2020 BIZ: #VWEDU: Conferences, conventions, trade shows. Big meetings of any kind. You can do them online. No travel, no risk, no hanky-panky.

Conferences, conventions, trade shows. 

Big meetings of any kind.  

You can do them online. 

No travel, no hotel, no risk, no hanky-panky. 

Consideration of how big meetings can be held online.

C

OSCC 2019 WELCOME 

• Watch on YouTube 
• Trade show: could that be done online? A digital place could duplicate the look and feel of a trade show

What generally happens in these events? 

• Big auditorium presentations 
• Small localized displays, exhibit booths, poster presentations
• Small meetings or workshops with selected persons conferring or working together: Breakout rooms 
• Opportunities to interact with the media
• Networking 
• Hanky-panky

Where?

• Kitely is an installed virtual world that is specifically supporting this market.
• Hosting Large Events in Kitely
• Virtual Trade Shows   Virtual Exhibition, Tradeshow or Career Fair.
• Virtual Trade Shows: Pros and Cons
• Virtual trade shows 2020 (search)

• Update 2/4/2021 Land up, actives down in January Sundance goes all-in on virtual this year VWBPE2021 RECONNAISSANCE Call for Proposals Changes in this blog

2021 #VEWDU: More professional benefits from our online PLC. That's a professional learning community. It has knowledge and resources. It needs organization

More professional benefits from our online PLC.   

That's a professional learning community.  

It has knowledge and resources.  

It needs organization.

• Watch on YouTube
• How to Build an Online Learning Community: 6 Theses

The educators of the virtual worlds have a PLC

• You may wonder about that statement.  
• That's because it is not organized yet.  
• There are localized learning communities communicating through shared members.
• Many of us see potential benefits in an organization that unites the communities. 
• Era of the entrepreneurial educator. The unbundling of education opens the gate for entrepreneurs.

What does a PLC do?

• Short answer: Fosters communication.
• Supports networking and collaboration.
• Supports exchange of knowledge and connection of inquiry to relevant knowledge.
• An online PLC offers a bigger network and more potential collaborators.
• And online is the place to be for handling knowledge.
• But online has to handle asynchronous communication,

2020 #VWEDU: #DTA Era of the entrepreneurial educator. The unbundling of education opens the gate for entrepreneurs.

Era of the entrepreneurial educator.  

The unbundling of education 

opens the gate for entrepreneurs.  

Updated 9/12/2021

Virtual worlds in a browser, online campus, Empire State College (SUNY) , digital museums and art galleries, career training, instructional field trips, presentations, training for online work, job market, digital skills

The Empty Classroom

• Unbundling of education
• The unbundling of education. The free market gets a growing share of education. Parents get more control.
• Notes for the entrepreneurial educator.
• If teaching can be done online, do we need those big $$ school buildings?
• Do we need those $$ school bus systems? 
• We could use neighborhood learning pods.
• And put that money into educational services.
• Learning pods will need online educational services.
• Collection Highlight: Grant Resources. Video presentation in a virtual world

Contents below

• Virtual worlds in a browser
• Online campus, Empire State College (SUNY)
• Digital museums and art galleries
• Career training
• Instructional field trips
• Presentations
• Conferences
• Project-based learning
• Language learning
• Interpersonal skills
• Digital teaching assistant (DIA)
• Professional learning community (educators)
• Training for online work, job market, digital skills
• Onboarding

2020 #VWEDU: The coming of the virtual campus: Online schools need an online campus. "Stanford University Students Flock to a Virtual Campus"

The coming of the virtual campus: 
Online schools need an online campus. 
"Stanford University Students Flock to a Virtual Campus" 

A pandemic moves schools to think about an online campus.  Actually, some were thinking that way before the pandemic.   

Universal campus (Kitely)

• Stanford University Students Flock to a Virtual Campus
• A new digital platform allows students to explore campus and connect in Zoom rooms during the school’s Covid-19 shutdown
• Watch on YouTube
• Club Cardinal

• Virtual campus (Wikipedia)
• Virtual campus (search)
• Virtual Campus (the company)

Advantages of the online campus

• Serve students over a wider area.
• Support adult learners who already hold jobs.
• Increase enrollments without increasing facilities.
• Draw on adjunct faculty from a much wider area.
• Share resources among schools.
• Bring in potential students on field trips
• Use the educational resources of the web.

• Virtual Worlds Teaching Manual. OpenSIm Fest exhibits and merchant areas stay open thru Sept. Virtual Reload grids closing OpenSIm Fest exhibits and merchant areas stay open thru Sept

2020 #VWEDU: Museums on your lap. Going places in your laptop. An online presence extends the reach of a museum and gives new meaning to the idea of a field trip.

Museums on your lap.  
Going places in your laptop.  
An online presence extends the reach of a museum 
and changes the idea of a field trip. 
Updated 9/1/2020

Museums provide a lot of educational material.  In the old days, most of that was only available locally or after expensive travel.  A museum on the web changes the game.

Visiting a museum 

in SineSpace

SineSpace

• SineSpace home
• Natural History Museum location

Museum resources on the web

• The Virtual Peale Museum on your laptop. Disabilities are left behind when you travel on your laptop
• 100+ Museum & Art Gallery Websites For Design Inspiration
• Best Museum Websites: Top 10 Examples - Weblium Blog
• 12 World-Class Museums You Can Visit Online
• Gallery or Museum websites
• 19 Steps: Planning for Extended Covid-19 Close Down
• Museums on the web (search)
• (The above search will be updated when you use it.)  

2020 #VWEDU: #DTA: LANG: Virtual worlds for learning language. Immersive learning does not have to be expensive. Summary

Virtual worlds for learning language.  
Immersive learning does not have to be expensive.
Summary

A collection of articles about language learning in virtual worlds.  These worlds cost little and are accessible around the world.  They can offer a massive opportunity For low-cost learning of a second (or more) language.    

Welcome to practice in 

English as a Foreign Language

Immersive language learning

• Scholarly articles for immersive language learning
• Language immersion (Wikipedia)
• Digital worlds cost little. Can they be immersive?

After the break

• Language games
• Digital Teaching Assistant
• Situated learning
• Web-worlds
• International meetings
• Therapy
• Places teaching a language in Kitely

• VWBPE Immersive events continue Want To Teach ESL Online? A Dimension Beyond Offers Free online Meeting Rooms.

2020 WW: 3DWebWorldz: A 3d place in your browser. As easy as going to a web page because it is a web page. Live music, writers, videos, meetings, comedy.

3DWebWorldz:  A 3d place in your browser. 
As easy as going to a web page 
because it is a web page.  
Live music, writers, videos, meetings, comedy,?? 
Updated 8/16/2020

Starting instructions for visiting 3DWebWorldz.  No need to register, enter as a guest.  Explore all you want. You only need to register if you want the system to remember you.  

Beginner buttons for 3DWW

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• 3DWebWorldz.com QUICKSTART
• You can enter 3DWebWorldz as a guest.
• Starting in 3DWW: Simplified screen controls for new people, especially guests
• Euroversity asks: Christel Schneider answers: Why do you use virtual worlds in education?

Key terms

• Search here: 3DWebWorldz.com QUICKSTART
• Begin, cursor, escape key
• View: cameras
• Interact, red circle
• Move, arrow key, mouse
• Communicate: local chat, Voice
• Main controls: bottom bar
• Social media and info: side bar
• Search on page: Ctrl f, type in the search bar near top of page

2020 #VWEDU: BIZ: #DTA: SceneGate OpenSim viewer with beginner and extended modes. Summary

SceneGate OpenSim viewer 
with beginner and extended modes.   
Summary.
Updated 6/10/2020

A collection of articles about SceneGate, a viewer designed for use in OpenSimulator grids.  SceneGate has a number of features designed to help specific groups of users, such as beginners, students, people with disabilities and attendees at meetings.  This article will be updated with new articles when they are posted.

Scenegate full screen
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• For beginners
• For experienced users
• For the educator bundle 
• For marketing OpenSim
• Future plans
• Background

Use SceneGate

• Download SceneGate
• SceneGate Wiki 
• IMA SceneGate Viewer Release 1.0.0 for Linux and Windows

2020 #DTA: #VWEDU: WRITE: Would you use a virtual world to teach creative writing? Imaginary worlds are another kind of virtual worlds.

Would you use a virtual world to teach creative writing? 
Imaginary worlds are another kind of virtual worlds.

Suggestions about how to use virtual world resources to teach creative writing: Writing in the scene, working together apart, scenes as prompts. role-play, cold reads.

• Indeed, all virtual worlds were initially imagined.
• One reason we like virtual worlds is that we can create the worlds we imagine.
• And we can share that imagined world with others.
• Articles in this blog about writing

How would a DTA use virtual worlds to teach creative writing?

• DTA=Digital Teaching Assistant
• Manage brainstorming sessions:
• DTA can guide ideation sessions. Group ideation: "Brainstorming"
• Maintain an organized collection of prompts and scenes.
• Present scenes and writing prompts as directed by the teacher
• Provide entry fields with writing prompts for "write on site" exercises.
• Collect exercise products and deliver them to the teacher with grammar checked.
• File exercise products in word processor form.
• Manage cold reads by the writing group.
• Manage group role-play
• Provide promotion prompts at the teacher's direction.
• DTA can guide ideation sessions. Group ideation: "Brainstorming"

• update 1/9/2020 Brand New Grid: Rêves Fantastiques GridList becomes social! Great Canadian Grid seeks funds to reopen Kitely Market Passes $100,000 in Sales.

2019 #VWEDU: #DTA: Target markets for OpenSimulator: Students, instructors, organizations, presentations, collaborative meetings

Target markets for OpenSimulator:  
Students, instructors, organizations, 
presentations, collaborative meetings 

Consideration of potential markets for OpenSimulator and what Opensim needs to penetrate them.

Virtual classroom

Potential market

• Organizations:  Schools, companies
• Students: Online, on campus, on virtual campus
• Instructors: On campus or at home
• Presentations: Small discussion groups with interest focus.
• Collaboration: Online work groups

What we need

• Simplified onboarding: Specialized learning limited to user needs.
• Scenegate
• Improved security
• Distance from games and porn
• Resources to make scene creation easy
• Object scripting to differentiate a 3D place from a picture (even a 3D one)

• Update 12/5/2019: OpenSimulator Community Conference Dec 14, 15 2019; IMA releases simplified Scenegate viewer

2020 #DTA: #VWEDU: The Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) for MUVES (virtual worlds): Summary with JIT learning design

The Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) 
for MUVES (virtual worlds): Summary
Updated 4/7/2021

A collection of articles about the concept of a Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) in virtual worlds.  The articles describe possible services the DTA could provide and draft content the DTA could offer to help students begin learning in virtual worlds.  This article is explicitly licensed Public Domain (CC0).

DTA1 (left)

• MUVE, the Future of e-Learning: Building a Virtual Learning World (From IEEE)
• Entrepreneurial thinking and design thinking for the virtual world Digital Teaching Assistant
• Teaching assistant
• Seven major educational affordances from virtual worlds and how they can work together
• NEED A TEACHING ASSISTANT? ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO THE RESCUE!
• A professor built an AI teaching assistant for his courses — and it could shape the future of education
• The Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) for MUVES (virtual worlds): Summary
• Parts are done:  
• A Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) in a MUVE (virtual world): What would it do?
• Parts are in progress:
• Magnolia gardens of knowledge . A demonstration of introductory training on the parts (of anything)

JIT Learning design

• JIT = Just In Time
• Search this page: Ctrl f opens search bar near the top. 
• Design for JIT help: Search on page supports for learning from a computer

2019 #VWEDU Online education, sure. But why a virtual campus? Why in a virtual world (MUVE)?

Online education, sure.  
But why a virtual campus?  
Why in a virtual world (MUVE)?
Updated 10/19/2019

A campus is much more than a collection of classes.  Any physical campus offers a number added services. Here I consider which of those services should be carried to the virtual campus as we move from virtual classrooms to complete educational institutions in the digital world. This article is explicitly licensed licensed Public Domain (CC0).

Universal campus (Kitely)

• MUVE (virtual world)
• Ok archtecture.  Beginning architects can design and build in a virtual world.
• And landscaping.  Make a model of the finished product.  
• Rapid prototyping for an entertainment park, Mike Mchugh 
• Architecture: Virtual Library of Birmingham
• A Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) in MUVE (virtual world): What would it do?
• A digital teaching assistant (DTA) in a virtual world. Can it be done?
• Digicoach can support homework in virtual worlds with JIT learning, immediate feedback
• The Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) for MUVES (virtual worlds): Summary

What does a campus offer beyond classrooms?

• Commons area for students to study together or socialize
• School library (and librarians to help people find what the need)
• Conference rooms where students can work together on projects.
• Laboratories (where students often work together).
• Sponsored educational events
• Sponsored cultural events
• Sponsored competitive events
• Sponsored intellectual events
• Dormitories for students living on campus
• In loco parentis
• A virtual campus should offer some of these things.
• Details after the break 
• This article will be updated as other articles are published.

2020 #VWEDU: #DTA A Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) in a MUVE (virtual world): What would it do?

A Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) 
in MUVE (virtual world): 
What would it do?
Updated 11/1/2020

A draft prospectus for the development of a Digital Teaching Assistant as part of a virtual world intended for teaching.   The draft gives a preliminary job description, notes some parts that are currently available, and suggests some parts that could merit development efforts now.   This article is explicitly licensed Public Domain (CC0).

The Empty Classroom

What would a DTA do in a virtual world?

• The Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) for MUVES (virtual worlds): Summary
• job description, teaching assistant (search) 
• Direct service to teacher: Suggest links and events of interest. 
• Manage record-keeping: attendance, execution and performance levels of activities.
• Provide instruction and coaching in use of the virtual world.
• Coach students on learning skills that fit individual styles.
• Coach students and teams of students on projects.
• Help students find reliable content resources for the subject.
• Some of this is already available; other parts would need development.
• A digital teaching assistant (DTA) in a virtual world. Can it be done?
• Digital coaching is needed for the DTA: Do we have the technology for that?
• Just-In-Time (JIT) learning in virtual schools, maybe with DTA coaching. Language as an example
• Digicoach can support homework in virtual worlds with JIT learning, immediate feedback
• The digital teacher assistant and FERPA: there are security issues

Related

• Demonstration oil rig: Conversation with an imaginary TA (Teaching Assistant)  

2019 WRITE: WW: Writer's workshops in the virtual worlds (MUVEs). Some as near as your browser. Summary

Writer's workshops 
in the virtual worlds (MUVEs). 
Some as near as your browser.  Summary 
Updated 7/2/2019

You can meet writers in your home office (or wherever you use your computer).  You can go to places that invite you to tell a story.  You can join with a group of writers from all over the world.  You can write a short story that gets published in a blog (if you want).

Writer's Circle, Waterstage

• Writers workshops in virtual worlds on your browser
• Writers workshops on installed virtual worlds
• Virtual worlds put writers in a scene.   
• A scene can offer many prompts for a story.
• If the workshop has an associated blog, that can publish stories.
• Why would a workshop not have an associated blog?
• Web Writers Workshop, the writers group that meets in your browser
• The developing writer's workshop in 3DWebWorldz: Video conversations
• Writing on the grid. The writing community of the Hypergrid
• The writing communities of the virtual worlds. What do they offer to writers?

Goals for a web-based workshop

• Usable 24/7
• Access from anywhere.
• Usable to serve a group or one person alone
• Provide a shared scene for a group
• Allow for shared characters.
• Provide a shared scene and shared characters.
• Provide prompts for character and plot development

About writing

• The power of myths: How Stories Shape What We Believe
• Joseph Campbell's hero journey. The journey of life

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

2018 Promo: PEOPLE: Social media for the virtual worlds (RiP G+). Summary

Social media for the 
virtual worlds (RIP G+). 
Summary
Updated 2/18/2019

Summary of articles  on social media for the virtual worlds. This article will be updated when new information is available. 

• G+ shutting down in 90 days. And another data leak.

Uses for social media

• Ingroup communication
• Event promotion
• Outreach: professional
• Outreach: general
• Outreach: playful
• Outreach--repost target

Dimensions of evaluation

• Useful persistence: ephemeral, persistent,  archival
• Ephemeral means you can't expect to find it after a week 
• Useful persistence means that you can find items after a month.
• Persistence is not useful without good search support.
• Archival means you can find it years later. (Blogs are usually arcival.)  
• Reputation: playful, professional
• Reach, target density
• 14 Key Points to Keep in Mind Before Migrating Your Online Community

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• MUVE (virtual worlds) update 12/20/2018

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2018 ART: PEOPLE: Art and art communities of the virtual worlds

Art and art communities of the virtual worlds
Updated 10/30/2018

An updated summary of arts in the virtual worlds 

Mike McHugh: video art

• Watch on YouTube

• Art done in virtual worlds, Summary
• Art videos from the virtual world
• Art articles in this blog
• Performing arts in virtual worlds
• Art in virtual worlds is often in motion and usually in 3D. It takes a video to present it on the flat screen
• 'Art of the Artists' by Fuschia Nightfire
• Multimondrians

WW: Cybalounge: FAQ with search on page (in Chrome)

FAQ:  Cybalounge: 
FAQ with search on page


Updated 5/18/2018

Frequently asked questions about Cybalounge.  This is an active page that is updated when new questions are asked and answered

WWDev meeting
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• This page will be expanded as more questions are asked and answered.
• Cybalounge.
• Cybalounge is ready for virtual worlders to use: Tutorials and suggestions
• What guests can do in Cybalounge and how. Tutorial

2019 WW: What guests can do in Cybalounge and how. Tutorial

Cybalounge 
What guests can do
and how.  Tutorial

Updated 4/27/2019

Instructions for people who come into Cybalounge as guests. They can look around in all public worlds, read signs and posters, talk to people, chat in text, and click on scripted objects to watch videos or open web pages.  New visitors will need these instructions 

Cybalounge controls that
everyone can use

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• Guests in web-worlds are people who visit without registering.
• They can come in on impulse.  No user-name and password.  
• Just to explore.  See if they like it.  See how it does on their machine.  
• What can we offer them to get them started and keep their interest?
• How to start building in Cybalounge, a roadmap for beginners 
• Cybalounge is ready for virtual worlders to use: Tutorials and suggestions
• Search on Page: Crtl+f opens search bar (up). 

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2020 WW: Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds running in a browser. Summary

Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds 
running in a browser: Summary
Updated 7/27/2020

Two browser-based 3D virtual worlds are now in public beta.  Both are ready for initial use.  CybaLOUNGE  has an educational project in the initial production stage.  3DWebWorldz is presently seeking museum content as part of its preparation for educational services. 

View in 3DWebWorldz

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• Yes, we can put 3D virtual worlds into a browser.
• You have an avatar that represents you. You talk with the other people there.
• You walk around. You look around.
• You can notice that the 3D world shows you a lot more than a web page.
• Because you can see things at a distance and walk up to see them better.
• You do this with just your browser.  The same way you read your email.
• No software to install.   Move with your arrow keys, talk with the press of a button.
• Use a low-cost computer, Chromebook, or even a modern tablet.
• Web-worlds are easy to get to. Here are a couple of examples.
• The Metaverse Coming to a Web Page Near you!
• Web-worlds as gateway to OpenSimulator
• Onbording plan from web-worlds to installed virtual worlds
• Bringing OpenSim and web-worlds together: Web-world on the landing page
• Milestone: Oars transferred from OpenSim to 3DWebWorldz
• Importing OAR files from OpenSim to Web Worlds: Convoar
• Social 3D and all that other stuff (VR, Virtual Worlds, etc)
• Use social 3D on the web: what you need to know
• Bring yourself into a web-world: Get an avatar that looks like you
• INP- tour of a web-based interface to virtual worlds
• Facebook group replaces G+: 3D web-worlds of the browser
• VWMOOC19: Web-worlds for education. Cybalounge, 3DWebWorldz
• Search on Page: Crtl+f opens search bar (up). 
• BTW: Marcus Milne and Threedium: a progress update on another web-world

3DWebWorldz

• A 3d place in your browser. As easy as going to a web page because it is a web page. Live music, writers, videos, meetings, comedy.
• 3DWebWorldz 
• 3DWebWorldz News & Support
• You can visit either of these as a guest, without registering.

Cybalounge

• A plan for a field trip to CybaLOUNGE. Getting in is too easy. It would also be quick if I didn't talk so much.
• Cybalounge wiki 
• Metaverse Software (the company)
• 3DWW is social VW. How to start
• CybaLOUNGE login 
• How to put 3D on your website