Can you put a high school next to a porno place?
Not even in a virtual world.
But there are solutions
If you don't control the site, you can't manage the publicity.
The Empty Classroom
- Maybe they are next door
The problem
- Educator: Second Life As A Teaching Tool Would Never Work On "Woke" College Campuses Of Today (Comment Of The Week)
- They don't have to be next door to be a problem. Just on the same grid.
- Porn gets press. A parent sees an article: "The porn shop on XYZ grid."
- "Look, dear." says Mama, "this article is about the grid junior goes to for his history class."
- "My God," the principal gasps. "I had no idea that they had stuff like that on our teaching grid."
- "But the students are confined to our sim, "explains the history teacher. "They can't go to the rest of the grid."
- "Sure. They registered as students," Papa points out. "That showed them how to register as adults. If you think they won't do that, you don't understand teens."
The cause
- The school doesn't control the grid where it is located.
- It l just leases spaces from the grid operator.
- The grid leases to others with different interests.
- Publicity may connect the school to any of these others.
- Solutions after the break.
Solutions
School runs its own grid
- OpenSimulator provides software the school can run on its own machine.
- The school controls who can get in.
- Students enter from a page on the school's website.
- From their viewpoint they are going to another place in the school.
School leases server support
- The school may not want to handle the physical machine.
- It can lease server support from a commercial operator.
- Servers for OpenSimulator
- It would need its own technical support to run the grid.
- Students enter from the school's website, a part of the school.
School leases a fully operating grid
- The operation of the OpenSimulator software is done by the grid operating company.
- The school manages the educational features of the grid.
- A service like this is provided by Kitely.
- Students enter from the school's website, a part of the school.
- Kitely offers themed "grids". Independent websites using Kitely tech but managed by an organization
- Kitely announces virtual campuses for schools (and other organizations): Virtual worlders would say private grids
- Kitely will offer private grids with dedicated login pages
- We can bring schools into OpenSim. Not just people. Whole campuses full of people.
- Themed grids. A grid for each school, community, or business. A fit with HG and VPGs
- Education-related resources in Kitely. Of possible interest educators using the new Kitely VPGs
- New educational term: Batch Registration: for schools and organizations in virtual worlds
- Why I specifically recommend Kitely for hosting a virtual campus (MUVE)
- Two web-worlds can offer similar arrangements: CybaLOUNGE and 3DWebWorldz
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