2021 VWMOOC21: The metaverse in your browser. Field Trip to a browser based virtual world. You can go there now!

The metaverse in your browser.  

Field Trip to a browser based virtual world. 

You can go there now!

On your computer screen.  Desktop, laptop, Chromebook, tablet -- anything that will run a browser. No waiting-- go there now.

• Watch on YouTube
• Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds running in a browser. Summary
• Go there now:  CybaLOUNGE login 

Cybalounge

• 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.
• Cybalounge wiki 
• Metaverse Software (the company)
• 3DWW is social VW. How to start
• CybaLOUNGE login 
• How to put 3D on your website

2021 Vid: Our literary life in the metaverse. Here is what it is like: The Second Life Book Club with Draxtor - Maxine Kaplan. The metaverse is for readers, too.

Our literary life  in the metaverse.   

Here is what it is like:   

The Second Life Book Club with Draxtor - Maxine Kaplan.  

The metaverse is for readers, too.

A video look at our literary life in the metaverse.

• Watch on YouTube 
• Other videos by Draxtor.

Reading in the metaverse

• Libraries in the virtual world could provide help for virtual classes and virtual campuses: the trident model
• How to present without an auditorium. Present in a simulation of the subject. Valerie Hill tells about Research Row in the digital Dickens Project (excerpts).
• How to present without an auditorium. Present in a simulation of the subject. Valerie Hill tells about Research Row in the digital Dickens Project (excerpts).
• The library on your laptop: Community Virtual Library CVL: Virtual library with real librarians.
• A digital campus needs a digital library. What would be in a digital library?
• Metaverse Libraries: Communities as Resources Part 1
• Seanchai Library Celebrates a Decade of Stories with "Volume 10"
• Reinventing school for the Tech Generations. Virtual libraries on the web.

2021 #VWEDU: Libraries in the metaverse. There you can ask a librarian. Search replaces the card catalogue.

Libraries in the metaverse. 

There you can ask a librarian.

Search replaces the card catalogue. 

Library services are much more than books.  You need librarians.

• Watch on YouTube

2021 Touring some educational parts of the metaverse. Second life has many educational places. And they are all 30 seconds apart.

Touring some educational parts of the metaverse.  

Second life has many educational places.  

And they are all 30 seconds apart.

Videos of tours in Second Life, a division of the metaverse. 

• Watch on YouTube
• Tour of the destination starts at 3 minutes

Related

• Tour of Gateway to Thinking in Second Life
• Tour of the destination starts at 3.5 minutes
• Visit SL educational locations on a tour of Yan’s teleportal system 
• Starting location: Community Virtual Library at Cookie:
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cookie/73/44/25

2021 EDU: Creating Active Learning Through Film. Make it a team project. Online, use the metaverse for classes. Use A DTA to manage details.

Creating Active Learning Through Film. 

Make it a team project.  

Online, use the metaverse for classes

Use A DTA to manage details.

Design for projects using video instruction and teamwork either in person or online

• The 7 Keys to Creative Collaboration
• Movies for Every Subject Area: Creating Active Learning Through Film
• This plan can be used in-person or online (in the metaverse).
• In either case, the DTA could handle the details.   

DTA assignments: 

• The Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) for MUVES (virtual worlds): Summary with JIT learning design

Before class, work alone

• Watch these videos: (List 1 or more videos)
• For each video: list the things you most need to remember in order of importance.
• Put your summary in your desk at the team workroom.   
• A teacher or assistant may read your summary and give you comments.
• A teacher or assistant may evaluate your list by comparing it with a master list.
• You get individual credit for this work, if you complete it before the team meeting.

VWMOOC21: The metaverse supports teaching during lockdown. Students working together from home. Virtual classrooms can have all the equipment of the familiar classrooms. Without the germs.

The metaverse supports teaching during lockdown.  

Students working together from home.  

Virtual classrooms can have all the equipment of the familiar classrooms. 

Without the germs.

Dieter Heyne (Avatar: Edward Tarber) discusses learning during lockdown. Examples: 3 groups of master students learning during lockdown.

• Watch on YouTube
• Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds running in a browser. Summary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtL8l3jzYF0

Services that could be in a digital classroom

• Digital teaching assistant: software designed to give assistance for a specific task.
• Whiteboards for teacher and each student.
• The interactive whiteboard(s) in CybaLounge
• Instructional videos:
• Cybalounge build: put a video in your web-world
• Tests:
• Suppose the real objective in school is to pass multiple-choice tests. Can a digital TA handle test-based learning?

2021 Meetings in the Metaverse: wrap-up session: Remote meetings, remote conventions, live streaming,

Meetings in the Metaverse: wrap-up session

No travel time.  No travel cost.  

No facility cost. No sharing of germs.

Watch a real meeting about how the metaverse can support meetings

• Watch on YouTube

Why?

• No travel time.  No travel cost.  No facility cost.
• No sharing of germs.  Not affected by lockdowns.
• Maybe the relevant question is "Why not?"
• Meetings in the Metaverse. No travel time. No travel cost. No facility cost. No sharing of germs.
  

Where?

• 3DWebWorldz
• https://3dwebworldz.com/
• This place can handle meetings ranging from virtual conventions to teachers supervising multiple students working in their own sandboxes. 

2021 EDU: A math game model for the metaverse. Why can kids learn to play all sorts of games but can't learn the game of math? Because game developers do a better job of teaching.

A math game model for the metaverse.  

Why can kids learn to play all sorts of games 

but can't learn the game of math?  

Because game developers do a better job of teaching.

In preparing video instruction, think like a designer of video games. Plan the motivation as well as the content.

• Watch on YouTube

The video game model 

• Get learners curious
• Start with very easy problems
• Put learner in control
• Let learners make mistakes and recover from them.
• Below is an example.

The game of algebra

• A big part of algebra is a game.
• It has pieces: the familiar numbers and one new piece, X
• X is the puzzle piece.  It represents the  mystery number you want to find.
• You get the game in the form of an equation: 4X + 3 = 15
• The puzzle:  what is the value for X that makes the equation true?
• Notice that the first term on the left side just means four times X, 

The rules of the game

• You can add, subtract, multiply or divide both sides of the equation by the same number.
• (If there are several terms on the side, you multiply or divide each term.)
• If there are several numbers on one side you can combine them with arithmetic. 
• There are other rules but they can wait till later.
• Step 1: Subtract 3 from both sides: 4X = 15-3.
• Step 2: Do the simple arithmetic on the right:  4X=12
• Step 3: Divide both sides by 4: X = 3
• Puzzle question: Why did we pick 3 for subtracting and 4 for dividing?
• Puzzle question: Is there a way to combine 3X + 4X?

The game in 3D

• We want the student to practice these operations.

Your first challenge

• Get your algebra beginner badge: show you are ready to begin algebra.
• On the ground in front of you is a jigsaw puzzle, partly completed.
• The genies in the circle ahead of you have the puzzle pieces to finish it.
• But each genie will want you to answer a riddle to get her puzzle piece.
• Hint: The smaller genies have the easiest riddles.
• But you can start anywhere.  
• You will have to answer all the riddles to finish the puzzle.
• A right answer gets you the puzzle piece.  
• A wrong answer can cause you to lose a puzzle piece.
• So if you are not sure of the answer, just don't give an answer.
• Go try an easier genie
• You can try again later.  You will be smarter then.

A model for learning many skills

• And it would even work for learning facts if they have to pass a standard test.

Could it work for people together?

• Since it is planned for virtual worlds, the game could have multiple people in the place.
• Teachers. tutors, parents, teams, learning coaches--anyone on the whitelist for the place.

Who would build such a game?

• A person or a company providing instruction or tutoring in the subject.

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2021 #VWEDU: In the metaverse, some virtual worlds let educators build scenes that teach the content: User-built made easy.

In the metaverse, some virtual worlds

let educators build scenes that teach the content:  

User-built made easy.

Some virtual worlds let users build things and provide tools to make building easy. Additional building resources are provided on markets.

• Watch on YouTube
• The Virtual Tour demonstrates the basics of the ReMela system.
• It is easy it is to create content for virtual learning environment. 
• Rezmela video channel
• Kitely Market
• RezMela products on Kitely Market

2021 #VWEDU: The Active Learning Method. Can you do that in the metaverse? The teacher is a manager of learning, not just a conduit of content..

The Active Learning Method.  

Can you do that in the metaverse?  

The teacher is a manager of learning, 

not just a conduit of content.

A plan for using the metaverse for active learning online.

• Watch on YouTube

"Active learning" means you participate, collaborate with others, and apply concepts to the real world. It requires hard mental effort but leads to better retention and an understanding of the material that can be transferred to other situations. To explain how to apply Active Learning in classrooms, we collaborated with Professor Carl Wieman, a Nobel Prize winning physicist, who researches and champions the approach.

• After the break: Online learning 

2021 VW: Second Life: from the beginnings of the metaverse. Full of people working together. Not a game, but a place to talk and work with people. Instructions on how to start.

Second Life: from the beginnings of the metaverse.  

Full of people working together.  

Not a game, but a place for people to talk and work together.

Instructions on how to start.

Why and how to enter a long established part of the metaverse.

• Watch on YouTube
• How To Get Started in Second Life - New User Tutorial
• Visit https://www.secondlife.com to get started!

Second life is a people place

• You can find people if you know how to look: 
• Open the world map and look for clusters of green dots.
• You can chat with people in text or talk in voice.
• You can own a place of your own and invite friends over for entertainment.
• You can provide music or videos.
• You can have a dance floor (avatars use dance animations}.
• You can teach a class.
• Or look for more ideas in the articles cited after the break

2021 VW Teaching in the metaverse: How to create posters and notecards in Second Life: Images and inventories

Teaching in the metaverse: 

How to create posters and notecards in Second Life: 

Images and inventories

In user-built virtual worlds, you can create things for your students to read.

• Watch on YouTube
• Virtual Worlds MOOC 2021

2021 EDU: Don't let your grammar hold you back. Know when you are right. Know when they are wrong.

Don't let your grammar hold you back.    

Know when you are right.  

Know when they are wrong.

A video about how to sound like you know what you are talking about.

• Watch on YouTube
• How your grammar skills affect your salary
• Valerie Hill and G. Ronnie Kraegel (Valibrarian and Namaara) 
• ACRL Virtual World Interest Grammar Cops: the Future of Language 
• Part of American Library Association.
• How is language changing as we text, share emojis, and juggle multiple apps.
• SLurl:
• https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cookie/227/176/21

2021 EDU: Science fiction in the metaverse. The idea started in SciFi. Now the metaverse hosts SciFi in a holodeck.

Science fiction in the metaverse.  

The idea started in SciFi.  

Now the metaverse hosts SciFi in a holodeck.

Science Fiction Read-aloud in the Holodeck.  Another thing we do in the metaverse.

• Watch on YouTube
• Wordsmith Jarvinen and Valibrarian Gregg of CVL-Caledon Literary Study Science Fiction Read-aloud in the holodeck Read aloud or enjoy science fiction through immersion Hugo award story can be found here:
• The Rose MacGregor Drinking and Admiration Society

Of interest to

• Writers and aspiring writers
• SciFi readers 
• Librarians
• Educators

Writing in the metaverse

• Jane, Plain Jane: Part 8 I can believe it!
• Portable places, buildings in a box, layouts as you like them. Rezzers, Holodecks, Holoscenes, Rezmela™
• Collaboration
• Creating story scenes
• Promotional videos
• Writers of the Hypergrid. Creative Collaboration
• The writing communities of the virtual worlds. What do they offer to writers?
• Writer's 3D online workshop: Meet in your browser. Meet in a story scene. Working together apart.
• Writers of Greyville: Story seeds: The last werewolf of Blanken, Part 1
• The state of writing. Writing community in the virtual worlds. Invited article by Jane Watson
• How writers could use a web-world. Meet in a minute
• Notes from a novelist in SL, by Keykey Underwood
• Exercises for a 3D writers workshop: place and characters
• "The last werewolf in Blanken" A writer's workshop in 3D
• The pecan pie murder. A 3D story in first draft for the writer's workshop