Update 3/18/2021
Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Conference: Exhibits open March 18-20, 2021
OpenSim area hits another record, active users down slightly
First tiny community comes to Kitely
A collection of news items and links relevant to this blog. Often-wanted links are recurrent. Others may be retained a few weeks. New items may be added daily.
Dancing at Kitely,
where everybody knows your name
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Changes in this blog
Due to health problems, I will need to reduce the activity of this blog, at least temporarily.
News on the MUVEs
- Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Conference: Exhibits open March 18-20, 2021
- OpenSim area hits another record, active users down slightly
- First tiny community comes to Kitely
- VWBPE 2021 Program Now Available!
- OpenSim hits record high in land area, active users
- Sundance goes all-in on virtual this year
- DivaCanto: channel on YouTube
- OpenSim sees growth in land and users this month
- Study Finds VR Simulation Effective for Pediatric Emergency Readiness
- The Dickens Project 2020 Edition
- COVID Feel Good: A Free Self-Help Virtual Reality App to Treat the Psychological Stress Caused by the Coronavirus Pandemic
- Launch of Website on Federally Funded Language Programs
- Frequently Asked Questions on Virtual Currency Transactions
- Application of FinCEN’s Regulations to Certain Business Models Involving Convertible Virtual Currencies
- Virtual Worlds Teaching Manual
- STÖMOL is a feature-length sci-fi machinima filmed in Second Life®.
- Metamodernism and Changing Literacy: Emerging Research and Opportunities
- Storylink radio from Seanchai Libraries
- SceneGate Wiki
- I post news items relevant to this blog on this weekly update page.
- I mark items relevant to education in virtual worlds with #VWEDU
- I repost on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and MeWe.
Contents
- Search on the page: Ctrl+f (type in the search bar, top of the page)
- My timeline on Twitter
- Events in the virtual worlds
- Newcomer notes
- Hypergrid places, news, and tips
- Business
- Support the supporters
- Living online
- Modern education #VWEDU
- Libraries for education
- Writers on the MUVEs
- Promotion (general)
- Radio and video in the virtual worlds
- Web-worlds
- Visit me on the web
- License
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My Twitter Timeline (always up to date)
Tweets by selbyevansEvents
Event news sites
Regular events
- THIS WEEK at Seanchai Libraries
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- Maritime Club in Virtual Belfast on OSGrid.
- hg.osgrid.org:80:Maritime Club Belfast
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- Sunday Kitely Community/Hypergrid meeting at 1 pm Pacific time
- grid.kitely.com:8002:Kitely Welcome Center
Event archives
- VWMOOC19 videos available
- Video archive: Mainstreaming Virtual World Learning Colloquium
- Journal of virtual Studies: VWBPE Conference Proceedings 2019
Calendars: grid and community
Blogs and articles of the 3D digitals
Newcomer notes
Hypergrid places, news, and tips
- Tessin Adventures in the virtual world! Smugglers, battles at sea, stolen booty, role-playing in English.
- Hypergrid Hoppers
- Hypergrid Hoppers ( Facebook)
- Opensimworld. Destination guide for the Hypergrid
- HYPERGRIDABLE grids open 24/7: Interactive spreadsheet for Hypergridders.
- Sights of the virtual worlds
- To go to a hypergrid address: hg.osgrid.org:80:Maritime Club Belfast
- Put the HG address in the Find bar of the world map, click Find, TP
Business on the MUVEs
- A list of features needed in virtual worlds to support remote collaboration and distance learning
- Immersive Technologies (Heritage Christian Online School)
Support the supporters (crowdsource)
- Kevin Cozens is creating and supporting Open Source software and hardware projects.
- YadNi Monde is creating Drawings, Paintings, Sculptings, Calligraphies, Arts.
- 3DWebWorldz is creating virtual places in a browser
- Ryan Schultz is creating a blog and a show covering social VR and virtual worlds
Living online
- Sites That Pay You For Online Freelance Work
- Mega-List of Over 100 Work-at-Home Phone Jobs
- Work at Home as a Covid Contact Tracer
- 10 Fortune 500 Companies With Work at Home Jobs
- Work at Home Jobs With No Set Schedule
- 5 Unusual Ways to Find Freelance Writing Jobs Online
- How To Work From Home as a Copywriter
- 5 Ways To Earn Money With a Podcast
- 10 Sites That Pay You To Write About Politics
- Want To Teach ESL Online? Where To Get TESOL/TEFL Certification
- 10 Work at Home Jobs For People With Associate’s Degrees
- TwoSigmas Review – Find An ESL Tutoring Job
- Five Places to Find Work as a Paid Blogger
- Voice Over Jobs From Home – 7 Companies To Work For
- The Hoth Review – Get Weekly Pay For Online Content Writing
- Teach English Online At Home – 18 Companies That Pay!
- Freelancer
- Upwork: Freelancers
Modern education #VWEDU
- Dr. Nellie Deutsch: Professional Development Moodle for Teachers
- 100 Podcasts You Should Check Out
- Heike Philp conducts a workshop at her Virtual Campus in OpenSim
- The Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) for MUVES (virtual worlds): Summary
- Activities in virtual worlds
- Teams for Education: new updates for back-to-school
- Education in Virtual Worlds. Summary
- Education articles in this blog
- Nonprofit Commons
- Immersive Learning Network
- Now you can explore a cave without actually going into a cave
- Digital Promise
Educator groups in virtual worlds
- Educators Online Calendar and OPLN
- CVL Education Network
- Educators in VR
- Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education * Stellar * March 26-28, 2020
- Rockcliffe University Consortium
- Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education
- VWER – Virtual Worlds Education Round table
- New Media Arts, Inc.
Nonprofit Commons
- ISTE© - International Society for Technology in Education
- To search for web articles relevant to virtual worlds, use #VWEDU
Education links relevant to virtual worlders
- Educators Online Calendar and OPLN
- Best MOOC sources responding to COVID-19
- Education in muves (search)
- EdTech and Leadership: The Fuel that Feeds the Flame
- iEARN-USA and WorldTeach Partner Expand Global Opportunities for Educators
- Global Education Conference Network
- #VWEDU Search (Virtual Worlds Education community)
- #VWBPE Search (Virtual worlds Best Practices in Education)
- Ask the Cognitive Scientist: Distributed Practice
Entrepreneurial educators
- PBLWorks: Project based learning
- Including Students in Your Grant Writing
- Study Finds VR Simulation Effective for Pediatric Emergency Readiness
- Educators Online Calendar and OPLN
- CVL Virtual Worlds Database
- CVL Education Network
- Project Pals: Online collaborative project-based learning with data and accountability
- The 2020 Learning Revolution daily online education conference
- Download SceneGate
- SceneGate Wiki
- Next education
- MoocLab
- Sell Courses Online - Turn Your Expertise Into Cash: MoocLab
- Multiverse masters in Kitely
- Interactive eLearning: 4 Ways to Challenge Your Learners
- Immersive Education Initiative
- Kitely offers themed "grids". Independent websites using Kitely tech but managed by an organization
- Class Tech Tips
- GetEducated
- EcoMUVE
YouTube channels
- Infinite Metaverse Alliance
- Metaverse School (browser based)
- Selby's comedy channel
- Selby's educator channel
- The Drax Files
- 3DWebWorldz (browser based)
Relevant education links
- Make Your PTA Virtual
- Educators Online Calendar and OPLN
- WonderExploreLearn.com
- Edutopia
- Microschools Meet The Moment
- Cambium Learning Group adds Rosetta Stone to its portfolio of digital-centric learning brands
- MoocLab
- Getting Smart
- Edsurge
- 10 amazing virtual museum tours
- VirtualiTeach
- Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
- CommLab India
- Simple Homeschool
- Virtual Fieldtrips
- EdTech and Leadership: The Fuel that Feeds the Flame
- iEARN-USA and WorldTeach Partner Expand Global Opportunities for Educators
- Digital Promise
Funding sources for education
Libraries for education
- Metamodernism and Changing Literacy: Emerging Research and Opportunities
- Storylink radio from Seanchai Libraries
- Community Virtual Library (CVL): Wikipedia
- Community Virtual Library (CVL) opens in Kitely. A view of the space station and its teleporters
- Community Virtual Library – Real librarianship in virtual worlds
Virtual Worlds
Writers on the MUVEs
Promotion (general)
- Promotion from Virtual Worlds. Summary
- I am glad to get press releases about anything that fits this blog.
- If your release would fit under any topic here, contact me for my email address
Radio and video in the virtual worlds
Web-worlds
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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.
- Due to medical issues, I cannot promise to be there. But I will try.
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- Use as you please with attribution: link to the original.
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- Selby Evans in Kitely and Hypergrid, Thinkerer Melville in Second Life.
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