2015 EDU: VWBPE Post conference explorations, March 27 - April 11

VWBPE Post conference explorations, 
March 27 - April 11
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Five educational teams host virtual tours to explore what they and their students have been creating.   Details.

• All Keynotes from VWBPE2015
• Hypergrid education community: Finding instruction on offer
• A School for Building Immersion Stories
• OpenSimWorld: HyperGrid Destinations Directory  
• Scroll down for News, Notes, and Info
• Calendars: Entertainment in the virtual worlds
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• More news in my blog roll (column on the right)

Some tours have special requirements for connecting to their environment and our hosts have provided overviews. Click on each tour link below for more information and for ‘how to join’ instructions.

It is important to note that you should be at the tour location 15 minutes before we start. If you have difficulties or questions, please contact LoriVonne Lustre at Lorraine_mockford@yahoo.ca.

Schedule

1. Friday 27 Mar 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM SLT (60 min)

• Tour of the University of the West of England Simulations, 
• UWE Islands, Second Life
• Slurl, click to go or drag to viewer screen:
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Innovation%20at%20UWE/115/220/27
• MA Education in Virtual Worlds, UWE, University of West England
• Details about the tour

2. Saturday 28 Mar 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM SLT (120 min)

VRcampus – A Unity3D-based online MMO focusing on quick orientation for new users, large-scale campus use, and private branding with safe controlled-access VRcampus, Unity3D

• Details about the tour
• Full Details: VRcampus
• Location: VRcampus website

3. Monday 30 Mar 4:00 – 5:00 PM SLT (60 min)

• Afro-Latino Foodways Museum: A Class Final Project, UTEP Miners, Second Life
• Details about the tour
• Slurl, click to go or drag to viewer screen:
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/UTEP%20Miners%201/227/4/23

4. Thursday 09 Apr 4:00 – 5:00 PM SLT (60 min)

• Meeting of the Minds Walking Tour, Dreamworld Sea, Second Life
• Details about the tour
• Slurl, click to go or drag to viewer screen:
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Dreamworld%20Sea/11/41/24

5. Saturday 11 Apr 9:00 – 10:30 AM SLT (90 min)

• Inspiration Island: Home of the Ageless Mind Project in Second Life
• Details about the tour
• Slurl, click to go or drag to viewer screen:
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Inspiration%20Island/146/224/38
• Whole Brain Health Calendar

• Minds Afire @ Whole Brain Health Fair Day Sunday September 28, 2014
• Grand Opening: Whole-Brain Health, Maze Madness
• Brain Modules. The right part of your brain

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News and Notes

Events 

Hypergrid

• Calendars: Entertainment in the virtual worlds
• Events on the Hypergrid. Selected Google calendars
• Happenings on the Hypergrid
• Kitely Events Calendar
• THIS WEEK at Seanchai Library

Lauren's Place

• Lauren's place, Tuesdays, 5 pm California time 
• Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen: 
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cookie/124/241/22
• Watch later: Lauren's channel  

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Newcomer Help in Virtual Worlds

• Firestorm Features
• Events on the Hypergrid. Selected Google calendars
• Calendars: Entertainment in the virtual worlds
• Blender Basics - Making Basic Mesh Prims
• Communities in Second Life: Community Cultural Hub
• Basic help for new arrivals in a virtual world at Georgia Gwinnett College
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/GGC%20Island/66/81/28
• How to start in a virtual world, the video: Now see it on your browser
• UWA offers free online courses to help newcomers start in virtual worlds
• Firestorm Documentation and User Guide (Wiki)
• Beginner's building on the Hypergrid. Primland, the building tutorial game
• New Citizens Inc
• Table of Contents (Virtual Outworlding)
• Multilingual help: Welcome ports and Google Translate

Education

• Take great online courses from the world's best universities
• Education in Virtual Worlds. Summary
• Top 10 Tips on How to Use Avatars in eLearning
• How the Second Life basics series can help teachers
• SLeducate: Learn and teach in Second Life
• Learning Objectives Creator

Writers

• Greyville Writer's Colony

How to handle a Hypergrid address 

From any Hypergrid-enabled grid, paste the address into the navigation bar of Firestorm and press enter. Or paste it into the world map search bar of any viewer, search, and click Teleport when the destination is found. If it doesn't work, don't give up. Try again in a minutes.  Sometimes the first try fails (probably times out).  And try again a few hours later. Some hypergrid destinations are offline part of the day. 

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Video-Machinima in virtual worlds

• Machinima: Virtual World Filmmaking
• New Media Arts, Inc
• SUMMARY: Resources for video production in virtual worlds
• 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? 
• Opensim, Hypergrid: Summary
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• Annotated screen shots made with Jing
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• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Lawst%20Paradise/147/61/23 
• Feel free to send me an IM, notecard, or friend request in Second Life or Kitely
• Thinkerer Melville in Second Life, Selby Evans in Kitely
• Google+ page;  Virtual World Video
• Lauren is funny;   Avatar  Repertory Theater