2020 #VWEDU: How to expand your Kitely virtual world. Megaworlds and teleport. Walk in TP works for avatars. Object TP for vehicles

How to expand your Kitely virtual world   

Megaworlds and teleport.  

Walk in TP for avatars. Object TP  for vehicles.

Consideration of how teleports and object teleports can extend the world for users to more distant points (as subways do for NYC).

Walkin TPs at Cookie II entry point

• Kitely responded to requests at a Kitely meeting by offering Megaworlds.
• Megaworlds are eight times the dimensions of traditional sims.
• These are a little over 2 kilometers on a side and run on their own server.  
• Kitely 8X8 megaworlds (This offer expires Nov. 30).  
• Kitely Megaworld. Over 2 KM on a side. With a server to itself. The area of 64 traditional sims. With no sim borders to cross.
• The demand has probably been enough to justify continuing the offer.
• Though the initial price ($100 USD per month) might increase.  
• The price will not increase for those who take the current offer.
• Can we go beyond 8x8?  

• Update 11/26/2020 OSCC Dec/ 5-6. 2020 Terra Nova, Utopia, Tangle, Craft and Kitely shine in user survey. VWBPE2021: RECONNAISSANCE Call for Proposals

2020 #VWEDU: How to get Immersed in online virtual worlds. A visit to the Community Virtual Library (CVL). The online PLC of educators in virtual worlds.

How to get Immersed in virtual worlds
A visit to the Community Virtual Library

The informal online PLC of educators in virtual worlds.

Online virtual worlds suitable for education have been around for over 15 years.   And educators have been exploring their potential.  These user-built worlds let educators build the environment they want and program it to support their objectives.

• Watch on YouTube

Education in virtual worlds

• The key was user-built virtual worlds.  
• No game rules. No game goals. Building and programming support.
• Build a world as you want it, program it as you want, use it as you please.
• Soon the educators began to find each other and form professional groups.

Professional learning community

• Professional Learning Community
• Community Virtual Library
• A collection of loosely organized communities
• CVL Virtual Worlds Database

• Update 11/26/2020 OSCC Dec/ 5-6. 2020 Terra Nova, Utopia, Tangle, Craft and Kitely shine in user survey. VWBPE2021: RECONNAISSANCE Call for Proposals

2020 #VWEDU: An online meeting about online teaching in an online PLC. Plans for teaching in Second Life during the 20-21 academic year.

An online meeting about online teaching in an online PLC. 

Plans for teaching in Second Life during the 20-21 academic year.  

That's a lot of online.  But we virtual worlders have been online a lot of time. Many of us started more than 15 years ago.  Some of us have been teaching online for much of that time.   And we are happy to share our experience with new people.

• Watch on YouTube
• Dodge Threebeards and Widget Whiteberry discuss Plans for teaching in Second Life during the 20-21 academic year and what issues are people encountering
• Dodge will also say something about the 3rd edition of his Virtual Worlds Teaching Manual
• A Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable event in Second LIfe
• PLC for educators in virtual worlds

• Update 11/26/2020 OSCC Dec/ 5-6. 2020 Terra Nova, Utopia, Tangle, Craft and Kitely shine in user survey. VWBPE2021: RECONNAISSANCE Call for Proposals

2020 #VWEDU: OPLN: Catching events in your online PLN. Meetings about online learning. Like webinars except they are free with no registration. More like collaboration than a lecture.

Catching events in your online PLN.  

Meetings about online learning.  

Like webinars except they are free with no registration. 

More like collaboration than a lecture.

Finding events in your Online Professional Learning Network (OPLN). Like webinars except less formal.  And free.  And with more collaboration.

Who?

• Educators, home schoolers, pod schoolers, self-schoolers

Online?

• A OPLN is about sharing information online with a professional learning network.

Virtual worlds? 

• User-built virtual worlds.  These are not games.  You do what you please.
• Some educators have been teaching in these places for years,
• And they have gathered in communities and organized groups:
• Networking in Virtual Worlds - The CVL Education Network
• And they hold events fostering online education: CVL Events.
• Watch on YouTube

• Update 11/26/2020 OSCC Dec/ 5-6. 2020 Terra Nova, Utopia, Tangle, Craft and Kitely shine in user survey. VWBPE2021: RECONNAISSANCE Call for Proposals

2020 #VWEDU: OPENSIMULATOR COMMUNITY VIRTUAL CONFERENCE: December 5-6, 2020. Registration now open!

OPENSIMULATOR COMMUNITY VIRTUAL CONFERENCE: 

December 5-6, 2020. 

Registration now open!

OSCC20 is coming Dec 5-6 2020.  Put that on your schedule.

• Watch on YouTube

• OpenSimulator Community Conference 2020 will take place virtually on the OpenSimulator Conference Center grid on December 5-6, 2020.
• The OSCC focus:the developer and user communities of OpenSimulator software.. 
• Come demonstrate how you use these 3D collaborative spaces in amazing ways! 
• OSCC hypergrid address: cc.opensimulator.org:8002
• Put the HG address in the Find bar of the World Map, click Find, TP
• Announcement
• Schedule
• Registration page
• Registration is free.  
• Presentations will also be live streamed and archived.
• News
• Era of the entrepreneurial educator. The unbundling of education opens the gate for entrepreneurs.

• Update 11/19/2020 Covid feel good. VWBPE2021: RECONNAISSANCE Call for Proposals Educators' online calendar and OPLN. 

2020 #VWEDU: Outreach: Contacts. If we want more educators in virtual worlds, we need to focus on outworlders Developing contacts

Outreach: Contacts

If we want more educators in virtual worlds, 

we need to focus on outworlders

Developing contacts.

Consideration of how virtual world educators can reach out to educators not familiar with virtual worlds.  

Brick and mortar education

• Outworld is the opposite of inworld.
• Inworld means in a virtual world.
• Outworld, in the name of this blog, means not in a virtual world.
• After the break:  Outreach channels.

Promising outworld interests

• Online education
• Adult education
• Continuing education
• Project-based learning
• Business meetings
• Musical events
• Online writing groups
• Online reading groups

Community Virtual Library outreach

• Community Virtual Library (CVL)
• CVL Virtual Worlds Database
• CVL Education Network
• CVL: Educators Online Calendar and OPLN

• Update 11/19/2020 Covid feel good. VWBPE2021: RECONNAISSANCE Call for Proposals Educators' online calendar and OPLN. 

2020 #VWEU: Online library in 3DWebWorldz Part 3: Victorian: Romanticism, Gothic, and Science Fiction

Online library in 3DWebWorldz Part 3: 

Victorian: Romanticism, Gothic, and Science Fiction

Paper literature of the Victorian era that became the movie literature of the 20th century.

• Watch on YouTube
• Participants: Jamie Jordan, Miss Brenda, Selby
• Links to Project Gutenberg 
• To visit the library, click here
• No need to register.  Enter as a guest to see what is there.
• Better yet, bring a friend--you can talk in this library.
• Registration is free--that lets you pick an avatar an build a contact list.

Who would be interested

• Teachers and students of English literature, cultural history, and theater.
• Librarians, book clubs, and writers
• Below: The rise of the online library

• Update 11/19/2020 Covid feel good. VWBPE2021: RECONNAISSANCE Call for Proposals Educators' online calendar and OPLN. 

2020 #VWEDU: Digital literacy. He did it in Classcraft. Like a detective story. Could you do it better in your favorite virtual world? Are your students the heroes who will solve this problem?

He did it in Classcraft. 

Like a detective story.  

Could you do it better in your favorite virtual world?  

Are your students the heroes who will solve this problem?

Consideration of how a story could be created in a virtual world to engage students in activities that develop skills on digital literacy, teamwork, and presentation.  Plus knowledge of some selected STEM content.

Students as detectives

• Digital literacy lesson plan — November’s Quest of the Month
• Classcraft

• Update 11/19/2020 Covid feel good. VWBPE2021: RECONNAISSANCE Call for Proposals Educators' online calendar and OPLN. 

2020 #VWEDU: #DTA: Microcredentials for the teachers, badges for the kids, guild ranks for the teens. All learning is microlearning, whether educators use it or not.

Microcredentials for the teachers, 
badges for the kids, guild ranks for the teens.  
All learning is microlearning, 
whether educators use it or not.

Learning requires focus.  Focus needs a goal.  Progress is one step at a time.  Badges mark the steps.  Teachers don't have time to manage all those badges.  Computers do have the time. 

Goal setting

Microlearning and skill sets 

• We sometimes gather learning into skill sets
• Where a skill set enables a person to do a particular task.
• We sometimes recognize a demonstrated skill set: 
• Microcredentials, badges, guild ranks
• Such recognition usually has specific criteria for a valid demonstration.
• The criteria could provide guidance in goal-setting.   
• But only if students and parents are informed about them.
• The criteria should be used for guidance in formulating learning objectives.
• Since the objective of learning a skill set is to be able use the skills.
• The merit of badges: Define a useful skill set, specify a goal, give public recognition of skills. 
• Gamification, yes.  But known since the 1930's as reinforcement.
• (Much of gamification is the application of long established principles of behavioral psycology.) 

• Update 11/19/2020 Covid feel good. VWBPE2021: RECONNAISSANCE Call for Proposals Educators' online calendar and OPLN. 

2020 #VWEDU: VWBPE2021, "Reconnaissance" March 18-20, 2021 Call for proposals: 7 tracks, 5 formats, 3 types.

VWBPE2021, "Reconnaissance"  

March 18-20, 2021 

Call for proposals: 7 tracks, 5 formats, 3 types. 

VWBPE exhibits space 2020

Not your father's conference hall

• VWBPE 2021: RECONNAISSANCE Call for Proposals
• Situation awareness

Submission closing dates for 3 types of proposals

• Presentations: 13 January 2021
• Exhibits: 10 February 2021
• Immersive Experiences: 10 February 2021

Proposals are especially invited from these communities

• Educators and Trainers
• vLanguage Members
• Artists, Designers and Builders
• Advocacy and NonProfit organizations
• Support and Help Communities
• Entertainers and Performers
• Coders, Scripters, and System/IT Analysts
• Businesses and Entrepreneurs

2020 WW: PROMO: OSCC19 How web-based virtual worlds can serve as gateway to installed virtual worlds

How web-based virtual worlds can serve as 
gateway to installed virtual worlds

Web-worlds and installed virtual worlds: symbiosis.

• Watch on YouTube
• OSCC videos are up
• VidReader

• The integration of a web based virtual world in a grid’s homepage can attract lots of new users by the ease of access and the ease of use. 
• These users can then be guided to join your grid to experience OpenSim’s advanced features.
• SceneGate developments will allow a voice connection between OpenSIm and Web-worlds

Web-Worlds now!

• CybaLOUNGE
• 3DWebWorldz 
• No download.  No registration.  Go to the page, enter as guest.
• Details after the break

• Update 11/12/2020 VWBPE2021: RECONNAISSANCE Call for Proposals Educators' online calendar and OPLN. Kitely 8X8 megaworlds.

2020 #VWEDU: Field Trip to a web based virtual world. Travel in a browser. Meet in a laptop. Save time, money and carbon..

Field Trip to a web based virtual world.  

Travel in a browser.  Meet in a laptop.  

Save time, money and carbon.

Edward Tarber (RL: Dieter Heyne) takes us on a Field Trip to a web based virtual world

• Watch on YouTube 

• Edward Tarber (RL: Dieter Heyne) Web Based Virtual World Education 
• “Lessons Learned” from a university’s master course held in a web based virtual world environment. 
• Metaverse Software (the company)
• CybaLOUNGE login  (domain name used by the company)
• Scroll down to see my office times in CybaLOUNGE
• Virtual world education on the web. “Lessons Learned” from a university’s master course held in a web based virtual world environment.

• Update 11/12/2020 VWBPE2021: RECONNAISSANCE Call for Proposals Educators' online calendar and OPLN. Kitely 8X8 megaworlds.

2020 FREE: Find free virtual world stuff on Kitely. Maybe furniture, land parcels, stuff, sandbox, freebies, stores, fishing, education.

Find free virtual world stuff on Kitely.   
Maybe furniture, land parcels, stuff, 
sandbox, freebies, stores, fishing, education.

Kitely has good search support  inworld, on its Explore Worlds pages and on Kitely Market.  Here are the links to use.

Search term: free

Click image to enlarge

• Inworld search: Ctrl+f 
• Web search: Explore worlds, Kitely

• Update 11/12/2020 VWBPE2021: RECONNAISSANCE Call for Proposals Educators' online calendar and OPLN. Kitely 8X8 megaworlds.

2020 #VWEDU: Planning for the flipped and persistent webinar. Guided by the participants. Informed by a panel. Organized by 3DWebWorldz

Planning for the flipped and persistent webinar.  

Guided by the participants.  

Informed by a panel.  

Organized by 3DWebWorldz

Flipped: focus on participants.  Persistent: asynchronous participation allows continuing contact.  Synchronous working meetings arranged as needed.  Like a workgroup on discovery.    

 

• Watch on YouTube

3DWebWorldz

• A 3d place in your browser. As easy as going to a web page because it is a web page. Live music, writers, videos, meetings, comedy.
• 3DWebWorldz 
• 3DWebWorldz News & Support
• You can visit either of these as a guest, without registering.

Flipped Webinar

• Focus on the participants rather than the "sage on the stage."
• Flipped classroom (Wikipedia)
• About what the participants want to know.
• Rather than what the speaker thinks they should know.
• Much like a large work group focused on discovery.

• Update 11/12/2020 VWBPE2021: RECONNAISSANCE Call for Proposals Educators' online calendar and OPLN. Kitely 8X8 megaworlds.

2020 #VWEDU Community Virtual Library (CVL) Educators Online Calendar--Inworld poster format

Community Virtual Library (CVL) Educators Online Calendar --Inworld poster format

Educators Online Calendar 

• From Community Virtual Library (CVL).   
• The calendar carries events (education-related meetings 
• And office hours of mentors, mostly) from a number of established educational groups in virtual worlds.  
• Develop your online professional learning network (OPLN) in virtual worlds. The community in your laptop. Always ready. always handy

• Update 11/5/2020 VWBPE2021 Educators' online calendar and OPLN. Kitely 8X8 megaworlds. Federally Funded Language Programs.

2020 #VWEDU: WW: Digital Field trips for career exploration. On a browser? Only if you think computers will be in the future world of work.

Digital Field trips for career exploration.  

On a computer?  

Only if you think computers will be in the future world of work.

Locations to go to for digital field trips and suggestions for projects that students might do there in learning about careers they might pursue.

• Watch on YouTube

• Some field trips are available in browser-based worlds.
• These can be accessed on a Chromebook or smart tablet.
• The performance may not be adequate without good WiFi.
• More extensive field trips are available in installed virtual worlds.
• Installed virtual worlds require a computer or laptop, probably above the lowest price. 

• Career exploration and career training. In virtual worlds, they can use the same facility. No risk, no travel. All on a laptop.
• San José State Hosts Multiple Virtual Career Fairs

Contents

• Teaching with a digital field trip: Options
• Common reflection considerations
• Field trips in general
• Field trips in a browser
• Field trips: Installed virtual worlds
• Occupational skills

• Update 11/5/2020 VWBPE2021 Educators' online calendar and OPLN. Kitely 8X8 megaworlds. Federally Funded Language Programs.

2020 #DTA: #VWEDU: Onboarding for teaching and learning in digital worlds. A microcredential (badge) model.

Onboarding for teaching and learning in virtual worlds.  
A microcredential (badge) model.

A microcredential (badge) model for onboarding students and teachers into digital worlds. This article is explicitly licensed Public Domain (CC0).

A digital class does not 

need a classroom

The badge story

• Digital badges highlight every accomplishment.
• That is like climbing steps (microcredentials) instead of scaling a wall.
• Badges identify the steps and show how to complete them.
• The actions required to earn a digital badge demonstrate a needed skill for a specific use case.
• Associated with a badge are instructions on how to develop the skill.
• Since badges are used in games, the use of badges may be called gamification.
• To note the practical value of badges, they may be called microcredentials.
• The merit of badges: Define a useful skill set, specify a goal, give public recognition of skills.

• Update 11/5/2020 VWBPE2021 Educators' online calendar and OPLN. Kitely 8X8 megaworlds. Federally Funded Language Programs.

2020 VW: Kitely Megaworld. Over 2 KM on a side. With a server to itself. The area of 64 traditional sims. With no sim borders to cross.

Kitely Megaworld.  Over 2 KM on a side.   

With a server to itself.  

The area of 64 traditional sims.  

With no sim borders to cross.

It's a big world!  A big digital makerspace.  On anybody's computer.  No travel, no  pandemic, no use cost.   Especially good for sailing, model railroads, and long distance auto races. Free for experimental use by builders in Kitely.

My megaworld as created

• "8x8": meaning that each side is the length of 8 traditional sims
• 256 meters times 8 = 2048 meters, 1.3 miles
• The smaller square in the lower left is my earlier 4X4.  
• "Small" is relative--it is the area of 16 traditional sims.
• The 8x8 is the area of 64 traditional sims.
• Visit the place: Creative collaborators
• Kitely: Limited Time Offer for Mega Worlds
• This offer expires at the end of November--act now.
• MAKERSPACE FOR EDUCATION
• Library makerspace (Wikipedia)

• Update 11/5/2020 VWBPE2021 Educators' online calendar and OPLN. Kitely 8X8 megaworlds. Federally Funded Language Programs.

2020 #VWEDU: Online library in 3DWebWorldz Part 2: Renaissance and Enlightenment

Online library in 3DWebWorldz Part 2: Renaissance and Enlightenment

Home school, pod school, self school, 

online school, writers, readers, book clubs

Miss Brenda, Jamie Jordan, and Selby discuss the items from the Renaissance and the Enlightenment in the collection of the library.  

• Watch on YouTube

• Participants: Jamie Jordan, Miss Brenda, Selby
• Project Gutenberg (Wikipedia)
• Project Gutenberg ebooks
• Online library in 3DWebWorldz Part 1: BC and Medieval: Home school, pod school, self school, online school, writers, readers, book clubs

• To visit the library, click here
• No need to register.  Enter as a guest to see what is there.
• Better yet, bring a friend--you can talk in this library.
• Registration is free--that lets you pick an avatar an build a contact list.
• Teachers: Check out excursions and classrooms in 3DWebWorkdz
  
• 3DWebWorldz News
• MySchool3D.com – Tour our Educational Campus (video)
• Dr. Schmactenberg's overview 

• Update 11/5/2020 VWBPE2021 Educators' online calendar and OPLN. Kitely 8X8 megaworlds. Federally Funded Language Programs.

2019 VWEDU: WW: Educational presentations in 3D. In the old days, we called them "lectures". But with modern technology, we don't just stand there and talk.

Educational presentations in 3D.  
In the old days we called "lectures".  
But with modern technology, 
we don't just stand there and talk.

Educational presentations can take advantage of the opportunities offered by new technology.

• Watch on YouTube
• Transcription of video to text: VidReader

• You can do a PowerPoint if you want.  
• And that is what you should do if your audience wants that.
• Maybe that's all you can do if you don't have time to write your presentation.
• PowerPoint Now Supports Live Subtitles and Captions on Presentations
• But new tech offers new potential and new presentation methods use it.

• Update 10/29/2020 VWBPE2021 Educators' online calendar and OPLN. Kitely 8X8 megaworlds. Federally Funded Language Programs.

2020 #VWEDU: Educational facilities:costs. Cost per square foot. Cost per student. Physical versus virtual. The savings could go into educational services

Educational facilities:costs.

Cost per square foot. Cost per student.

Physical versus virtual. 

The savings could go into educational services

Comparison of the costs of virtual facilities for education and the costs of physical facilities.  This might also be instructive for companies that lease a lot of office space.

Universal campus (Kitely)

Free

Facilities costs for US education

• US school districts spent more than $14 billion on constructions in 2014.
• Spaces4Learning 
• 36th Annual Maintenance & Operations Cost Study for Schools
• Maintenance & Operations Costs per student = $823.84
• Maintenance & Operations Costs per square foot =  $5.09 
• School Facilities COST CALCULATOR  (includes building costs)
• Total annual ownership costs per sq. ft.=$15.90
• NCES  Total expenditures per pupil also included $1,266 in capital outlay
• Total annual cost per student= 1288+824 =  $2112.
• What do students learn from a building?
• Example of facilities costs in virtual worlds after the break.

• Update 10/29/2020 VWBPE2021 Educators' online calendar and OPLN. Kitely 8X8 megaworlds. Federally Funded Language Programs.

2020 VWMOOC20: ACRL Virtual World Interest Group presents a tour in Kitely

VWMOOC20: ACRL Virtual World Interest Group 

presents a tour in Kitely

Sendalonde library

Heather Ebey (Alexina Proctor) in ACRL Virtual World Interest Group presents a video tour in Kitely Sendalonde Library in Kitely.

• Watch on YouTube
• Sendalonde library is in the Kitely Wellspring region.
• Previous article: Sendalonde library.
• After losing five years of work due to a virtual world grid that is now defunct, 
• Alex and Prax are rebuilding the Sendalonde library on the Kitely grid. 
• On a sim called Wellspring, you will find library collections 
• based on Sci-fi, Fantasy, Steampunk and Folklore.

• Update 10/29/2020 VWBPE2021 Educators' online calendar and OPLN. Kitely 8X8 megaworlds. Federally Funded Language Programs.