2019 EDU: BIZ: Presenting in a virtual world (MUVE). Use the web, use the environment

Preparing a presentation for a virtual world (MUVE).  
This is the internet--use the web

How you can use the affordances of MUVEs (virtual worlds) to make a presentation that is both informative and efficient: blog, web, video, and animated diorama. 

Waterstage

• Pleasant virtual weather allows outdoor presentations.
• A virtual auditorium looks much like the ones we are used to.
• For a conference, Kitely Organizations would work well. 
• You can use the web to organize and amplify your content.
• You can change the environment to suit your topic.
• You can present 3D scenes instead of pictures on slides.
• A 3d scene is a diorama, such as you see in a museum.
• You can bring a museum to your presentation.  
• But there is no glass to keep people from getting too close.
• You can even create the scene while you talk about it.  
• And your audience can walk around in the scene while you speak.

• MUVE update 3/21/2019 The G+ MeWe Importer is now live; VWBPE 2019 Immersive Experiences Start March 24th!

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Road map for preparing an instructive presentation

• What questions of interest to your audience will your presentation answer?
• Why will they want to ask those questions? 
• What do they already know that will connect to these questions?
• Do you have a blog or web site where you can promote your presentation?
• What web pages will provide background information for the presentation?
• What web pages will supplement the presentation?
• What  web pages should a person follow to keep up with future developments?
• Will you post the questions as part of promoting the presentation?
• Will you post relevant links from the above along with the questions?
• Then your oral presentation will answer each question.
• You will probably use the questions as bullet points with Summary as the last.
• The links will serve as references to support and amplify what you say.  

Modernized presentation: start with a blog

• Maybe your blog, maybe a community blog.
• The blog replaces the lecture notes that lecturers gave out in the old days.
• But you don't have to print it.  You can edit it at the last moment.
• You can even edit it during the question period.  And after the presenting is done 
• Build an effective community blog for 3D virtual worlds
• The whys and hows of blogging
• How to use a blog to organize a developing themed collection of information
• For lectures and presentations, use web-senders in virtual worlds
• Articles about blogs in this blog
• Make a blog page for the presentation.  You can save it as a draft.
• In draft form, the page can accumulate notes and links.
• So you have everything available when you start the final copy.
• Think of the part above the break as an introduction slide.
• Always an abstract under the title.
• Sometimes it may even have bullet points.
• Bullet points organize and summarize  the rest of the presentation. 
• Readers in a rush can save the link and read the rest later

Instead of slides, use articles on your blog 

• The part above the break should make a good slide.
• The part after the break can show the details and relevant links.
• That part can also carry answers from question period.
• Most MUVEs have a way to display web pages as part of a presentation.
• And to provide links to web pages that open in browser tabs.
• The web pages remain available to support further study of your presentation.
• You can update them with new information in the future.  

Go beyond the flat web to animated dioramas

• Start in a virtual auditorium if you want. That's what people are accustomed to.
• Then remove the walls of the auditorium to show dioramas that fit your topic.
• Remove walls?  Easy in a MUVE.  
• Make dioramas?  Not from scratch.  You can buy things from Kitely Market.
• Or you might use Rezmela.

Have an assistant monitor local chat

• People in the audience can type questions and answers in local chat.  
• An assistant can pick up questions for you to discuss later.
• You can answer questions at the end of each segment if you like.
• The assistant could answer some questions with a web link.
• Live web links can be offered in chat.

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