia
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        Tuesday, July 24, 2018

        2018 EDU: WW: Virtual Worlds MOOC 2018: Continuing education online


        Virtual Worlds MOOC 2018:  
        Continuing education online

        The Virtual Worlds MOOC 2018 stats August 1st, 2018. One month of presentations and discussion about the future of education online.  Virtual: classrooms,  museums, libraries, field trips to anywhere you can imagine: Stonehenge, for example.  Later maybe  the Moon, Mars, the Emerald City of Oz.  
        The Empty Classroom


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        Monday, July 23, 2018

        2018 WW: PROMO: Web-worlds for promotion: Come to my web-world, promote your project


        Web-worlds for promotion
        Come to my web-world, 
        promote your project

        Invitation to discuss the promotion of your project in this blog and in video.  

        Meeting at Cybalounge

        What kind of project?

        • Anything in virtual worlds. 
        • Preferably something visual.  
        • We can make a video on the spot.
        • If you get a registered account, you can drag and drop jpegs.

        Promotion resources

        • This blog 
        • Videos on YouTube
        • Distribution to selected social media communities
        • Including outworld  and inworld communities
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        Sunday, July 22, 2018

        2018 EDU: WRITE: Writers of Greyville: Story seeds: The last werewolf of Blanken, part 2


        Writers of Greyville:  Story seeds:  
        The last werewolf of Blanken, part 2

        Virtual worlds offer a unique opportunity to use the environment and character appearance as supports for ideation in a writers workshop.  Here I offer a second report on a developing plan to do that the Virtual worlds of OpenSimulator.

        Murky Manor

        Saturday, July 21, 2018

        2018 WW: EDU: 3DWebWorldz Building Tutorial : How to Add a Sky


        3DWebWorldz Building Tutorial: 
        How to Add a Sky

        Building in 3DWebWorldz is easy, once you learn how to find everything. In this tutorial, we start with a brand new region and learn how to add a sky.

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