A CCSC Northwester Region conference presentation by Dr. Cynthia Calongne, aka Lyr Lobo. Hosted by Saint Martin's University on October 8-9, 2021.

1. Dr. Cynthia Calongne,
Lyr Lobo, Virtual Harmony
Parker University,
Saint Martin’s University,
CTU, & CCCOnline

4. Mario & I presented together at FDG
2014 on the game design cruise to
Cozumel, Mexico
Mario Guimaraes invited me to teach
Virtual Reality for the Saints in 2020 &
we continued in 2021

7. The Saints 1st day in a virtual world on Lobo grid at Virtual Harmony

17. The Saints 2021 1st day in a virtual world on Lobo grid at Virtual Harmony

20. Design Thinking By Tim Brown (2008)
in Harvard Business Review article

23. The Saints after 3 hours of learning on their 1st day in a virtual world

24. Week Topics for Weekly Lessons in CSC495 / CSC595
1 8/31 VR state of research & terminology
2 9/7 Review Web content, videos, & instructional material – Labor Day
3 9/14 Intro to the Firestorm 3D viewer, avatar design, class project requirements
4 9/21 Design thinking, building, texturing, and interacting with objects
5 9/28 Individual project design and skill evaluation
6 10/5 Finding resources to integrate, plus ethics and development concerns
7 10/12 Programming for non-programmers: scripts and automated script generation
8 10/19 Animation and scripting
9 10/26 Exploring the culture, ethics, and community of the Hypergrid
10 11/2 OpenSimulator Server Software
11 11/9 Surfing the Hypergrid - Documenting the individual projects
12 11/16 Project designs - texturing skills + collaboration
11/23 Thanksgiving holiday
13 11/30 Project designs and curating content, documenting the experience
14 12/7 Project Presentations - class projects – designing a project Holodeck
15 12/14 Collaborative & Individual Project Reports and Presentations

31. Students developed their
identity and created their
avatars

32. The Saints design a
community garden,
& I choreographed a dance ball

33. Share a love of Japanese language learning
Students teach Data Structures in
their class projects

35. Students customize their identity and design
individual and collaborative projects using
Design Thinking
Poster presentations of the project designs

38. Student projects ranged from early work
on Japanese Language Learning to the
whimsical Cartoon House
A tribute to The Simpsons & Itchy & Scratchy!

39. Our avatars changed during the class as we
defined our identity and discovered how to
create a magical learning space.
Mahalo for sharing with us!
Aloha!

40. Design Terminology & Learning Concepts