2021 SEE: Tales of the tinys: World Cup. The little people have fun too. Virtual worlds have lots of social interaction

Tales of the tinys: World Cup.  

The little people have fun too.

Virtual worlds have lots of social interaction

 An illustration of social interactions among the digital citizens of virtual worlds.

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• Online learning lacks social interaction
• Scholarly articles for online learning lacks social interaction
• There’s No Contagion in the Virtual World!
• Metaliteracy and our Metamodern Times
• Educational facilities:costs. Cost per square foot. Cost per student. Physical versus virtual. The savings could go into educational services
• Era of the entrepreneurial educator. The unbundling of education opens the gate for entrepreneurs.

2021 #VWEDU: Virtual World Education Consortium Connects Learning Communities iLRN 2021. As always, libraries connect people with what they want to know.

Virtual World Education Consortium 

Connects Learning Communities iLRN 2021

As always, libraries connect people with what they want to know.

A presentation for the Immersive Learning Research Network 2021 with Dr. Valerie Hill and Dr. Becky Adams. Location: VWEC Pavilion in Second Life

• Watch on YouTube

2012 VW: Sasquatch branch of OpenSim: Next generation core (NGC).

Sasquatch branch of OpenSim:  

Next generation core (NGC)

An alternative to the core development of OpenSim.

By Mike Chase (edited by Selby Evans)

Find out more

• Work is primarily done through GitHub tools and the main project is at: 
• https://github.com/OpenSim-NGC/OpenSim-Sasquatch

What is it?

• Sasquatch is a play on Yeti which is the current development branch of OpenSim Core. 
• We are for the most part tracking the core development changes.
• Sasquatch is a part of the OpenSim-NGC project on Github
• These efforts grow from frustration with the quality and opacity of the work done in the core team of OpenSim. 
• My primary goal was to use standard available resources and tools to increase the quality and curate the work of both upstream core as well as local additions. 

2021 VID: Kitely YouTube videos and the Kitely YouTube channel. We can use these to promote Kitely activities. There is power in aggregation.

Kitely YouTube videos and the Kitely YouTube channel.  

We can use these to promote Kitely activities.  

There is power in aggregation.

A recent discussion at the Sunday community meeting noted that Kitely has a YouTube channel, with  few videos, despite the large number of videos made in Kitely and posted on YouTube.  Here I suggest a plan to aggregate and organize videos made in Kitely. Kitely could use that collection in playlists on its YouTube channel and elsewhere.  

• Watch on YouTube

How to search for videos made in Kitely

• YouTube Videos that mention Kitely
• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=kitely

Channels related to Kitely

• The posts are not exclusively from Kitely
• RezMela Channel
• Kitely Community
• Kitely Monday (Learn English)
• Kitely playlist (Mike Lorrey)
• My Kitely playlist

2021 #VWEDU: Virtual Environments: Is one life enough? Class Presentations, J O'Connor et al.

Virtual Environments: 

Is one life enough? Class Presentations, 

J O'Connor et al.

• Watch on YouTube
• Class 12: Team Project presentations

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• Class Presentations 
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• 1:13 Welcome and Order of Presentation 
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• 54:23 Module Information and Student Backgrounds 
• John O'Connor Director and Dean, College of Arts and Tourism, 
• Technological University Dublin Lecturer, Virtual Environments: Is one life enough?
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• Class of Spring 2021 
• Presented 06-May-2021 Virtual Environments: Is one life enough

2021 VW: Want more traffic on your Kitely place? How can people find your place? What makes them want to come? What can you do to help?

Why don't you get more traffic?   

How can people find your place?  

What makes them want to come?

What can you do to help?

Imaginary greeter bot applies for a job.

• Watch on YouTube
• Works 24/7, always says what you wrote, 
• works for milliamps, makes a virtual world social.

Contents

• Spread the word
• Improve onboarding
• Collaborate
• Ad a greeter bot
• Make videos
• Promote

2021 VR Headset and VR Desktop: Make Room for Both, V Hill, M. Vans, B. Winslow, E. O’Connor. P. Franks, J. Neville

VR Headset and VR Desktop: 

Make Room for Both, 

V Hill,  M. Vans,  B. Winslow, 

E. O’Connor. P. Franks, J. Neville

A discussion about the developing headset VR or the more mature desktop VR.  

• VR Headset and VR Desktop: Make Room for Both
• Watch on YouTube
• UniVirtual Experience

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Dr. Valerie Hill Director, Community Virtual Library https://www.linkedin.com/in/valerie-h... Dr. Marie Vans Senior Research Scientist, CTO Office, HP Inc. https://www.linkedin.com/in/marievans/ Bethany Winslow eLearning Specialist, School of Information, San Jose State University https://www.linkedin.com/in/bethanywi... Dr. Eileen O’Connor Professor, School for Graduate Studies, State University of New York Empire State College https://www.linkedin.com/in/eileen-o-... Dr. Pat Franks Professor, School of Information, San Jose State University https://www.linkedin.com/in/pat-frank... James Neville (Sitearm) Owner, Consultant, Practitioner in Applied Online Collaboration https://www.linkedin.com/in/sitearm/ Presented 15-May-2021 Educators in VR UniVirtual Experience https://educatorsinvr.com/

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2021 #VWEDU: Critical thinking and the secrets of GCFLearnFree.org. Very much needed for project-based learning (PBL).

Critical thinking 

and the secrets of GCFLearnFree.org

Very much needed for project-based learning (PBL).

Does project-based learning (PBL) require critical thinking?  Yes, if it is much of a project.  Does PBL come with instruction in critical thinking?

• Watch on YouTube.
• GCFLearnFree
• This tells how to talk about it.
• Learning the skill takes practice.
• The practice can be planned as a series of steps (a procedure).
• A DTA can walk a team of students through the procedure and collect student products at each step.
• The teacher can monitor the progress of each team and give feedback.
• The Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) for MUVES (virtual worlds): Summary with JIT learning design

2021 #VWEDU: CVL Collection Highlight: Grant Resources. Video presentation in a virtual world

CVL Collection Highlight: Grant Resources

Video presentation in a virtual world

Alyse Dunavant-Jones, Assistant Director of The Community Virtual Library, shares a presentation on grants at the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life.

• Watch on YouTube
• Community Virtual Library (CVL)
• Courses in grant writing 

2021 #VWEDU: Narrative-based learning in virtual worlds can be a form of PBL and/or of gamified learning. The detective story as a model.

Narrative-based learning in virtual worlds 

can be a form of PBL 

and/or of gamified learning. 

The detective story as a model. 

An illustration of how to integrate narrative, project, inquiry, gamification and role-playing into the basis for learning.

• Watch on YouTube

Telling is not teaching

• Once you hear lecture about swimming, you never forget what you learned about lectures. Talking is not teaching.
• Real learning comes from practice, not from reading or hearing.  
• They remember some of what they read or heard, but not well.
• That's why they forget it over the summer. 
• And remember little of it when they get out of school. 

Narrative-based learning

• Inquiry-based learning, project-based learning 
• Narrative-based learning and the use of digital places as teacher and text With the DTA as mentor
• Narrative-based learning (Wikipedia)
• Scholarly articles for narrative-based learning
• How to teach narrative-based learning
• 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?
• Narrative-based learning (search)

Who would use narrative-based learning?

• Second language teachers using the target language.
• English teachers giving writing practice.
• Math teachers posing word problems.
• History teachers giving anecdotes relevant to the historical period.
• Any teacher showing the use of any subject.
• Any teacher using a narrative in game-based learning.
• Any teacher wanting to teach critical thinking skills.