EDU DAY Guatemala (Featuring Google) presentation by David W. Deeds: "Using 3D Virtual Worlds in Education." Covers Second Life and OpenSimulator, higher education and K-12. Proposes 3D Global Village of connected school grids to enable worldwide collaboration, language/cultural exchanges, etc.

1. Using 3D
Virtual Worlds
in Education
David Deeds
American School of
Guatemala
EDU DAY Guatemala
February 26, 2015

2. Goals/Objectives

3. Goals/Objectives
● Not Death by PowerPoint! Hope to
give demos, hands-on experience
● Briefly introduce 3D virtual worlds,
then Second Life & OpenSimulator
● Cover Higher Ed with Second Life,
K-12 with OpenSimulator
● Make: time for Q&A throughout the
prez; pitch for 3D Global Village

4. Hands-On Experience
● Go to:
http://wiki.kokuaviewer.org/wiki/
Kokua/Downloads
Download/install the Kokua Viewer
● Ready to go on one platform, will
have to add a grid for the other
● We'll do the intros/definitions first

5. Intros/Definitions

6. Deed Davids
● 14 years in education: 8 in higher
education, 6 in K-12
● Been using virtual worlds since
2006: 3 in higher ed, 6 in K-12

7. (3D) Virtual Worlds
● MMORPG? Immersive/Virtual
Learning Environments, not GAME!
● Some are: Minecraft, WoW, etc.
● No built-in XP, levels, etc.

8. Second Life
● Commercial, Linden Labs, 2003
● Still a million users; 50,000/day
● US $30,000,000 economy in 2011
● You make it, it's your IP

9. Second Life

10. OpenSimulator
● Open Source, 2007, Version 0.8
● Hosted platform best, can be free
● No standard currency/economy
● Best bet for ed, 3D Global Village

11. OpenSimulator

12. Second Life Avatars
● Password for all: ilovesl2009
● Male: SLTeacherOne Aristocrat,
SLTeacherTwo Bookmite,
SLTeacherThree Netizen
● Female: SLTeacherFour Quintessa,
SLTeacherFive Scribe,
SLTeacherSix Turbo

13. OpenSimulator Avatars
● http://209.126.208.161:9020
● Password for all: davesastud2015
● Male: CAG Teacher1, CAG Teacher 2,
CAG Teacher3
● Female: CAG Teacher 4,
CAG Teacher5, CAG Teacher6

14. You/Demos/Videos

15. Second Life: Higher Ed
● Eliminates communications barrier
● Computer Aided Design and
Programming, Business, Languages
● Project Management, Local/Global
Collaboration, Digital Citizenship
● Problem-solving, task-based,
creativity-enhancing all built-in
● Ultimate 21st century teaching and
learning environment (PD too!)

16. Second Life
Want your own SL
cybercampus?
Contact Carol
Pfeifer of the New
Media Consortium:
carol@nmc.org

17. OpenSimulator: K-12
● Best of both (virtual) worlds: security
plus interaction with others
● CAD tools, programming the same,
but no currency/economy...yet
● Affordable, even free: ideal choice for
3D Global Village (host preferable)
● Perfect for interdisciplinary efforts:
Art/Music with IT, other subjects
● The future of VWs in education

18. MOSES Project
http://militarymetaverse.org/

19. Community Conference
http://conference.opensimulator.org/

20. VIBE Project
https://sites.google.com/site/
virtualislands-bettereducation/

21. OpenSimulator
Want your own OS
cybercampus?
Contact Snoopy
Pfeffer of Dreamland
Metaverse:
snoopy.pfeffer@
yahoo.com

22. 3D Global Village

23. Local Grids
● School Administrators control access

24. Central Grid
● Administered by one college/K-12

25. All Students/Teachers
● Students/teachers would hypergrid
from their grid to Central/other grids
● All areas/content would be 100%
kid-friendly, could have age limits too
● Virtual field trips all over the world,
language/cultural exchanges
● Global collaboration, digital
citizenship, project management

26. 3D Global Village
● Possible for less than US $50/month

27. We can do it in LA/GT!

28. Stop by for a visit!

29. My Scoop.it Page!
http://www.scoop.it/t/3d-virtual-
worlds-educational-technology

30. Gracias!
Questions/Comments?
ddeeds@cag.edu.gt