2020 #VWEDU: OSCC (OpenSimulator Community Conference) exhibits: Rockcliffe University Consortium and the MALET program. SUNY, Empire State College

OSCC (OpenSimulator Community Conference) exhibits: 

Rockcliffe University Consortium and  

the MALET program. SUNY, Empire State College

Two organizations with important activities in virtual worlds. OSCC exhibits will continue to be accessible until the next OSCC.

Rockcliffe display at OSCC 

• OSCC:OpenSimulator Community Conference
• OSCC hypergrid address: cc.opensimulator.org:8002
• At any arrival point , look for a big sign offering teleports to exhibit areas (5)
• RockCliffe University Consortium
• MALET: Master of Arts in Learning and Emerging Technologies

• Update 12/17/2020 The Dickens Project 2020 Edition. VWBPE2021: RECONNAISSANCE Call for Proposals.

2021 #VWEDU: VWBPE2021: Immersive learning: Social, experiential, and practical online. March 03 to April 05

VWBPE2021:

Immersive learning: Social, experiential, and practical online.

March 03 to April 05

Educational experiences online.

• Watch on YouTube

• Play, Explore and Engage in Immersive Experiences
• Immersive learning
• iLRN
• Immersive is social.
• Immersed in the relevant learning environment. 

The Immersive Experiences are scheduled from March 03 to April 05 (exclusive of the conference dates). Attend some or all, as you are able. Many will be open for self-exploration after the presentation date. A list of the pre-conference and post-conference experiences is below. Details and access instructions for the experiences will be found in the VWBPE conference calendar – available now. Some may require creating accounts. There are still a few more sessions to schedule so be sure to check the Program often!

 

2021 ART: The Mondrian Puzzle: Abstract Art meets Mathematics and a virtual world

The Mondrian Puzzle: 

Abstract Art meets Mathematics

In OpenSimulator.  

Tessellation or tiling the plane fits many interests: art, mathematics, architecture and puzzles.  Mondrian tiled the canvas plane with art.  

• Watch on YouTube

• Mondrian (the artist)
• Mondrian Puzzle
• Multimondrian (a virtual world version with scripting)
• This presentation was made using Melablocks, an App in the RezMela system. 
• RezMela is an application development platform implemented in OpenSimulator.
• It is used for the production of focused 3D applications (Apps)
• [RezMela] Melablocks [Smartblocks] (Kitly market)
• Using Smartblocks

• Update 11/12/2020 VWBPE2021: RECONNAISSANCE Call for Proposals Educators' online calendar and OPLN. Kitely 8X8 megaworlds.

• Update 1/28/2021 Land up, actives down in January. Sundance goes all-in on virtual this year. VWBPE2021 RECONNAISSANCE Call for Proposals.

2020 #VWEDU: VWBPE2021, "Reconnaissance" March 18-20, 2021 Call for proposals: 7 tracks, 5 formats, 3 types.

VWBPE2021, "Reconnaissance"  

March 18-20, 2021 

Call for proposals: 7 tracks, 5 formats, 3 types. 

VWBPE exhibits space 2020

Not your father's conference hall

• VWBPE 2021: RECONNAISSANCE Call for Proposals
• Situation awareness

Submission closing dates for 3 types of proposals

• Presentations: 13 January 2021
• Exhibits: 10 February 2021
• Immersive Experiences: 10 February 2021

Proposals are especially invited from these communities

• Educators and Trainers
• vLanguage Members
• Artists, Designers and Builders
• Advocacy and NonProfit organizations
• Support and Help Communities
• Entertainers and Performers
• Coders, Scripters, and System/IT Analysts
• Businesses and Entrepreneurs

2020 #VWEDU: BIZ: Meeting in an online 3D place is not like meeting in a web page. Places hold more than talking heads. Situated learning and social roles.

Meeting in an online 3D place is not like meeting in a web page.
Places hold more than talking heads.

Situated learning and social roles.

An online 3D place can be built or selected for the objective of the class or meeting that will use it. The arrangement of the place will influence what people do there. 

 

• Watch on YouTube

• A 3D place in a virtual world is a simulation of a place,
• That can be a familiar place, such as an office or a classroom.
• Being in a familiar place and a familiar social situation calls up familiar roles.
• People have already learned familiar behaviors for those circumstances.
• Chairs neatly arranged to face to podium in front.
• A screen behind that podium.
• We need no instructions on what to do or what to expect.
• This is an example of situated learning.
• And shows the effect of Social Roles and Roles (Wikipedia).
• You can use that scene if it fits your objectives and teaching method.

• Update 2/4/2021 Land up, actives down in January Sundance goes all-in on virtual this year VWBPE2021 RECONNAISSANCE Call for Proposals Changes in this blog

2020 FREE: Find free virtual world stuff on Kitely. Maybe furniture, land parcels, stuff, sandbox, freebies, stores, fishing, education.

Find free virtual world stuff on Kitely.   
Maybe furniture, land parcels, stuff, 
sandbox, freebies, stores, fishing, education.

Kitely has good search support  inworld, on its Explore Worlds pages and on Kitely Market.  Here are the links to use.

Search term: free

Click image to enlarge

• Inworld search: Ctrl+f 
• Web search: Explore worlds, Kitely

• Update 11/12/2020 VWBPE2021: RECONNAISSANCE Call for Proposals Educators' online calendar and OPLN. Kitely 8X8 megaworlds.

2020 #VWEDU: How to expand your Kitely virtual world. Megaworlds and teleport. Walk in TP works for avatars. Object TP for vehicles

How to expand your Kitely virtual world   

Megaworlds and teleport.  

Walk in TP for avatars. Object TP  for vehicles.

Consideration of how teleports and object teleports can extend the world for users to more distant points (as subways do for NYC).

Walkin TPs at Cookie II entry point

• Kitely responded to requests at a Kitely meeting by offering Megaworlds.
• Megaworlds are eight times the dimensions of traditional sims.
• These are a little over 2 kilometers on a side and run on their own server.  
• Kitely 8X8 megaworlds (This offer expires Nov. 30).  
• Kitely Megaworld. Over 2 KM on a side. With a server to itself. The area of 64 traditional sims. With no sim borders to cross.
• The demand has probably been enough to justify continuing the offer.
• Though the initial price ($100 USD per month) might increase.  
• The price will not increase for those who take the current offer.
• Can we go beyond 8x8?  

• 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

2020 #VWEDU: The flipped webinar of virtual worlds, a place for exchanging information. No cost, no reservation. Come as you are. Meet the online educator community.

The flipped webinar of virtual worlds,, 

a place for exchanging information.  

No cost, no reservation.  Come as you are.

Meet the online educator community.

The online Professional Learning Community will be flipping webinars.  

A flipped webinar in a gallery

The online educator community

• Develop your online professional learning network (OPLN) in virtual worlds. The community in your laptop. Always ready. always handy
• We can flip an art webinar into an art gallery.
• Virtual worlds are social virtual reality.
• The flipped webinar: Discovering online learning. The potential is huge, but you gotta know the territory.
• The flipped webinar: a strawman plan for the online Professional Learning Community (PLC)

What is the flipped webinar?

• Flipped classroom  (The focus shifts from the teacher to the students.)
• Flipped webinar (The focus shifts from the speaker to the participants)
• Oh there will be knowledgeable people there all right.    
• They just won't take up your time telling you what they think you need to know.
• They will expect you to indicate what you want to know.  
• Then they will tell you what they know about that.
• And probably give you web links for more information.
• They won't expect to ge paid for sharing what they know.  
• They view the flipped webinar as a place for exchanging information.  
• That means they seek the information they want to seek.
• And give the information they want to give.
• Nobody expects to get paid for this, so no charge is needed.
• And virtual space has no practical limits, so no reservation needed. 

After the break

• Who is flipping webinars?
• What are the flipped webinars about?
• How can I find the ones I am interested in?
• How do I get to them?

• Update 12/17/2020 The Dickens Project 2020 Edition. VWBPE2021: RECONNAISSANCE Call for Proposals.

2020 #VWEU: Online library in 3DWebWorldz Part 3: Victorian: Romanticism, Gothic, and Science Fiction

Online library in 3DWebWorldz Part 3: 

Victorian: Romanticism, Gothic, and Science Fiction

Paper literature of the Victorian era that became the movie literature of the 20th century.

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

Who would be interested

• Teachers and students of English literature, cultural history, and theater.
• Librarians, book clubs, and writers
• Below: The rise of the online library

• Update 11/19/2020 Covid feel good. VWBPE2021: RECONNAISSANCE Call for Proposals Educators' online calendar and OPLN. 

2021 #VWEDU: Organizing our online PLC. Virtual Worlds Education Consortium (VWEC). Affiliated groups, wider networking and knowledge sharing

Organizing our online PLC. 

Virtual Worlds Education Consortium (VWEC). 

Affiliated groups, wider networking and knowledge sharing

A draft plan for our online Professional Learning Community.  Objective: wider networking, more effective sharing of knowledge.

• Watch on YouTube

Where are we now?

• Our online PLC is now partly organized as multiple groups.
• The broader community is based on informal connections among people in the groups.
• A way to foster stronger connections is to have affiliated groups.
• The affiliation plan can support wider networking and sharing of knowledge

• Update 2/4/2021 Land up, actives down in January Sundance goes all-in on virtual this year VWBPE2021 RECONNAISSANCE Call for Proposals Changes in this blog

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: #DTA: Participatory learning in virtual worlds. The project wall for teams For projects and project based learning (PBL) Can you do that online?

Participatory learning in virtual worlds

The project wall for teams

For projects and project based learning (PBL)

Can you do that online?

Engagement comes from active participation.  Working with a team on a project offers that potential.  Teamwork is a learned skill.

• Watch on YouTube

• Project
• Project planning
• Gather ideas
• Organize ideas: objective, resources, products, actions
• Supports sharing ideas and brainstorming.
• Project-based learning (PBL)
• Got a big project? Give it a wall.
• Using a Project Wall to Support Gold Standard Project Based Teaching
• Traditionally done on a wall, blackboard, or whiteboard.
• How can we do it online?

• Update 12/24/2020 The Dickens Project 2020 Edition. DivaCanto: channel on YouTube. VWBPE2021: RECONNAISSANCE Call for Proposals.

2020 BIZ: #VWEDU: Conferences, conventions, trade shows. Big meetings of any kind. You can do them online. No travel, no risk, no hanky-panky.

Conferences, conventions, trade shows. 

Big meetings of any kind.  

You can do them online. 

No travel, no hotel, no risk, no hanky-panky. 

Consideration of how big meetings can be held online.

C

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: Breakout rooms 
• Opportunities to interact with the media
• Networking 
• Hanky-panky

Where?

• Kitely is an installed virtual world that is specifically supporting this market.
• Hosting Large Events in Kitely
• Virtual Trade Shows   Virtual Exhibition, Tradeshow or Career Fair.
• Virtual Trade Shows: Pros and Cons
• Virtual trade shows 2020 (search)

• Update 2/4/2021 Land up, actives down in January Sundance goes all-in on virtual this year VWBPE2021 RECONNAISSANCE Call for Proposals Changes in this blog

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 

Click image to enlarge

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

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 VWMOOC20: ACRL Virtual World Interest Group presents a tour in Kitely

VWMOOC20: ACRL Virtual World Interest Group 

presents a tour in Kitely

Sendalonde library

Heather Ebey (Alexina Proctor) in ACRL Virtual World Interest Group presents a video tour in Kitely Sendalonde Library in Kitely.

• Watch on YouTube
• Sendalonde library is in the Kitely Wellspring region.
• Previous article: Sendalonde library.
• After losing five years of work due to a virtual world grid that is now defunct, 
• Alex and Prax are rebuilding the Sendalonde library on the Kitely grid. 
• On a sim called Wellspring, you will find library collections 
• based on Sci-fi, Fantasy, Steampunk and Folklore.

• Update 10/29/2020 VWBPE2021 Educators' online calendar and OPLN. Kitely 8X8 megaworlds. Federally Funded Language Programs.

2021 #VWEDU: Online PLC: Professional Learning Community. Online is closer than next door. And don't underestimate the flat web.

Online PLC:  Professional Learning Community.  

Online is closer than next door.  

And don't underestimate the flat web.

The online Professional Learning Community has a huge reach.  Every teacher can find other teachers with similar problems.  Any teacher can keep in touch with other teachers with similar interests.  Any school of education can keep in touch with alumni and prospective students.  

• Watch on YouTube
• Creating a Powerful Fully Online Learning Community
• Learning community (YouTube search)

Professional learning community online (PLC)

• The collection of people with interest in learning activities who are connected online.
• Connected means each person can communicate with some others in the community 
• Professional means that some have a professional interest in learning activities.
• And others want to communicate with learning professionals.
• The community is organized into groups that support this communication.
• The groups have multiple channels for people to communicate.  
• Social media, email. Discord, Skype, and blogs are some common channels.
• FOLC: Fully Online Learning Community

• Scholarly articles for fully online learning community

Who would be interested?

• Teachers supporting online learning
• Teachers preparing to support online learning
• Parents who are home schooling or pod schooling
• Adult learners
• College students and smart high school students
• People offering online learning.
• People in education management

• Update 12/31/2020 The Dickens Project 2020 Edition (ends today). DivaCanto: channel on YouTube. VWBPE2021 RECONNAISSANCE Call for Proposals

2021 Listing products on Kitely Marketplace: A video tutorial. Illustrates how teachers could make instructional videos for a class.

Listing products on Kitely Marketplace: 

A video tutorial.  

Illustrates how teachers could make 

instructional videos for a class.

A simple "how to list your items on Kitely Market" video to help new people offer products on Kitely Market.

• Watch on YouTube
• Kitely Market

• Update 2/11/2021 Land up, actives down in January Sundance goes all-in on virtual this year VWBPE2021 RECONNAISSANCE Call for Proposals

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More Videos about Kitely Market

• Kitely Market Hypergrid Delivery Tutorial
• Create an Ad for Feature Products on Kitely
• Kitely Market - The Metaverse Marketplace

More about Kitely Market

• Kitely markets to the Hypergrid
• Clarifications and tips about Kitely Market
• Kitely Market now allows revenue splitting. Ann Tree Prenyour comments
• Why would content creators think about selling in the Kitely market?
• The HG BeatThis List. Kitely Market. One stop shopping for the virtual worlds
• "How do I import things into Kitely to put them on Kitely market?" A job for Ann Tree Prenyour?
• The Kitely Want Market. Don't find what you want? Ask. Creators: Check the wants

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2021 VW: Second Life: from the beginnings of the metaverse. Full of people working together. Not a game, but a place to talk and work with people. Instructions on how to start.

Second Life: from the beginnings of the metaverse.  

Full of people working together.  

Not a game, but a place for people to talk and work together.

Instructions on how to start.

Why and how to enter a long established part of the metaverse.

• Watch on YouTube
• How To Get Started in Second Life - New User Tutorial
• Visit https://www.secondlife.com to get started!

Second life is a people place

• You can find people if you know how to look: 
• Open the world map and look for clusters of green dots.
• You can chat with people in text or talk in voice.
• You can own a place of your own and invite friends over for entertainment.
• You can provide music or videos.
• You can have a dance floor (avatars use dance animations}.
• You can teach a class.
• Or look for more ideas in the articles cited after the break

2019 VWEDU: WW: Educational presentations in 3D. In the old days, we called them "lectures". But with modern technology, we don't just stand there and talk.

Educational presentations in 3D.  
In the old days we called "lectures".  
But with modern technology, 
we don't just stand there and talk.

Educational presentations can take advantage of the opportunities offered by new technology.

• Watch on YouTube
• Transcription of video to text: VidReader

• You can do a PowerPoint if you want.  
• And that is what you should do if your audience wants that.
• Maybe that's all you can do if you don't have time to write your presentation.
• PowerPoint Now Supports Live Subtitles and Captions on Presentations
• But new tech offers new potential and new presentation methods use it.

• Update 10/29/2020 VWBPE2021 Educators' online calendar and OPLN. Kitely 8X8 megaworlds. Federally Funded Language Programs.