2019 WW: #DTA Starting in CybaLOUNGE. A DTA content page designed for JIT learning

Starting in CybaLOUNGE.  
A DTA content page designed for JIT learning 
Updated 6/2

An example of Just-In-Time (JIT) learning design prepared to help incoming students and meeting attendees get started quickly in CybaLOUNGE. This article is explicitly licensed Public Domain (CC0).

Just-in-time

• Watch on YouTube
• CybaLOUNGE 
• Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds running in a browser. Summary
• These instructions apply to a computer screen.
• You can access Cybalounge with a tablet or smart phone.
• The instructions for these will be different.
• Don't bother to register--come in as a guest
• Web-worlds are easy to get to. Here are a couple of examples.

This page supports JIT learning

• Don't read it though carefully.
• Skim through it if you like:  Look for any topic that interests you.
• If you see some that you want to know more about, read it more carefully.
• But don't bother with the details unless you want to use the information right now. 
• When you are ready to use the information, you will have a better idea of what you want to know. 
• The key to knowing a lot is no longer how much you can remember.
• The key is how much you can find out with a quick search.
• To search the page: click Crtl+f.  The search bar appears near the top.
• Enter a term you want to know about.
• Just-in-time learning
• Key terms are listed below.

Key terms (to search for)

• Go there
• Enter as guest
• Walk, turn
• Walk fast
• Sit, stand
• Talk in voice
• Chat in text
• Chat log
• Use a web link sent in text
• Copy the chat text
• Look for other people in CybaLOUNGE
• Go to another place in CybaLOUNGE

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Go there

• CybaLOUNGE
• It is just another web page.
• Wiki url 

Enter as guest

• Click the button that says: "Guest login."
• You will be asked to pick an avatar and enter a nickname.
• No registration, no password, your choices are temporary.
• The system will not know you when you return.

Walk, turn

• If the system ignores you, click the screen
• Walk forward:  Press the up arrow
• Turn: Press the left or right pointing arrow.

Walk fast

• Hold down the shift key when you press the up arrow.

Sit, stand

• Sit: Click on a sphere in a chair.
• Stand:  Click on the "Stop animation" button, upper right

Talk in voice

• If you have a mic setup, click the red mic graphic. It turns green and your mic is live.
• You can hear people talk when the mic is red.  Voice is on but your mic is muted.
• Mic setup: headset with microphone

Chat in text

• Anything you type in the chat bar appears in the chat stream when you press return.
• Others may also type into the chat stream.
• You (and others) can put a web link into the chat stream
• The web link will appear in a distinct color.
• A click on the link will open the web page.

Use a web link sent in text

• Text that appears in a distinct color is probably a web link.
• Click on it to open the page in another browser tab.
• You can go to that page and still talk to others in CybaLOUNGE

Chat log (World Chat)

• Click the chat window button on the bottom line (left).

Copy the chat text

• Click the copy button at the bottom of the of the "World Chat" window.
• If you closed that window, look World Chat above.

Look for other people in CybaLOUNGE

• Click the pointed push-pin graphic to open the location selection panel.
• The first tab, labelled "Social" shows anyone in a public location in that section of CybaLOUNGE
• It  shows the location of that person and offers an Enter button to go there.

Go to another place in CybaLOUNGE

• Click the pointed push-pin graphic to open the location selection panel.
• The second tab, labelled "Social" shows anyone in a public location in CybaLOUNGE

Other resources

• CybaLOUNGE introduces the multimedia presenter. If you have the link you can get the display. That is almost any link on the web: Web page, google docs page, video.
• CybaLOUNGE Screen, navigation, and starter help. Summary
• Cybalounge is ready for virtual worlders to use: Tutorials and suggestions
• What guests can do in Cybalounge and how. Tutorial
• Visitor's guide to Cybalounge. Yes, Cybalounge is ready to welcome visitors
• Provide a direct link to your region. Bypass the general entry page

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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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License

• Original text in this blog is CC By: unless specified public domain.
• Use as you please with attribution: link to the original.
• All images without attribution in this blog are CC0: public domain.
• Second Life, Linden, SLurl, and SL are trademarks of Linden Research Inc.
• Annotated screenshots made with Jing
• This blog is not affiliated with anything.   Ads are from Google.
• Selby Evans in Kitely and Hypergrid, Thinkerer Melville in Second Life.