2020 #WWEDU: Online library in 3DWebWorldz Part 1: BC and Medieval: Home school, pod school, self school, online school, writers, readers, book clubs

Online library in 3DWebWorldz Part 1: BC and Medieval

Home school, pod school, self school, 

online school, writers, readers, book clubs

Miss Brenda, Jamie Jordan, and Selby discuss the oldest items in the collection of the library.  

• Watch on YouTube
• Uses links to Project Gutenberg:  Free online copies.  
• To visit the library, click here:
• 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.

2020 VW: #VWEDU: Student onboarding for the online campus: Treat onboarding as a use case with its own skill set. Use-case analysis. Identify and teach the skills.

Student onboarding for the online campus:   

Treat onboarding as a use case with its own skill set.  

Use-case analysis.  

Identify and teach the skills.

Recommendations on onboarding plans for beginners entering virtual worlds for remote learning or remote meetings.  

Onboarding place
in 3DWebWorldz

• 3DWebWorldz onboarding place
• This place can be incorporated into any online campus.

Use-case analysis

• Use case.
• Use-case analysis.
• That's computational thinking.

Use-case analysis for this case

• Describe a detailed scenario of what the beginning user needs to do.
• Identify each needed action and the skills required.
• Caution: you must get the novice viewpoint, not yours.
• E.g.: "Click the Login button."  You know where the Login button is.
• The novice has to find it.  
• If you cannot easily see from the novice point of view, don't try.
• Get a few novices and have them follow the onboarding procedure.
• Have them talk aloud about what they are wondering at the moment.
• Developers: this is how you debug the instructions.  
• How do I fix it?  (After the break)

2020 #VWEDU: Why the digital campus should provide private student places: Identity and ownership. And how to do it in virtual worlds

Why the digital campus should provide student places.  

Identity and ownership.

Schools can provide private spaces for students at negligible cost and with significant benefits.  

My place in 3DWebWorldz

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• I make my place public so anyone can visit.
• No walls or roof: the weather is always good.

A place of my own.

• Where they can keep a calendar, a work schedule, and links to work in progress.
• Where they can show their work products and talk with friends
• Display badges, trophies, posters and media prims showing their portfolio products.
• A place where they can put their furniture and decorations.
• How do they get all those things?  By working (learning) for them.  
• How to Teach Online So All Students Feel Like They Belong

What gives a sense of ownership? 

• Control: having control over it
• Intimate knowledge: knowing a lot about it
• Self-investment: putting a lot of effort into customizing it.

Can virtual worlds handle private spaces?

• Web-worlds, completely
• Installed virtual worlds, mostly private

Suggested sources

• Metaverse software
• 3DWebWorldz
• Kitely organizations

• Update 10/22/2020 Kitely 8X8 megaworlds. Federally Funded Language Programs. OpenSim land area, actives continue fall increase.

2020 #VWEDU: From the Empire State College 3rd annual residency: The opinionator to hold attention. You could even do this in an old wooden classroom

From the Empire State College 3rd annual residency: 

The opinionator to hold attention.  

You could even do this in an old wooden classroom.

Students can express opinions with this virtual world device.  Depending on the starting statement,  the opinions can indicate knowledge, thought, or readiness to defend a position.  

The opinionator in use

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How do you hold the attention of group?

• Have them contribute to the presentation.
• The opinionator is an example.
• You give the group a statement.
• The colored areas are marked with opinions:
• Strongly disagree (blue), disagree, neutral, agree, strongly agree (red)
• People are to stand in the area that represents their opinions.

Immersive virtual residency

• From the Third Annual Immersive Virtual Reality (VR) Residency 
• of SUNY Empire State College (ESC).
• Sponsored by  Masters of Arts in Learning and Emerging Technology (MALET) 
• Immersive Virtual Residency
• Past events

• Update 10/22/2020 Kitely 8X8 megaworlds. Federally Funded Language Programs. OpenSim land area, actives continue fall increase.

2020 #VWEDU: Develop your online professional learning network (OPLN) in virtual worlds. The community in your laptop. Always ready. always handy

Develop your online professional learning network in virtual worlds.

OPLN: The community in your laptop.  

Always ready. always handy  

 

Educators network with other educators to share ideas and information.  And online network has greater reach and more information.  Here are links for starting your network.

Who?

• Educators
• Students
• Parents of students
• Adult learners

Online?

• A PLN is mainly about sharing information.
• Online probably has the information you want, but you need to find it. 
• Wondering how?  
• That is where a professional learning network (PLN) fits in.
• Anything you want to know, you ask your network.
• Here I will give suggestions and links you can use to get started.
• CVL: Community Virtual Library
• Watch on YouTube

Virtual worlds? 

• User-built virtual worlds.  These are not games.  You do what you please.
• Some educators have been teaching in these places for years,
• And they have gathered in communities and organized groups:
• Networking in Virtual Worlds - The CVL Education Network
• And they hold events fostering online education: CVL Events.
• But we also use the extensive educational resources of the flat web.

• Update 10/22/2020 Kitely 8X8 megaworlds. Federally Funded Language Programs. OpenSim land area, actives continue fall increase.

2020 TKR: TRAINING: SYMBOLIC MODELING FOR PERSONAL/PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Invited post by Marly Milena

TRAINING SYMBOLIC MODELING 

FOR PERSONAL/PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Nov-Dec 2020   

Invited post by Marly Milena

An invitation to join the Fall 2020 SymMod (Symbolic Modeling) Training Sessions, led by Marly Milena (Niela Miller in first life). for leaders, educators, directors, facilitators, coaches et al who want to use arts-based processes.

Library in the air

Resting on books, a group gathers 

to watch a demonstration of Symbolic Modeling

• Symbolic Modeling (SymMod): a discovery and learning approach. A training course in a virtual world
• Symbolic Modeling as a creative process. In a user buildable digital place you do it without clay, paper, or paint. And with people from around the world
• Symbolic Modeling Training in Second Life: by Marly Milena, Octagon:Creative Exploration

An invitation to join the Fall 2020 SymMod (Symbolic Modeling) Training Sessions, led by Marly Milena (Niela Miller in first life). This training will consist of 4 sessions, lasting up to 2 hours each. ( a week apart on the same day of the week). The sessions will start after November 11, 2020, and the actual schedule will be determined before the first session, probably via Doodle.  

• Update 10/22/2020 Kitely 8X8 megaworlds. Federally Funded Language Programs. OpenSim land area, actives continue fall increase.

2020 #VWEDU: Plans for teaching in a virtual world during this academic year. VWMOOC20

Plans for teaching in a virtual world 

during this academic year. 

VWMOOC20 

Dodge Threebeards and Widget Whiteberry will discuss plans for teaching in Second Life during the 20-21 academic year and what issues are people encountering: a discussion 

• Watch on YouTube
• A Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable event
• Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable (Facebook)

• This week's discussion is led by Dodge Threebeards and Widget Whiteberry. 
• Topic: plans for teaching in SL during this academic year and the issues.
• Dodge will also tell about the 3rd edition of his Virtual Worlds Teaching Manual.
• VWMOOC20 and Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable are part of the professional educator community (PLC) in virtual worlds.

• Update 10/22/2020 Kitely 8X8 megaworlds. Federally Funded Language Programs. OpenSim land area, actives continue fall increase.

2020 BIZ: #VWEDU: Networking support at online events. Conferences, conventions, trade shows. A major function is networking. How can it work online?

Networking support at online events. 

Conferences, conventions, trade shows.  

A major function is networking.   

How can it work online? 

Consideration of how networking could work in large online events.

OSCC 2019 WELCOME 

• Watch on YouTube 
• Trade show: could that be done online? A digital place could duplicate the look and feel of a trade show

What generally happens in these events? 

• Big auditorium presentations 
• Small localized displays, exhibit booths, poster presentations
• Small meetings or workshops with selected persons conferring or working together
• Opportunities to interact with the media
• Networking 
• Hanky-panky

Networking support at online events

• Virtual Trade Shows: Pros and Cons
• One of the cons is networking support: you don't bump into people in the hall
• What can replace the hall and the cocktail model? 
• User profiles with interest measures
• Interest measures
• Big data handling
• Search support
• Clustering
• Suggested contact list
• Interest group sessions

• Update 10/15/2020 Frequently Asked Questions on Virtual Currency Transactions OpenSimulator Community Conference 2020 Call for Proposals. BURN2 2020: The Multiverse Oct 9-18.

2020 #VWEDU: Introducing Virtually Anywhere in Second Life language-learning project. Narrative-based learning (PBL) for languages. Pionia Destiny presents.

Introducing Virtually Anywhere in Second Life 

language-learning project.  

Narrative-based learning for languages

Narrative-based (project-based) learning of a second language. Following narration concentrates attention on the language.  And a project can exercise the production of that language.   Virtual scenes related to the story can provide and environment for developing the story. 

• Watch on YouTube

The terms

• Transmedia storytelling
• PBL = project-based learning
• Narrative-based

The instruction

• Virtually Anywhere is a trans-media experience for language learning. 
• Students collaborate in the creation of a new fiction based on an existing series. 
• The story line is from the audio series by Cambridge Assessment English. 
• The series is about students struggling with coursework.
• A mentor appears and takes them on travels to virtual scenes.
• The virtual scenes fit with the narrative.  
• The narration is entirely in the target language. 
• The project is to write new episodes in the target language.
• The virtual scenes provide an environment for the new episodes.  

• Update 10/15/2020 Frequently Asked Questions on Virtual Currency Transactions OpenSimulator Community Conference 2020 Call for Proposals. BURN2 2020: The Multiverse Oct 9-18.

2020 #WVEDU: The social part of the Virtual Learning Village. A lot of learning happens from interacting with other people

The social part of the Virtual Learning Village.  

A lot of learning happens from interacting with other people.

A virtual world grid with focus on education. Features to encourage social interaction

• Watch on YouTube

• Grid Website
• Tutorials

Notes

• NPC=NonPlaying Character:  looks like an avatar, but is run by a program
• How to make dancing cows and other tales of the NPCs
• The blurred images are being corrected.

Behind the project:

• Virtual Learning Village is one of the online arms of the Ageless Mind Project.
• Maximillian Merlin  (Thomas Hofmeister) Germany  
• Buildwerk Website(global Building team): 

• Update 10/15/2020 Frequently Asked Questions on Virtual Currency Transactions OpenSimulator Community Conference 2020 Call for Proposals. BURN2 2020: The Multiverse Oct 9-18.