2020 #VWEDU: Virtual Ability, Inc on HealthInfo Island: Displays and exhibits. Nonprofits teach, too. Here is an example in from the digital worlds

Virtual Ability, Inc on HealthInfo Island: 
Displays and exhibits. Nonprofits teach, too.  
Here is an example in from the digital worlds

The digital world teaching work of Virtual Ability, Inc. An example of how to present knowledge in virtual worlds

Healthinfo island

Focus for August

• Minority Donor Awareness Week
• Healthcare for the Homeless
• August 31 is Overdose Awareness Day
• Yo! Hangover, Dude!
• August is Psoriasis Awareness Month
• How to Curb Antibiotic Resistance
• What is Neuropathy?

Virtual ability outreach

• Virtual ability: blog
• Virtual ability: website
• Virtual ability: Facebook
• Virtual ability--YouTube

Go there

• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Healthinfo%20Island/132/125/24

• Update 8/6/2020 . Opensim Fest 2020 coming August 28-30 STÖMOL is a feature-length sci-fi video done in Second Life®.

2020 #VWEDU: Geology field trip to a tropical island. Introduction to rock types.

Geology field trip to a tropical island.  
Introduction to rock types.

By Dr, William Schmachtenberg, Franklin County HIgh School (Virginia) for his Earth Science class  And for other science classes in Virginia schools.  Maybe for other schools teaching geology.

• Watch on YouTube

• Under development on 3DWebWorldz
• No need to register--enter as a guest  
• Come in at my office times and I will help you find it
• Geology
• Igneous
• Sedimentary
• Metamorphic

3D objects located on this region:

• Beach Setting - Evie_Marie, https://sketchfab.com/TheHyperChimp

Go there

• Under development here: 3DWebWorldz

• Update 8/6/2020 . Opensim Fest 2020 coming August 28-30 STÖMOL is a feature-length sci-fi video done in Second Life®.

2020 #DTA: #VWEDU: Leaderboard alternatives in education managed by a digital teaching assistant (DTA): Recent rate. Rate per badge. Gamification

Leaderboard alternatives in education  
managed by a digital teaching assistant (DTA): 
Recent rate. Rate per badge.  Gamification.

Many educators see motivational problems with leaderboards.  A digital teaching assistant can support alternatives that may offer better gamification and better motivation.

The Empty Classroom

Taking notes is not the only skill

Do leaderboards motivate everyone?

• Leaderboards in education
• If you are way ahead, you can slack off.
• If you are way behind, you can give up.
• Some see themselves falling farther behind every week.
• How does a leaderboard work in games?
• Games are short.  Soon you start a new game with a clean slate.
• You get to pick your game.  You have a choice. 
• A digital teaching assistant (DTA) can easily handle the implied adjustments

• Update 8/6/2020 . Opensim Fest 2020 coming August 28-30 STÖMOL is a feature-length sci-fi video done in Second Life®.

2020 #VWEDU: Schools, colleges, and universities with classes in user-managed virtual (digital) places.

Schools, colleges, and universities 
with classes in user-managed virtual (digital) places. 

A collection of instructional units offered in virtual worlds.  These may be part of a digital campus of the future.   This list will be updated when new information is available. 

Universal campus (Kitely)

Virtual places mentioned here

• Second Life
• Kitely (OpenSimulator) 
• Metaverse School  (CybaLOUNGE)  
• 3DWebWorldz

What does user-managed mean?

• Users can create or buy objects for their places.
• Owners control who enters the place and what they can do in the place.
• The place and the changes persist.
• Users can write or buy scripts to make their objects perform actions. 
• A persistent place the user can modify can invoke a sense of ownership.
• Students can be given their own places to hold symbols of their learning. 

• Update 8/6/2020 . Opensim Fest 2020 coming August 28-30 STÖMOL is a feature-length sci-fi video done in Second Life®.

2020 #VWEDU: #DTA: Virtual Laboratory Training and Career Center: BioHazard

Virtual Laboratory Training 
and Career Center: 
BioHazard

Updated 8/24/2020

Sally Cherry talks about the training she provides for people in, entering ;or considering a career in medical testing.  She shows posters with authoritative content on managing biohazards and how they are easily accessed on the web

• Watch on YouTube

Virtual Laboratory Training and Career Center: BioHazard

• Virtual Laboratory Training and Career Center
• Virtual Laboratory Training & Career (VLTC) Project (web page)
• https://real2virtual2real.com/
• Facebook connection: 
• https://www.facebook.com/VirtualLaboratoryTrainingCenter/

The overall mission of the VLTC Project

• integrate clinical laboratory training; 
• showcase medical laboratory resources; 
• share laboratory and public health information;  
• promote medical laboratory careers within 3D immersive virtual worlds.
• Virtual Laboratory Training and Career Center: Virus model
• Virtual Laboratory Training and Career Center: Training, SARS testing

Go there

• Kitely page: Virtual Laboratory Training and Career Center (VLTCC)

Creator

• Sally Cherry (45 years as ASCP-certified Medical Technologist)
• YouTube channel by Sally Cherry

• Update 8/6/2020 . Opensim Fest 2020 coming August 28-30 STÖMOL is a feature-length sci-fi video done in Second Life®.

2020 #VWEDU: Heavy industry: Big equipment: Operator errors can be costly and dangerous. Simulation offers safe learning. And for teams, too.

Heavy industry: Big equipment: 
Operator errors can be costly and dangerous.  
Simulation offers safe learning.  
And for teams, too.

Training for work in heavy industry.  The equipment is big, expensive and hazardous. You don't want anybody near it without experience.  But how can people get experience?   Simulation,  

• Watch on YouTube

Simulated training environment

• Introduction to a new virtual training environment for Process plants
• Just like being in a refinery or chemical plant.
• Creator's faculty website: Andy Sullivan's Homepage
• at Montana State University Billings.

Contents (by time): 

• 0:00 Simulator overview and advantages 
• 2:23 About the tool creator / how to contact / workforce development
• 2:42 How to become an operator 
• 3:53 Students working as a team to restart furnace 
• Permission was given by students to show their avatars in the video

• Update 8/6/2020 . Opensim Fest 2020 coming August 28-30 STÖMOL is a feature-length sci-fi video done in Second Life®.

2020 Virtual: #VWEDU: OSCC19 VIRTUAL WORLD EDUCATIONAL PROJECTS OVERVIEW AT CVL

OSCC19 VIRTUAL WORLD EDUCATIONAL PROJECTS 

OVERVIEW AT CVL

This presentation will share an overview of open sim projects developed by the Community Virtual Library. The CVL Hypergrid Resource Library, located in Avacon and Kitely, as well as several other projects will be highlighted.

• Watch on YouTube
• VidReader

• Update 7/30/2020 . STÖMOL is a feature-length sci-fi video done in Second Life®. July. Opensim Fest 2020 coming in August

2020 #VWEDU: BIZ: Project-based learning can develop work-group skills--if it uses team projects It needs a DTA familiar with group facilitation roles.

Project-based learning can develop work-group skills--
if it uses team projects 
It needs a DTA familiar with group facilitation roles.

Consideration of how project-based learning can teach the skills needed to function effectively in work groups, thus adding a new amd valuable skill set to the course.  

Web-world for nonprofits 

and public service organizations

• Project-based learning
• Project-based learning in this blog 
• DTA: Digital Teaching Assistant
• Group facilitation roles (search)
• Group facilitation roles  (Wikipedia)
• Scholarly articles for Group facilitation roles
• Scholarly articles for Leadership Styles and Facilitation Skills

• Update 7/30/2020 . STÖMOL is a feature-length sci-fi video done in Second Life®. July. Opensim Fest 2020 coming in August

2020 ART: VIDEO: “Deeper” Installation art

“Deeper”  
Installation art 

Another work of installation art, poetry and video by the prolific Karima Hoisan.

• Watch on YouTube

Go there

• On the web
• Digital Rabbit Hole
• HG address:
• grid.kitely.com:8002:Deeper
• In Kitely:
• hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Deeper/132/128/23
• Travel tips for the Hypergrid. A DTA content page

• Other work by Karima Hoisan: after the break

• Update 7/30/2020 . STÖMOL is a feature-length sci-fi video done in Second Life®. July. Opensim Fest 2020 coming in August

2020 #VWEDU: Virtual World TV: Programming from the digital world. Audience participation at a cost so low it could be disruptive.

Virtual World TV 
Programming from the digital world. 
Audience participation at a cost so low it could be disruptive.

 Virtually reality Game Show played in real time with avatars from around the world.

• Watch on YouTube

• No travel. no studio.  Just computers.
• The 1st Question > Virtual World Television < Proof of Concept
• PookyMedia

Pooky

• Talk with her about the Future of Game Show TV 
• Or about  Multi - Person User Television 
• info@pookymedia.com
• Over a decade of experience in this field.

• Update 7/30/2020 . STÖMOL is a feature-length sci-fi video done in Second Life®. July. Opensim Fest 2020 coming in August