2022 #VWEDU Disabilities count a lot less in the metaverse. We go anywhere with no transportation. A wheelchair fits nicely behind a keyboard.

Disabilities count a lot less in the metaverse. 

We go anywhere with no transportation.

A wheelchair fits nicely behind a keyboard.

The metaverse is easily a place for work-from-home.  For people with limited mobility, the metaverse offers a potential workplace that solves the transportation problem.

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• Virtual Ability Tour, Gentle Heron et al. video
• TU Dublin, a university in Ireland, offers a Virtual Learning Environment. 
• The students explore the world through the learning environment created by Second Life, a province of the metaverse. 
• They create reports of what they have found. 
• Virtual Ability

Virtual Ability Tour, G Heron et al. MACHINIMA

• Gentle Heron 0:39
• Suellen Heartsong 12:42
• James Heartsong 15:08
• iSkye Silverweb 25:35 Lorivonne Lustre (LV)
• Lorivonne Lustre (LV) 29:45
• Thanks! 33:11
• Close (Riverdance) 33:56
• Presented 17-Nov-2021
• Sojourner Auditorium, Virtual Ability Island

2021 #VWEDU: Tomorrow's office in regards to the IT industry IOLE. Tomorrow's presentations, too. Preserved for student portfolios.

Tomorrow's office in regards to the IT industry IOLE.  

Tomorrow's presentations, too.  

Preserved for student portfolios.

Students report on tomorrow's office for the IT industry, preserved on video.  Would experience in videography be important to tomorrow's IT industry?   

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Tomorrow's portfolio for job applications

• Tomorrow's office. Project-based learning online. Teamwork in a virtual world. Practicing the office of tomorrow.
• Virtual Environments: Is One Life Enough? Digital Citizenship.

2020 #VWEDU: Career exploration: Educational unbundling by the internet

Career exploration: 

Educational unbundling by the internet: 

Nepris

The internet greatly expands the scope of career exploration for schools and colleges. Some of that expansion is available now.  The potential for the future is much greater.

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• Nepris, Inc.: Virtual Connections to Real World Learning
• Join scheduled virtual chats with professionals
• Request a guest speaker for your classroom
• Browse and view authentic industry videos
• Help your students research and compare careers
• 85,000 educators.
• Career exploration

• Update 10/15/2020 Frequently Asked Questions on Virtual Currency Transactions OpenSimulator Community Conference 2020 Call for Proposals. BURN2 2020: The Multiverse Oct 9-18.

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The old way

• Career exploration textbooks (search)
• Career exploration field trips (search)
• Books were all that schools could afford in those days.
• Some could manage field trips to local employers.

The future way

• Nepris + virtual worlds
• Virtual Laboratory Training and Career Center: Virus model
• Fall safety (1) : Signature Safety: Training and teaching in digital worlds
• Heavy industry: Big equipment: Operator errors can be costly and dangerous. Simulation offers safe learning. And for teams, too.

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2020 #VWEDU: Career exploration and career training. In virtual worlds, they can use the same facility. No risk, no travel. All on a laptop.

Career exploration and career training.  

In virtual worlds, they can use the same facility.  

No risk, no travel. All on a laptop.

The entrepreneurial educator: Virtual field trips for career exploration.  Virtual training for careers with safety needs or with unforgiving circumstances.  

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Why virtual?

• No travel cost
• No travel time
• No travel planning
• As safe as home
• World wide access.  
• Facilities maintenance costs a few dollars.
• The training facility is as near as the internet.
• The training is as safe as the home.
• The training facility can be duplicated for a dollar or so
• Don't wonder about it--go there and see for yourself.
• Second Life.
• Kitely. 

The old way

• Career training (search) 
• Career exploration field trips (search)

• Update 10/1/2020 Freda's Place: Events for October. BURN2 2020: The Multiverse Oct 9-18. Virtual Worlds Teaching Manual

2020 #VWEDU: Fall safety (1) : Signature Safety: Training and teaching in digital worlds

Fall safety (1): 

Signature Safety: 

Training in digital worlds

A video interview with people in a safety consulting firm showing the advantages offered by scene simulations in a virtual world, such as Kitely.  Simulated environments offer high potential for students to learn about careers and to begin learning the skills that they will need to enter that career.       

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Signature Safety is a full-service environmental, health and safety (EHS) consulting firm with offices located in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Our clients span the spectrum of industries, from warehousing and distribution facilities to construction managers; from manufacturing to maintenance contractors; from municipal governments to construction subcontractors.

• Web page
• Kitely page
• Trenching and excavation safety
• Hypergrid address:
• grid.kitely.com:8002:Signature Safety LLC

A digital facility like this could also be used for teaching

• Heavy industry: Big equipment: Operator errors can be costly and dangerous. 
• Case study in support of a course on process plant safety. Video made safely and at low cost in a user-built virtual world 
• OSHA Certificate and Degree Programs By Degree Level
• College programs in heavy industry (search)

Related

• Training in digital worlds: Signature Safety: in the trenches
• Virtual Laboratory Training and Career Center: BioHazard
• Heavy industry: Big equipment: Operator errors can be costly and dangerous. 
• Case study in support of a course on process plant safety. Video made safely and at low cost in a user-built virtual world 
• Simulation offers safe learning. And for teams, too
• Virtual Laboratory Training and Career Center: Training, SARS testing
• Virtual Laboratory Training and Career Center: Virus model
• Demonstration oil rig: Conversation with an imaginary TA (Teaching Assistant)