2014 EDU: BIZ: Need online courses for professional development or continuing education? A study

Need online courses for professional development
or continuing education? A study

The purpose of the study is to determine the efficacy of designing outcomes-based online professional development and continuing education courses for adult learners.

• Many professions require continuing education courses.
• To advance in a profession people may need professional development courses.
• Such people may find online courses attractive.  
• Study at home, on your own time schedule.
• People in virtual worlds would surely be interested in such online courses.  
• If the courses fit their needs.   

• If you need courses of this kind,
• Dr. Leticia De León, Associate Professor 
• in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction 
• at The University of Texas-Pan American 
• asks that you respond to a survey
• to tell about your needs.
• The survey should take no more than 5-10 minutes to complete.

• Scroll down for News and Notes
• The 8th Annual VWBPE conference calls for proposals
• You judge: MACHINIMUWA VII: Top prize 20,000 Lindens
• The Machinima 48 Hour Film Project,  Details here 
• Univ. of Delaware NATIONAL AGENDA 2014 Speaker Series 
• THIS WEEK at Seanchai Library
• Psykopaint
• More news in my blog roll (column on the right)

Related

• Hypergrid University: a preliminary model

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News and Notes

Crystalline Short Poetry Wrkshp-Tue 11/25,7pm SLT

This week Ngagpa Writer is guest host for the Crystalline Short Poetry Workshop. The Crystalline is a two line poem created by the American poet, Denis Garrison. Usually one couplet, the poem can have multiple couplets but must contain separate images. So come join Ngagpa to learn, write and share your Crystalline at the Short Poetry Workshop 

• Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen: 
• http://slurl.com/secondlife/Cookie/160/134/21/ 

Contests and dated calls/invitations/events

• The 8th Annual VWBPE conference calls for proposals
• Deadline: December 14, 2014.

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• You judge: MACHINIMUWA VII: Top prize 20,000 Lindens

Not a popularity vote. This is your prediction of who the actual top 10 will be in the official judging.  Deadline:  Midnight SLT 3rd December 2014

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• L$1 Mil+ UWA 3D ART & MACHINIMA GRAND FINALE - 6AMSLT SUN.  DEC 14

Events 

• Happenings on the Hypergrid
• Kitely Events Calendar
• THIS WEEK at Seanchai Library

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Newcomer Help in 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

• 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

How to handle a Hypergrid address 

From any Hypergrid-enabled grid, paste the address into the address 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 couple of 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. 

• The ideal Hypergrid address form--almost there in Firestorm

If you get an address like this: 

 hg.francogrid.org:80:Residence-09:/119/128/190     

paste it into the address bar of Firestorm, see if it takes you to the exact coordinates. 

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Video-Machinima in virtual worlds

• 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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• For more on topics like this, circle Selby Evans in Google+ 
• What do we do in Virtual Worlds? 
• Kitely: low cost virtual worlds.
• Opensim, Hypergrid: Summary
• Search on page with Google Chrome: Ctrl+f, search bar upper right.
• Google search this blog: Search bar, upper left--or:
• Put site:virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com at the end of the search terms 
• What is Second Life?
• Annotated screen shots made with Jing
• All original content on this blog is 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 the White Tigers in Second Life 
• Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen: 
• 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