Virtual Global Village

Virtual Global Village
David W. Deeds
Tri-Association’s
Annual Educators’
Conference
October 11, 2013

Goals:
 Not DBP (Death by PowerPoint)!
 Plan B: I can connect, you can’t
 Plan C: I can’t connect, you can’t
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VW Overview (Second Life) – 30 minutes
OpenSimulator – 30 minutes
Discussion and having fun – 45 minutes
(Please don’t tell anyone you had fun!)

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Using Immersive/Virtual Learning
Environments (ILE/VLE, aka 3D virtual
worlds) since 2006

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3 years higher ed, 4 K-12/international

Second Life:
Massively Multiplayer Online…Insert
Your Favorite Description
Here…Game?
 Introduced by Linden Labs in 2003
 Own currency and economy,
intellectual property rights
 Built-in 3D CAD and language/IDE
 Open to people 16 and up since 2010


Woosong Virtual University
Cybercampus

Peterson Schools Cybercampus:
Teaching 2
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Teaching%202
/213/50/23/

Second Life: Higher Ed

Second Life: Higher Education
Classes (500+ students inworld):
Mine: Freshmen – Juniors: Computer
Programming, Business Management,
Internet Marketing, Project Management
(Uni: Regular Majors, College: Votech)
Others: Freshmen – Seniors: Wide
variety of English courses, including
Business English
(S/T in our college plus others, global)

What Were We Doing?
 Teaching without textbooks (some
e-books)
 Kids created/managed cybercampus,
put on shows, made and sold
real/virtual products
 Handled all management, pricing,
marketing
 Learned programming via LSL, also
CAD
 Active, learner-centric, English

What Worked?
 Bridged the communications gap –
digital natives knew what to do, even in
English
 Overcame ASMeB – Antisocial Social
Media Behavior – synchronous,
anonymous (FUN!)
 Hit the sweet spot re: programming
“payoff”

What Didn’t Work?
 Trying to recreate classroom
configuration or situation in virtual world
 Worrying about kids meeting SL weirdos
(socialization, experimentation worked
out)
 Assignments too open-ended (cohesive
structure/theme needed, goals)
 Mixing English with others subjects

Second Life: K-12

Second Life: K-12
Classes (75+ students inworld):
 Information Technology in a Global
Society – Three Strands: IT Systems,
Social and Ethical Significance,
Application to Specified Scenarios
 In Group 3, Individuals and Societies –
provides technical education regardless
 Diploma Program opportunity for kids
with low English skills, Special Needs

Second Life: K-12
What Are We Doing?
 Students maintain cybercampus and
host students from other
schools/countries
 E-textbooks provide content for IT
lessons, ethical/moral and other
discussions
 Projects/products: website, t-shirts,
more


Middle Years Art Show


Podcasts and Concerts


Latest Global Project: NAIS Challenge 20/2

Second Life: K-12
What Has Worked?
 Hands-on, visual aspect of just about all
work (learning styles)
 Experiential opportunities, meeting
people
 Sense of freedom and openness (to a
degree!)
 Provided teachers with sources of
professional development (teacher and

Second Life: K-12
What Hasn’t Worked?
 Convincing the IBO to abolish the
written examination (70-30
external/internal grade)
 Students too shy to train teachers
(students!) but there’s still hope to make
this a service
 Pretending it’s not FUN! (It is, just don’t
tell!)

Second Life: K-12
Future Classes
 Next NAIS Challenge 20/20 Project to
involve wide variety of subjects
 ITGS students will use cybercampus to
promote 3D Global Village
 Want to expand SL usage for teacher
professional development

Second Life Pros:
 Public grid, anyone can join
 One big grid, where everybody is
 Commercial product, mature
Second Life Cons:
 Public grid, anyone can join
 Can be expensive
 Only for users 16 and up

If you’re interested in getting your own
Second Life cybercampus, contact
Carol Pfeifer of the New Media
Consortium:
carol@nmc.org

Imprudence Viewer:
http://wiki.kokuaviewer.org/wiki/Imprudence
:Downloads

Second Life:
http://www.secondlife.com
Or use a readymade avatar!

Readymade Avatars:
Password: ilovesl2009
SLTeacherOne Aristocrat
SLTeacherTwo Bookmite
SLTeacherThree Netizen
SLTeacherFour Quintessa
SLTeacherFive Scribe
SLTeacherSix Turbo


OpenSimulator: K-12

OpenSimulator:
Massively Multiplayer Online…Insert
Your Favorite Description
Here…Game?
 Introduced in 2007, not an SL clone!
 Own currency and economy,
intellectual property rights, etc.,
coming soon
 Built-in 3D CAD and language/IDE


OpenSimulator: K-12
Classes (200+ students inworld)
 Middle Years Program (MYP) Technology
– Shift from Digital Literacy made long
ago;
Art, Music, Science, Humanities soon
 Primary Years Program (PYP)
Information Communications Technology
(ICT) - switch from Digital Literacy to IB
Design Cycle
th

th

OpenSimulator: K-12
What Are We Doing?
 Teaching Computer-Aided Design,
Project Management, Programming
 Teaching task-based lessons with other
tools
 Changing Technology to inquiry-/taskbased
 Using skeleton lesson plans, students
achieve according to their own abilities


OpenSimulator Project: Adobe Village


OpenSimulator Project: Virtual City


OpenSimulator: Hypergrid Scavenger Hunt

Using Virtual Worlds in
Schools

Peterson Schools Cybercampus

OpenSimulator: K-12
What Has Worked?
 Simple Instructions/Skeleton Lesson
Plans
 Three C’s – Connect, Communicate,
Collaborate (and #4: Cooperate –
Project Management)
 IB Design Cycle: Investigate, Design,
Plan, Create and Evaluate (also
Attitudes!)

OpenSimulator: K-12
What Has Worked?
 Reciprocal guidance, “guide on the side”
 Changing viewer interface to student
primary language
 Constructivism, esp. Social
Constructivism
 Self-reliance, adapting to change skills
 Scratch and S4SL for programming
basics

OpenSimulator: K-12
What Hasn’t Worked?
 Assuming productivity the first week!
 Calling it a GAME! Use “immersive
learning environment” instead! Also, e/textbooks
 Overcoming, but still dealing with active
versus passive role (not Asia specific!)
 Trying to jump right into LSL (Scratch
first!)


Latest Projects: MOSES


OpenSimulator Community Conference

OpenSimulator: K-12
Future Classes
 Want to get 3D Global Village started
after Annual Educators’ Conference
 Cross-curricular efforts
 Expand to Middle and Elementary
School classes, other campuses
 Use as foundation for advanced
programming classes

Imprudence Viewer:
http://wiki.kokuaviewer.org/wiki/Imprudence
:Downloads

Peterson Schools URL:
http://209.126.208.161:9020

Readymade Avatars:
Password: iloveos2009
OS Teacher1
OS Teacher2
OS Teacher3
OS Teacher4
OS Teacher5
OS Teacher6

OpenSimulator Pros:
• Best of both (virtual) worlds: private
and public, more security
• All the CAD/IDE without the public
OpenSimulator Cons:
• Not a mature, commercial
product…yet
• Disconnected grids…until 3D Global
Village!

Virtual Global Village:
• Each school has its own grid
• Ideally, centralized “home grid”
• Only for students and teachers, so all
content kid-friendly
• Summits for student and teacher
conferences
• Mutual training, professional
development
• Second Life only for education

If you’re interested in getting your own
OpenSimulator cybercampus, contact
Snoopy Pfeffer of Dreamland
Metaverse:

snoopy.pfeffer@yahoo.com

“OpenSimulator: School Quick Start
Guide”
Two years old now, parts obsolete
 Still lots of nifty info re:
OpenSimulator


http://www.scribd.com/doc/57959626/
OpenSimulator-School-Quick-StartGuide

Go to Chapter 3 of the
“OpenSimulator: School Quick Start
Guide” for lesson plan examples.

Work together in groups. How would
you use 3D virtual worlds as part of
your classes?

Quest Atlantis

MinecraftEdu

World of Warcraft coming soon!

21st Century Fluency Project:
http://fluency21.com/
Collaboration – teamwork
 Solution – problem solving
 Creativity – storytelling, art/photos
 Information – interpretation,
application
 Media - communications
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Games-Based Learning/Gamification:
Different learning styles
accommodated
 Different subjects simultaneously
 Self- and other-directed engagement
 Motivating, provides task-based
focus
 Project management, strategic
thinking
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New Media Consortium’s 2013
K-12 Horizon Report:
http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2013-horizonreport-k12.pdf
Check page 40 for the credits!! ;)
 Game-based learning, ILEs no
longer up-and-coming, they’re hereand-now
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Follow my Scoop.it page:
http://www.scoop.it/t/3d-virtual-worldseducational-technology

More information:
• "Learning in 3D" by Karl Kapp, Pfeiffer
Publishing, ISBN: 978-0470504734
• "Learning Online with Games,
Simulations and Virtual Worlds" by
Clark Aldrich, Jossey-Bass, ISBN:
978-0470438343
• "The Complete Guide to Simulations
and Serious Games" by Clark Aldrich,
Pfeiffer Publishing, ISBN: 978-

More information:
• “Higher Education in Virtual Worlds” by
Charles Wankel, Emerald Group
Publishing, ISBN: 978-1849506090
• “Empowering Students with
Technology” by Alan November,
Corwin Press,
ISBN: 978-1412974257
• “Training and Collaboration with Virtual
Worlds” by Alex Heiphetz, McGraw-

More information:
• “A Practical Guide to Using Second
Life in Higher Education” by Maggi
Savin-Baden,
ISBN: 978-0335242146
• "The Virtual Worlds Handbook: How to
Use Second Life and Other 3D Virtual
Environments" by Elizabeth Hodge,
Jones & Bartlett Publishers,
ISBN: 978-0763777470

Thank you!

Questions/Comments?
ddeeds@peterson.mx
davidwdeeds@yahoo.com

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