2018 EDU: WW: Quests and quizzes support in 3DWebWorldz--the three e's: exercise, engagement, evaluation

Quests and quizzes support in 3DWebWorldz
--the three e's: exercise, engagement, evaluation 

Every quest calls for learning.  What is learned may be trivial--skills required to succeed in the quest.  But a quest can be designed so that the skills are from instructional objectives.  Then it is an instructional quest.  Wondering how to use that idea?  Then your quest is to answer that question.

• Watch on YouTube

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• Every game is a quest.
• Every quest is a game.
• People learn game skills by playing a game.
• The game skills can be educational objectives: instructional quest
• The Quest for Learning: How to Maximize Student Engagement (Strategies to Engage Students in the Classroom Using Guided Inquiry)
• Quest Design for Instructional Third-person 3D Virtual Worlds: Blending Two-different Conceptual Systems

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• 3DWebWorldz offers support for designing games to fit educational objectives.
• And are available in a browser, so as available as a video on YouTube.  
• The video above shows a short template to illustrate how a quest works.  
• The fit to educational objectives comes from the choice of questions.
• Quests and quizzes, two major elements of instruction, are added features of 3DWebWorldz
• Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds running in a browser. Summary
• 3DWebWorldz seeks support via Patreon

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• MUVE (virtual world) update 12/13/2018

2018 WRITE: Writing: Create a collaborative blog to market your writing

Create a collaborative blog 
to market your writing

Suggestions on how to use a collaborative blog to market fiction.  Use it as an online writer's colony.  Cooperate on promoting you fiction and building an audience for the blog.  Suggestions for starting a blog, finding collaborators, creating content, promotion, monetizing, and meeting on the web.  #web-world  #socialmedia  #virtualworld  #MUVE  

• Collaborative blog: Multiple authors publishing on the same theme.
• Online writer's colony: Writers collaborating online.

Starting

• Blogging in virtual worlds. How to... Summary
• The whys and hows of blogging
• Blogging for beginners, the virtual world advantage
• Blog to tell, publicize, or promote. Summary

Contents

• How can I find other writers online?
• Why collaborative?
• Suggestions for content
• Promotion
• Can we make money on the blog?
• Will Selby create a collaborative writer's blog?
• Meeting on the web

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• MUVE (virtual world) weekly update 12/10/2018

2018 EDU: WRITE: Interactive writing: Guide your readers

Interactive writing:   
Guide your readers  

Write Interactively?  Don't you need a web page for interaction?  No.   All effective writing is interaction.  Fiction gets a reader to imagine the scene. Informative writing gets a reader to want the information before it is given. Instruction gets a reader to figure out part of an answer before the writing delivers it. Stimulate curiosity.  That is one of the standard writing devices to get readers to finish what they begin.

• It is not about what you think.  It is about what the reader thinks.
• And about what you want the reader to think.  
• You know your target audience.  
• Don't just talk to them.  Listen to them.  
• But they aren't around when you are writing?
• Then you talk for them.  Take the role of the reader.  
• "Sure I talk to myself.  I like to talk to someone who understands me."
• The people in your head. Be everyone you can be 
• “SKAM,” the Radical Teen Drama That Unfolds One Post at a Time

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• MUVE (virtual world) weekly update 12/9/2018

2018 PEOPLE: Facebook offers much the same things as G+. For those willing to use it.

Facebook offers much 
the same services as G+.  
For those willing to use it.


Report on Facebook as social media support to replace G+ for users of  OpenSim.

Key buttons on FB home page

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What it offers to MUVErs

• Huge audience can access your post.
• You can join or form groups.
• Repost buttons on articles make easy reposting.
• You can use reposting to save articles you may want to share or use. 

Drawbacks

• Most of that huge audience is probably not in your target market.
• With so many posts it is hard to get your post noticed, 
• Educators and other professionals may not want to be seen in that neighborhood.
• You may get booted if you use a fake name, especially if it looks fake.

Possible services

• Host for reposting: Excellent
• Outreach: Fair to good, depending on the use of groups
• Event promotion:  Poor to fair, depending on the use of groups.
• Ingroup communication:  Poor

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• MUVE (virtual world) weekly update 12/9/2018

2018 HEAD: WRITE: How language shapes the way we think

How language shapes the way we think

There are about 7,000 languages spoken around the world -- and they all have different sounds, vocabularies and structures. But do they shape the way we think?

• Watch on Ted 

• MUVE (virtual world) weekly update 12/6/2018

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2018 PEOPLE: ART: From The Ashes Of AvatarFest, Opensim Fest Rises

From The Ashes Of AvatarFest, 
Opensim Fest Rises

 AvatarFest has been a creative effort which has celebrated the people of Open Sim for years, and AvatarFest 2018 was it's final year. In the spirit of this incredible yearly festival, OpenSim Fest begins with our first festival starting in March 2019.

• Watch on YouTube
• Opensim Fest, March 1-3, 2019 

What can YOU do to be a part of OpenSim Fest 2019?

You can come by and visit us at Expo region 5/Booth number 26 at this years OpenSimulator Community Conference (OSCC 2018) if you would like to ask us any questions or sign up as an contributor to Opensim Fest.

Or contact 

• Leighton Marjoram, Bill Blight and Cataplexia Numbers 
• Opensim Fest Organisers
• https://opensimfest.org 

• MUVE (virtual world) weekly update 12/6/2018

2018 COMEDY: VID: November: Lauren's place, Tuesday at 5:00 PM Pacific

November: Lauren's place, 
Tuesday at 5:00 PM Pacific

November collection of comedy from Lauren's place: High Tech, WyNott,  Catboy, Randy, Synnove, Selby 

• Watch on YouTube
• Thinkerer roast, 89th birthday: how to live to be an antique

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• Lauren's place:
• At Lauren's Place Tuesdays 5 pm Calif. time
• Place:  http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cookie/122/242/23
• A one-hour comedy show in voice.
• Come a little early and tell the MC that you want to do comedy.
• If you can do a good 3-5 min. set with good close we may make a video.
• Our Comedy Channel
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGw_HANVLFY&list=PLmXCeJpxLXokSPNK_UVR1rS9qHSfJJsNM
• JOKE BANK - POPULAR JOKES
• Joke search

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• Web Report: Variety: Virtually famous comedy acts:  Catboy, Synnove, Braydon, WyNott
• Selby's comedy channel

• MUVE (virtual world) weekly update 11/29/2018

2018 PEOPLE: PROMO: Visit Littlefield Grid's Christmas Island!! Open Now!!

Visit Littlefield Grid's Christmas Island!! Open Now!!

Promotional video from Littlefield grid, and good promotional features on the landing page.

• Watch on YouTube

Go there 

• HG address:
• hg: lfgrid.com:8002:Christmas Island
• Put the HG address in the Find bar of the world map, click Find,  TP  
• On the web: Littlefield grid

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• Promotion from Virtual Worlds. Summary
• MUVE (virtual world) weekly update 11/29/2018

2018 WRT: MUVE: VIDEO: "The last werewolf in Blanken" A writer's workshop in 3D

"The last werewolf in Blanken"  A writer's workshop in 3D

A video about a workshop for writers being developed in 3D MUVEs of OpenSimulator.  People with access to the hypergrid can visit the MUVE.  Anyone with access to the internet can visit another version being developed as a web page running in a browser.

• Watch on YouTube

Video captured at Nara's Nook 

• Go there via the Hypergrid:  :
• world.narasnook.com:8900:Dark Manor
• Nara's Nook grid:
• http://www.narasnook.com/
• A similar MUVE is under development for access in a browser.
• That development is a little behind the MUVE at Nara's Nook
• You can visit the browser version: 3DWebWorldz 
• look on the menu under "writers", go to Writers Swamp.
• The region name, Dark Manor, is not connected with The Dark Manor Haunted House. 

Introductory and overview articles

• The developing writer's workshop in 3DWebWorldz: Video conversations
• The writing communities of the virtual worlds. What do they offer to writers?

Credits: video and story

• MUVE file (OpenSim OAR): Linda Kellie
• Imported, adapted and hosted:  Nara Nook
• Story:  Selby Evans, Talia Sunsong, Nathan Adored
• Video performers: Talia Sunsong, Selby Evans, Nathan Adored
• Note: the child avatar is operated by an adult.
• Video capture, editing, and publication:  Selby Evans
• Video captured at Nara's Nook, Dark Manor MUVE (sim)

• MUVE (virtual world) weekly update 11/29/2018

2018 EDU: The Dickens Project: Seanchai Library

The Dickens Project: Seanchai Library

Seanchai Library brings you The Dickens Project 2018. MUVE, Social 3D

The Dickens project

Second Life – The Dickens Project celebrates its sixth year in Second Life with a return to Linden Endowment for the Arts Region 7, where the annual celebration of Charles Dickens' seminal work first was realized in full region form a year ago. Offering four weeks of exploration, storytelling, music, dance, a new "Urchins in Dickens London" experience, this Second Life holiday tradition will be open to residents November 30th, through December 30th.

Go there:

• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA7/114/200/24
• December 23, 2018 NOON (Pacific time) the BIG READ

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The Dickens Project is produced by Seanchai Library (Shawn-a-kee, which means "Storyteller" in Irish), which was founded in March of 2008 in Second Life. Thousands of stories, and hundreds of authors later, the program remains dedicated to promoting the power of stories to transform and inspire through live voice presentations: "We bring stories of all kinds to life, in Second Life."

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