2020 #VWEDU: Security for online education. Can a place be easy to access and still be secure against griefers? That's one reason why we need a digital campus.

Security for online education.  
Can a digital campus be easy to access 
and still be secure against griefers?  

Security on the digital campus:  The school controls who can enter, where people can go and what they can do.  But there are online risks.

• FERPA 
  
• A digital school (and should) can have its own entry page.
• It can limit entry to authorized persons 
• It can control where they can go and what they can do.
• If can restrict web access to authorized sites
• And students are safe at home or in the neighborhood micro-school.
• They need to learn about online risks.
• But they need to learn that wherever they go to school. 
• The coming digital campus. Access management. Public and controlled access. Campus security without campus police.
• 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.
• Mitigating Cyber Security Risk with Scenario-Based Games 
• School security (Wikipedia)
• Can you put a high school next to a porno place? Not even in a virtual world. But there are solutions
• Can virtual worlds meet network security requirements? Some can and some still have problems.

• Update 12/10/2020 The Dickens Project 2020 Edition. VWBPE2021: RECONNAISSANCE Call for Proposals

2020 COMEDY: Fall. 2020: Lauren's place, occasional comedy (NSFW)

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

Sept-Oct collection of comedy from Lauren's place:   WyNott,  Catboy, Amouretta, Jamie, Lauren's Players

• Watch on YouTube

• Occasional comedy (NSFW)
• Place:  http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cookie/122/242/23
• Our Comedy Channel
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGw_HANVLFY&list=PLmXCeJpxLXokSPNK_UVR1rS9qHSfJJsNM
• JOKE BANK - POPULAR JOKES
• Joke search

• Update 12/10/2020 The Dickens Project 2020 Edition. VWBPE2021: RECONNAISSANCE Call for Proposals

2020 #WVEDU: WW: 3DWW Manual, CybaLOUNGE manual, Virtual Worlds Teaching Manual, JIT design. Instruction meets hypertext.

3DWW Manual, CybaLOUNGE manual, 

Virtual Worlds Teaching Manual, 

JIT design.  Instruction meets hypertext.

New people in virtual worlds need instruction manuals.  Just-in-time design makes learning much easier than it was with the old paper manuals.  Here are some manuals.

Get the manual in 3DWebWorldz 

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Organized instruction for virtual worlds

• 3DWebWorldz Manual  (Inworld: help button, upper right)
• CybaLOUNGE  Platform Wiki (inworld: question mark, upper left)
• Virtual Worlds Teaching Manual
• JIT learning design

• Update 12/10/2020 The Dickens Project 2020 Edition. VWBPE2021: RECONNAISSANCE Call for Proposals

2021 #VWEDU: Digital Literacy: Cyberbullying, the Learner Bureau of Investigation (LBI), and Sargent Guru: A strawman plan

Digital Literacy:  Cyberbullying, 

the Learner Bureau of Investigation (LBI), and Sargent Guru:  

A strawman plan  

A draft (strawman) plan illustrating how a detective role-playing scenario can be used to teach about cyberbullying and several life skills at the same time. 

LBI scene under construction

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• Scene built with Rezmela Square Rooms
• Note the panels that form the project wall at the start.
• Each student may have a personal area for their own things. (Not shown.)
• Strawman plan
• Cyberbullying (Wikipedia)
• After the break:
• The Learner Bureau of Investigation (LBI)
• Sargent Guru
• Digital literacy. He did it in Classcraft. Like a detective story. Could you do it better in your favorite virtual world? Are your students the heroes who will solve this problem?

• Update 12/10/2020 The Dickens Project 2020 Edition. VWBPE2021: RECONNAISSANCE Call for Proposals

2020 #VWEDU: The Dickens Project presents the New and the Familiar, beginning December 4

The Dickens Project presents the New and the Familiar, 

beginning December 4

Seanchai Library brings you The Dickens Project 2020.

The Seanchai Library announces the opening of The Dickens Project 2020 Edition. The Project began as a special seasonal presentation of Seanchai Library in 2008.  It transformed into an interactive environment in 2012, then to a full region experience in 2017. This year's two regions are inspired by the Victorian world of A Christmas Carol and other beloved tales, offering a broad spectrum of opportunities to explore, discover, and participate.

• Update 12/3/2020 OSCC Dec/ 5-6. 2020. VWBPE2021: RECONNAISSANCE Call for Proposals. The Dickens Project 2020 Edition.

2020 #VWEDU: The unbundling of education. The free market gets a growing share of education. Parents get more control.

The unbundling of education.  

The free market gets a growing share of education. 

Parents get more control. 

The internet can deliver interactive educational experiences that go far beyond the passive experiences of books and videos.  The development costs for a particular experience can be spread over a large number of users and so can be much higher.  Thus the economics will favor creating educational experiences in bundles

The Empty Classroom

Unbundling education

• Unbundling (Investopedia)
• Unbundling means a change in which products previously sold together are separated and sold in their constituent parts.
• Education Is Unbundling—Three Key Trends to Watch

Higher education

• Unbundling of higher education
• University as a Service: The Future of Higher Education and the Great Unbundling
• What is unbundling in higher education and why is it happening?
• The Unbundled University: Researching Emerging Models in an Unequal Landscape.
• Scholarly articles for unbundling of higher education
• How Fast and Furious Will Be the Unbundling of College Education?

K-12 education

• CHARTER SCHOOLS AND THE UNBUNDLING OF K-12 EDUCATION SERVICES
• The unbundling of k-12 education

• Update 12/3/2020 OSCC Dec/ 5-6. 2020. VWBPE2021: RECONNAISSANCE Call for Proposals. The Dickens Project 2020 Edition.
  

2020 #VWEDU: Online library in 3DWebWorldz Part 4: Victorian era: Realism and Transcendentalism: Relevant to history, government, social studies, literature, and philosophy.

Online library in 3DWebWorldz Part 4: 

Realism and Transcendentalism:

Relevant to history, government, 

social studies, literature, and philosophy.

Miss Brenda discusses major intellectual movements of the Victorian era.  

• Watch on YouTube
• Participants: Jamie Jordan, Miss Brenda, Selby
• Links to Project Gutenberg 

Who would be interested

• Teachers and students of  history, government, social studies, literature, and philosophy.
• Librarians, book clubs, and writers

To visit the library

• To visit the library, click here
• Nothing to install, this runs in your browser. 
• No need to register.  Enter as a guest to see what is there.
• Better yet, bring a friend--you can talk in this library.
• Registration is free--that lets you pick an avatar an build a contact list.

• Update 12/3/2020 OSCC Dec/ 5-6. 2020. VWBPE2021: RECONNAISSANCE Call for Proposals. The Dickens Project 2020 Edition.

2020 #VWEDU: OPENSIMULATOR COMMUNITY VIRTUAL CONFERENCE: December 5-6, 2020. Presentations Dec.6 on education in OpenSim

OPENSIMULATOR COMMUNITY VIRTUAL CONFERENCE: 

December 5-6, 2020. 

Presentations Dec.6  on education in OpenSim

OSCC20 is here Dec 5-6 2020. A lot of presentations are in support of online education.

• Watch on YouTube

• OpenSimulator Community Conference 2020  will take place virtually on the OpenSimulator Conference Center grid on December 5-6, 2020.
• The OSCC focus:the developer and user communities of OpenSimulator software.
• Come see how we use these 3D collaborative spaces in amazing ways!
• OSCC hypergrid address: cc.opensimulator.org:8002
• Put the HG address in the Find bar of the World Map, click Find, TP
• You can usually get into a presentation even if you are not registered.
• Announcement
• Schedule
• Registration page
• Registration is free.  
• Presentations will also be live streamed and archived.
• News
• Era of the entrepreneurial educator. The unbundling of education opens the gate for entrepreneurs.

Come see how we use these 3D collaborative spaces in amazing ways!

• Update 12/3/2020 OSCC Dec/ 5-6. 2020. VWBPE2021: RECONNAISSANCE Call for Proposals. The Dickens Project 2020 Edition.

2020 #VWEDU: The flipped webinar: Discovering online learning. The potential is huge, but you gotta know the territory.

The flipped webinar:  

Discovering online learning.  

The potential is huge, but you gotta know the territory.

A webinar you can usually watch in a video.  That is like a class, not a like a seminar.  To match a typical academic seminar, you have to flip it to depend heavily on inputs from the participants. 

• Watch on YouTube
• A work group at work in a digital place.
• Planning for the flipped and persistent webinar. Guided by the participants. Informed by a panel. Organized by 3DWebWorldz

Webinars

• The advantages of online learning
• But that only applies when people are learning what they need to learn. 
• And it says nothing about the role on educators.  
• Unless we are talking about educators learning online.  
• Educators are doing that:  Online resources for educators
• More specifically:  Webinars for educators.
• And Online education conferences
• Many of these seem to be in the traditional lecture format.  
• That's when you pay for lecturers to tell you what they think you should know.
• Some of us oldtimers in virtual worlds have been holding flipped webinars.
• We just called them planning meetings or workshops.  
• But I suggest we start promoting them as flipped webinars 

Flipped webinars

• That's when the participants propose questions and topics.
• And other participants prepare relevant comments and answers.
• Preferably the questions and topics are prepared in advance.
• Crowdsourcing the agenda: an organizer picks and promotes the agenda.  
• A complete plan would call for:
• a bulletin board (or the like) for asynchronous communication,
• an online meeting time/place for synchronous discussion in voice,
• A place for publishing and archiving the results of discussions.
• The place for publishing might be a blog and YouTube channel.

2020 #VWEDU: OPENSIMULATOR COMMUNITY VIRTUAL CONFERENCE: December 5-6, 2020. Presentations Dec.5 on education in OpenSim

OPENSIMULATOR COMMUNITY VIRTUAL CONFERENCE: 

December 5-6, 2020.

Presentations Dec.5  on education in OpenSim

OSCC20 is coming Dec 5-6 2020. A lot of presentations are in support of online education.

• Watch on YouTube

• OpenSimulator Community Conference 2020  will take place virtually on the OpenSimulator Conference Center grid on December 5-6, 2020.
• The OSCC focus:the developer and user communities of OpenSimulator software.. 
• Come see how we use these 3D collaborative spaces in amazing ways! 
• OSCC hypergrid address: cc.opensimulator.org:8002
• Put the HG address in the Find bar of the World Map, click Find, TP
• You can usually get into a presentation even if you are not registered.
• Announcement
• Schedule
• Registration page
• Registration is free.  
• Presentations will also be live streamed and archived.
• News
• Era of the entrepreneurial educator. The unbundling of education opens the gate for entrepreneurs.

• Update 11/26/2020 OSCC Dec/ 5-6. 2020 Terra Nova, Utopia, Tangle, Craft and Kitely shine in user survey. VWBPE2021: RECONNAISSANCE Call for Proposals