2022 Brainstorming for writers in the metaverse. Ideas are easy, if... If you develop your ideation skills.

Brainstorming for writers in the metaverse.  

Ideas are easy, if...   

If you develop your ideation skills.

Ideas come easy with practice.  Just save all evaluation till later.

• Watch on YouTube
• Visit the scene:
• https://3dww.a2zsg.com/3dlogin/world/?world=47
• Visit the main site:
• https://3dwebworldz.com/
• Brainstorming
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainstorming

2022 Musical in the metaverse. A musical for our digital times: MAMBO MOTEL The Wizard of Oz meets Jumanji in the Metaverse

Musical in the metaverse.  

A musical for our digital times:  

MAMBO MOTEL 

The Wizard of Oz meets Jumanji in the Metaverse

The metaverse is bigger than Broadway.  With lower costs and more diverse tastes.

• Watch on YouTube
• Mambo Motel
• Pooky Media
• Footlight Confidential: Pooky Amsterdam April 21st, 2013, Sunday Noon SLT
  
• Pooky Media takes on the Tiger Mosquito for California
  
• MAD lab: Mosquitos and mosquito control. Pooky Media
• The Letter Q
• MUVE Market - Virtual Patient Care Simulation Lab
• Metaverse Entertainment. And entertainments production. Yes, you can stream it and post it on YouTube. Maybe build a following and monetize it
  

2022 The metaverse man of your dreams. Create him. Be him. Here is a tutorial video.

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The metaverse man of your dreams.  

Create him.  

Be him. 

Here is a tutorial video.

In some parts of the metaverse we have lots of control over the appearance of our avatars.  Here is an example.

• Watch on YouTube
• Signature online store.
• Signature location in SL.
• In the metaverse you can be the girl of your dreams. Or create her. Here is a video to show you how.

2022 Metaverse groups: Second Life and OpenSim. The Metaverse is made of people with shared interests. We use groups get people together.

Metaverse groups: 

Second Life and OpenSim.  

The Metaverse is made of people with shared interests.  

We use groups get people together. 

Look for friends in the metaverse.  Join groups that match you interests.  Or make your own group.

• Watch on YouTube
• How to Create a Group in Second Life | 2021
• Group (Second Life wiki)
• Looking for people?  Look for groups instead.

How we use groups

• Group chat
• Group notices
• Land management
• Collaboration
• Metaverse groups: Find people that share your interests. Join the groups and learn of the events. Here are some groups for Second Life.
• How to use groups in Second Life, Summary
• CAUTION. Deeding land to a group
• Make a poster to help people to join your group
• Metaverse groups in Second life: Focus on recent: Metaverse, NFTs, Blockchain, Land, Events, Games, Music, Shop
• How do I find communities I like on the hypergrid?

Learning communities

• Web accessed learning Communities in Virtual Worlds--Thanks to Beth Ghostraven
• Localized Learning Communities in Virtual Worlds--Thanks to Beth Ghostraven
• Communication in virtual worlds: Group chats, voice meets, notices, friends, IM/calls

2022 #VWEDU: Starting in the metaverse: Second Life University - Viewer Basics. Educators: Here is a way to start your students in a virtual world.

Starting in the metaverse:  

Second Life University - Viewer Basics.  

Educators: Here is a way to start your students in a virtual world.

Educators need an efficient way to teach students how to function is Second Life if they are to bring students in for classes.

• Watch on YouTube
• Second Life University - Viewer Basics
• Second Life University aims to teach people about Second Life.
• PlayList  (SLU)
• Second Life videos

Topics Covered in this Video:

• 0:00 - INTRO: A brief introduction to Second Life University and what to expect in the future.
• 2:04 - GUIDEBOOK: A quick overview of the new Guidebook and how to remove it from your screen once you are done with it.
• 2:58 - TOOLBAR: Some details about the toolbar buttons, how to position them, remove them, and also bring them back.
• 5:39 - TEXT CHAT: https://community.secondlife.com/know...
• 8:06 - VOICE CHAT: https://community.secondlife.com/know...
• 10:52 - HELP MENU: Get assistance from our Support Team or information from our Knowledge Base. Learn how how to file Abuse Reports and speak to Boxy 5000 and get answers to some of your questions. https://support.secondlife.com
• 14:01 - PROFILE: a quick overview on how to update your profile, add an image and text to let other Residents know more about you, all by clicking the gear button in the profile menu.
• 14:56 - DESTINATIONS: Explore Second Life by using the Destinations tab in the viewer. Learn how to get your Destinations listed. https://community.secondlife.com/know...
• 19:30 - LAG TIPS: Try derendering avatars and reducing your graphic settings, especially your draw distance, to assist with lag and FPS issues.
• 23:19 - EEP: Control the lighting and environment by playing with your Environment settings under the World menu. https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Envi...
• 24:06 - SNAPSHOTS & 360 SNAPSHOTS: Click the snapshot and 360 snapshot buttons to take images of your surroundings in Second Life. Learn more about 360
• snapshots: https://second.life/360
• 30:03 - SEARCH: Use the search feature to look for Events, Places, and People in Second Life. https://community.secondlife.com/know...

2022 Metaverse Entertainment. And entertainments production. Yes, you can stream it and post it on YouTube. Maybe build a following and monetize it

Metaverse Entertainment.  

And entertainments production.  

Yes, you can stream it and post it on YouTube.  

Maybe build a following and monetize it

Wannabe entertainers can test and hone their skills in the metaverse.  Here are some examples. 

• Watch on YouTube
• Ado and Denis Second Life Dancing
• Performing Arts in virtual worlds: Theater, video, machinima, acting, groups, directing, script-writing
• We are Ado and Denis. 
• We are siblings in real and in second life. 
• We are enjoying sharing our virtual time together too. 
• Explore second life and dance with us 
• Second Life Destinations - Popular Clubs

Monetize on YouTube

• Marketing and Monetizing on YouTube
• Video/Machinima in virtual worlds. Community, Market, Resources
• More after the break

2022 #VWEDUL Metaverse resources and AI for personalized algebra. Video lectures, detailed management of individual learning. Self-paced learning.

Metaverse resources and AI for personalized algebra.  

Video lectures, detailed management of individual learning. 

Self-paced learning. 

Will education be the last place to use AI to transfer routine human effort to computers?  

• Watch on YouTube
• What's It Going To Take To Move From Mass-Production To Mass-Personalization?
• ALEKS  

• What is it going to take for us to toss the 19th century mass-production model of education onto the trash heap of history and embrace the 21st century model of mass-personalization? 
• Artificial intelligence is facilitating the delivery of mass-personalization in many aspects of our lives. 
• From medicine to manufacturing, we see intelligent systems creating personalized solutions to meet the unique needs of every individual. 
• However, in education mass-personalization is still considered experimental and has not gained widespread acceptance yet. 
• In this session, we will explore the factors enabling or inhibiting this change. 
• Dale Johnson, Director of Digital Innovation, University Design Institute, Arizona State University

2022 Dating in the metaverse. How it works in Second Life. A discussion by experienced citizens. An inworld dating app!

Dating in the metaverse.  

How it works in Second Life.  

A discussion by experienced citizens.    

An inworld dating app! 

Dating the partner of your choice.  World-wide choice.  LGBTQ friendly.  Meet in the metaverse.

• Watch on YouTube
• LET'S TALK - DATING IN SECOND LIFE
• Second Life
• SECOND LIFE'S NEWEST DATING APP INWORLD!
• On the SL marketplace.
• LGBTQ friendly
• Dating in the metaverse (search)
• Marriage in the metaverse (search)
• Channel:  OLLY ESEL1.94K subscribers

2022 #VWEDU: Metaverse museums: Meroe Museum, black culture. The metaverse is open to all cultures. From anywhere in the world. Field trips in a computer.

Metaverse museums:   Meroe Museum, black culture.   

The metaverse is open to all cultures.   

From anywhere in the world.  

Field trips in a computer.

Ras Solaris, curator of the Meroe Museum in Second Life, eloquently describes the value of sharing culture as a way to enable an authentic and three-dimensional understanding of the Black community. 

• Watch on YouTube
• Second Life Destinations - Meroe Museum

• Go there:
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Battersea%20Land/59/150/22
• If you are in Second Life, put the link above in the top bar of the viewer. press enter.
• MEROE Museum: purpose: provide a safe space for the repository of black culture from across the diaspora
• and a place for dialog in an effort to resolve many of the conflicts that plague our community.

• Second Life videos

2022 VWBPE 2022 Spotlight: Virtual teaching tactics to help a divided world. Global education.

VWBPE 2022 Spotlight:

Virtual teaching tactics to help a divided world.  

Global education.  

How to expand education resources.

• Watch on YouTube
• VWBPE Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education
• Steven Van Hook
  
• Educare Research inc (ERi) 
• a nonprofit 501(c)(3) research think-tank promoting resources for independent international educators, transcultural teaching methods, and appropriate educational technologies; to expand accessible learning opportunities for a global student body.
• Steven Van Hook
  
• VWBPE Videos
• Education articles in this blog

2022 Librarians in the metaverse. Libraries online. Project Gutenberg. Not a dollar for buildings.

Librarians in the metaverse.  

Libraries online.  

Project Gutenberg. 

Not a dollar for buildings.

Library 2.0 thinks of worldwide services that can reach into homes.  

• Watch on YouTube
• Librarians in the Metaverse Support Critical Thinking and Metaliteracy
• Library 2.0 (YouTube)
• Library 2.0 (Wikipedia) 
• Gutenberg project. (Wikipedia)

Metaliteracy

• Metaliteracy (search)
• Information literacy (Wikipedia)
• Metaliteracy MOOC

Critical Thinking

• Critical thinking (Search)  
• Critical thinking (Wikipedia)

2022 Metaverse poetry. Short Poetry Workshop in Second Life. People use the metaverse to get together over long distances.

Metaverse poetry.  

Short Poetry Workshop in Second Life.  

People use the metaverse to get together 

over long distances.

Poetry is a hobby.  How can you get together with others who share that hobby?  Everywhere is next door in the metaverse.

• Watch on YouTube
• ACRL Visits the Short Poetry Workshop in Second Life.
• Poetry group in your neighborhood?
• Everywhere is next door in the metaverse.

Poetry is quite popular in Second Life 

Poetry groups

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Related 

• A short note from the Short Poetry Workshop
• Very virtual short poetry library

2022 #VWEDU: Education in the metaverse. Online learning together. Learning teamwork online. Professional collaboration

Education in the metaverse.  

Online learning together.  

Learning teamwork online.  

Professional collaboration

The educators of the metaverse are getting organized in multiple virtual worlds.    

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• OSCC21: Virtual Worlds Education Consortium across the Metaverse
• The Virtual Worlds Education Consortium began in January 2021 in Second Life and meets quarterly. 
• As the metaverse expands, VWEC strives to explore evolving virtual spaces and has a VWEC Pavilion in Kitely to share resources for educators. 
• Without collaboration and networking, newcomers in virtual worlds find it difficult to navigate to high quality immersive learning experience and often ask “where is everyone?”. 
• Participants will discover the Virtual Worlds Database, VWEC Directory, and numerous educational opportunities in Kitely and other open sim environments.
• OSCC Presentation archive

Virtual World (Metaverse) events and people.

• Kitely calendar
• Virtual Worlds Database
• Second Life events
• VWEC Directory Form
• VWEC Directory
• OpenSimWorld events

Why virtual worlds? 

• Online education, sure. But why a virtual campus? Why in a virtual world (MUVE)?

Pragmatics for teachers

• More efficient use of teacher time. 
• Computer-based record-keeping. LMS
• Mobility limits do not affect teachers.
• Teaching jobs wherever you live.

Pragmatics for management

• Low facilities cost
• Wide catchment area for students and faculty.
• Instructional designers and subject matter expert can be available online.
• Computer-based record-keeping. LMS

Pragmatics for students

• Students can advance at their own speed.
• Quick learners are not held back, slow students are not pressured.
• Physical bullying is precluded, online bullying creates a record.
• Students get experience at working online.  
• Mobility limits do not affect students.

Easy field trips.

• A field trip to virtual Mars. Jezero Crater. We are the digitals. We can go anywhere.
• Educational field trips in the browser. Parental supervision as needed. No travel cost, no travel time, no school responsibility.
• Digital Field trips for career exploration. On a browser? Only if you think computers will be in the future world of work.
• Era of the entrepreneurial educator. The unbundling of education opens the gate for entrepreneurs.
• 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.
• Visit Stonehenge in your browser: Virtual field trip

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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

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• 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
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2022 Metaverse for practice by first responders. Role play or serious practice Virtual Tornado Rescue: Training practice.

Metaverse for practice by first responders.  

Role play or serious practice.  

Virtual Tornado Rescue: 

Training practice.

A simulation of a tornado rescue created as an example of immersive learning in a virtual world for education and delivery of library resources. 

• Watch on YouTube
• Virtual Tornado Rescue: Training Practice
• First responders: to an emergency (accident, natural disaster, or terrorism).
• First Responder of Second Life
• Virtually a disaster

2022 In the metaverse you can be the girl of your dreams. Or create her. Here is a video to show you how.

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In the metaverse you can be the girl of your dreams. 

Or create her.  

Here is a video to show you how.  

In some metaverse worlds you can make or buy an avatar that is close to your ideal appearance.

• Watch on YouTube
• If you are casting a video, make the whole cast to suit you.
• FEMALE AVATAR TUTORIAL | SECOND LIFE 2022
• The notes on YouTube give links to SL locations where you can get the products.
• If you are not in SL, you can get them here.
• More videos here.

Products

• Head
• Eyes
• Skin
• Hair
• Eyebrows
• Mouth
• Najls
• Wardrobe

2022 The metaverse and the future of theatre. “Either the engineers must become poets or the poets must become engineers.”--Norbert Wiener, 1950

The metaverse and the future of theatre.  

“Either the engineers must become poets 

or the poets must become engineers.”--Norbert Wiener, 1950

In the metaverse we can build any scene and make any characters we can imagine.  The theater is finding a home here.

• Watch on YouTube
• Technology and the Future of Theatre

Art and technology are often seen as distinct disciplines. But combining them results in magic. Sarah Ellis, the Director of Digital Development at the Royal Shakespeare Company, teaches us how technology is reimagining the experience of theatre, taking it beyond the stage and into our living rooms.

• Audience of the Future Live
• Flying Saucers Return Episode 01
• A set grows in Kitely. Flying Saucers Return
• Flying Saucers Return: A pilot (Episode 1): a product of virtual worlds
• Virtual reality -- how the metaverse will change filmmaking. Get ready for an amazing ride
• Prep for a video shoot: the characters. AMP video notes
• Resources for video production in virtual worlds
• Letitia meets the press. Promotion 1 for: Flying Saucers Return

2022 Can people hold collaborative meetings in the metaverse? Business meetings where people work together--remotely

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Can people hold collaborative meetings in the metaverse?  

Business meetings where people work together--remotely.

A webworld discussion

A discussion and demonstration of how we hold meetings in the metaverse.

• Watch on YouTube 
• Metaverse school (YouTube)
• .Immworlds
• Immworlds Information

2022 Metaverse neighbors: Meet Your Neighbor: A project of the Nonprofit Commons group in Second Life. A viable metaverse is made of people.

Metaverse neighbors: Meet Your Neighbor:  

A project of the Nonprofit Commons group in Second Life.   

A viable metaverse is made of people.

We don't go into a metaverse place just to look around.  We want to find people who share our interests.

• Watch on YouTube
• Meet Your Neighbor at NPC: Namaara MacMoragh
• The Meet Your Neighbor project shares members of the Nonprofit Commons group in Second Life. 
• Nonprofit Commons in Second Life

How to find people in Second Life

• Use ctrl f to open the search panel.
• Click People in the top menu.
• Put in the name you seek (copy/paste is best--avoids typos).
• Send IM or offer friend connection.

Profile of Selby Evans

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