2021 #VWEDU: Metaverse quests: The quest model, serious games, inquiry-based learning. Score-keeping and display, learning principles. Quest template.

Metaverse quests: 

The quest model, serious games, inquiry-based learning.  

Score-keeping and display, learning principles.  

Quest template.

A quest can be for something useful, such as an educational achievement.   

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• Go directly to the location
• https://3dww.a2zsg.com/3dlogin/world/?world=250
• Note: you may have to reload to get everything to appear
• Reload: button, lower left, circling arrows.  
• Go to 3DWebWorldz.  Medieval quest is under adventures. 
• https://3dwebworldz.com/

A serious game

• Learning the nomenclature.  That's learning the names of things.
• The vocabulary of a foreign language.
• The correct names for the specialized objects in any technical field.
• These usually have to be overlearned so that accurate recall is no effort.
• Treasure hunts can provide serious games to practice that vocabulary skill.
• They can also  provide formative assessment indicating level of achievement.
• Inquiry-based learning
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquiry-based_learning
• To introduce a social element, form teams with a team assignment,  

2022 Metaverse: Tips on how to be a smart user in Second Life and OpenSimulator. Change settings on the viewer.

Metaverse: 

Tips on how to be a smart user 

in Second Life and OpenSimulator.  

Change settings on the viewer.

People learn from experience.  Smart people learn from other people's experience.

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• WELCOME TO SECOND LIFE! // TOP 10 TIPS & TRICKS!
• Firestorm settings for beginners. A DTA content page

2021 #VWEDU: DTA: Teaching online. Reinventing the teacher career. Lecturing is not teaching. Teaching is creating conditions in which students learn.

Teaching online.  Reinventing the teacher career.  

Teaching is creating conditions in which students learn.

Lecturing is not teaching.  

Online learning creates opportunities for online teachers especially those who can make effective use of modern technology.

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• Advice for teachers preparing to teach online

Creating conditions in which students learn

• Yes, that is teaching.  It has several elements:
• Content delivery.
• Specifying the relevant skill.
• Evaluated practice in the relevant skill.
• Demonstration of achievement in the relevant skill. 
• Each of these is potentially marketable.
• The Ultimate Marketing Guide for Online Educational Companies

Who would be interested?

• Retiring teachers who don't want to retire mentally.
• Teachers wanting to break location limitations.
• Teachers wanting increased income.  
• Students preparing for a teaching career
• Schools offering online learning
• People in education management

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.

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• 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 #VWEDU: Critical thinking and the secrets of GCFLearnFree.org. Very much needed for project-based learning (PBL).

Critical thinking 

and the secrets of GCFLearnFree.org

Very much needed for project-based learning (PBL).

Does project-based learning (PBL) require critical thinking?  Yes, if it is much of a project.  Does PBL come with instruction in critical thinking?

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• GCFLearnFree
• This tells how to talk about it.
• Learning the skill takes practice.
• The practice can be planned as a series of steps (a procedure).
• A DTA can walk a team of students through the procedure and collect student products at each step.
• The teacher can monitor the progress of each team and give feedback.
• The Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) for MUVES (virtual worlds): Summary with JIT learning design

2021 #VWEDU: Narrative-based learning in virtual worlds can be a form of PBL and/or of gamified learning. The detective story as a model.

Narrative-based learning in virtual worlds 

can be a form of PBL 

and/or of gamified learning. 

The detective story as a model. 

An illustration of how to integrate narrative, project, inquiry, gamification and role-playing into the basis for learning.

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Telling is not teaching

• Once you hear lecture about swimming, you never forget what you learned about lectures. Talking is not teaching.
• Real learning comes from practice, not from reading or hearing.  
• They remember some of what they read or heard, but not well.
• That's why they forget it over the summer. 
• And remember little of it when they get out of school. 

Narrative-based learning

• Inquiry-based learning, project-based learning 
• Narrative-based learning and the use of digital places as teacher and text With the DTA as mentor
• Narrative-based learning (Wikipedia)
• Scholarly articles for narrative-based learning
• How to teach narrative-based learning
• Digital literacy. He did it in Classcraft. Like a detective story. Could you do it better in your favorite virtual world? Are your students the heroes who will solve this problem?
• Narrative-based learning (search)

Who would use narrative-based learning?

• Second language teachers using the target language.
• English teachers giving writing practice.
• Math teachers posing word problems.
• History teachers giving anecdotes relevant to the historical period.
• Any teacher showing the use of any subject.
• Any teacher using a narrative in game-based learning.
• Any teacher wanting to teach critical thinking skills.

2021 #VWEDU: DTA: Could a college replace lecturers with videos? A good lecture video could serve the entire freshman class. And all the online classes, too

Could a college replace lecturers with videos?  

A good lecture video could serve the entire freshman class.  

And all the online classes, too

Suppose videos replace lectures in college.  

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• Videos by Dr. Schmachtenberg
• Video made in Second Life
• Video of a presentation to Science Circle.
• Video capture and web archiving thanks to Science Circle

College lectures online

• Collège lecturers can convert to online teaching: Here is how:
• Model for many freshman "lecture" classes. Teaching online. Reinventing the teacher career. Teaching is creating conditions in which students learn.
• But suppose they don't.  Could a college do that instead?
• No point in simply converting all the lectures.. Just convert the best lectures.

What are the best lectures?

• Those that best meet the student needs.
• Two measures go into that:  Student performance and student satisfaction.
• Since student study preferences vary, there is probably no single best lecture.
• But If multiple lectures are available on the same subject matter, there is a procedure for evaluating them on the criteria above.
• Thus a college could develop an evaluated set of lectures that should be better than the work of any individual professor. 
• It could even offer lectures for specific learning styles.

2021 #VWEDU: Multiverse Masters, Gamification Simulation ideas. Desktop VR, no headset needed.

Multiverse Masters,

Gamification Simulation ideas

Desktop VR, no headset needed.

Gamification in desktop VR. 

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• By Salie Davis

Go there

• HG address: 
• grid.kitely.com:8002:Multiverse Masters
• KItely

Multiverse Masters

Multiverse Masters, is an evolving adventure-based world for education. Currently I am fine tuning the Island as an educators resource area filled with examples of uses and tutorial links at

• http://multiversemasters.blogspot.com 
• http://WoPoLi.com
• https://multiversemasters.wordpress.com 

Explore as you will as I have no idea what ventures lie ahead.

I try to remember to make free items I find lying about able to be copied when permitted. If ever you see something that your concerned about please let me know. My goal is to support the opensource community by keeping resources free and shared. Many awesome and inexpensive resources I find on the Kitely market. While creating worlds appropriate and beneficial for general audiences in the virtual environment I am having fun. I will often work on multiple projects

2021 DTA: Charlie wants work as a greeter bot. Works 24/7, always says what you wrote, works for milliamps, makes a virtual world social.

Charlie wants work as a greeter bot.  

Works 24/7, always says what you wrote, 

works for milliamps, makes a virtual world social.

Imaginary greeter bot applies for a job.

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• Works 24/7, always says what you wrote, 
• works for milliamps, makes a virtual world social.
• Location:  https://3dwebworldz.com/
• Enter as guest, no need to register.
• DTA: https://virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com/2019/10/2019-dta-vwedu-digital-teaching.html

Go there

• https://3dwebworldz.com/
• Enter as guest, no need to register.

2021 Bot (DTA) discussions at Magnolia gardens. Why use bots in virtual worlds?

Bot (DTA)  discussions at Magnolia gardens.

Why use bots in virtual worlds?

Discussion of bot demonstrations in a virtual world.

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• Quest-based learning, DTA as guide
• Project based learning.
• Read and follow instructions. A needed reading skill.
• The Secret of the Instruction Manual
• https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edi...​
• Solo or team work.  
• Teacher can be present for those needing help.

Go there

• Hypergrid address:
• grid.metaversedepot.com:8002:IMA Outpost Alpha 
• Put the HG address in the Find bar of the World Map.  Click Find, TP
• Metaverse Depot Grid (registration required):
• http://grid.metaversedepot.com:8002/

2021 #VWEDU: DTA: More Digital teaching assistants planned for Magnolia Garden. AI-driven teaching assistants.

More Digital teaching assistants 

planned for Magnolia Garden. 

AI-driven teaching assistants.  

More bots are planned for Magnolia Gardens

• Watch on YouTube

• Quest-based learning, DTA as guide
• Project based learning.
• Read and follow instructions. A needed reading skill.
• The Secret of the Instruction Manual
• Solo or team work.  
• Teacher can be present for those needing help.
• AI-driven bots

Go there

• Hypergrid address:
• grid.metaversedepot.com:8002:IMA Outpost Alpha 
• Put the HG address in the Find bar of the World Map.  Click Find, TP
• Metaverse Depot Grid (registration required)
• http://grid.metaversedepot.com:8002/

2021 #VWEDU: DTA: The bots of Magnolia Garden. Bots can give routine help while the teacher helps those who really need it.

The bots of Magnolia Garden.  

Bots can give routine help 

while the teacher helps those who really need it.

Bots can guide students in the practice of skills.

• Watch on YouTube

Quest-based learning, DTA as guide

• Project based learning.
• Read and follow instructions. A needed reading skill.
• The Secret of the Instruction Manual
• Solo or team work.  
• Teacher can be present for those needing help.

Go there

• Hypergrid address:
• grid.metaversedepot.com:8002:IMA Outpost Alpha 
• Put the HG address in the Find bar of the World Map.  Click Find, TP
• Metaverse Depot Grid (registration required)
• http://grid.metaversedepot.com:8002/

2021 DTA: A meeting with Charlie the Chatter. A draft model for a welcome bot in a virtual world. The tale of the chatter dog.

A meeting with Charlie the Chatter.  

A draft model for a welcome bot in a virtual world. 

The tale of the chatter dog.

An episode in the life of Charlie, the apprentice bot dog.

An important sign

I knew right away I was in over my head.  This was a three-dimensional world inside the computer.  Or down the rabbit hole.  "What do I do next?", I asked myself.

Then I noticed a big, shaggy dog trotting towards me.  It wore a sign saying "Look for the chat window, lower left."  It stopped, sat up and wagged its tail."

2021 #VWEDU Make learning in a virtual world usefully social. Practice collaboration. A DTA as guide on the side.

Make learning in a virtual world usefully social.  

Practice collaboration.  

A DTA as guide on the side.  

Virtual worlds are inherently social.  Planning can make the social activity educationally valuable.

Team planning in a virtual world

Practice collaboration in school?

• How do they do that?
• PBL with teams.
• When are they old enough to work in teams?
• Ask a Little League coach.

How do you teach collaboration?

• Create a situation in which students have an incentive to collaborate.
• Start with a team and a project.
• One or two people will wind up doing most of the work?
• Only if you leave all the management to the team.
• Add a DTA as coach and use it to track individual effort.
• The Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) for MUVES (virtual worlds): Summary with JIT learning design

2021 DTA: 3DWebWorldz adds Keyword search to its FAQ. Brain for a bot.

3DWebWorldz adds Keyword search to its FAQ.  

Brain for a bot.

On the road to chatbots in virtual worlds 

Tour bot

• Floating text:  "My name is Danielle you tourist guide, click me"
• Gives notecard with landmarks

Keyword search

• Keyword search means there is a list of keywords.
• Each keyword has a list of relevant FAQ items,
• If the search query contains a keyword, these FAQ items are given in response.
• 3DWebWorldz 
• The Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) for MUVES (virtual worlds): Summary with JIT learning design

Below

• Bot brain
• Try it online
• Improvement with experience

2021 DTA: imagining an entrance chatbot for a 3D website or a 3D grid. The chatbot uses the FAQ. Draft plan.

Imagining an entrance chatbot for a 3D website or a 3D grid

The chatbot uses the FAQ. 

Draft plan.

Draft plan for a welcome bot in virtual worlds.

Tour bot

• Floating text:  "My name is Danielle you tourist guide, click me"
• Gives notecard with landmarks.

Objectives

• Show new people how a 3D place can be social 
• Show how 3D places can be populated with informative bots.
• For children, a bot might be an animal.  For geeks it might be a robot.

2021 #VWEDU: HOW TO: Build an animated Object in Cybalounge I Metaverse School. Some entrepreneurial teachers will build their own instructional spaces

HOW TO: Build an animated Object in Cybalounge I Metaverse School.

Some entrepreneurial teachers will build their own instructional spaces,

See how to build in your browser.

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• Host your own show.
• Design and exhibit your art
• Or hold inline meetings. 
• 
  
• Click on this link, register or join as a guest and get the experience. https://metaverse.community/​ 
• 
  
• Join Metaverse: https://metaverse.community​ 
• Visit the website: https://metaverse.school

2021 #VWEDU: #DTA Model for a chatbot working from an Expertise Database. A possible library function?

Model for a chatbot working from an Expertise Database. 

A possible library function?

Libraries answer questions.  FAQ pages answer questions. An online library could automate that.

We are not alone

We digitals are not alone

• Not even in quarantine
• Not even if the people nearby don't share our interests.
• In a digital world we find people who share our interests.
• People who are doing the kinds of things we do.
• People who have questions we can answer.
• People who have answers to some of our questions.
• People who hold meetings about things we are interested in.
• Era of the entrepreneurial educator. The unbundling of education opens the gate for entrepreneurs.

How could the DTA answer questions?

• FAQ and mentor DB as resources.
• A simple chatbot using the keyword method.
• The algorithm described here simply looks for keywords in the question.
• Then it responds with prepared answers connected to the keywords it finds.
• The chatbot can take any form: a human, an owl, a parrot.  
• I am inclined to use a dog.  
• The Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) for MUVES (virtual worlds): Summary

2921 WELCOME TO THE WIZARD! The World is a Guided 30 Minute Tour. Just Sit on The Black Horse Ahead of You. How could educators or marketers use this model?

WELCOME TO THE WIZARD!  

A Guided 30 Minute Tour.  

Just Sit on The Black Horse Ahead of You.

How could educators  or marketers use this model? 

On the black horse

Click image to enlarge

• The wizard (in Kitely)
• The World is a Guided 30 Minute Tour.
• Be sure to read the note card and be sure your settings are right.
• Just Sit on The Black Horse Ahead of You.
• then.... Let The Wizard do the rest:):)
• The Wizard could serve as a DTA in an educational context.
• The Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) for MUVES (virtual worlds): Summary with JIT learning design

2012 #VWEDU: ACRL Virtual World Interest Group visits the wonderland of Alice. Another experience in a virtual world

ACRL Virtual World Interest Group 

visits the wonderland of Alice. 

Another experience in a virtual world

Video: A place in a virtual world recreates the wonderland world of Alice.

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Wonderland

• Visit an immersive storybook adventure with Alice in Wonderland. 
• Educators and librarians explore the use of virtual environments to enhance literature at the Community Virtual Library. 
• A hypergrid tour started in Kitely with a jump over to the 3rdRock Grid for the ACRL Virtual World Interest Group sponsored by CVL.