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.

• Watch on YouTube
• 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?   

• Watch on YouTube

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.

2021 #VWEDU: VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS: IS ONE LIFE ENOUGH? Project-based learning in a digital world: Red team. Not just learning about the topic. Digital and presentation skills.

VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS: IS ONE LIFE ENOUGH?  

Project-based learning in a digital world: Red team.  

Not just learning about the topic. 

Digital and presentation skills.

Reports from a project-based learning team in a virtual world.   Watch project-based learning in action.  

• Watch on YouTube

IOLE Red Team December 2020 HD 1080p

• This is a video of a student presentation from the TU Dublin School of Creative Arts
• An elective module 'Virtual Environments: Is one life enough?'
• The students worked in teams on this project.
• The Brief
• Student blogs

Notes

• Patagonia, Inc. (Wikipedia)
• Patagonia, Inc.
• Adobe Inc

• Update 1/28/2021 Land up, actives down in January. Sundance goes all-in on virtual this year. VWBPE2021 RECONNAISSANCE Call for Proposals.

2021 #VWEDU: VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS: IS ONE LIFE ENOUGH? Project-based learning in a digital world: Green team. Not just learning about the topic. Digital and presentation skills.

VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS: IS ONE LIFE ENOUGH?  

Project-based learning in a digital world: Green team.  

Not just learning about the topic. 

Digital and presentation skills.

Reports from a project-based learning team in a virtual world.   Watch project-based learning in action.  

• Watch on YouTube

IOLE Green Team December 2020 HD 1080p

• This is a video of a student presentation from the TU Dublin School of Creative Arts
• An elective module 'Virtual Environments: Is one life enough?'
• The students worked in teams on this project.
• The Brief
• Student blogs

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