2020 #VWEDU: OSCC19 DESIGN CHALLENGES IN YOUTH-SAFE VR ENVIRONMENTS Virtual Private Grids

OSCC19 DESIGN CHALLENGES 
IN YOUTH-SAFE VR ENVIRONMENTS

Eileen O'Connor discusses the challenges and resources met in offering virtual world education to students in the K-12 range.

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• The input form mentioned in the talk
• Mentioned: OSCC19 EUREKA WORLD AN ECOSYSTEM FOR LEARNING. School campuses in virtual worlds: teachers, students, mentors, developers.
• The Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) for MUVES (virtual worlds): Summary
• Pre-developed VR environments for youth, in K-12 schools and in other youth-oriented organizations
• Adaptable environments to ease development while leaving flexibility.
• In OpenSim, complete regions can be saved as OAR files, sent in email, and loaded onto a different grid.
• Kitely’s Organizations (Virtual Private Grids)
• Youth-safe interface and a practical registration system
• Can you put a high school next to a porno place? Not even in a virtual world. But there are solutions
• Gathering educational support in OpenSimulator. Scenegate, RezMela™, Kitely Organizations, DTA
• MALET, Empire State College (SUNY)

• Update 5/5/2020 Kitely Market Passes $250,000 in Sales. Multi-college diversity in Kitely. OpenSim grids show growth during pandemic

2020 #VWEDU: Institute for New Paradigms. (INP) - An Overview of VR for Educators. What can you do in VR? What can't you do in VR.

Institute for New Paradigms. (INP)   
An Overview of VR for Educators
What can you do in VR? 
What can't you do in VR?

A video of some things educators can do in Virtual Reality (VR).  And an indirect hint that something students can do is make videos reporting on the results of their educational activities. 

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VR:  Virtual reality

• Virtual reality is not new and it is not expensive. The new and expensive: stereoscopic (VR) headsets. They may be good for first person games. What will they do for user-built virtual worlds?
• Kitely
• A consultative think-tank for a new kind of learning:
• interactive, engaging, immersive
• What can you do in VR?
• What can't you do in VR?

• Update 5/5/2020 Kitely Market Passes $250,000 in Sales. Multi-college diversity in Kitely. OpenSim grids show growth during pandemic

2020 #VWEDU: Web-worlds are easy to get to. Here are a couple of examples.

Web-worlds are easy to get to.  
Here are a couple of examples.

Two demonstrations of how easy it is to get to virtual worlds on the web (web-worlds).  

An easy visit to CybaLOUNGE 

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• A short video on how to start in CybaLOUNGE, a web-world that runs in a browser.  
• The video starts in a flat web page of my blog 
• https://virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com/
• and travels to the 3D world of  CybaLOUNGE on this url:
• https://nonprofitvirtualworld.org/location.html?locationid=800000002&dl=true
• The only actions needed on this trip are choosing an avatar and entering a nickname.
• Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds running in a browser. Summary
• After the break: Visit 3DWebWorldz

• Update 5/5/2020 Kitely Market Passes $250,000 in Sales. Multi-college diversity in Kitely. OpenSim grids show growth during pandemic

2020 DTA: Draft plan for teaching elements of digital citizenship: How to become a digital guard. Game elements for digital self-defense. Sure you can improve it.

Draft plan for teaching elements of digital citizenship:  
How to become a digital guard.  
Game elements for digital self-defense.
Sure you can improve it.

A draft plan for teaching elements of digital citizenship with the aid of a digital teaching assistant (DTA) and methods from gamification.  This article is explicitly licensed Public Domain (CC0).

The new martial arts

Plan for teaching elements of digital citizenship

• To be managed by a Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA)
• Badge model of gamification.

Objectives

Digital Safety Badge (DSB)

• Apprentice: Recognise and report scams and phishing.  
• Journeyman: Help others to recognise and report scams and phishing. 
• Master: Mentor others as they work on the DSB.

Digital Guard Badge (DGB)

• Apprentice: Recognize and report instances of cyberbullying
• Journeyman: Help others to deal with  instances of cyber-bullying.
• Master: Mentor others as they work on the DSB.

2020 #DTA: #VWEDU: OpenSim Traveller badge: Knowledge base. What you need to know to be a world traveller in SceneGate. Travelling the Hypergrid.

World Traveller Badge: Knowledge Base (KB).  
What you need to know 
to be a world traveller in SceneGate.
Travelling the Hypergrid.

A collection of information you need to travel the Hypergrid easily and to teach others how to travel the Hypergrid.  Specifies the knowledge expected of one who holds a DTA World Traveller Badge.

Places panel

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A DTA badge page

• This page has the information we think people need to travel the Hypergrid with SceneGate.
• It will be updated as needed

What is the Hypergrid?

• A grid of grids.  A lot of OpenSim grids connected so you can travel from one to another.
• Like a national highway system connects cities.  But much faster.
• You just teleport.  May take nearly a minute.  
• Key terms: region. hypergrid address, suitcase, places panel 

• Update 5/5/2020 Kitely Market Passes $250,000 in Sales. Multi-college diversity in Kitely. OpenSim grids show growth during pandemic

2020 #VWEDU: How could we staff a digital campus? The MGE method can get an existing faculty comfortable in a digital world

How could we staff a digital campus? 
The MGE method can get an existing faculty comfortable in a digital world
The Mind Gathering Experience© (MGE) method
A project by J. L. Mittag

How do you train your faculty to teach in a virtual world?  Here is an option.

A demonstrational campus
Mind Gathering Experiences

A school campus is made of people

• Online web pages cannot replace people.
• A dean  considers the idea of a digital campus online.
• "It's not like another campus across town. Where would I get faculty?" she says to herself.
• We interrupt this story to introduce another character, MGE so the dean (we'll call her Lorna Dean) won't have to talk to herself.   
• [More after the break.]

Mindgathering Experiences (MGE)

• MGE can offer virtual world onboarding services to teachers and leadership of membership organisations
• For more information, contact mindgatherers@gmail   
• Education in MUVEs (virtual worlds)
• Educational Technology (Wikipedia)

• Update 4/30/2020 Multi-college diversity in Kitely. OpenSim grids show growth during pandemic Kitely upgrades for better scalability

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 Library: Music:. Marly Milena Music Library at the Community Virtual Library: Grand Opening Tour: Collaboration in the digital worlds

Marly Milena Music Library at the Community Virtual Library: 
Grand Opening Tour: 
Collaboration in the digital worlds

The next killer app is people working together across distance, national boundaries, cultural divides, and quarantines.  Here we present an example of that collaboration and a product.  Digital places are places where people can work together and bypass those things that keep them apart.

Valibrarian introduces the tour

• Marly Milena Music Library
• This library is a collaboration between the Community Virtual Library and Octagon: Creative Exploration.
• Mission: Find, connect, and support composers and performers in Second Life and to catalog, display, and document/preserve their original music in varying formats.

Goals

• 1. Find and connect composers in SL & display/catalog their music.
• 2. Encourage performers who give concerts in SL to submit concert recordings for display and sharing at the library.
• 3. Display and share scores for SL pianists, etc. that might be interested in playing the pieces.
• 4. Display and share books about music, famous composers, singers, etc. for people interested.
• 5. Host periodic garden performances (stream in chamber music and have animated figures playing or have singers, dancers, etc.)

• Update 4/30/2020 Multi-college diversity in Kitely. OpenSim grids show growth during pandemic Kitely upgrades for better scalability

2020 COMEDY: March-April . 2020: Lauren's place, Tuesdays at 5:00 PM Pacific NSFW

2020 COMEDY:  March-April  2020: Lauren's place,   
Tuesdays at 5:00 PM Pacific NSFW

March-April collection of comedy from Lauren's place:   WyNott,  Catboy, HiTech, Amouretta, Randy, Jamie, Synnove, Selby

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• 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 4/30/2020 Multi-college diversity in Kitely. OpenSim grids show growth during pandemic Kitely upgrades for better scalability

2020 VW: IMA: SceneGate for OpenSimulator: the Market button, grid money notice and button, and find friends online

SceneGate for OpenSimulator:
the market button, 
grid money notice and button 
and find friends online

SceneGate will adjust its services to fit OpenSimulator, cleaning up some viewer features left over from services on a previous grid.  Since SceneGate must adjust for multiple grids, the adjustment is complicated. 

A viewer can do better than that

• From comments in the Kitely Sunday meeting and conversations on the forum, I learned of four items of user interest:
• A Market button on the viewer should take the user to a market they could use.
• The Buy grid money button should take the user to where they can buy grid money.
• The grid money amount notice should give the correct amount for the avatar.
• Some users wanted a notice of friends online before they login.
• The first three of those are viewer issues, so i asked the SceneGate devs about them.
• The fourth item is a grid issue, but suggested a feature that SceneGate is aiming for.

• Update 4/30/2020 Multi-college diversity in Kitely. OpenSim grids show growth during pandemic Kitely upgrades for better scalability