2019 #VWEDU: #DTA VWBPE 2020 STELLAR – Sponsorship Opportunities in Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education

VWBPE 2020 STELLAR – 
Sponsorship Opportunities in 
Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education

Sponsorship opportunities in the Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education (VWBPE) Conference.

VWBPE 2016 entrance

• VWBPE 2020 STELLAR – Sponsorship Opportunities
• Sponsors keep the conference free and get their message heard.
• Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education (VWBPE) Conference 
• Celebrates 13 years of focus on education in immersive virtual environments. 
• This year, the focus is beyond simple instruction.
• Towards creative experience and critical reflection
• Four levels of sponsorship. 

What can you do with education in 3D places

• Issue-oriented organizations can distribute 3D content about their issues
• Students can make videos presenting their own projects.
• Schools can have a world-wide campus.
• Virtual places can provide educational content around the world and 24/7
• Students around the world can meet and talk with each other.  
• Students learning a second language can meet with counterworld counterparts
• Schools can provide a Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) as a mentor.

2019 VID: PROMO: Construction tool. Dynamite Terrain Tool. Terraforming can be fun--and safe

Construction tool.   
Dynamite Terrain Tool.  
Terraforming can be fun--and safe  

A mesh prim that looks like a stick of dynamite. When you click on the prim or chat “boom” it explodes with particles and sound. Then it digs a hole in your terrain. Finally, it “falls” down into the bottom of the hole it just made. The safest way to play with explosives you are likely to find.

• Watch on YouTube

The hole is a shallow circular dent in the terrain with an optional crater lip. Explode the dynamite several times to dig a deeper hole. Or line up several and shout to get them all to go at once. This is how explosive professionals dig ditches! Or use it to put that crowning crater in your volcano.

• On Kitely market: Dynamite Terrain Tool  

This scripted object works on OpenSim 0.9 or 0.8, but it REQIRES Owner permissions, Estate Manager and Threat Level HIGH. Test for these with the Terrain Test Prim which you can buy here  or come to my world Fractalis and pick up a free copy of the Terrain Test Prim on the platform.

In chat type radius=nn to set the radius of the hole to any integer number. Type lip=off to disable the crater lip. You have to re-enable with lip=on before every explosion if you want the lip to grow higher than 1 meter. Type help at any time to get a list of commands and to find out the current radius and crater lip state.

• update 11/7/2019 Linden Lab Lays Off 30 Staff. VWBPE 2020 STELLAR – Sponsorship Opportunities

#VWEDU #DTA Inquiry-based learning: "Here's what you have to know." changes to "Here's how to find out things."

Inquiry-based learning: 
"Here's what you have to know."  changes to 
"Here's how to find out things."

Inquiry-based learning sets students to the task of collecting and organizing the content they are supposed to learn in the class.  They don't just learn that content, they practice the skills of collecting information.  And, about themselves, they learn what they can do.   This article is explicitly licensed Public Domain (CC0).

The Empty Classroom

Students off researching

• Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA)
• With inquiry-based learning students don't just learn to remember the content.
• They practice skills that they can use for future learning.
• The gamification of learning how to learn. Learn what you can do
• Learning how to learn | Barbara Oakley | TEDxOaklandUniversity

Inquiry-based learning

• Scholarly articles for inquiry-based learning
• Inquiry-based learning (wikipedia) 
• Inquiry-based learning (search) 
• Learning how to learn (search)
• Student-thinking versus breadwinner-thinking versus entrepreneurial thinking: coming of age in school
•  Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) as facilitator 

• update 11/7/2019 Linden Lab Lays Off 30 Staff. VWBPE 2020 STELLAR – Sponsorship Opportunities

2019 #DTA: #VWEDU DTA can guide ideation sessions. Group ideation: "Brainstorming"

DTA can guide ideation sessions.
Group ideation:  "Brainstorming"

Suggestions for how a  Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) could support group brainstorming.  The DTA could not match a live moderator,  But it could do many of the things a human moderator would do with someone telling it when to do these things.

ACRL Virtual World interest group

• Ideation (Wikipedia)
• What is Ideation – and How to Prepare for Ideation Sessions
• How To Run An Effective Ideation Workshop: A Step-By-Step Guide
• A virtual place for real brainstorming
• Novel environment is easy in a virtual world. 
• Make a resource rich place related to the brainstorming goal/
• Rules slogans -- can be animated by brainstormers. 
• Shared whiteboards (yes, plural.  Ideas live in categories)
• Direct access to web resources--click for web page
• Moderator (teacher) on call (and sometimes monitoring)
• Brainstorm (search)
• Brainstorming (Wikipedia)
• Ideation guides

• update 11/7/2019 Linden Lab Lays Off 30 Staff. VWBPE 2020 STELLAR – Sponsorship Opportunities

2019 #VWEDU: #DTA: Can virtual worlds support large lecture classes? The past is not the future

Can virtual worlds support 
large lecture classes?
The past is not the future 

Consideration of the need for large lecture classes in virtual worlds.  They are only needed for specialized advanced classes.  Even there they could reach a larger audience at lower cost with a live stream.

A lecture without the internet

Instruction methods for a large audience

• Scholarly articles for Lecture-based learning
• Lecture-based learning (search)
• Lecture (Wikipedia)
• Text-based learning (search)
• Scholarly articles for Text-based learning
• Video-based learning (search)
• Scholarly articles for video-based learning
• Live streaming (Wikipedia)
• A Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) 

• update 11/7/2019 Linden Lab Lays Off 30 Staff. VWBPE 2020 STELLAR – Sponsorship Opportunities

2019 #VWEDU: WW: #DTA: Presentations: In 3D places you can do more than show slides and talk about them. You can use 3D places as slides. Your audience can go there to practice

In 3D places you can do more than 
show slides and talk about them.   
You can use 3D places instead of slides.  
Your audience can go there to practice

Demonstration of how to adapt a presentation to 3D places.  And of how a 
Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) can help.   This article is explicitly licensed Public Domain (CC0).

How to move panel

Go there

• 3DWebWorldz 

Learn to move

• Click on the screen
• Move your mouse around, get the red circle leading to where you want to go.
• Press the up-pointing keyboard arrow and see what happens.
• Press your left pointing and see what happens.

Learning objectives, entry panel

• Be able:
• to move your avatar to where you want to go.
• to toggle between 3d environment and flat screen controls with cursor.

• Update 10/31/2019: New OpenSim release (0.9.1) IDRAC Conference Is Nov. 1 & 2. OpenSim conference seeks presenters. Free Ghost Story Radio Stream (Seanchai Library )

2019 COMEDY: Oct 2019: Lauren's place, Tuesdays at 5:00 PM Pacific NSFW

Oct 2019: Lauren's place,   
Tuesdays at 5:00 PM Pacific NSFW

October collection of comedy from Lauren's place:  WyNott,  Catboy, HiTech, Amouretta, Randy, Jamie, Synnove

• Watch on YouTube

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

• Update 10/31/2019: New OpenSim release (0.9.1) IDRAC Conference Is Nov. 1 & 2. OpenSim conference seeks presenters. Free Ghost Story Radio Stream (Seanchai Library )

2019 #VWEDU: #DTA Language learning in virtual worlds. What the Digital Teaching Assistant could do

Language learning in virtual worlds.  
What the Digital Teaching Assistant could do

The best place to learn a language is where everybody speaks it.  There even the little kids speak it.  A Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) can help.    This article is explicitly licensed Public Domain (CC0).

 You need to know the names
in the target language

• Language learning draws on two of the major affordances of virtual worlds:
• Situated learning and social learning.
• A place in a virtual world can be built specifically for learning a language.
• And it can hold people and objects speaking that language.
• It can be set up for immersive language learning.
• With objects that show and speak their names their names in the language.
• And with games that demand use of that language.
• Virtual world language learning - Wikipedia
• Language acquisition in Second Life: Improving self- efficacy beliefs

• Update 10/31/2019: New OpenSim release (0.9.1) IDRAC Conference Is Nov. 1 & 2. OpenSim conference seeks presenters. Free Ghost Story Radio Stream (Seanchai Library )

2019 #DTA: #VWEDU: Possible uses of formative assessment items: JIT evaluation, immediate feedback, detailed analysis

Possible uses of formative assessment items:  
JIT evaluation, immediate feedback, detailed analysis

The strong point of  Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) is attention to detail.  When it is helping with homework, it can ask questions and evaluate numbered or clicked answers.  When it evaluates, it can give immediate feedback, record answers, and provide reports useful to teachers and students.   This article is explicitly licensed Public Domain (CC0).

The Empty Classroom

Students doing homework?

• We hope they are doing homework
• We can't see them.  We can't encourage them.  We can't help them.
• Unless they are online at the homework site.
• If the homework site is online, we know when they are there.
• We know how much time they spend.
• We can ask them questions and find out if the assignment is working.
• We can ask them questions and let them see how effective their study practice is.
• We can ask them questions and see who is having problems and what the problems are.

Formative assessment

• Formative assessment (Wikipedia)
• Formative assessment (search)
• Formative assessment aps
• Diagnostic rather than evaluative
• Guiding rather than grading
• Telling the teacher about the effectiveness of instructional materials
• Telling the student about the effectiveness of study practices
• Telling the teacher about students needing help 

• Update 10/31/2019: New OpenSim release (0.9.1) IDRAC Conference Is Nov. 1 & 2. OpenSim conference seeks presenters. Free Ghost Story Radio Stream (Seanchai Library )

2018 TKR: The Power of Elastic Thinking with Leonard Mlodinow

The Power of Elastic Thinking
with Leonard Mlodinow

How do our brains generate new ideas?  How can we nurture that process?  Bestselling author Leonard Mlodinow reveals the secrets of flexible thinking. 

• Watch on YouTube

• Use your head! They always tell you that. They never tell you how
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• Like RSA Events on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rsaeventsoff...
• Listen to RSA podcasts: https://soundcloud.com/the_rsa
• See RSA Events behind the scenes: https://instagram.com/rsa_events/

• Update 10/31/2019: New OpenSim release (0.9.1) IDRAC Conference Is Nov. 1 & 2. OpenSim conference seeks presenters. Free Ghost Story Radio Stream (Seanchai Library )