Sunday, July 31, 2022

2022 Educational Metaverse: Can the metaverse provide better classrooms? For teacher-centric, probably not. Just lower costs. For student-centric, learning goes beyond classrooms.


Educational Metaverse:  Can the metaverse provide better classrooms?
For teacher-centric, probably not.  Just lower costs. 
For student-centric, learning goes beyond classrooms.
Can digital classrooms replace the physical ones?  If they can replace half the contact hours, they offer a huge cost-saving in facilities. 

What would the educational metaverse do?

  • Following the teacher-centric model it would serve as a textbook, not the classroom.
  • Even so, the school system could benefit from shifting part of school time to online.
  • Online.  Not necessarily to the metaverse. 
  • The reading assignment could certainly be given online. 
  • And with the online model every student could answer those formative questions.
  • The shift might not do much to improve instruction, but it would reduce costs.
  • With part time attendance, a school building might handle two or three times the number of students.   
  • Educational facilities: costs. Cost per square foot. Cost per student. Physical versus virtual. The savings could go into educational services
  • I can hear teachers now saying "The savings would go to management."
  • But a lot would have to go to digital management.
  • I am sure some entrepreneurial teachers would think of becoming digital coaches.

Saturday, July 30, 2022

2022 Making money in the metaverse: Monetize videos, run a store, get hired by a metaverse company. Boston Blaisdale, promoter


Making money in the metaverse:  
Monetize videos, run a store, 
get hired by a metaverse company.  
Boston Blaisdale, promoter
Promoters make money in the metaverse. Here are some examples.

Wednesday, July 27, 2022

2022 The language metaverse. Teach languages with native speakers. Teach directly naming objects in their natural scene.


The language metaverse.  
Teach languages with native speakers.  
Teach directly naming objects in their natural scene.  
The metaverse can provide an immersive environment for teaching languages.



This video compares virtual worlds that can be used for educational purposes.
 It highlights Edutopia 1 in Kitely; and in doing so, it shows the incredibly wide range of cheap or free items available to teachers and all the games and exercises I have personally created and put on the Kitely Marketplace to teach English the way I think it should be taught in virtual worlds.

Tuesday, July 26, 2022

2022 Metaverse destination management. How to get people around a themed collection of places. OSFest as an example.


Metaverse destination management.  
How to get people around 
a themed collection of places.  
OSFest as an example.
The metaverse has lots of places.  But yours don't work for you unless you get people to them. Here is how OSFest did it.

Sunday, July 24, 2022

2022 Music in the metaverse. Multi-stage design for a series of performances. OSFest 2022. Networking. Instant messaging (IM)


Music in the metaverse. 
Multi-stage design for a series of performances.   
OSFest 2022.  Networking.  
Instant messaging (IM)
Musical performances in the metaverse bring people together.

The main dance area

  • The main dance area is a square with stages on each area.  
  • The design uses 4 simulators 
  • A simulator here is software running on a server.
  • Each simulator creates a square piece of land.
  • The dance floor is formed by putting the server squares together.
  • The 4 corners come together at the center of the dance floor.
  • Each stage is on a separate server.   
  • Each server can handle about 80 avatars, 
  • so the stage can handle about 320 avatars.
  • The audience will usually gather in front of the active stage.  
  • But  they don't have to.
  • The audience can hear from anywhere on the stage.
  • All 4 quadrants of the dance area get the same stream.
  • When a new performance starts on a different stage,
  • People will hear it from where they are.  
  • So they can walk over to the active stage when they feel like it.
  • Just walk, no teleport.  
  • If you ask your audience to TP elsewhere, you will lose some of them.

Saturday, July 23, 2022

2022 Kitely sites in the metaverse. Opensim Fest. Mike McHugh shows a walk through the display of Veritas.McMaster


Kitely sites in the metaverse. 
Opensim Fest.  
Mike McHugh shows a walk through 
the display of Veritas.McMaster
OpenSimulator is a collection of independent, privately owned, interconnected and collaborating worlds that may be a model for the future metaverse.
Free gifts on parcel 135
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Wednesday, July 20, 2022

2022 Art in the metaverse. Luna Lunaria. Statuary. Architecture. Installation art.


Art in the metaverse.   Luna Lunaria.  
Statuary.  Architecture.  
Installation art.
Digital art.  New medium for art.  Potential audience in the metaverse is huge.  
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Easy access sources in the metaverse

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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.
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Tuesday, July 19, 2022

2022 Adult learning, motivation, and the metaverse. Story-living and story-learning in the metaverse. Training in the 21st century.

 
Adult learning, motivation, and the metaverse.  
Story-living and story-learning in the metaverse.
Training in the 21st century.  
Employee training can be modernized.  It can come online where most employees are. It can be interactive and engaging and thus, more effective.
  • OpenSimulator Fest grid
  • Hypergrid address:
  • grid.opensimfest.com:8022:HG-Welcome
  • Paste the HG address in the find bar of the world map, click Find, TP
  • In the OSFest grid, go to: Hydrogen
 
The main hall in Hydrogen
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Sunday, July 17, 2022

2022 Metaverse on Mars? Of course. Virtual worlds go anywhere the content creators want. There are lots of Mars projects in the metaverse.


Metaverse on Mars?  
Of course.  
Virtual worlds go anywhere the content creators want.  
There are lots of Mars projects in the metaverse. 
Mars projects in the metaverse

Saturday, July 16, 2022

2022 Prehistoric metaverse. Yes, the metaverse is good for time travel. And for teaching if you know what to do with it.


Prehistoric metaverse.  
Yes, the metaverse is good for time travel.  
And for teaching if you know what to do with it.
You can build any scene in the metaverse.  You can build scenes that teach.

Could you use a prehistoric scene in teaching?

  • There might be errors.
  • Don't try to catch the errors.
  • Let the students do that.
  • Use inquiry based learning
  • Form the students into teams.
  • Task: Report on what the scene got right and what it got wrong,
  • Task: Report on what the scene did well and what it could have done better.
  • Send them to reliable sources,

Wednesday, July 13, 2022

2022 Gregorian Chants in the metaverse? Does the metaverse go back to the 9th century? It goes wherever a creator wants it to go. OpenSim Fest is an example


Gregorian Chants in the metaverse?  
Does the metaverse go back to the 9th century?  
It goes wherever a creator wants it to go.  
OpenSim Fest is an example.
OpenSim Fest:  Art in the metaverse.  Gathered live for 3 weeks.  Links to stores other grids. Part of the metaverse is interconnected


Tuesday, July 12, 2022

2022 Your own place in the metaverse. Not very expensive. If you shop around. But it will need people to hold you.


Your own place in the metaverse.  
Not very expensive.   
If you shop around.   
But it will need people to hold you.
The metaverse is being built by people who live in it.  We are building it to suit ourselves. Or we hire people to build to suit us.  

  • Watch on YouTube
  • Build Your Own Metaverse -- and Share it! | Agnes Larsson | TED
  • In the multitude of metaverses that exist there are infinite possibilities for inclusivity and creativity. 
  • Minecraft's game director Agnes Larsson shares how the experience of building and sharing metaverses can foster dialogue, friendship and trust.

Sunday, July 10, 2022

2022 #VWEDU The metaverse for education. What does the metaverse need to support education? What does education need to do to use the metaverse?


The metaverse for education.  
What does the metaverse need to support education? 
What does education need to do to use the metaverse?
Education costs could make more efficient use of teacher time by teaching in the metaverse.  That means lower costs and more effective learning.  Are we ready?
  • Watch on YouTube
  • What features does the metaverse need to get good student engagement?

Student activity in the scene.

Conclusions

  • Current platforms provide all the tech needed.
  • Existing content can probably provide most needed scenes.
  • But teachers would not be able to find it: need a marketplace
  • Second Life Marketplace https://marketplace.secondlife.com/

Saturday, July 9, 2022

2022 Metaverse roleplay. Replicas of familiar scenes. The Enterprise. Hogwarts, Tatooine, sailing ships. Ordinary scenes for ordinary roleplay


Metaverse roleplay.  Replicas of familiar scenes.  
The Enterprise. Hogwarts, 
Tatooine, sailing ships.  
Ordinary scenes for ordinary roleplay  
Roleplay is done for entertainment, for plotting by writers. for education by classes.   Whatever the purpose, the metaverse can provide the scene.

  • Watch on YouTube
  • MOVING ONTO A ROLEPLAY SIM IN SECOND LIFE 2021
  • Giano Properties
  • http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Newport%20Keys/143/71/24
  • In SL, paste the above SLurl in the address (top) bar  of the viewer, press Enter
  • New England Area, Family RP, Family Roleplay, 
  • Home rentals, role play, RP, L I F E store, church services,  hospital, police station, 
  • fire department, school, bowling, playgrounds, parks, movie theater, 
  • 7Sea Fishing, horse riding, roller skating
  • Roleplay in education

Educational uses for roleplay

Language learning

  • Every important object can say its name in the target language--in text and in voice.
  • Roleplay tasks can be assigned to require use of selected elements of the target language.
  • Objects cab detect the execution of tasks and award a token to certify that.
  • A scoreboard can show the status of every person or team. 

Simulated life

  • A simulated neighborhood like Newport Keys.
  • Each student gets an allowance of simulated money.
  • And can earn more money by completing assignments and passing tests.
  • There are things students can buy with simulated money.
  • They can buy house furnishings, vehicles, or gifts.

Wednesday, July 6, 2022

2022 Metaverse site for NFT-related capacity building. CheriNet Creative HQ, Kitely. AI art, AIDS awareness, virtual lab training


Metaverse site for NFT-related capacity building.  
CheriNet Creative HQ, Kitely.  
AI art, AIDS awareness, virtual lab training
From a conference in the metaverse (or a metaverse province). Yes, in some developed parts of the metaverse we have had conferences for years.

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Easy access meetings in the metaverse

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  • 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 LifeLindenSLurl, and SL are trademarks of Linden Research Inc.
  • Screenshots from ShareX
  • This blog is not affiliated with anything.   Ads are from Google


Tuesday, July 5, 2022

2022 #VWEDU: Educators, learners, and librarians in the metaverse: How to find others with similar interests. Virtual worlds education consortium (VWEC).


Educators, learners, and librarians  in the metaverse:  
How to find others with similar interests.  
Virtual worlds education consortium (VWEC).  
We educators figured out how to find each other in the metaverse. And you can find us that way, too.

Purpose

  • The purpose of the SL Educational SIM Move is to bring educational communities together in a main grid with goals that include:
  • Creating welcoming educational spaces that newcomers can easily find, that promote interaction among residents, and that provide safe, fun, attractive and easy links to the larger educational community.
  • Providing educators already active in SL with a safe networking and teaching environment that addresses the concerns of their institutions’ administrators.
  • Affording a gateway experience that can be used to encourage groups and institutions not already in SL to perceive the educational value of social virtual worlds.
  • Advancing collaborative educational opportunities.
  • Documenting and archiving best practices of learning in virtual environments.
  • Advocating the educational potential for Second Life to new learners and educators.
  • Supporting diversity and inclusion.
  • Educators who do not choose to move to the new Edulands grid will still be featured by VWEC, included in the directory and may have a portal for easy location.

Sunday, July 3, 2022

2022 Rockets in the metaverse. International Spaceflight Museum in Kitely with Mike Lorrey. History of spacelight and projections of a visit to Mars.


Rockets in the metaverse.  
International Spaceflight Museum in Kitely with Mike Lorrey.  
History of spacelight and 
projections of a visit to Mars.
Using the metaverse to tell about space is a natural.  They are both about the future.
  • Watch on YouTube
  • Mike Lorrey illustrates teaching the history of spaceflight.
  • Showing a simulation of Mars for the ACRL Virtual World Interest Group
  • The International Spaceflight Museum in Kitely
  • Founded in 2005 in Second Life, the ISM is maintained by a US 501(c)(3) non-profit incorporated in Texas. 
  • This world in Kitely is still under development, but we are opening it to the public to get your suggestions and to let you see what is happening here. 
  • Our group has a number of projects going on, both in building and in developing some interesting infrastructure. 
  • Watch the Kitely Community Calendar for event announcements, or just drop in to see what is going on.
  • ISM web page

Saturday, July 2, 2022

2022 #VWEDU: The Metaverse: ANCIENT ROME 320 AD. History, literature, architecture. Time travel in the metaverse.


The Metaverse: ANCIENT ROME 320 AD. 
History, literature, theater, architecture.   
Time travel in the metaverse
The metaverse: go any where, any when.   Here, historical places in the development of western civilization. 

2022 We are building the metaverse. See how in this video. It is not your metaverse if you can't build there.


We are building the metaverse.  
See how in this video   
It is not your metaverse if you can't build there.
They are not going to build the metaverse to suit you.  You have to do that, because only you can really know what you want.  
  • Watch on YouTube
  • Building in Second Life
  • Leisurely building and showing build techniques in Second Life.
  • More videos about building in the metaverse:
  • Second life building
  • You don't have to build it yourself.  Look on the marketplace. 
  • Second Life Market place 
  • You still need to know how to build to place and modify what you buy.