Ingrid (within a grid) Travel tips
for OpenSimulator.
A DTA content page
Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) instructions. Easy search and little text. Set up for quick answers to specific questions.
Walkin Teleports
- Destinations at the bottom
Contents
- Grid geography and travel effects.
- Somebody gives you the destination.
- Destination in landmark (LM)
- Destination in Firestorm hop
- Destination as sim name
- Walkin Teleport
- How to get back home
- Nearby group of people
- Place you can zoom to in the viewer.
- Nearby specific person
- Follow a tour
- Place on the World Map
- Go and sit
- Can't move, want out.
- Just walk faster.
- Some of these travel methods depend on viewer settings:
- Firestorm settings for beginners. A DTA content page
- Search on page: Ctrl+f gets search bar near the top. Enter search term.
- The Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) for MUVES (virtual worlds): Summary
Grid geography and travel effects
- A grid is collection of spaces which are somewhat independent in operation.
- These spaces are variously called sims, regions, or worlds.
- The term sim derives from the fact that each is created by its own simulator program.
- Long distance travel in a grid is to another sim. Local travel is within a sim.
- You will be given landmarks; they go into your Places folder
- Each avatar arrives at a sim with a collection of data describing it.
- Elaborate avatars bring more data and may cause arrival failure.
- Teaching a class in a virtual world (MUVE)? Why you don't want your students to arrive on time.
- Regions may be subdivided into parcels.
- Walkin teleports may be at key places.
Ingrid travel methods, remote
Landmark
- When somebody gives you a landmark it goes in your Places folder.
- Left click Places button (globe).
- To search, put search term in top bar.
- To travel, double click landmark
- To rename a landmark, right click it and select Rename from the menu.
Hop (Firestorm)
- You get a Hop in plain text from a web page, notecard, or text message.
- Paste it in the address bar of Firestorm and press return.
- A Hop may not work in viewers other than Firestorm.
- Example:
- hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Serenity Island/124/212/22
Sim name
- Press Ctrl+m to open the world map.
- Put the sim name in the Find bar of the World Map. Click Find, then Teleport.
- You arrive at the sim's main landing point. Look for Walkin TPs for local travel.
Walkin Teleport
- A walkin TP is a door-sized panel with the name of the destination on it.
- The destination may appear in floating text or on the panel.
- Go there by walking or flying into the panel.
- A walkin TP can take you to another local place, another sim, or another grid.
- You may go immediately or you may get a map and need to click teleport to go.
How to get back home
- Click the house graphic (upper left) to get back to the place you set as home.
- If that fails, log off and log in again.
Ingrid travel methods, local
Place on the World Map
- Press Ctrl+m to open the World Map.
- Double-click on a point near the cluster.
Place you can zoom to in the viewer
- Zoom to a close-up location of the ground or floor there.
- Double-click on the ground or floor.
- Zoom to a close-up location of the ground or floor there.
- Double-click on the ground or floor.
Nearby group of people
- With the World Map open, Look for a cluster of green dots.
- Double-click on a point near the cluster
Nearby specific person
- Click the People button (2 heads)
- Under the Nearby tab double-click the person's name.
- When you see the person double-click on the ground or floor nearby.
Follow a tour
- Follow the tour leader as a nearby person.
Go and sit
- You need not walk to a seat if you are seeing it.
- Hover your cursor over it. If the cursor turns into a chair, left click the seat.
- Otherwise, right click the seat and choose "Sit here."
- If you really need to move closer you will get a message. Otherwise you will sit.
Can't move, want out
- Double-click on a clear spot nearby.
Walk faster
- Click Ctrl+r, then press/hold up arrow
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
- Develop your contacts list. DTA content page
- Basic skills needed for attending a meeting or class in a virtual world. DTA content page
- Search tips from a digital coach: DTA content page
- 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
- MOOC2019 Digital classrooms in the sky. And how a Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) could fit in.
- Learn to be a self-starter. Self-managed learning, libraries, learning communities
- Coding and virtual worlds: a marriage made in computers. The DTA could officiate
- Learning Made in Second Life - CNDG
- Schools need 3 levels of edtech--Matt Harris, Ed.D. And how does the Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) fit in?
- Once you hear lecture about swimming, you never forget what you learned about lectures. Talking is not teaching
- Student-thinking versus breadwinner-thinking versus entrepreneurial thinking: coming of age in school
- 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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- Cybalounge and 3DWebWorldz (Orientation room)
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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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