2019 #VREDU: Second Annual Immersive Virtual Residency (SUNY--ESC). An online school need not be a lonely place. There are places for people on the internet

Second Annual Immersive Virtual Residency (SUNY--ESC).  
An online school need not be a lonely place. 
There are places for people on the internet.

Immersive virtual residency for an online graduate school.  Bring students and faculty together. Let them meet and explore common interests.  

Online people attend a presentation

A virtual residency

• A Virtual Residency is almost like being there.  
• Except for the travel.  Virtual travel takes about 20 seconds and costs nothing.
• A residency is not like a class. It is more like the old campus we had to drive to.
• Sure, driving took time and money, but we did meet fellow students.  
• There, on campus, education was a social activity.  
• Online learning tends to be solitary work.  
• A residency gives online graduate students a chance to meet each other.
• Masters of Arts in Learning and Emerging Technology (MALET) program
• at SUNY Empire State College (ESC).
• Last Year: Empire State College (ESC) Virtual Residency (applied practice)
• Immersive VR residency

On Marian Island

Marian Island is a four-region space for students and friends of Dr. Eileen O'Connor to visit, work within, and enjoy. The nascent Institute for New Paradigms, an advanced technology think-tank, meets here too. Friendly visitors are welcome too.  

• It contains 
• meeting areas for events, classes and study; 
• a cathedral; 
• locations for acquiring buildings and artifacts; 
• the working space for a middle-school healthcare activity; and more.  
• It supports work of:
• SUNY Empire State College's M.A. in Learning and Technology

Go there

• Marian web page
• HG address: grid.kitely.com:8002:Marian Island
• Travel tips for the Hypergrid. A DTA content page

• Update 10/17/2019 Free Ghost Story Radio Stream (Seanchai Library ). Burn2, Metamorphosis Oct. 11-20

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A real presentation 

in digital space

• A professor is showing slides and talking about them.
• The professor is real, the slides are real.  
• And I am real. I sent my digital self there to represent me.
• But I am seeing and hearing the presentation.  
• Just as I would if I had driven there.  But more comfortably

The screen from a different viewpoint

• My view is not limited to where I can put my head.  
• I can get out of my digital body and get any viewpoint in the scene.
• You can have an out-of-body experience in a digital world.

About 30 people in attendance

• Open air presentation. 
• We don't worry about rain.
• Digitals control the rain here.
• In a virtual world there is virtually no weather.

Lots of information 

on side panels

• In the digital world, panels are not limited to showing text.
• They can also send you to web sites where you can find  more information.
• So the place can be full of information even where there is no presenter.

Avatars need not look human

• There are free avatars that your imagination may prefer.
• In a place that is not "real," you don't have to look real.

Lunchtime in the middle east

• If you were presenting about the middle east, you might prefer a place like this.

There could be instruction here

• Those posters could provide instruction and web links.

Lunch time at the virtual residency

Online reports about the MALET program

• Eileen O’Connor: Mainstreaming MUVE Learning Colloquium, MALET Program, Empire State College (SUNY)
• Students Virtual Showcase---poster session or presentation for the new century
• Online education, sure. But why a virtual campus? Why in a virtual world (MUVE)?
• MALET showcase: Microscope Studies Using Portable Microscopes & Smartphones
• MALET showcase: Making and Tinkering – Stop Motion Animation Project: By: Marian Read

High overview of the audience

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• Easy to get this overhead view if you are a digital.

A dragon in the audience

• We digitals go for diversity

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Visit me on the web

• Drop by my web offices Weekdays: 12:-12:30 pm Central time (US)
• I am available for free consulting on any topic in this blog.
• 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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