2022 #VWEDU Disabilities count a lot less in the metaverse. We go anywhere with no transportation. A wheelchair fits nicely behind a keyboard.

Disabilities count a lot less in the metaverse. 

We go anywhere with no transportation.

A wheelchair fits nicely behind a keyboard.

The metaverse is easily a place for work-from-home.  For people with limited mobility, the metaverse offers a potential workplace that solves the transportation problem.

• Watch on YouTube
• Virtual Ability Tour, Gentle Heron et al. video
• TU Dublin, a university in Ireland, offers a Virtual Learning Environment. 
• The students explore the world through the learning environment created by Second Life, a province of the metaverse. 
• They create reports of what they have found. 
• Virtual Ability

Virtual Ability Tour, G Heron et al. MACHINIMA

• Gentle Heron 0:39
• Suellen Heartsong 12:42
• James Heartsong 15:08
• iSkye Silverweb 25:35 Lorivonne Lustre (LV)
• Lorivonne Lustre (LV) 29:45
• Thanks! 33:11
• Close (Riverdance) 33:56
• Presented 17-Nov-2021
• Sojourner Auditorium, Virtual Ability Island

2022 Metaverse terraforming: Shaping your piece of the metaverse. Make hills and valleys, rivers and bays. Shape the land to your purpose.

Metaverse terraforming: 

Shaping your piece of the metaverse.  

Make hills and valleys, rivers and bays.  

Shape the land to your purpose.

You can reshape your land in the metaverse.  At least in Second Life and OpenSimulator  

• Watch on YouTube
• Overview of Terraforming & Landscaping.
• Dies your piece of the metaverse let you do that?

Related

• Construction tool. Dynamite Terrain Tool. Terraforming can be fun--and safe
• Tutorial: Edit terrain, the ups and downs
• Augmented Reality Sandbox, the video. Terraforming by hand.
• Landowner in Second Life. Summary
• Terraforming, Starter page
• Augmented reality sandbox. The sand is real, the water is augmented
• Land and houses. Overview
• Builders Brewery. Lots of advanced and intermediate classes
• Land: About Land Window
• Landowner in Second Life. 101
• Land 201: Advanced land management-summary
• Land: Region, sim, parcel. Knowing the difference makes a difference.

2022 Metaverse land: Second Life: Second Life Land and should you buy it!? The details of managing land in Second Life

 Metaverse land: Second Life:   

Second Life Land and should you buy it!? 

The details of managing land in Second Life

How people use land in the metaverse.

• Watch on YouTube
• After the break:  What do you do with land in Second Life? 

2022 Therapy in the metaverse. Helping old people remember. And lot more

Therapy in the metaverse. 

Helping old people remember.  

And  lot more

A care home in Oxford is using virtual reality technology to help elderly people with dementia to retrieve some personal memories.

• Watch on YouTube

Related

• 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.
• Covid feel Good. VR App to treat psychological stress. (Some may find it helpful)
• Symbolic Modeling (SymMod): a discovery and learning approach. A training course in a virtual world
• Disabled? Not in virtual worlds. Lonely? Not in virtual wolds. Your avatar has superpowers!
• Stuart Duncan: How I use Minecraft to help kids with autism
• Therapeutic applications in virtual reality
• Avatar therapy 'reduces power of schizophrenia voices'
• Virtual Reality Occupational Therapy: The Introduction
• Aphasia therapy in OpenSim, Eva Park
• THERAPY: EDU: Virtual Reality Grocery Shopping: Part 2
• What can visitors do in a web-world if nobody is there?
• Lighthouse point: Sexuality and gender for therapists (LGBT)
• HG Safari at Lighthouse Point: Counsellors and educators explore sexuality
• S.O.S. Survivors of Suicide in Second Life
• Amputees, prosthetics, virtual therapy is real. The Drax Files
• Social Skills Haven (Kitely), helping those on the autism spectrum
• T2 Virtual PTSD Experience, T2 PTSD Education
• Weekly interactive blog on aging. Read the blog. Chat with the author.
• Creations for Parkinson's, the Drax Files. Creativity for health
• The Dogfather and TBI survivors (Traumatic Brain Injury)
• Virtual Ability International Disability Rights Affirmation Conference 2013 "LET ME IN"
• Clinical depression, Inner Prisons, and Escapes
• Hobo Amusement Park--and why
• Cape Able for people with impaired hearing

2022 Metaverse videos: Film Threat is now in Second Life. We know the technology. We've been using it for years.

Metaverse videos:  

Film Threat is now in Second Life.  

We know the technology.  

We've been using it for years. 

Videos are a natural for the metaverse.  A film set is a constructed environment.  So is the metaverse, only easier.

• Watch on YouTube
• Learn more at: https://secondlife.com/destination/film-threat

Summaries

• Video/Machinima in virtual worlds. Community, Market, Resources
• Videos from the virtual world, Summary
• What does the metaverse look like? Since it is a simulated environment, we can make videos there. And we do. But you need to know where to look.
• More after the break

2022 Metaverse education. Online teaching. How to adapt a lecture to online and metaverse presentation.

 

Metaverse education.  Online teaching.  

How to adapt a lecture to online and metaverse presentation.

Get the students involved with interactive lectures.

• Watch on YouTube

The Role of an Effective Online Instructor

• Michael Wilmore discusses the roles and responsibilities of an effective online teacher, the challenges experienced in online teaching, as well as concerns encountered in online teaching. 
• This video is associated with the Open SUNY Interested in Online Teaching course (http://commons.suny.edu/interested/), and is featured in the online teaching readiness assessment (http://commons.suny.edu/facultyreadin...). 
• Feel free to use and share these resources with anyone interested in learning more about online teaching and learning. 
• The Open SUNY Center for Online Teaching Excellence (https://commons.suny.edu/cotehub/).
• Effective lectures

What is lost online

To you

• Eye contact and audience body language 
• These tell you who is bored.

To students

• Generally familiar technology
• Some will need to learn to use digital tech.

2022 Metaverse or multiverse? The interconnected metaverse? The community-connected metaverse? The metaverse hub?

Metaverse or multiverse? 

The interconnected metaverse? 

The community-connected metaverse? 

The metaverse hub? 

A discussion in the metaverse about connecting the metaverse segments into a unified whole.  

• Watch on YouTube
• Metaverse connection issues: summary of discussion
• Notes after the break

Location

• https://nonprofitvirtualworld.org/location.html?locationid=800000005&dl=true

Participants 

• Dieter Heyne--CybaLOUNGE developer
• https://metaverse.school/
• 
  
• Jamie Jordan--Rding a Wheelie
• https://ridingawheelie.com/
• 
  
• Steve LaVigne--Immworlds
• https://immworlds.com/ 
• 
  
• Selby Evans 
• https://virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com/

Specific discussion segments

• Community, identity, and privacy
• One metaverse or few big ones?  

2022 VWBPE: My picks for VWBPE this year

VWBPE:  My picks for VWBPE this year

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
• VWBPE Full Program

Surrounding events

Before

• IE. THE UPLIFT: Immersive Theatre
• IE. Kitely Educational Showcase: Ready to Branch Out?
• IE. Second Life Usability Focus Group
• IE. Building in FrameVR: Creating Browser-Based Immersive Learning Experiences

After

• IE. Social Determinants for Access to Information: Virtual World Library Exhibition

March 31

• The beauty of STEAM education in virtual worlds
• Three Continents Meet: Metaverse for Higher Ed
• Unexpected Connections
• Message in a Bottle – Play, Stories, and Iteration

April 1

• International Student Project: Higher Ed Metaverse
• Immersive methodologies for school and museum tours
• Supporting Social Good and Educational Communities
• Arts, Education and Psychology: Creative approaches to utilizing Second Life technology
• Education in the Metaverse: Reflections on the Art of the Possible
• Above the Book Interview with Maria Korolov

April 2

• Metaverse Collaboration with VWEC (Virtual Worlds Education Consortium)
• Proposed Cybersecurity Curriculum from K-12 to 4 year degrees
• Composing for the New Era – The Social Brain and Small-World Networks in the Metaverse
• IE. Joint International Higher Education Project

Easy access meetings in the metaverse

• Fridays 3 pm eastern (New York) 
• At the Web Show, a video set in the metaverse 
• Go there with this url: https://nonprofitvirtualworld.org/loc... 
• A developer meeting is held there every other week: 
• To find out which week, follow CybaLOUNGE on Twitter: 
• https://twitter.com/cybaLOUNGE
• 3DWebWorldz: Meetings alternate with the Web Show
• Welcome Center.  https://3dwebworldz.com/
• I am usually available weekdays at 1 pm New York time 
• In these 2 places:
• Welcome Center.  https://3dwebworldz.com/
• https://nonprofitvirtualworld.org/location.html?locationid=800000002&dl=true

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License

• Original text in this blog is CC By: unless specified public domain.
• Use as you please with attribution: link to the original.
• All images without attribution in this blog are CC0: public domain.
• Second Life, Linden, SLurl, and SL are trademarks of Linden Research Inc.
• Screenshots from ShareX
• This blog is not affiliated with anything.   Ads are from Google

2022 #VWEDU Metaverse tours. You don't need a classroom in the metaverse. You just need places where students can learn. CVL shows how.

Metaverse tours.  

You don't need a classroom in the metaverse.  

You just need places where students can learn. 

CVL shows how.

Student-centered learning needs places where students can learn.  The metaverse can offer places designed for learning,  The task of the teacher is to get students to the right places. 

• Watch on YouTube
• Let's Take a Tour!  V.Hill (Valibrarian)  J. Neville (Sitearm) MACHINIMA
• SLurl: in Second Life a bit of text that serves as an address to a location.
• The user pastes the text into the top address bar of the viewer.
• SLurls for locations in this video:
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Plush%20Nonprofit%20Commons/108/126/21
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cookie/199/211/21

Contents

• Agenda 0:24
• Demo Tour 3:20
•   Gathering Spot 5:04
•   Feature the Purpose 8:13
•   Pacing and Focus 9:19
•   Instructions on Moving 10:02
•   Interaction and Immersion 10:47
•   Closure and Take Away 14:22
• Tour Tips 15:10
•   Debrief of Demo Tour and Tour Tips 17:59
•   Final Closure and Take Aways 29:59
• 
  
• V Hill (Valibrarian) J Neville (Sitearm)
• Nonprofit Commons
  

2022 Metaverse: VWMOOC21: Final Project of Collaboration Tour. Education and collaboration in the metaverse. Across Turkey, Ireland and the United Stares.

Metaverse: VWMOOC21: Final Project of Collaboration Tour.  

Education and collaboration in the metaverse.  

Across Turkey, Ireland and the United Stares.

Collaboration around the world.  Sustainable Economy. Project-based learning. World-wide education for world-wide business.

• Watch on YouTube
• Main report starts at 7.08 minutes. 
• The project is still up on Inspiration Island.. 
• We would like to show what the students accomplished and how we all worked together to make it happen. 
• A groundbreaking production of Sustainable Economy, Society and Environment. 
• We collaborated with Cag University in Turkey in Spring 2021 for their student project in SL -- for a marketing class focusing on sustainability 
• The project is still up on Inspiration Island, our region. 
• We would like to show what the students accomplished and how we all worked together to make it happen.

2022 Metaverse land: Get your own on your own computer. Free. Easy to install. Outworldz – DreamGrid

Metaverse land: 

Get your own on your own computer. 

Free.  Easy to install.   Outworldz – DreamGrid

How to create your piece of the metaverse on your own computer.  Video of a part of a metaverse conference.

• Watch on YouTube
• OSCC21: System Design of the Outworldz – DreamGrid
• DreamGrid is a free, pre-packaged Windows-compatible virtual reality metaverse system that is easy to install, easy to run, and powerful. 
• DreamGrid is OpenSimulator and can connect to the hypergrid.
• Finding people in OpenSimulator, a decentralized and interconnected part of the metaverse.
• Can we have a metaverse connected and decentralized? Yes. The hypergrid is a working proof of concept. Web-worlds could be next.
• Metaverse meet hypergrid. Hypergrid is a mini-metaverse for interconnection. It connects the independent grids of OpenSim
• OpenSim Community Conference: a real conference in a virtual world. No COVID worries, no cost, no travel time, no hanky-panky. 

2022 Metaverse: Teamwork & Collaboration in the metaverse. Presentation to a Second Life group. Teamwork in the metaverse.

Metaverse: 

Teamwork & Collaboration in the metaverse.  

Presentation to a Second Life group.  

Teamwork in the metaverse.

Teamwork and collaboration in the metaverse.

• Watch on YouTube
• NPC Teamwork & Collaboration Online Presentation MACHINIMA
  

Agenda and time spots

• Welcome 0:11
• Agenda 0:35
• Definitions 1:07
• Basics & Pro Tips 3:36
• Demonstration - Live Team Debrief 14:42
• Demonstration - Live Audience Debrief 34:12
• Demonstration - Music for Teamwork & Collaboration 39:26
• After the break:  Teamwork in the metaverse.

2022 Metaverse groups: Find people that share your interests. Join the groups and learn of the events. Here are some groups for Second Life.

Metaverse groups:  Find people that share your interests.  

Join the groups and learn of their events. 

Here are some groups for Second Life.

Star Wars, Fashion, Roleplay, Metaverse

Virtual worlds are made of people.  People gather in communities.   In Second Life and OpenSimulator communities get together in groups.  Here is how to find groups that fit your interest.

Star Wars

Click image to enlarge 

• Not all the groups are active.

Fashion

Roleplay

Science Fiction

How to join

• Click on the group you want to join.
• Click the Join button (bottom right)
• A few groups may not show a join button.
• They may be closed or may show who to contact.

METAVERSE Join

Click image to enlarge

• This is the parent group for ALL Metaverse groups. 
• We will post all public notices in this group for The Mr. and Miss Metaverse Pageants, Metaverse Modeling Academy and more. 
• Joining is free and all are welcome. 
• NOTE: We maintain a strict ZERO DRAMA policy.

External groups for Second Life

• Facebook Second Life Group
• SubReddit Second Life
• Twitter for Second Life

Related

• How to use groups in Second Life, Summary
• Virtual Worlds: Professional Education and Library Resources. Summary
• Web accessed learning Communities in Virtual Worlds--Thanks to Beth Ghostraven
• How do I find communities I like on the hypergrid?
• Localized Learning Communities in Virtual Worlds--Thanks to Beth Ghostraven
• Professional Library and Education Groups in Virtual worlds. By Beth Ghostraven
• Working together apart, virtual worlds, social media
• The library on your laptop: Community Virtual Library CVL: Virtual library with real librarians.

Easy access meetings in the metaverse

• Fridays 3 pm eastern (New York) 
• At the Web Show, a video set in the metaverse 
• Go there with this url: https://nonprofitvirtualworld.org/loc... 
• A developer meeting is held there every other week: 
• To find out which week, follow CybaLOUNGE on Twitter: 
• https://twitter.com/cybaLOUNGE
• 3DWebWorldz: Meetings alternate with the Web Show
• Welcome Center.  https://3dwebworldz.com/
• I am usually available weekdays at 1 pm New York time 
• In these 2 places:
• Welcome Center.  https://3dwebworldz.com/
• https://nonprofitvirtualworld.org/location.html?locationid=800000002&dl=true

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License

• Original text in this blog is CC By: unless specified public domain.
• Use as you please with attribution: link to the original.
• All images without attribution in this blog are CC0: public domain.
• Second Life, Linden, SLurl, and SL are trademarks of Linden Research Inc.
• Screenshots from ShareX
• This blog is not affiliated with anything.   Ads are from Google

2022 Metaverse Explorations: Winter lands. Tara and Strawberry Linden explore winter destinations in Second Life!

Metaverse Explorations:  

Winter lands.   

Tara and Strawberry Linden explore winter destinations in Second Life!

See a few places in Second Life.

• Watch on YouTube
• Second Life's Lab Gab - Winter 2021
• Tara and Strawberry Linden explore winter destinations in Second Life!

• Get started: https://second.life/tutorials
• Lab Gab is a talk show about the virtual world of Second Life.
• Lab Gab PlayList: https://second.life/labgab
• Second Life Blog: https://second.life/featurednews
• Second Life Public Calendar: https://second.life/calendar
• Second Life on Social Media: https://second.life/communityresources

2022 Metaverse: Learn to educate in virtual worlds using Digital Teaching Assistants! The entrepreneurial educator in the metaverse

Metaverse:  

Learn to educate in virtual worlds 

using Digital Teaching Assistants!  

The entrepreneurial educator in the metaverse

The metaverse offers great opportunities to the entrepreneurial educator.

• Watch on YouTube
• Learn to educate in virtual worlds using Digital Teaching Assistants!
• Magnolia Gardens of Knowledge DTA,  playlist
• The programmed environment of the metaverse. Imagine programming an environment for language leaning. Or for a game
• The Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) for MUVES (virtual worlds): Summary with JIT learning design

Lifelong learning

• The revolution of self-directed learning | Sean Bengry 
• Education in the metaverse
• Surprise: Lifelong learning education
• Lifelong learning from YouTube
• After the break:  The entrepreneurial educator

2022 Metaverse: a place to learn. How to Design an Online Badged Open Course. If you want to teach online.

Metaverse: a place to learn.  

How to Design an Online Badged Open Course.  

If you want to teach online.

Watch a presentation on Designing an Online Badged Open Course (BOC) and scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) . 

• Watch on YouTube
• The merit of badges: Define a useful skill set, specify a goal, give public recognition of skills.

• Professor Shailey Minocha Professor of Learning Technologies and Social Computing at The Open University, UK (Shailey Garfield in Second Life) 
• 
  
• Session moderator: 
• Sheila Webber (Sheila Yoshikawa in Second Life) 
• 
  
• Professor Shailey Minocha talks about 'Designing an Online Badged Open Course'. This is the course that Professor Minocha has designed and authored over the past year for the Open University: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in STEM 
• 
  
• This course "provides a toolkit for conducting Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) within Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)" and anyone can sign up to this course and obtain a digital badge. 
• 
  
• You may take the course from Open University, UK for free https://www.open.edu/openlearn/scienc... 
• A Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable event - in Second Life - location https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlif...
• After the break:  About badges

2021 Metaverse Libraries. Real libraries in a virtual world. Long video with time marks on contents,

Metaverse Libraries.  

Real libraries in a virtual world.  

Long video with time marks on contents

The future of libraries in the age of the internet.  

• Watch on YouTube

• Libraries in the Metaverse, V Hill MACHINIMA Real Libraries in Virtual Worlds 0:10
• Metaliteracy - Literacy in Digital Culture 4:15
• Metamodernism - Our Philosophical Moment 10:50
• Digital Citizenship 16:37
• Online Anonymity 19:13
• Think Before You Post 23:30
• End of Fixed Media 28:05
• Balancing Worlds 32:24
• Metamodernism in the Metaverse 35:31
• Metaliteracy in Learning 39:29
• The Dark Side of Digital Culture 43:42
• Preservation of Digital Formats 46:25
• Digital Legacy 50:19
• Presented 24-Nov-2021 Community Virtual Library, Second Life
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/valerie-h...
• Thanks Sitearm

2022 Metaverse: Can we have a metaverse connected and decentralized? Yes. The hypergrid is a working proof of concept. Web-worlds could be next.

Metaverse:  Can we have a metaverse connected and decentralized?    

Yes.  The hypergrid is a working proof of concept.  

Web-worlds could be next. 

A mini-metaverse is already in operation.  OpenSimulator/hypergrid has most of the characteristics that people are describing for the future metaverse.  

• Watch on YouTube
• What OpenSimulator/hypergrid needs to qualify as the beginning metaverse. It already has most of the needed features: A meeting in the metaverse.

• The hypergrid is a working proof of concept.
• It presently connects several hundred independent grids.
• All are running OpenSimulator (opensource).
• The hypergrid is a set of protocols that support exchanges of data between grids.
• OpenSimulator offers a glimpse of what a decentralized metaverse might look like
• Metaverse: the many worlds model. How can the metaverse be decentralized and interconnected? Metaverse hub

Are these grids decentralized?

• They are run by independent operators, mostly individuals.
• Many people are running their grids on their own home computers.
• (That is real ownership!)
• Many of these grids are not for commercial purposes.
• I don' see how you can get more decentralized.

What does connected mean here?

• You have a home grid where you log in,
• You can teleport from that grid to any other connected grid.
• You can carry exportable assets with you on that trip.
• You can add people from other grids to your contact list.
• You can send text messages and exportable assets to people on other grids.
• People on other grids can teleport to your place.  
• You can let people from other grids build on your place.

What are the pros and cons of connections?

User pro

• Access to more places, events, and people.
• Ability to collaborate with people in other grids.

User con

• Risk of exposure to dishonest grid operations.

Operator Pro

• Enhanced offering to users.
• Increased traffic flow from potential customers

Operator con

• Makes it easy for customers to try out other grids.
• Expose customers to risks on other grids.

Could that model fit the current metaverse platforms?

• Current technology could handle it.
• The gating factor might be getting cooperation from grid owners.
• Security would by a main issue.
• Commercial grids may be reluctant to let people jump off their grid to a competitor.

Alternative: metaverse hub

• There might be a market for a hub that manages entry credentials for multiple parts. 
• Commercial grids running might be willing to use a hub if it brought them traffic. 
• A hub could use webGL browser based tech to offer easy entry. 
• Then offer teleport to cooperating grids.  
• If a download/install is needed, the hub could handle that.
• There might be a business plan here.
• Alternatively the hub might be an opensource project by cooperating grids 

Imagining MHB (Metaverse hub)

• This plan is largely based on the OpenSimulator hypergrid.
• Hypergrid is a set of protocols that support interconnection among Open

Major services

• MHB is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing interconnection among metaverse places (grids).
• MHB seeks support from hardware vendors and others interested in boosting the use of graphics on the internet.
• MHB may run a small virtual world, but it will not compete with commercial virtual worlds.
• MHB will manage the credentials of users registered in commercial grids and support seamless user entry into those grids. 
• The effect is that the user can login once to MHB and then teieport to any cooperating grid.
• The user may be able to teleport directly to another cooperating grid.
• If not, the user can get to another cooperating grid by returning to MHB, then going to the other grid.

Other services: users can:

• add any other MHB user to their contact list.
• send text messages to any MHB user.
• upload and store assets (such as objects) in their MHB inventory.
• carry their assets* to any MHB grid they are registered in.
• send assets* to any MHB user.
• *Limited to exportable assets, generally those made or imported by the user.
• have text or voice conversations with any MHB user online.
• use external systems such as Discord or Skype from MHB grids.

MHB would handle most start-up and login tasks

• Some grids require the user to download and install a viewer.
• MHB could do almost all of that except for approvals needed for security.
• MHB could provide the login credentials for any cooperating grid.
• Thus the user would only login to MHB to be able to get to any cooperating grid.

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Easy access meetings in the metaverse

• Fridays 3 pm eastern (New York) 
• At the Web Show, a video set in the metaverse 
• Go there with this url: https://nonprofitvirtualworld.org/loc... 
• A developer meeting is held there every other week: 
• To find out which week, follow CybaLOUNGE on Twitter: 
• https://twitter.com/cybaLOUNGE
• 3DWebWorldz: Meetings alternate with the Web Show
• Welcome Center.  https://3dwebworldz.com/
• I am usually available weekdays at 1 pm New York time 
• In these 2 places:
• Welcome Center.  https://3dwebworldz.com/
• https://nonprofitvirtualworld.org/location.html?locationid=800000002&dl=true
• Music every Friday at 9 pm New York time:
• https://LiveMusic3D.com

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License

• Original text in this blog is CC By: unless specified public domain.
• Use as you please with attribution: link to the original.
• All images without attribution in this blog are CC0: public domain.
• Second Life, Linden, SLurl, and SL are trademarks of Linden Research Inc.
• Screenshots from ShareX
• This blog is not affiliated with anything.   Ads are from Google