2021 TKR: Role playing and narrative-based learning. Therapy, Hobby, language learning. Social activity for online learning.

Role playing and narrative-based learning.  

Therapy, Hobby, language learning.  

Social activity for online learning 

Role-playing is one of the most powerful teaching strategies you can incorporate in your eLearning course.

• Watch on YouTube
• 5 Ways to use Role-Playing in eLearning
• Role playing therapy
• Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning (CITL)
• Role playing in learning (search)

Social skills are vitally important to success in life, but where do we find practice space for them? John Arcadian, a writer and publisher of tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons, talks about the benefits that can be gained from playing out characters in Tabletop Role-playing Games.

2020 TKR: The benefits of failure. If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.

Exploring Discomfort with Farrah Storr

Protecting children, our loved ones and even ourselves from discomfort is second nature, but author Farrah Storr argues that encouraging people, especially children, to face up to the reality of struggle and failure will ultimately make them braver, stronger and more equipped to deal with an ever-more complex world. 

• Watch on YouTube
• Use your head! They always tell you that. They never tell you how

2020 TKR: TRAINING: SYMBOLIC MODELING FOR PERSONAL/PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Invited post by Marly Milena

TRAINING SYMBOLIC MODELING 

FOR PERSONAL/PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Nov-Dec 2020   

Invited post by Marly Milena

An invitation to join the Fall 2020 SymMod (Symbolic Modeling) Training Sessions, led by Marly Milena (Niela Miller in first life). for leaders, educators, directors, facilitators, coaches et al who want to use arts-based processes.

Library in the air

Resting on books, a group gathers 

to watch a demonstration of Symbolic Modeling

• Symbolic Modeling (SymMod): a discovery and learning approach. A training course in a virtual world
• Symbolic Modeling as a creative process. In a user buildable digital place you do it without clay, paper, or paint. And with people from around the world
• Symbolic Modeling Training in Second Life: by Marly Milena, Octagon:Creative Exploration

An invitation to join the Fall 2020 SymMod (Symbolic Modeling) Training Sessions, led by Marly Milena (Niela Miller in first life). This training will consist of 4 sessions, lasting up to 2 hours each. ( a week apart on the same day of the week). The sessions will start after November 11, 2020, and the actual schedule will be determined before the first session, probably via Doodle.  

• Update 10/22/2020 Kitely 8X8 megaworlds. Federally Funded Language Programs. OpenSim land area, actives continue fall increase.

2020 #VWEDU: Inspiration Island: Virtual Worlds are about people. A visit and some featured activities.

Inspiration Island:
Virtual Worlds are about people.
A visit and some featured activities.

A report about a digital place that is all about people.  A place to make friends and perhaps to understand yourself better.  A few of the many activities are listed.

A group from the Nonprofit Commons is visiting

On the web

• Inspiration Island (Facebook)
• Nonprofit commons community (Facebook)
• Nonprofit commons (LinkedIn)

Go there in Second Life

• In SL, paste the line below into the top line of the viewer, press enter:
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Inspiration%20Island/151/229/38

• Update 9/17/2020  OpenSim land area up. Virtual Worlds Teaching Manual. OpenSIm Fest exhibits and merchant areas stay open thru Sept.

2020 TKR: Lessons Learned From Failure, with Elizabeth Day

Lessons Learned From Failure,

with Elizabeth Day

The public part of success is only the last act.  The way to avoid failure is to attempt nothing.   If failure were fatal, we'd all be dead.   

• Watch on YouTube
• Watch Elizabeth Day in our latest RSA Spotlight - the edits which take you straight to the heart of the event!
• Award-winning author and journalist Elizabeth Day explains how failure can teach us lessons we would never otherwise have understood.

Related

• Use your head! They always tell you that. They never tell you how
• Quick Quotes about Planning
• Quick Quotes about confidence
• Quick Quotes about risk
• Perfection is not success. Success is achieving what you set out to do
• The surprising habits of original thinkers.
• Nara Nook on the benefits of failure in a virtual world

2020 #VWEDU: #DTA: Computational thinking in preparing instructions: Design thinking: Use-case analysis: Micro-learning JIT learning

Computational thinking in preparing instructions: 
Design thinking: Use-case analysis: 
Micro-learning: JIT learning

How to design instruction pages to fit use cases that users want.

Computational thinking in preparing instructions

• Design thinking: What do the users need?
• Users always have a specific use in mind: that is a use case.
• Instructions are part of the product.  A user wants instructions for a use case.
• Users need instructions for each use case they have.
• At any given time, users only need instructions for the use case at hand. 
• Each use case should have its own set of instructions.  
• That allows microlearning for each use-case.
• And supports JIT learning.
• Microlearning needs microcredentials (badges).
• Not just to provide evidence of competence
• But also to tell learners what they need to do be competent.

Key terms, search on page

• Design thinking
• Use case
• Demand
• Market potential
• User interface
• JIT
• Microlearning
• Badge
• Search on page: Ctrl+f opens search bar near the top of the page.
• Search on page is an element of JIT learning.

• Update 8/20/2020 . Opensim Fest 2020 coming August 28-30 STÖMOL is a feature-length sci-fi video done in Second Life®

2020 HEAD: The Secret of Becoming Mentally Strong, Amy Morin

The Secret of Becoming Mentally Strong, Amy Morin

The best strategies for overcoming adversity and building mental muscle. Everyone has the ability to build mental strength, but most people don't know how. Exercises that will help us learn to regulate our thoughts, manage our emotions, and behave productively despite our circumstances - the 3 basic factors of mental strength. No matter what your goals are, building mental strength is the key to reaching your greatest potential.

• Watch on YouTube
• Use your head! They always tell you that. They never tell you how

• Update 7/9/2020 Focus 360: Virtual model homes. 6 weeks till Opensim Fest 2020. CVL Education Network.

2020 TKR: #DTA Visualization, the skill they did not tell you about. Maybe you figured out how to use it anyway?

Visualization, the skill they did not tell you about.    
Maybe you figured out how to use it anyway

If  you are a visualizer, you don't just "think" something through, you imagine it through.  That something might be a plan, a set of instructions, a story, or a section from a textbook.  Visualizing may give you an advantage over people who just talk to themselves about these things.  Nothing in a plan happens in words.  Everything in a plan happens in the real solid world that you can see.  

• Are you a practiced visualizer?
• Can you tell when someone is not visualizing?
• Did you ever complain that textbooks are too abstract?
• Did you ever wonder why it is hard to remember what you read?
• Do you ever try to imagine what you are reading about?
• Imagination is not the opposite of reality.  Imagination is the future of reality
• Visualization

Where would you visualize?

• Writing
• Art work
• Photography
• Making videos
• Remembering
• Learning
• Planning

• Update 7/9/2020 Focus 360: Virtual model homes. 6 weeks till Opensim Fest 2020. CVL Education Network.

2020 TKR: How to Rewrite the Rules with Sam Conniff Allende

How to Rewrite the Rules 

with Sam Conniff Allende

'Pirates didn't just break free from society, they rewrote the rules'. Founder and former CEO of award-winning marketing agency Livity, Sam Conniff Allende unveils the innovative strategies of Golden Age pirates, drawing parallels between the tactics and teachings of legends like Henry Morgan and Blackbeard with modern rebels, like Steve Jobs, Malala and Elon Musk."

• Watch on YouTube

• Update 6/18/2020 OpenSim numbers grow. Field trip to Jezero Crater. Firestorm update for OpenSim.

2020 #VWEDU: TKR: ART: Symbolic Modeling as a creative process. In a user buildable digital place you do it without clay, paper, or paint. And with people from around the world

Symbolic Modeling as a creative process.  
In a user buildable digital place you do it 
without clay, paper, or paint. 
And with people from around the world

Creativity thrives in a user-built digital place. We are the users.  We are the builders.  We are the creative digital citizens of this digital universe.   Here we see how we can use this makerspace to create art with a meaning.  The creativity lies in the art and in the meaning.

Introduction to the Creative Process and Symbolic Modeling

• Watch on YouTube

Go there:

• Second Life
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Inspiration%20Island/93/142/22

• update 2/6/2020 IMA SceneGate Viewer 1.0.0 for Linux and Windows Tangle Grid SciFi Expo Feb 5-Mar.5

2018 TKR: The Power of Elastic Thinking with Leonard Mlodinow

The Power of Elastic Thinking
with Leonard Mlodinow

How do our brains generate new ideas?  How can we nurture that process?  Bestselling author Leonard Mlodinow reveals the secrets of flexible thinking. 

• Watch on YouTube

• Use your head! They always tell you that. They never tell you how
• Follow the RSA on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RSAEvents
• Like RSA Events on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rsaeventsoff...
• Listen to RSA podcasts: https://soundcloud.com/the_rsa
• See RSA Events behind the scenes: https://instagram.com/rsa_events/

• Update 10/31/2019: New OpenSim release (0.9.1) IDRAC Conference Is Nov. 1 & 2. OpenSim conference seeks presenters. Free Ghost Story Radio Stream (Seanchai Library )

2019 TKR: EDU: The Art of Decision-Making with Steven Johnson

The Art of Decision-Making 
with Steven Johnson

Bestselling author Steven Johnson explains how the science of deliberative decision-making can help us make better long-term choices - both personally and within society.

• Watch on YouTube

We've heard a lot in recent years about the science of quick-thinking and intuitive choices, but is this method always best? Bestselling author Steven Johnson explains how the science of deliberative decision-making can help us make better long-term choices - both personally and within society.

• Enjoyed this snippet? Watch the full event here:
• https://youtu.be/zyLaYZW7NrU
• Follow the RSA on Twitter:  https://twitter.com/RSAEvents 

• Update 10/17/2019 Free Ghost Story Radio Stream (Seanchai Library ). Burn2, Metamorphosis Oct. 11-20

2019 TKR: An algorithm for happiness with Mo Gawdat

An algorithm for happiness 
with Mo Gawdat

Mo Gawdat, Chief Business Officer at Google [X], having applied his superior skills of logic and problem solving to the issue of happiness, he proposed an algorithm based on an understanding of how the brain takes in and processes joy and sadness. He essentially ‘solved’ for happy. 

• Watch on YouTube

• MUVE update 4/11/2019 VWBPE Immersive sessions continue. Funding sources for education

• update 9/26/2019 VWMOOC19 videos available OpenSim grid stats, VWMOOC2019 continues.

2019 #VWEDU: #DTA: Learn to be a self-starter. Self-managed learning, libraries, learning communities.

Self-managed learning, libraries, 
learning communities.   
Learn to be a self-starter

With the growing demand for adult education, adults are increasingly taking charge of their own education.  The internet can supply all the instructional content needed, and more.  Internet libraries can provide guidance in planning for self-managed learning. Most internet sources, however, are impersonal, one-way deliverers of content.  To bring social interaction into self-managed learning, the internet needs software that supports group meetings, such as Skype or virtual worlds.

Self-managed learning is a natural for self-starters

• Self-starter: a person who shows initiative in undertaking a project.
• A person who is sufficiently motivated or ambitious to start a new career or business 
• or to pursue further education without the help of others.
• You decide what you want to learn.
• You decide how you want to learn it.
• You set your own schedule and work at your own pace.
• You don't get to grade yourself so you need another way to show your abilities.
• Education builds skills. Skills are assets. Assets are marketable if you can show them. Your portfolio shows your skills
• Can you learn to be a self-starter?
• Only if you start practicing.  
• Learning for life. Learning for living
• Digital Learning with Simon Nelson. Social, collaborative, self-managed learning
• An online university prepare Texans for 21st century careers: WGU Texas
• How to Develop an Online Course For Self-Directed Learning
• A model for the future: Independent Learning Centre (ILC) 
• A Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) in a MUVE (virtual world): What would it do?
• The Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) for MUVES (virtual worlds): Summary

2019 TKR: EDU: Why We Pursue Happiness But Overlook Joy with Ingrid Fetell Lee

Why We Pursue Happiness 
But Overlook Joy 
with Ingrid Fetell Lee

Based on insights from psychology and neuroscience, renowned designer Ingrid Fetell Lee shows us how to find joy hiding in the everyday things around us.

• Watch on YouTube

• Update 9/12/2019 Nonprofit Commons 12th Bday Friday

2019 TKR: How to Take a Risk and Succeed with Jonah Sachs

How to Take a Risk and Succeed 
with Jonah Sachs

Safe thinking is everywhere. It defines our everyday routines, work habits and ideas. There's just one problem with it: in a world of constant change, it ultimately lets us down

• Watch on YouTube

Creativity guru and viral video pioneer Jonah Sachs argues that the most remarkable individuals, are those who dramatically reject what they know. Sachs reveals how you too can learn to adopt the boldly innovative mindset that will help you thrive in life and in business.

• Quick Quotes about risk
• Risk Intelligence: How to live with uncertainty

• #VWEDU: update 8/1/2019 Encore Escape reenacts Woodstock for 50 year anniversary. CVL opens in Kitely

2019 EDU: TKR: Learning something? Use your head. Learning Skills

Learning something?  
Use your head.   
Learning Skills. 

You can learn how to learn.  Sure.  Learning is a skill.  Not something they usually teach in school.  Not an obvious skill, like being able to read.  Actually, learning calls for a collection of skills and habits.  And it calls for smart choices about the best way to use those skills and habits.

• Learning how to learn | Barbara Oakley | TEDxOaklandUniversity
• Use your head! They always tell you that. They never tell you how

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• How easy is it for you to learn new things?
• Do other people seem to learn new things more easily than you?
• Do other people use learning skills that you are not using?
• Below is a list of skills that people commonly use.
• See if you are using all the skills you could use.

• #VWEDU update 7/18/2019 Firestorm splits into OpenSim and SL versions. LEA closes

2019 WRITE: TKR: Learn to use the force of words

 Learn to use the force of words 

Language that conveys facts is informative.  Language that conveys feelings is effective.

• Watch on YouTube

• #VWEDU update 6/6/2019 Newcomer Notes Freebies

2019 #VWEDU: MALET Virtual Showcase: The Space Project: STEM work with legos and coding in elementary school. By: Stacie Stewart

MALET Virtual Showcase: The Space Project:  
STEM work with legos and coding in elementary school:   
By: Stacie Stewart  

The Space Project was created to develop a cross curricular unit in a NYC public school that would integrate computer science and STEM with core subject areas.  This project was created and tested with a 3rd grade class and several gifted 2nd grade students.

• Watch on YouTube
• #VWEDU Malet Students Virtual Showcase---poster session or presentation for the new century

• STEM 
• We recently started using the Amplify Science curriculum.
• One of the units was themed around the Earth, moon and space.  
• "Starting with science, I looked for ways to expand the topic across other subjects."
• Project Website

• #VWEDU update 6/1/2019 #VWEDU PLC Calendar, Freebies

2019 #VWEDU: TKR: Problems are interesting puzzles. If you are ready. Otherwise they are stoppers

Problems are interesting puzzles 
if you are ready.  
Otherwise they are stoppers 

People like to solve puzzles.  They buy things that present puzzles.  They spend a lot of effort solving puzzles.  They develop skills at solving puzzles.  Then there is education.  Much like a batch of puzzles.  But many people see education as a batch of problems.  

• Watch on YouTube

Do schools teach problem-solving?

• Sure, they present the students with the problem of getting a passing grade.
• But do schools offer a course in solving problems?
• Problem-solving (Wikipedia) 
• Problem-solving skills (Google search)
• Problem solving: the mark of an independent employee

• #VWEDU update 5/30/2019 #VWEDU PLC Calendar, Freebies