#VWEDU The Online Campus needs a library,
as did those old campuses
with the expensive buildings
We now have MUVE campuses. We should think about what we need there. Libraries are an obvious need, so I start with the probable functions of an online library associated with an online college.
Digital Citizenship Museum on Kitely
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The online library is all service
- Online we can do without those expensive buildings.
- The ones you had to drive to and then look for a parking place.
- The money that went for building maintenance can now support services.
- Yes, we need the services more than ever:
- Digital citizenship. Safe and effective use of the web and the internet.
- Curation and exhibition are services an online campus must have.
- Host professionally relevant student groups.
- Host professional learning communities
- Professional learning community (PLC) (Wikipedia)
- Subscribe to appropriate journals to give students and faculty access.
- Support student access to needed and suitable books or other materials
- Coach students on how to seek, find, and evaluate suitable information.
- Provide instruction on living online.
Go there
- To Cookie II in Kitely: HG addess:
- grid.kitely.com:8002:Cookie II
- Put the HG address in the Find bar of the world map, click Find, TP
- In Kitely (and in the Firestorm viewer) put the hop in the viewer address bar:
- hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Cookie II/640/896/23
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Digital Citizenship
Digital citizenship for kids
Articles in this blog
- The Web Report: Educator Edition: Digital Citizenship (beta)
- Educator Edition: Virtual Libraries and digital smarts February edition
- Metaverse Libraries: Communities as Resources Part 2
- Digital citizenship: "Be Internet Awesome " Awesome needs public demonstration
- Digital smarts. Who should teach it? Internet libraries? Internet museums? The old school system?
Curation and exhibition
Curation
- Curation--Wikipedia
- Not paper books, of course. Links.
- Maybe just offer links to more general web curation services.
- (The library might subscribe to professional level services.)
- Possibly offer several services selected for specific objectives.
- Probably give instruction on how to use Google search for research.
- Certainly give instruction on how to evaluate the quality of found reports.
Exhibition
- Exhibition--Wikipedia
- Effective exhibition helps people find what they are probably looking for.
- That means identifying common goals of clients and pointing the way.
- Exhibitions point the way, often ordered for learning.
- On a flat web page, that would be a page with an outline and some text.
- I hope it would at least show pictures.
- In a 3D world, it would be displayed as in a physical library,
- (But with more space at lower cost.)
Host professionally relevant student groups.
- Colleges usually have student groups associated with popular study areas.
- Sometimes the college library hosts these groups in small conference rooms.
- The college library offers prompt access to extensive resources.
- And the online library would offer even more resources.
- It could easily offer a resource-laden meeting room to fit the group needs.
Provide instruction and practice for students in living online
- Teach English Online At Home – 18 Companies That Pay
- 10 Top-Rated Work at Home Companies On Indeed
- Freelancer
- Upwork: Freelancers
- Working at Home as a Social Media Moderator For Lithium
- 21 Work at Home Jobs That Don’t Require a College Degree
- Art: Fine Art America
Provide instruction and practice in self-directed education
Maintain a collection on educational practice and aids
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Visit me on the web
- Drop by my web offices Weekdays: 12:-12:30 Central time (US)
- Cybalounge and 3DWebWorldz (Orientation room)
- I will be in both places, so you may need to speak to get my attention.
- Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds running in a browser. Summary
- And we can visit the Writer's Workshop on the Web
- Don't register -- enter as guest.
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