2021 EDU: RSA Minimate: Climate Change and the Future of Humanity. An educational video with an uncommon educational method

RSA Minimate: 
Climate Change and the Future of Humanity 
David Wallace-Wells 
Global warming is the existential challenge of our age. 

Educational content prepared and available on the web.  Maybe suited to some high school students. Probably suited to most college students. Surely suited to study by educators studying new methods of presenting educational material.  And possibly of value to educators teaching about climate change.   

• Watch on YouTube
• RSA Minimate: Climate Change and the Future of Humanity - David Wallace-Wells Global warming is the existential challenge of our age. 

2021 LIVE MUSIC CONCERTS in 3DWebWorldz.com. On a webpage, you are there all alone. In a virtual world, you are there with your friends

LIVE MUSIC CONCERTS in 3DWebWorldz.com.  

On a webpage, you are there all alone. 

In a virtual world, you are there with your friends

Online concerts with your friends. 

• Watch on YouTube
• James Olmos Music (Facebook)
• James Olmos Music (Twitter)
• James Olmos (Home)

LIVE MUSIC CONCERTS in 3DWebWorldz.com

• The LiveMusic3d.com Portal provides a community environment with avatars, live chat, dance animations and more. 
• Watch/Listen your favorite artist in REAL TIME, live streaming into a virtual venue.

Go there

• LiveMusic3d.com

Why concerts in a virtual world?

• An audience assembled, texting to each other.
• And texting to performer.
• The audience can make requests.
• The performer can read the texts and join the conversation on the stream.
• More like a nightclub than a TV show.
• The audience doesn't just watch--it participates.
• The performer is part of the audience.

Like  this

• James Olmos sings his original, "Oxygen," in 3DWEBWORLDZ. Small, intimate group, more like a night club than a concert. Dancing avatars

2021 BZ: Where will the digital generation have meetings? Business meetings? B2B? Conventions? Conferences? Will they travel to meetings if they like to work at home?

Where will the digital generation have meetings?    

Business meetings? B2B? 

Conventions?  Conferences?   

Will they travel to meetings if they like to work at home?

As people get used to working online, many will see the advantages of online meetings.

Virtual conference

The COVID lockdowns created a lot of new digital citizens.

• Some of them want to work on the internet.
• Many of these may prefer online meetings.
• No infection worries, no cost, no travel time, no hanky-panky. 
• Online meetings will thus cater to a different population. 
• The traditional presentations of F2F meetings can be live-streamed.
• Thus they can reach a larger audience that would not come to the F2F meeting.
• But such F2F meetings can have parallel online meetings.
• With online networking, online breakout rooms and online vendor rooms.

The growing population of digital citizens

• 1,869,508 Online Work From Home Jobs
• Online work (search)
• EVERY COMPANY GOING REMOTE PERMANENTLY: APR 7, 2021 UPDATE
• Communication Technology and Inclusion Will Shape the Future of Remote Work
• Permanent Work From Home Is Coming
• Web conferencing
• Work-At-Home After Covid-19—Our Forecast
• 28 Need-To-Know Remote Work Statistics of 2021
• Stanford research provides a snapshot of a new working-from-home economy

Related

• Conferences, conventions, trade shows. Big meetings of any kind. You can do them online. No travel, no risk, no hanky-panky.
• OpenSim Community Conference: a real conference in a virtual world. No COVID worries, no cost, no travel time, no hanky-panky. Just people getting together to learn about OpenSimulator and its uses.
• Networking support at online events. Conferences, conventions, trade shows. A major function is networking. How can it work online?

2012 Digital Badge Program to Recognize Language Proficiency. The badges are coming.

Digital Badge Program 

to Recognize Language Proficiency

The badges are coming.

Badges can replace academic degrees and target specific job description needs.

ACTFL and Language Testing International (LTI), the exclusive provider of ACTFL assessments, are pleased to announce a new digital badging program through Credly. Digital badges are now issued to students in higher education institutions and adults completing an official ACTFL proficiency assessment, and may include the associated ACE CREDIT recommendations for the ACTFL assessment taken. These badges will recognize the effort involved in learning a language and provide evidence of an indispensable, validated skill.

• Read more
• Articles about Digital Badges in this blog (below);

2021 BIZ: #VWEDU: How the Kitely system would work for big online events.

How the Kitely system would work for big online events. 

Suggestions of how to plan an event in a virtual world.

80 bots in a Kitely world

• Hosting Large Events in Kitely
• Offsite company meetings online (search)
• Trade show: could that be done online? A digital place could duplicate the look and feel of a trade show
• Hosting Large Events in Kitely. How to support networking.

The Kitely system 

• Spreads a large audience into multiple rooms.  
• (They may be called luxury boxes.)
• No room is overloaded. 
• A presentation to a large audience is streamed to all the rooms.
• Arrangements are made to collect questions from all the rooms for a closing QA session.
• Breakout rooms and vendor-sponsored rooms can be provided.

2020 Hosting Large Events in Kitely. How to support networking.

Hosting Large Events in Kitely.  

How to support networking. 

Suggestions on how to support networking in virtual worlds.

80 bots in a Kitely world

Kitely is ready to host large virtual events

• Hosting Large Events in Kitely
• Offsite company meetings online (search)
• Trade show: could that be done online? A digital place could duplicate the look and feel of a trade show

Networking

• One of the main activities in large commercial or professional events is networking.
• Virtual events can offer better networking opportunities than physical events,  but not without planning.
• Online networking 
• For a large event in Kitely, there are two potential sources of networking support: The event database and Kitely groups.

2021 #VWEDU: Virtual Environments: Is One Life Enough? Digital Citizenship.

Virtual Environments: Is One Life Enough?  

Digital Citizenship. 

If your high school students have problems with online education, the problem is much bigger than COVID 19

• Virtual Environments: Is One Life Enough?
• Class 9: Digital Citizenship
• Digital citizenship (search)
• Digital citizen (Wikipedia)
• If your high school students have problems with online education, the problem is much bigger than COVID 19. What jobs will not require digital skills?

2021 #VWEDU: Community Virtual Library is celebrating 15 years in the virtual world of Second Life.

Community Virtual Library is celebrating 15 years 

in the virtual world of Second Life.

• CVL Celebrates 15 Years with a New Library Building

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Go there

• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cookie/196/213/22

2021 Hobbies: Model railroads in Second Life.

Model railroads in Second Life.

This five-part mini-series is dedicated to the unique history, culture and communities surrounding one of the most popular modes of travel in the virtual world - railroads in Second Life.

• Watch on YouTube
• Railroads of Second Life

In episode one, Hrdtop75 Deluxe of the Virtual Railroad Consortium joins Drax for a look back at the origins and history of the Second Life Railroad (SLRR) system ...

CREDITS:

• Video Production: Draxtor Despres
• Narration & Research: Hardtop75 Deluxe
• Sets & logo: Marianne McCann
• Special thanks to Patch Linden, Squeaky Mole and Joshu Philgarlic
• Trains used made by Hardtop75 Deluxe, Zen Swords-Galway, Atomic Infinity and Brit Balogh

• After the break: The rest of the story and previous articles. 

2021 BIZ: WEB-WORLDS: The four pit stops on the road to marketing

The four pit stops on 
the road to marketing

We are marketing all the time.  If you want people to do something, you market that action to them. If you want them to pay money, it is called selling.  If you want the kids to clean up their rooms, it is called parenting.  If you want kids to learn something, it is called teaching.  Here is the kernel on how to. 

• Articles in this blog about marketing and promotion

2021 #VWEDU:Early Cretaceous Meat Eating Dinosaurs by Dr. Bill Schmachtenberg & Dr. Alex Hastings. Lecture and discussion in a virtual world.

Early Cretaceous Meat Eating Dinosaurs 

by Dr. Bill Schmachtenberg & Dr. Alex Hastings.

Lecture and discussion in a virtual world.

Video of a science lecture done in a virtual world.  

• Watch on YouTube
• Videos by Dr. Schmachtenberg
• Video made in Second Life
• Video of a presentation to Science Circle.
• Video capture and web archiving thanks to Science Circle

3DWebWorld

• 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 

Remote presentation

• Remote presentation as close as your laptop.
• Reaches as many people as want to hear it.
• Remains available for years.
• No travel cost, no travel time.

2021 Bot (DTA) discussions at Magnolia gardens. Why use bots in virtual worlds?

Bot (DTA)  discussions at Magnolia gardens.

Why use bots in virtual worlds?

Discussion of bot demonstrations in a virtual world.

• Watch on YouTube

• Quest-based learning, DTA as guide
• Project based learning.
• Read and follow instructions. A needed reading skill.
• The Secret of the Instruction Manual
• https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edi...​
• Solo or team work.  
• Teacher can be present for those needing help.

Go there

• Hypergrid address:
• grid.metaversedepot.com:8002:IMA Outpost Alpha 
• Put the HG address in the Find bar of the World Map.  Click Find, TP
• Metaverse Depot Grid (registration required):
• http://grid.metaversedepot.com:8002/

2021 #VWEDU: DTA: More Digital teaching assistants planned for Magnolia Garden. AI-driven teaching assistants.

More Digital teaching assistants 

planned for Magnolia Garden. 

AI-driven teaching assistants.  

More bots are planned for Magnolia Gardens

• Watch on YouTube

• Quest-based learning, DTA as guide
• Project based learning.
• Read and follow instructions. A needed reading skill.
• The Secret of the Instruction Manual
• Solo or team work.  
• Teacher can be present for those needing help.
• AI-driven bots

Go there

• Hypergrid address:
• grid.metaversedepot.com:8002:IMA Outpost Alpha 
• Put the HG address in the Find bar of the World Map.  Click Find, TP
• Metaverse Depot Grid (registration required)
• http://grid.metaversedepot.com:8002/

2021 #VWEDU: DTA: The bots of Magnolia Garden. Bots can give routine help while the teacher helps those who really need it.

The bots of Magnolia Garden.  

Bots can give routine help 

while the teacher helps those who really need it.

Bots can guide students in the practice of skills.

• Watch on YouTube

Quest-based learning, DTA as guide

• Project based learning.
• Read and follow instructions. A needed reading skill.
• The Secret of the Instruction Manual
• Solo or team work.  
• Teacher can be present for those needing help.

Go there

• Hypergrid address:
• grid.metaversedepot.com:8002:IMA Outpost Alpha 
• Put the HG address in the Find bar of the World Map.  Click Find, TP
• Metaverse Depot Grid (registration required)
• http://grid.metaversedepot.com:8002/

2021 PROMO: Plan for organizing a blog in a digital "world". One person, publishing once a month, will get no following in years. But a collaborative blog...

Plan for organizing a blog in a digital "world". 
One person, publishing once a month, 
will get no following in years.  

But a collaborative blog...

Suggestions as to how and why a community or professionally-oriented class might want to develop a collaborative blog that reports on what they are doing.

• Twenty people, publishing once a month on related topics, can build a following.
• That is the potential of a collaborative blog/

Where would you get 20 people?

• In a community.  People in a community share common interests.
• In a professionally-oriented class. They all share professional interests. 

Why blog?

• The whys and hows of blogging.
• Publicize something.
• Build a portfolio.
• Build a reputation.
• Show off project results.
• Let students build portfolios.
• Promote events.
• Promote the interests of your group
• Blog to tell, publicize, or promote. Summary

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

2021 DTA: A meeting with Charlie the Chatter. A draft model for a welcome bot in a virtual world. The tale of the chatter dog.

A meeting with Charlie the Chatter.  

A draft model for a welcome bot in a virtual world. 

The tale of the chatter dog.

An episode in the life of Charlie, the apprentice bot dog.

An important sign

I knew right away I was in over my head.  This was a three-dimensional world inside the computer.  Or down the rabbit hole.  "What do I do next?", I asked myself.

Then I noticed a big, shaggy dog trotting towards me.  It wore a sign saying "Look for the chat window, lower left."  It stopped, sat up and wagged its tail."

2021 Listing products on Kitely Marketplace: A video tutorial. Illustrates how teachers could make instructional videos for a class.

Listing products on Kitely Marketplace: 

A video tutorial.  

Illustrates how teachers could make 

instructional videos for a class.

A simple "how to list your items on Kitely Market" video to help new people offer products on Kitely Market.

• Watch on YouTube
• Kitely Market

• Update 2/11/2021 Land up, actives down in January Sundance goes all-in on virtual this year VWBPE2021 RECONNAISSANCE Call for Proposals

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More Videos about Kitely Market

• Kitely Market Hypergrid Delivery Tutorial
• Create an Ad for Feature Products on Kitely
• Kitely Market - The Metaverse Marketplace

More about Kitely Market

• Kitely markets to the Hypergrid
• Clarifications and tips about Kitely Market
• Kitely Market now allows revenue splitting. Ann Tree Prenyour comments
• Why would content creators think about selling in the Kitely market?
• The HG BeatThis List. Kitely Market. One stop shopping for the virtual worlds
• "How do I import things into Kitely to put them on Kitely market?" A job for Ann Tree Prenyour?
• The Kitely Want Market. Don't find what you want? Ask. Creators: Check the wants

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2021 See; Welcome to New Eden. A place of beauty in a virtual world. Just the kind of place I think would make a good senior center.

Welcome to New Eden. 

A place of beauty in a virtual world.

Just the kind of place I think would make a good senior center.

Description of a place in a virtual world and consideration of how its amenities would benefit a senior center.

Destinations

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• Go there: HG address:
• grid.kitely.com:8002:New Eden  
• Put the HG address in the Find bar of the World Map, click Find, TP
• Web Page