Basic skills needed
for attending a meeting or class
in a virtual world
DTA content
Digital Teaching Assistant instructions to be given to people coming to a virtual world for a class or a meeting. To avoid the steep learning curve, the only instructions given are for the actions needed in these activities. This article is explicitly licensed Public Domain (CC0).
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- These instructions require the following settings:
- Firestorm settings for beginners. A DTA content page
- The Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) for MUVES (virtual worlds): Summary
Contents
- Read and send local chat
- Walk: turn, walk forward
- Interact with things: Sit, stand, click
- View control: Zoom,look around without moving your avatar
- Offer friend connection to local avatars
- Use private IM with local avatars.
- Use a web link sent in chat
- Use voice to communicate
- Read a notecard sent to you
- Rename things in inventory
- Search on page: Ctrl+f gets search bar near top.
Possible uses of this page
- Send new people to this page.
- Copy this page to your own help file.
- Put these items into your own DTA.
- Note public domain notice.
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Read and send local chat
- People type local chat to be read by everyone nearby.
- Local chat will scroll up the left side of your screen. It will vanish after a short time.
- To see chat history, click the nearby chat button, bottom left.
- Type your local chat in the white bar, bottom left.
- Press return (always) to send text.
Walk: turn, walk forward
- Walk forward: Press up arrow key.
- Turn Press left or right arrow key.
Interact with things: Sit, stand, click
- Hover your cursor over something you want to sit on.
- If it changes to a chair, left click and your avatar will probably sit there.
- If you need to get closer, you will get a message about that.
- If the cursor does not change, right click and choose Sit here.
- When you sit, a Stand button will appear lower left.
- Objects may offer you something if you click on them.
- Best click on anything interesting.
View control: Zoom,look around without moving your avatar
- Put your cursor on a nearby object. Left-click and hold the key down.
- The cursor changes to a rectangle around a plus sign.
- Move your scroll wheel back and forth. Note what happens.
- Press your right arrow key. Note what happens.
- Follow the same steps with another nearby object.
- Try the same steps with a moving object
Use a web link sent in chat
- Look in chat history.
- A web link in chat will appear there in a uncommon color.
- Left-click on the link to open the web page in your browser.
Offer friend connection to local avatars
- People on your friends list are easy to contact.
- Adding a person to your friends list is called "friending."
- To friend a local avatar, hover cursor over avatar, click orange i button.
- Click "Add friend" button: the other person will get an invitation.
- The avatar will be added to your friends list when the other person accepts
Use private IM with local avatars
- People may send you a private IM.
- The text will display to you in a panel with a text bar.
- Type in the text bar to respond.
- To initiate a local IM, right-click the avatar and click IM on the resulting menu.
- Type in the panel and press return.
Use voice to communicate
- You may hear people talking. You may see people talking.
- See? Sure. When avatars talk green waves appear over their heads.
- To adjust volume, hover cursor on the avatar and click the orange dot that appears.
- A little panel opens with a slider to adjust the volume.
- To talk, click and hold the mic graphic button, bottom of your screen.
- In the default mode, you have to hold the key down while talking.
- The button has a little box you can click to use the toggle mode.
- In that mode, a single click turns on the mic and a second click turns it off.
- You can adjust the volume for each speaker:
- Hover the cursor over the avatar, left-click on the I button that appears.
- Use the slider in the resulting panel to adjust the volume.
Read a notecard
- People may send you notecards. You will get a notice to accept or not.
- Click the option: Show to read the card immediately.
- The card will go into your inventory (briefcase graphic), bottom of your screen.
- Find it and be sure it has a name you can remember.
- To change the name of something in your inventory, right click and click Rename.
Prepare and send a notecard
- Make a blank notecard in your inventory: Click briefcase.
- Click plus sign, bottom line of inventory; choose option: notecard.
- Rename the notecard something useful.
- Type your message and save the notecard.
- Send notecard to someone near: Righ-click the avatar, click option: IM
- Drag notecard from inventory into the IM bar (and release it there).
- Send notecard to a contact: Open People panel, Friends tab, right-click name, send in IM bar
DTA articles
General
- A Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) in a MUVE (virtual world): What would it do?
- A digital teaching assistant (DTA) in a virtual world. Can it be done?
- Digital coaching is needed for the DTA: Do we have the technology for that?
- Online education, sure. But why a virtual campus? Why in a virtual world (MUVE)?
Development considerations
Possible services, education
- Edpuzzle offers DTA features and could serve as a module in Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA)
- We can reduce barriers to educational uptake of virtual worlds. Assessment of the situation
- The DTA as search coach: How does that work? Especially for project-based learning
- The Digital Teaching Assistant fits with the practice of blended learning
- F/Xual Education Services: Occupational Medicine Simulation. A HUD is a Digicoach without personality
- Error based learning in writing. Combine project-based learning with test-based learning. And maybe get a useful product out of it.
- Digicoach can support collaborative homework and study sessions
- Digicoach can support homework in virtual worlds with JIT learning, immediate feedback
- Digicoach for project-management in self-managed teams: (Note: skills to be learned in doing these tasks)
- David Lee - Design Thinking in the Classroom: How-to for project-based learning
DTA content pages
- DTA content pages: The plan: Initial DTA content on the web here
- Travel tips for the Hypergrid. A DTA content page
- Firestorm settings for beginners. A DTA content page
- Newcomer welcome coach (1): Basic skills needed promptly
New century education
- Once you hear lecture about swimming, you never forget what you learned about lectures. Talking is not teaching
- Just-In-Time (JIT) learning in virtual schools, maybe with DTA coaching. Language as an example
- Why a reading assignment is like a treasure hunt. And why it is not
- Suppose the real objective in school is to pass multiple-choice tests. Can a digital TA handle test-based learning?
- Immersive Technologies (Heritage Christian Online School)
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- Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds running in a browser. Summary
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- 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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