2019 #VWEDU: #DTA: Firestorm settings for beginners. A DTA content page

Firestorm settings for beginners. 
A DTA content page

Suggested changes in Firestorm settings for use with students in educational places.   This article is explicitly licensed Public Domain (CC0).

How to search FS Prefs

• The Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) for MUVES (virtual worlds): Summary
• A Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) in MUVE (virtual world): What would it do?

How to search Firestorm preferences

• Top line of Firestorm, Avatar (full left), click Avatar
• On drop-down menu click Preferences. 
• To search preferences panel:  Use the white bar at the top of the panel.
• Type part of the setting and the panel will show settings that match.
• See graphic above.
• Details on Preferences: Viewer 3.3+ Preferences window, Summary
• Using viewer: Firestorm for OpenSimulator set to Viewer 5 (drop-down menus) 

Key terms

• Name tags
• Enable voice
• Media
• Movement
• View
• World Map
• Notifications
• Buttons
• Search this page: Ctrl+f opens search bar near top of page.

• #VWEDU: update 8/15/2019 CVL Presents ACRL Sunday Tour. OpenSim users split on impact of Firestorm fork.

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Preference settings to change for students

• Be sure to click the OK button when you finish a panel.  
• Otherwise, your settings may not be recorded.  

General tab

• Name tags-- show briefly

Sound & Media--Voice tab

• Enable voice (checked)

Sound & Media--Media tab

• Allow media to autoplay
• Allow inworld scripts to play media

Move & View--ViewTab

• Check these:
• Disable camera constraints
• Disable minimum camera zoom distance

Move & View--Movement Tab

• Single click on land - move to clicked point
• Double click on land - teleport to clicked point

Move & View--Map&Minimap Tab

• Enable double-click teleports on the World Map

Notifications--People tab

• Notify me when my friends log in or out. (uncheck all)

Firestorm onscreen buttons to keep

• A button will display its name when you hover your cursor over it.
• Inventory
• People
• Snapshot
• Speak 
• Places
• Quick prefs
• Other buttons can be hidden and recovered if needed.
• Reference viewer: Firestorm for OpenSimulator set to Viewer 5 (drop-down menus) 

What is a DTA content page?

• DTA content pages are offered as possible content for instruction on using virtual worlds for education. 
• The page is explicitly licensed Public Domain (CC0).
• That means anyone can use it as is or modified with or without credit to the source.
• Digicoach might send people to this page with specific search terms.
• Educators might put this page on their own site and send students there.
• Educators might use this text in their own version of Digicoach.
• These content pages will be revised as needed or as improvements are identified.

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