2022 Educator professional development in the metaverse. The Metaverse As a Tool for Teaching. VWMOOC22.

Educator professional development in the metaverse.  

The Metaverse As a Tool for Teaching.  

VWMOOC22.

The metaverse for education

• Watch on YouTube
• The Metaverse As a Tool for Teaching
• María Concepción Pomar Rosselló discusses The metaverse as a tool for teaching: 
• An analysis of Second Life, Minecraft, and Animal Crossing. 
• Educator professional development--Dr. Nellie Deutsch
• 10.9K subscribers
• Education articles in this blog

• VWMOOC22 is fpr educators, schools, and public and private businesses that wish to provide training in virtual worlds. 
• The theme of the current MOOC is “Connecting in Virtual Worlds. Communities of Practice” 
• Many communities in virtual worlds promote education and learning 
• through connecting online via web technologies such as Second Life. 
• The MOOC will focus on connecting online for collaborative learning and teaching around the world through virtual worlds like Second Life, Digiworldz, Kitely, Minecraft, or OpenSim. 
• The live presentations will include the speakers’ reflective process on teaching and learning in fully online and blended learning formats. 
• Weekly badges and a final certificate of completion will be available for free.

2922 Fearless Nation in the old metaverse. PTSD support, one of the many support services offered in the old metaverse. Second Life.

Fearless Nation in the old metaverse.  

PTSD support, 

one of the many support services offered in the old metaverse.  

World-wide, 24/7, always there.  Disabilities?  The metaverse?  Both!

• Watch on YouTube
• Care Made in Second Life - Fearless Nation
• Fearless Nation PTSD Support is an RL 501c3 Nonprofit Organization for people with PTSD, their families, partners, children, and communities. 
• They provide education, support, and advocacy. 
• Since 2009 they've had a virtual online community that spans distance, with a small carbon footprint bringing people together for peer support, education, and advocacy for people with PTSD. 
• Video Production by Draxtor Despres
• Second Life

2022 Metaverse as stage. Immersion Island Dome Theater 2022. Kaluoka'hina - The Enchanted Reef

Stories in the metaverse.  

Immersion Island Dome Theater 2022.   

Kaluoka'hina - The Enchanted Reef

All the metaverse is a stage.

• Watch on YouTube
• Immersion Island Dome Theater 2022 
• Kaluoka'hina - The Enchanted Reef
• Softmachine

2022 The old metaverse: Kitely 14th birthday party. Yeah, that's a surprise to those who think the metaverse is just starting. But not to us who hold parties there.

The old metaverse: Kitely 14th birthday party.  

Yeah, that's a surprise to those who think the metaverse is just starting. 

But not to us who hold parties there.

Parties in the metaverse?  Maybe not in those new parts that are just getting started.  People may not know each other.  But we know each other in Kitely and Second Life

• Watch on YouTube
• Kitely 14th birthday party
• Kitely is a commercial grid using OpenSimulator and the hypergrid
• Articles in this blog about Kitely

Related

• The metaverse and OpenSimulator. It's a mini-metaverse. Your own metaverse. On your own machine.
• Finding people in OpenSimulator, a decentralized and interconnected part of the metaverse. Perhaps a hint of the future metaverse.
• Metaverse meet hypergrid. Hypergrid is a mini-metaverse for interconnection. It connects the independent grids of OpenSim
• Metaverse Educators: you are not alone. A lot of us are here already. And here is how to find us.
• Can we have a metaverse connected and decentralized? Yes. The hypergrid is a working proof of concept. Web-worlds could be next.
• What OpenSimulator/hypergrid needs to qualify as the beginning metaverse. It already has most of the needed features: A meeting in the metaverse.
• The OpenSimlator metaverse is developing. Yes. opensource and decentralized. Not as much hype but you are in control.
• Metaverse land: Get your own on your own computer. Free. Easy to install. Outworldz – DreamGrid

2022 What do we do in the metaverse? We join groups, we make friends, we visit places, we make videos. Here is a video showing a few things we do.

What do we do in the metaverse?   

We join groups, we make friends, we visit places,  we make videos.  

Here is a video showing a few things we do.

Some things we do in the old metaverse --the part that ha been around for years

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• THINGS TO DO IN SECOND LIFE 2021 - 
• SQUID GAME, DRIVERS OF SL, BLAKE SEA SAILING, HOLLYWOOD AIRPORT
• A video showing some of the most active and fun places in Second Life 2021! 
• All of the links to the places mentioned are below, 
• Just copy/paste them into your Second Life chat to teleport!

• Blake Sea (Rez Area):
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife...
• Hollywood Airport:
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife...
• Drivers of SL:
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife...
• Squid Game:
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife...
• Castillo Gaming Hub (My Land):
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife...

2022 The metaverse of art. Light shows and the particle system. Takes familiarity with the GPU and the particle system

The metaverse of art.  

Light shows and the particle system.  

Takes familiarity with the GPU 

and the particle system

The metaverse is a programmed environment.  To use it effectively you need to know the programming tools.

• Watch on YouTube
• OSfestival 2022 Parcel047 Featuring Poetry reading and Light show

• Light art
• Uses the computer's GPU.
• What Is a GPU?
• Mainly uses the particle system.
• Particle system

2022 Metaverse art. Art Made in Second Life. World-wide reach. Open 24/7. No mobility limitations.

Metaverse art.  

Art Made in Second Life.   

World-wide reach.  Open 24/7.  

No mobility limitations.

The metaverse as your art studio.   

• Watch on YouTube
• Art Made in Second Life - JudiLynn India
• Art done in virtual worlds, Summary

2022 Metaverse for languages: Chatterdale Mystery: A simulated place where everyone speaks the target language. And a mystery to solve.

Metaverse for languages:  

Chatterdale Mystery: 

 A simulated place where everyone speaks the target language.  

And a mystery to solve.

A virtual world is a natural for learning a new language.  Everything about the place can be in the target language

• Watch on YouTube
• Chatterdale Mystery (Virtual language village in OpenSim)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD8Prip1Vpk

• Chatterdale Mystery is a quest in Chatterdale, the first virtual language village on OpenSim.
• The village is built by 3DLES.
• 3DLES online office.

2022 #VWEDU: Metaverse practice in the place they are studying. Ecology, natural history, geology: these happen in places, not books. Here is a virtual field trip.

Metaverse practice in the place they are studying.  

Ecology, natural history, geology: these happen in places, not books. 

Here is a virtual field trip.  

Metaverse places can be programmed to teach. Any important object can tell about itself, ask questions about itself, and report student interactions.  

• Watch on YouTube

Go there

• https://3dww.a2zsg.com/3dlogin/world/?world=163
• Platform:  3DWebWorldz
• Information
• Teachers Pay Teachers: 

Virtual field trip

• Free trip.
• No travel time.
• No trip arrangements.
• Asynchronous: no time coordination. 
• All time is learning time.
• Students proceed at their own pace.
• See student's face on camera as needed.
• Digital environment is interactive and informative.
• Can be used for content presentation, practice, or formative assessment.
• Can be used by individuals or teams.
• Practice session can be monitored.
• Performance can be monitored, evaluated, and rewarded.

The programmed environment

• The programmed environment of the metaverse. Imagine programming an environment for language leaning. Or for a game.
• What can the metaverse add to online learning? Education in the metaverse The programmed environment.
• The metaverse is a programmed environment. Do the metaverse experts know what that means? You can't build it unless you can program it.

2022 Music in the metaverse. Multi-stage design for a series of performances. OSFest 2022. Networking. Instant messaging (IM)

Music in the metaverse. 

Multi-stage design for a series of performances.   

OSFest 2022.  Networking.  

Instant messaging (IM)

Musical performances in the metaverse bring people together.

• Watch on YouTube
• OSfestival 2022 Stage Area.

The main dance area

• The main dance area is a square with stages on each area.  
• The design uses 4 simulators 
• A simulator here is software running on a server.
• Each simulator creates a square piece of land.
• The dance floor is formed by putting the server squares together.
• The 4 corners come together at the center of the dance floor.
• Each stage is on a separate server.   
• Each server can handle about 80 avatars, 
• so the stage can handle about 320 avatars.
• The audience will usually gather in front of the active stage.  
• But  they don't have to.
• The audience can hear from anywhere on the stage.
• All 4 quadrants of the dance area get the same stream.
• When a new performance starts on a different stage,
• People will hear it from where they are.  
• So they can walk over to the active stage when they feel like it.
• Just walk, no teleport.  
• If you ask your audience to TP elsewhere, you will lose some of them.

2022 Kitely sites in the metaverse. Opensim Fest. Mike McHugh shows a walk through the display of Veritas.McMaster

Kitely sites in the metaverse. 

Opensim Fest.  

Mike McHugh shows a walk through 

the display of Veritas.McMaster

OpenSimulator is a collection of independent, privately owned, interconnected and collaborating worlds that may be a model for the future metaverse.

• Watch on YouTube
• OSfestival 2022 Parcel 135 Veritas.McMasterOSF 
• Chlorine Parcel 135
• Local location:320, 768, 22
• OSFest 2022

Free gifts on parcel 135

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2022 Art in the metaverse. Luna Lunaria. Statuary. Architecture. Installation art.

Art in the metaverse.   Luna Lunaria.  

Statuary.  Architecture.  

Installation art.

Digital art.  New medium for art.  Potential audience in the metaverse is huge.  

• Watch on YouTube
• OSfestival 2022 Parcel 138 Luna Lunaria

• Lunaria Emporium (Part 1): Decor, tapestries, building components, holidays
• Lunaria Emporium, classical, magic, castles, cemetery (Part 2)
• OpenSim Fest: Merchants: Art gallery, space craft, sailing equipment, fashion
• Metaverse fest: OpenSim Fest 2022 #OSFest2022: People, events, exhibits, art, merchandise. You don't have to wait for the metaverse-- it is here.
• Art in this blog
• Installation art
• Installation art in this blog
• Architecture in this blog

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Easy access sources in the metaverse

• Reddit/Second Life
• Fridays 3 pm eastern (New York) 
• At the Web Show, a video set in the metaverse 
• Go there with this url: https://nonprofitvirtualworld.org/loc... 
• A developer meeting is held there every other week: 
• To find out which week, follow CybaLOUNGE on Twitter: 
• https://twitter.com/cybaLOUNGE
• 3DWebWorldz: Meetings alternate with the Web Show
• Welcome Center.  https://3dwebworldz.com/
• I am usually available weekdays at 1 pm New York time 
• In these 2 places:
• Welcome Center.  https://3dwebworldz.com/
• https://nonprofitvirtualworld.org/location.html?locationid=800000002&dl=true

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License

• Original text in this blog is CC By: unless specified public domain.
• Use as you please with attribution: link to the original.
• All images without attribution in this blog are CC0: public domain.
• Second Life, Linden, SLurl, and SL are trademarks of Linden Research Inc.
• Screenshots from ShareX
• This blog is not affiliated with anything.   Ads are from Google

2022 Adult learning, motivation, and the metaverse. Story-living and story-learning in the metaverse. Training in the 21st century.

 

Adult learning, motivation, and the metaverse.  

Story-living and story-learning in the metaverse.

Training in the 21st century.  

Employee training can be modernized.  It can come online where most employees are. It can be interactive and engaging and thus, more effective.

• Watch on YouTube
• OSfestival 2022 Parcel051 Kimm Starr
• Virtual Vignette
• Metaverse: A shift from "storytelling"​ to "story-living"​
• Virtual home game
• MURDER MYSTERY QUEST: A TRAINING ADVENTURE IN 3D
• This immersive experience trains teams in Change Management skills 
• By engaging them with a story-driven mystery.
• What is Training in the 21st Century?
• With blends of learning methodologies, we create engaging, effective real-time and self-paced programs
• Contact T21C by email: 
• Carla@Traininginthe21stCentury.com
• or bhgross@yahoo.com

Go there

• OpenSimulator Fest grid
• Hypergrid address:
• grid.opensimfest.com:8022:HG-Welcome
• Paste the HG address in the find bar of the world map, click Find, TP
• In the OSFest grid, go to: Hydrogen

 

The main hall in Hydrogen

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2022 Prehistoric metaverse. Yes, the metaverse is good for time travel. And for teaching if you know what to do with it.

Prehistoric metaverse.  

Yes, the metaverse is good for time travel.  

And for teaching if you know what to do with it.

You can build any scene in the metaverse.  You can build scenes that teach.

• Watch on YouTube
• OSfestival 2022 Parcel 153 Kayaker Magic
• On Kitely market
• On Second Life marketplace

Could you use a prehistoric scene in teaching?

• There might be errors.
• Don't try to catch the errors.
• Let the students do that.
• Use inquiry based learning
• Form the students into teams.
• Task: Report on what the scene got right and what it got wrong,
• Task: Report on what the scene did well and what it could have done better.
• Send them to reliable sources,

2022 Gregorian Chants in the metaverse? Does the metaverse go back to the 9th century? It goes wherever a creator wants it to go. OpenSim Fest is an example

Gregorian Chants in the metaverse?  

Does the metaverse go back to the 9th century?  

It goes wherever a creator wants it to go.  

OpenSim Fest is an example.

OpenSim Fest:  Art in the metaverse.  Gathered live for 3 weeks.  Links to stores other grids. Part of the metaverse is interconnected

• Watch on YouTube
• OSfestival 2022 Parcel081 Giri Duranjaya
• Gregorian Chants
• Channel by michael mchugh

2022 #VWEDU The metaverse for education. What does the metaverse need to support education? What does education need to do to use the metaverse?

The metaverse for education.  

What does the metaverse need to support education? 

What does education need to do to use the metaverse?

Education costs could make more efficient use of teacher time by teaching in the metaverse.  That means lower costs and more effective learning.  Are we ready?

• Watch on YouTube
• What features does the metaverse need to get good student engagement?

Student activity in the scene.

• Answer questions.
• Inquiry-based learning
• Digicoach can support collaborative homework and study sessions
• Digicoach can support homework in virtual worlds with JIT learning, immediate feedback
• Treasure hunt
• Why a reading assignment is like a treasure hunt. And why it is not.
• Play a relevant game
• Games in virtual worlds. Summary
• Work with other students on a project.
• Engage in roleplay/

Conclusions

• Current platforms provide all the tech needed.
• Existing content can probably provide most needed scenes.
• But teachers would not be able to find it: need a marketplace
• Second Life Marketplace https://marketplace.secondlife.com/

2022 We are building the metaverse. See how in this video. It is not your metaverse if you can't build there.

We are building the metaverse.  

See how in this video   

It is not your metaverse if you can't build there.

They are not going to build the metaverse to suit you.  You have to do that, because only you can really know what you want.  

• Watch on YouTube
• Building in Second Life
• Leisurely building and showing build techniques in Second Life.
• More videos about building in the metaverse:
• Second life building
• You don't have to build it yourself.  Look on the marketplace. 
• Second Life Market place 
• You still need to know how to build to place and modify what you buy.

2922 ART: Art in the Metaverse: Tour of Moyaland in Second Life. Installation art in the metaverse

Art in the Metaverse:  

Tour of Moyaland in Second Life.  

Installation art in the metaverse

Some provinces in the metaverse let you build on land you rent and make that easy by providing tools fitted to the local tech.  

• Watch on YouTube
• Installation Art

• Tour Moya land with the famous artist Patrick Moya
• Moya has been at the forefront since the 1970s of straddling the latest forms of media and technology to benefit art. 
• He is an early pioneer of video art.
• Moya become a digital artist since his early work on computer in the mid-80s : 
• now, since 2007, he is the owner of a virtual Moya Land in the 3D web of Second Life.

• After the break: Installation art in the metaverse

2022 The metaverse is a programmed environment. Do the metaverse experts know what that means? You can't build it unless you can program it.

The metaverse is a programmed environment.  

Do the metaverse experts know what that means?  

You can't build it unless you can program it.

Objects in the metaverse do nothing unless they are programmed to do it.  Do the new people buying metaverse land know where they will get the programs to run their places?

• Watch on YouTube
• LSL (Linden Scripting Language): A (Very Basic) Intro
• Other video tutorials on LSL

Programming the metaverse

• Object-oriented: programs tell objects to do things
• Event-driven: objects do their thing in response to some event, such as a click
• Linden scripting language: used to program objects in Second Life and OpenSimulator 

What do you do with scripts?

Communication 

• Signs: Give more information: open a web page, give a note.
• Invite sign: Give option to join a group
• Mailbox: Take a note to deliver  to someone: deliver inworld or by email

Teaching (telling)

• Object: Give information about itself: open a web page, give a note, speak its name.
• Object: Animate to show function.

Formative assessment

• Object: ask a question, give a token on correct answer

Ambience

• Add expected sights and sounds to a scene.
• E.G.: a garden needs flying butterflies and birds singing.

Objects

• Do as expected: Doors open and close on click.

Previous articles

• Scripting resources in virtual worlds, LSL and OSSL. summary
• Thinkerer Utility Kit has utility scripts and objects for starting in HG
• Scripting. Meet LSL, object oriented, event driven and other concepts
• LSL scripts and scripting. Beginner's Summary
• Script Modding 101: Use scripts without knowing how. 2012
• Free LSL Script Library and Bug Tracking System. HG project, BeatThis
• Scripting Showcase Trail, Acryline Erin
• OpenSim scripting resources: OpenSim Scripters (G+), Showcase trail
• LSL Scripting in Second Life, states, video
• Particle effects. Smoke, fire, flies, snow, butterflies
• How to expand your Kitely virtual world. Megaworlds and teleport. Walk in TP works for avatars. Object TP for vehicles
• Scripts color for you.
• New plans for WIP meeting, to show stuff with OSSL threat functions
• Particle effects with Firestorm Particle Editor. AMP video notes

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Easy access sources in the metaverse

• Reddit/Second Life
• Fridays 3 pm eastern (New York) 
• At the Web Show, a video set in the metaverse 
• Go there with this url: https://nonprofitvirtualworld.org/loc... 
• A developer meeting is held there every other week: 
• To find out which week, follow CybaLOUNGE on Twitter: 
• https://twitter.com/cybaLOUNGE
• 3DWebWorldz: Meetings alternate with the Web Show
• Welcome Center.  https://3dwebworldz.com/
• I am usually available weekdays at 1 pm New York time 
• In these 2 places:
• Welcome Center.  https://3dwebworldz.com/
• https://nonprofitvirtualworld.org/location.html?locationid=800000002&dl=true

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License

• Original text in this blog is CC By: unless specified public domain.
• Use as you please with attribution: link to the original.
• All images without attribution in this blog are CC0: public domain.
• Second Life, Linden, SLurl, and SL are trademarks of Linden Research Inc.
• Screenshots from ShareX
• This blog is not affiliated with anything.   Ads are from Google

2022 Metaverse entertainment: Psychedelic Saturday at Billy Bob's Underground. The magic of particle effects.

Metaverse entertainment:  

Psychedelic Saturday at Billy Bob's Underground.  

The magic of particle effects.

The metaverse has great potential for visual art.  Here are some examples.

• Watch on YouTube
• Psychedelic Saturday at Billy Bob's Underground

• Particle effects are supported by the graphics card
• ART: Particle effects with Firestorm Particle Editor. AMP video notes