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

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• Libraries and museums will combine in virtual worlds
• Teacher's web assistant brings museums, aquariums, web cams virtual worlds, libraries, games, and challenges
• Schools, colleges, and universities with classes in user-managed virtual (digital) places.
• A field trip to Mars. Jezero Crater. Even without a pandemic you can't do that. Unless you have a digital side.
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  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.
• The Virtual Peale Museum on your laptop. Disabilities are left behind when you travel on your laptop
• Bauhaus Museum LEA2. A museum on your desk
• The International Spaceflight Museum in Kitely
• Visit Stonehenge in your browser: Virtual field trip
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• The entrepreneurial school. Beyond online classes. The online campus: student rooms, team workrooms, libraries, museums,
• Digital Field trips for career exploration. On a browser? Only if you think computers will be in the future world of work.
• Digital smarts. Who should teach it? Internet libraries? Internet museums? The old school system?
• RezMela's Panocube gives world-wide virtual tours in the metaverse. Exploration of the UNESCO World Heritage Site, Ryōanji. Distance is nothing to the metaverse.
• The coming of the virtual campus: Online schools need an online campus. "Stanford University Students Flock to a Virtual Campus"
• Presentation in a box: Ethnographic Cultural Exhibits. In a digital world you can handle big boxes
• Let's gather a list of educationally useful places on the hypergrid
• Educational communities of the virtual worlds, a database by the Community Virtual Library
• Serenity Island: Spaceship, Mars and the Moon
• Metaverse Libraries: Communities as Resources Part 1

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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