2020 #VWEDU: A plan for a field trip to CybaLOUNGE. Getting in is too easy. It would also be quick if I didn't talk so much.

A plan for a field trip to CybaLOUNGE 
Getting in is too easy. 
It would also be quick if I didn't talk so much.

A nine minute demonstration of what it takes for a beginner to enter a web-world and start doing things. 

• Watch on YouTube
• A short video on how to start in CybaLOUNGE, a web-world that runs in a browser.  
• The video starts on a flat web page in my blog 
• https://virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com/2020/04/2020-vwedu-people-international.html
• and travels to the 3D world of CybaLOUNGE on this url:
• https://nonprofitvirtualworld.org/location.html?locationid=800000002&dl=true
• Choose guest entry
• The only actions needed on this trip are: choose  an avatar and enter a nickname.

• Update 5/27/2020 Firestorm update for OpenSim. Metamodernism and Changing Literacy, Record number of OpenSim grids this month

Field trip plans: Below

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Title 

  "Field triip to CybaLOUNGE: Active and situated learning in a 3D place running in a browser:  Not a talk about this but a field trip to practice it."  by Dieter Heine, Chief Executive Officer of Metaverse School GmbH - Virtual World Platform Developer: assisted by Thinkerer Melville 

Location

Start in The VSTE sim on Second Life (www.secondlife.com) on June 8 at 8 PM ET, 5 PM SLT (PDT)

Summary 

New technology allows the operation of virtual worlds in a browser like Chrome.  Such worlds can run in most equipment that runs a browser--with no installation.  Metaverse School has hosted college level courses in its CybaLOUNGE website for over a year and can support classes, campus, or district level education at K-12 through graduate level education  The field trip will demonstrate the basic level of instructional support.   

A classroom on your lap

• On your laptop, Chromebook, or tablet.  Even the devices in the library.
• Nothing to install--runs in a browser--even a smart phone
• A digital place: a 3D replica of a classroom, 
• or of a museum, or anything you can imagine.
• Voice conversations. Text chat.  Videos.  Images. Web pages.
• Power-point displays that you can modify on the fly.
• White-board displays that the students can type on.  
• Separate rooms where groups of students can collaborate on projects.
• No travel time, no travel cost, no building maintenance or repair.

The field trip (experiential learning)

• The ease of entering CybaLOUNGE
• Meet at VSTE site.
• Establish voice or IM contact in SL, so we have redundant channels.
• Introductory comments and QA session in voice
• Meanwhile: click CybaLOUNGE  
• url: https://nonprofitvirtualworld.org/location.html?locationid=800000002&dl=true
• Enter as guest.  On the entry page, choose avatar and enter nickname
• Note: To choose avatar, click in the white circle, be sure to get a dot there.

Arrival learning

• Active learning: Ask Questions: Dieter, Selby, anybody
• Practice walking:  Forward: up arrow; Turn: side-pointing arrow. 
• Walk away from the landing point.
• Voice is on with your mic muted.  
• Turn off voice in SL before you unmute.
• To unmute. click the red mic button.  The button will turn green. 
• Optional: find Selby's whiteboard and click on it.  Add your own comment.
• This entitles you to the power-pointer badge.
• Essential: Click on the pointed pushpin (bottom line) and locate (don't click enter)  some of the destinations below.
• NonProfit Virtual World, The Web Show, Selby's web-world
• Community Virtual Library, Bill's place, Val's Storybook cottage.
• (Others may be added to this list.)
• When you have done this task you are entitled to the travel planner badge.
• You can go to any of these places by yourself.
• But you find out more if you get a couple of friends to go with you.
• If you need help, mute yourself in CybaLOUNGE and turn on voice in SL.
• Selby will stay in the SL location to provide help there via voice or IM.

Background

• Beginning information: CybaLOUNGE Platform Wiki
• Cybalounge is ready for virtual worlders to use: Tutorials and suggestions
• Full physics comes to CybaLOUNGE: How to make objects solid
• Metaverse School GmbH @ Berlin Change Days 2019  
• Cybalounge is ready for virtual worlders to use: Tutorials and suggestions  
• What guests can do in Cybalounge and how. Tutorial
• What Virtual Worlds Need To Become Real World Offices, Post-Coronavirus
• Insights from our Workshop on the Berlin Change Days 2019
• Metaverse School GmbH @ Berlin Change Days 2019

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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.