2020 #DTA: #VWEDU: Learning the vocabulary with gamification and AI. Intelligent environment for routine instruction.

Learning the vocabulary with  gamification and AI.  
Intelligent environment for routine instruction.  
Gamification 

The intelligent scene (DTA) can manage an instructional game.  Here such a game is described as teaching vocabulary for learning a second language.  This article is explicitly licensed Public Domain (CC0).

Magnolia gardens

• Magnolia gardens of knowledge . A demonstration of introductory training on the parts (of anything)

Vocabulary learning cases

• Case 1 learning a second or subsequent language.
• Case 2 learning a specialized vocabulary.

A starting model for an AI vocabulary-learning environment

• Scene design:
• Gamification: (after the break)
• Solo task design and gamification (TBD)
• Social task design and gamification (TBD)
• Plans for evaluation of performance (TBD)
• This model is written about learning nouns (objects) but can be extended to other parts of speech.

• Update 1/23/2020 OSCC videos are up. SceneGate improvements. Brand New Grid: Rêves Fantastiques

2013 1stHELP: Linden realms. Starting Second Life as a game.

"How do you play this game?"
An answer at last.  Along with just-in-time learning.
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Portal to Linden Realms

A call for help

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Many people come into Second Life expecting a game.  Actually, there are a lot of games.  The  Destination Guide lists about 37 in its Games section.  But now Linden Lab has developed a new game, specifically for new people. 
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Not just to entertain new people.  To create a learning environment for building the skills that are important for enjoying Second Life.
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Destinations
Linden Realms

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Tips

• Linden Realms Frequently Asked Questions
• You will want sound effects on. Preferences button (gears)
• You will want to know how to look around
• You don't really get killed -- you just get teleported to a resurrection  circle.

Skills to be developed
Move

• Double-click on the place you want to go (on the ground or on the map).
• Walk: press the up arrow key.   
• Run: Press Ctrl r.
• Turn: press the arrow key pointing in the turn direction
• Sit: Right click on  the object., select sit.  Note Stand up button 
• Map: Open, locate places, double click to go. Map button (folded paper)

Look around
You can look around without moving.  I call that "zoom and roam your camera."  Here's how:

• Put your cursor on what you want in the center of the picture.
• Press Alt and hold it down. The cursor will change to a rectangle with a plus sign in it. 
• Scroll back and forth with the mouse scroll wheel;
• Press each of the arrow keys you normally use to move;
• Press page up and page down.
• Learn from what happens when you make these moves
• Press Esc to return to normal camera view
• See See, Zoom, roam, and tag

Design goals (my guess)

• Beginner level
• Teach as well as play
• Incremental quests
• Play "at your pleasure"
• Play alone or with friends

Just-in-time learning and gamification
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Just-in-time instructional design: 

• Offer just what the learner needs to know, 
• just when the learner needs to know it.

The gamification maneuver:

• Use the game to create a need point for each learning objective.  
• Then you know when to supply the instruction.

Illustration:  the gamification maneuver in Linden Realms

• The quest is to collect crystals from a dangerous valley
• The "Look around" method (above) lets you search in safety.
•  JIT learning would mention "Look around" right at this point. 

Background: The gamification of learning

• Education: Gamification as Discipline for ...
• Media: Peatonville Mystery Hunt. Gamification
• Media: Games. Gamification. ADHD-friendly
• Edu: eXtension Just in Time Parenting  "..at the time it can be most useful ..."
• Just-in-Time Marketing  just what they want, when they want it. 

Just-in-Time Knowledge -- The World of the Web

• Don't just know. Understand.
• You can talk about what you have been taught. 
• You can do things with what you understand.

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• What do we do in Virtual Worlds? 
• Search on page with Google Chrome: Ctrl+f, search bar upper right 
• Google search this blog, column on right
• or put site:virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com at the end of the search terms
• What is Second Life?
• Annotated screen shots made with Jing
• Creative Commons License, attribution only.
• Second Life, Linden, SLurl, and SL are trademarks of Linden Research Inc.
• This blog is not affiliated with Second Life or anything else.  
• Ads are  from Google

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• Drop by my place in Second life
• Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen:
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cookie/136/100/22
• Feel free to send me an IM, notecard, or friend request.
• Thinkerer Melville/Selby Evans

  

2013 GAMES: Gamification of Second Life?

Gamification of Second Life?
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Fish Hunt game draws people
Click image to enlarge

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2020 #VWEDU: #DTA: Microcredentials for the teachers, badges for the kids, guild ranks for the teens. All learning is microlearning, whether educators use it or not.

Microcredentials for the teachers, 
badges for the kids, guild ranks for the teens.  
All learning is microlearning, 
whether educators use it or not.

Learning requires focus.  Focus needs a goal.  Progress is one step at a time.  Badges mark the steps.  Teachers don't have time to manage all those badges.  Computers do have the time. 

Goal setting

Microlearning and skill sets 

• We sometimes gather learning into skill sets
• Where a skill set enables a person to do a particular task.
• We sometimes recognize a demonstrated skill set: 
• Microcredentials, badges, guild ranks
• Such recognition usually has specific criteria for a valid demonstration.
• The criteria could provide guidance in goal-setting.   
• But only if students and parents are informed about them.
• The criteria should be used for guidance in formulating learning objectives.
• Since the objective of learning a skill set is to be able use the skills.
• The merit of badges: Define a useful skill set, specify a goal, give public recognition of skills. 
• Gamification, yes.  But known since the 1930's as reinforcement.
• (Much of gamification is the application of long established principles of behavioral psycology.) 

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

2013 GAMES: Growing games in Second Life

Growing games in Second Life
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Star Trek Games
 
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Watch on YouTube
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If you want to promote a game:

• Aggregator:  Second Life Play Instinct
• Write up your game
• Submit it here:  Showcase your game
• Example: Fish hunt
• TOP 5 GAMES
• This source is on my blogroll (column right)

Recent reports

• Star Trek equipment: Starships, PEW PEW!
• Two SL Games: "Star Trek Battle Game" and "Attack on Titan"
• Magellan’s Grid Scavenger Hunt - Linden premium areas

Related

• Gamification of Second Life
• Gamification as Discipline for Instructional Design
• Linden realms. Starting Second Life as a game
• Gamification. ADHD-friendly
• Peatonville Mystery Hunt. Gamification
• Halloween Hunt, MadPea Legend of the month
• The Silent Peacock returns: Room 326. Are there any educational hunts?
• Virtual worlds: Rise of the aggregators

Video-Machinima

• Videos from virtual worlds Summary 
• Hobbies: Doing video/machinima in virtual worlds
• Music Videos from virtual worlds Summary 
• Art videos from the virtual world
• Comedy videos from the Virtual World

      

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• What do we do in Virtual Worlds? 
• Search on page with Google Chrome: Ctrl+f, search bar upper right 
• Google search this blog, column on right
• or put site:virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com at the end of the search terms
• What is Second Life?
• Annotated screen shots made with Jing
• Creative Commons License, attribution only.
• Second Life, Linden, SLurl, and SL are trademarks of Linden Research Inc.
• This blog is not affiliated with Second Life or anything else.  
• Ads are  from Google

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• Drop by my place in Second life
• Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen:
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cookie/136/100/22
• Feel free to send me an IM, notecard, or friend request.
• Thinkerer Melville/Selby Evans

  

2019 GAMES: Games in virtual worlds. Summary

Games in virtual worlds.  Summary
Updated 4/20/2019
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Articles about games in virtual worlds
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If you want to promote a game:

• Aggregator:  Second Life Play Instinct
• Write up your game
• Submit it here:  Showcase your game
• Example: Fish hunt
• TOP 5 GAMES
• And list your game here: Science Game Center

• Star Trek equipment: Starships, PEW PEW!
• Two SL Games: "Star Trek Battle Game" and "Attack on Titan"
• Magellan’s Grid Scavenger Hunt - Linden premium areas

2013 HELP: Streamcasting live video. Bring Second Life to the web

Bring Second Life to the web.  Creative Collaboration 
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Can't be done?  Well, streamcasting does it.  If you want to see,  go to: 

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http://www.livestream.com/TheVirtualShortPlayBuffet

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Short Play Buffet

at the Archon on Cookie

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There is probably no live stream as you read this, but you can see what was live stream recently.  You will probably see the recent opening of 

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Theater alert: Virtual Short Play Buffet Starts Today 3/35

2020 #VWEDU: #DTA: The learning game and the conquest of the Lims.. The generic education game. What can the Digital Teaching Assistant manage?

The learning game and the conquest of the Lims.. 
The generic education game.  
What can the Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) manage? 

The case for the education game.  Why education is already a game, though many educators are reluctant to accept the view. And how the fully managed environment of the digital world can support gamification. This article is explicitly licensed Public Domain (CC0).

People like games

• Why do so few like education?
• They don't see it as a game.
• The education system does not present it as a game.
• Some are trying:
• Gamification in education (search)

The generic education game

• The student is in perpetual conflict with the Lims (limitations).
• The Lims hold territory in Skilland that the student wants to rule over.
• Some territories, such as the skill set of driving a car, the student wants to use.
• Other territories, such as the skill set of doing math, the student is told to want.   
• For children the teling is by the educational system: Courses they have to pass.
• They must get the skills to  to win the game and get out of school:  Student thinking.  
• Adolescents and young adults will (we hope) transition to breadwinner thinking.
• Either view favors growth mindset.  
• Breadwinner thinking goes beyond passing courses to using the skill.
• The education game is a serious game.  

After the break

• How is education a game?
• Why view education as a game?
• What is the use of the generic education game?

• Update 1307/2020 OpenSim Fest 2020 Falling OpenSim numbers. OSCC videos are up. SceneGate improvements.

2013 GAMES: MadPea: Lennon Park Massacre. Sept.1-30, 2013

MadPea: Lennon Park Massacre. 
Sept.1-30, 2013
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"12 teens and 3 camp counselors were found dead in a tragic school bus fire 1 year ago. The bus had just left a summer camp at Lennon Park. A single teen survivor, Madison Walkner, was able to escape the flames and call 911. The bad publicity closed Lennon Park and the abandoned camp was never investigated, until now."

• Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen:
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LennonParkOnTheRock/128/30/29
• Mystery game.  Popular.

2019 #VWEDU: #DTA: Digicoach can support homework in virtual worlds with JIT learning, immediate feedback

Digicoach can support homework 
in virtual worlds with JIT learning, 
immediate feedback 
Updated 10/19/2019

Consideration of how MUVEs with Digicoach could support Just-in-Time learning by creating conditions that require the learner to use the new learning to win in a game.  This article is explicitly licensed Public Domain (CC0).

The Empty Classroom

Doing homework

• The Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) for MUVES (virtual worlds): Summary
• A Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) in MUVE (virtual world): What would it do?
• A digital teaching assistant (DTA) in a virtual world. Can it be done?
• Just-In-Time (JIT) learning in virtual schools, with DTA coaching. 
• DTA could record and report performance data on students, but note FERPA issues.
• DTA records could support formative assessment.

• Is the homework effectively inducing learning in the student? 
• The teacher can answer that with quizzes in class.
• But online homework can give its own quizzes.
• Quizzes can be given in any kind of online homework.  
• MUVES are well suited to tasks that let students show what they are learning.
• An educational game creates challenges that demand use of the learning.   
• A scripted MUVE can evaluate at the time of learning.
• It can provide immediate feedback to the student.  
• Immediate feedback in the classroom 

• #VWEDU: update 8/1/2019 Encore Escape reenacts Woodstock for 50 year anniversary. CVL opens in Kitely

2017 EDU: NEW: Online libraries as centers for adult instruction. Self-managed learning.

Online libraries as centers for adult instruction.  
Self-managed learning in virtual worlds

Self-managed instruction and the internet are a natural fit.  Add in the need for life-long learning and we have the timely trio.  A natural for online libraries.  But self managed often means solitary.  Or it used to mean that.  Web-worlds let you confer with people on your browser.

• Watch on YouTube
• Valibrarian is a leader in library work in virtual worlds.
• This brief interview shows how web-worlds can be used to present information.
• Cybalounge is ready for virtual worlders to use: Tutorials and suggestions

What can virtual libraries do for self-managed learning?

• Provide evaluated content.  
• Provide lesson plans designed for self-managed learning (SML).
• Help learners choose the best instructional method for them.
• Provide course plans designed for SML.
• Provide links to environments that support their best learning method.
• Provide links to instruction  in learning-how-to-learn.
• Learning how to learn | Barbara Oakley | TEDxOaklandUniversity

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More after the break

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Metaverse events, recent and upcoming

• Mal Burns: Inworld Review
• Hypergrid Writer's Community
• IMA Blog
• IMA locations
• 3D web-worlds of the browser (G+ community)
• Selby's daily news collection:  Virtual worlds are real   
• Virtual Outworlding news collection 
• Events on the Hypergrid: HYPEvents
• Destination guide: OpenSimWorld
• Hyperica, Directory of Opensimulator hypergrid destinations
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Virtual world G+ communities:  Communities virtual worlds G+

2016 EDU: GAME: Educational games in virtual worlds

Educational games in virtual worlds

The quaint idea persists that virtual worlds are for entertainment.  So we have a  list of educational games. If you are going to be entertained, you may as well learn something at the same time.

• Games in virtual worlds. Summary
• Beginner's building on the Hypergrid. Primland, the building game.  Part 1
• Beginer's building on the Hypergrid. Primland, the building tutorial game, Part 2
• Gamification of Second Life?
• A model for educational games?
• Winter safety game, serious games
• Rapid development kit for games. Available on the Hypergrid
• The University of Idaho and the game of education
• Winter safety game, serious games
• Edugaming and the BSG project. Educators, Game designers, Content creators for 3D
• The Summer Games MOOC (Massive Online Open Course) theme is immersive environments
• Gamification. ADHD-friendly

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• (More after the break)
• Where is Arcadia?

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Timely Information

• Information which may be immediately important to some people
• The case of the vanishing suitcase

Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• Ballet Pixelle presents "The Nut": dance in the virtual world Thru Dec.
• VWBPE Call for papers, Meet 3/9-12/2016. Proposals due by 1/17/2016
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Hobo Reserved Sandbox on Kitely. 

• Next WIP show: Sun. Jan 10, Noon SLT
• Fred.Beckhusen tells a lotl
• Location:  world.narasnook.com:8900
• Put the line above in your World Map next to Find.  Click Find. TP
• At Narasnook, use World Map to search for Pandora

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Metaverse beginner help

• Metaverse 101 Info & Tutorials for getting started in Opensim
• A Dimension Beyond
• Virtual Outworlding Table of Contents. Summary
• Newcomer help in virtual worlds
• Virtual worlds are about people. Communities, communication, shared goals
• Time conversion: put time/time zone into Google search to get your time 
• Scroll down for News, Notes, and Info

2013 EDU: VIDEO: GAMES: Gamification. ADHD-friendly

Gamification

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Watch on YouTube
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The concept of embarking on a quest-a journey of self-discovery - is a vital part of education. In this innovative approach to experiential learning, participants delve into, interact with, and co-create stories using the immersive tools inherent in Second Life and the groundbreaking Story Quest model developed by TVWSP: "The Life and Times and Uncle D."

Gamification; new term invented to describe the application of game mechanics such as points, badges, and levels to non-game processes.
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2013 EDU: eXtension Virtual State Fair

eXtension Virtual State Fair 
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State Fair, the gateway

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The Virtual State Fair is an interactive learning space designed as an entertaining way to introduce the Second Life community to the vast educational resources of the Cooperative Extension system.  

To see the Virtual  State Fair, go here:
Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen:
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Morrill/129/4/25
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Land-grant universities (also called land-grant colleges or land-grant institutions) are institutions of higher education in the United States designated by each state to receive the benefits of the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land-grant_university

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Sight-seeing Balloon ride

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A narrated trip across the fair

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The new website:
www.extension.org

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Links to affiliated schools

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Near the corner of University and Entertainment, you will find posters linking to many affiliated land-grant universities.  There are more posters on Livestock, farther down on University.

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A tent-full of informative exhibits 

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eXtension Launched in 2008 , eXtension is an Internet-based educational partnership of the 74 institutions of the Land-Grant university system that provides access to dynamic and evolving  research-based information and learning opportunities 24/7/365. 

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Rides and treasure hunts

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Gamification. ADHD-friendly

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Newcomer: Become a Linden Hunter! Gamification!

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The gamification of ants

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Art and contests

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Video-Machinima

• Videos from virtual worlds Summary 
• Hobbies: Doing video/machinima in virtual worlds
• Music Videos from virtual worlds Summary 
• Art videos from the virtual world
• Comedy videos from the Virtual World

      

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• What do we do in Virtual Worlds? 
• Search on page with Google Chrome: Ctrl+f, search bar upper right 
• Google search this blog, column on right
• or put site:virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com at the end of the search terms
• What is Second Life?
• Annotated screen shots made with Jing
• Creative Commons License, attribution only.
• Second Life, Linden, SLurl, and SL are trademarks of Linden Research Inc.
• This blog is not affiliated with Second Life or anything else.  
• Ads are  from Google

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• Drop by my place in Second life
• Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen:
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cookie/136/100/22
• Feel free to send me an IM, notecard, or friend request.
• Thinkerer Melville/Selby Evans