Applied Research in Virtual Environments for Learning

InWorlds Discussions

InWorlds Discussions are informal get-together in a virtual environment to discuss topics of VW research and implementations. A theme is provided for the meeting, sometimes illustrated by a short presentation. The calendar is open to anyone interested in submitting a topic (Send a message to arvelsig173@gmail.com to get your name/topic on the calendar) Everyone is welcome. ARVEL SIG in SL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/CAVE/34/197/35

The first explorations to other virtual environments than SL were organized by the ARVEL Explorers. ARVEL has since decided to integrate the ARVEL Explorers into the ARVEL Immersive Learning Series.

Inworld Discussion Speakers Frequent Questions:

1) How long do I have? You have one hour. You can split your discussion time between a presentation format (with slides or not, sim tour, activities, etc.) and a Q&A after, or keep the entire hour on a conversation format with the audience questions and comments allowed at all time. It's your hour.

2) Do I have to bring powerpoint slides? No but you'll need to send 2 slides so that we can use one as a visual anchor to the discussion area (with your name and session title) and another with your contact and other info on the research you do. You may either email the slides as PowerPoint or as jpeg, or drop the premade textures on Willow Shenlin's profile in SL. These details are handled via email prior to the event.

3) Can I leave some objects on ARVEL parcel? Yes, every Inworld Discussion Speaker is offered the opportunity to leave an exhibit explaining their work. The parcel is currently organized by research methodologies. Go explore the caves to see what other speakers have done.

4) Who is my audience? The majority of attendants are educators and researchers like you, but depending on the Inworld Discussion topic, you might also attract doctoral students and industry representants who are interested in your research.(ARVEL publicizes its events far and wide)

5) How many avatars should I expect? The Inworld Discussions usually attract an average of 12 to 15 avatars. Since we've introduced the ARVEL Livestream Channel, we count another 12 or so attendees online.

6) Can I bring a colleague/a mentor/dissertation committee member? Absolutely. The more the merrier. This is not a Roast. Any griefers or comments/actions perceived as disparaging will be given a warning by the host. There is no 2nd warning. The next action is immediate expulsion from the island.

7)What's the mood? The ARVEL Inworld Discussions offer an open, supportive and collaborative space. It does not welcome negative feedback from any attendees. All feedback is positive and constructive.

VERY IMPORTANT:

By accepting to guest host or attend the ARVEL Inworld Discussions, you acknowledge and agree that the talk show will be broadcasted, archived and published to the web for all to watch. You also acknowledge and agree that the chatlog pertaining to the inworld session will be archived and posted for all to read. The event host will remind every one of this at the beginning of each session.

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Comment by Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin on April 25, 2012 at 2:27pm: Discussion #37 ARVEL Inworld Discussion welcomed Ron Dyer. Ron talked about his research on playing games with cognitive load "Building the case through measurement for serious games adoption in corporate training."

A video recording can be watched on ARVEL Channel. The Chat log provides you with the url and attendees' comments. Old and new avatars attended in a crowd of about 20 attendees. Thank you all for coming and see you again next week!

Comment by Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin on April 11, 2012 at 2:49pm: Discussion #36 ARVEL Inworld Discussion welcomed Justin Reeve and his Underwater Sea Observatory

(picture source: http://blog.wsd.net/jreeve/wp-content/blogs.dir/51...

Please enjoy the portable Undersea Observatory for the next few days at ARVEL's SL headquarters. Click on the multicolor teleport object to go in and out of the giant aquarium. Inside, find Justin's info, link to the Kitely-based sim as well as links to downloading the free OpenSim-based folder for your own undersea observatory.

The session was recorded, but due to compounding tech troubles, the session is not on ARVEL TV channel and the sound is missing. However, the chatlog provides you with all of Justin's remarks during the Kitely Observatory tour.

We had a great attendance today, despite the virtual world jump between 2 sites. Many thanks to our presenter and dedicated participants. This was quite an experience.

Comment by Jatila van der Veen on April 4, 2012 at 4:09pm: That's Planck Mission simulations for astronomy and cosmology education...

It was my pleasure! And sorry for the computer glitch. In the middle of showing one of the videos I got the 'blue screen of death!' - that was a surprise. Thanks, everyone, for your patience.

-Jatila

Comment by Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin on April 4, 2012 at 2:41pm: Discussion #35

040472012 ARVEL Inworld Discussion welcomed Dr. Jatila Van Der Veen on CMB and Planks simulations.

The video has been recorded in 2 parts (due to a temporary loss of internet connection, but no content was lost)

part 1: 00:50:50 minutes

part 2: 00:28:15 minutes

The chatlog is archived here

Thank you all for joining us! See you at our next session; Bookmark the calendar http://arvelsig.ning.com/events

Comment by Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin on March 21, 2012 at 3:09pm: Thanks Zotarah Shepherd for the avatar count. Much appreciated help.

Comment by Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin on March 21, 2012 at 2:49pm: Discussion #34
03212012 ARVEL Inworld Discussion welcomed Dr. Janet Salmons and Dr. Jonathon Richter on the "Studying the (Virtual) World of Work.

A video recording can be watched on ARVEL Channel. The Chat log provides you with the url and attendees' comments.

Exciting conversation today with 29 avatars inworld and 5 livestream attendees. As usual we saw many familiar faces and a few new ones, not to mention colleagues all over the US, as well as UK, Germany and other places. Thank you all for joining us! See you at our next session; Bookmark the calendar http://arvelsig.ning.com/events

Comment by Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin on March 7, 2012 at 2:27pm: 03072012 ARVEL SIG InWorld Discussion welcomed Dr. Jonathon Richter on CLIVE. We met on location at http://slurl.com/secondlife/CLIVE/78/173/55/

A video recording can be watched on ARVEL Channel. The Chat log provides you with the url and attendees' comments.

Wonderful discussion with about 15 avatars inworld and 5 livestream attendees. Carl Solutionary might have taken the prize for coming as far as Hamburg, Germany! See you all at our next session. Bookmark the calendar http://arvelsig.ning.com/events

Comment by Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin on February 29, 2012 at 2:42pm: 02292012 ARVEL SIG Inworld Discussions welcomes Dr. Donna Davis on ethnographic approaches in Second Life.

A video recording can be watched on ARVEL Channel. The Chat log provides you with the url and attendees' comments.

Wonderful discussion with about 30 avatars inworld and 3 livestream attendees. See you all next week for our next session. It will be a special SITE sponsored session of our ARVEL Inworld Discussion. Refer to the ARVEL Calendar of Events for details. We are meeting at 10am PST/SLT!

Comment by Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin on February 22, 2012 at 2:30pm: 02222012 ARVEL SIG InWorld Discussions welcome Dr. Jonathon Richter who will talk about CLIVE and the ARVEL Galaxy

A video recording can be watched on ARVEL Channel. The Chat log provides you with the url and attendees' comments.

What a great discussion we had. We are coming back from this talk with new materials to share with you all in the upcoming SuperNews. March 1st is the deadline for any submissions (pics for the Club Photo, blog suggestions or name of a person you are following on Twitter, software or app for the AR, video game or emerging tech sections, as well as the Art Section). Email arvelsig173@gmail.com to submit. Thank you.

Comment by Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin on February 16, 2012 at 1:23pm: Apologies. The ARVEL Inworld Discussion 20152012 ChatLog is now open to public viewing.

Comment by Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin on February 15, 2012 at 2:26pm: Many thanks to John Muratet for helping with archiving the chatlog.

Comment by Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin on February 15, 2012 at 2:24pm: 02152012 ARVEL SIG InWorld Discussions welcome Dr. Candace Chou and Dr. Rama Haye Hart who will talk about Three Dimensional Learning in Virtual Worlds.

A video recording can be watched on ARVEL Channel and the Chatlog provides the text-chat and shared links.

Wonderful discussion with over 21 avatars inworld and 5 livestream attendees. See you all next week for our session on CMB and Plank simulations. Refer to the ARVEL Calendar of Events for details.

Comment by Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin on February 8, 2012 at 2:44pm: 02082012 ARVEL SIG InWorld Discussions welcome Alice Krueger (SL: Gentle Heron), President of 504(c)4 Virtual Ability, Inc.
A video recording can be watched on ARVEL Channel (the last minute records the closing of the session) and the Chatlog provides the text-chat and shared SLurls.

Wonderful discussion with over 22 avatars inworld and 5 livestream attendees. See you all next week for our session on 3D Immersive Strategies. Refer to the ARVEL Calendar of Events for details.

Comment by Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin on February 1, 2012 at 1:42pm: 02012012 ARVEL SIG InWorld Discussions welcome Patrick O'Shea, on the validity of students and teachers created AR experiences.

A video archive of the live session can be found at ARVEL's video library at http://www.livestream.com/arvelsig. The session was recorded in 4 videos:

part 1

part 2

part 3

part 4

You can also follow the text chats and shared links with the ChatLog document.

Another yet successful session with 22 avatars inworld and 7 Livestream attendees. Craig Cunningham followed up on Livestream from his iPad, and another long time ARVEL Inworld Discussion colleague, Oronoque Westland listened to us on Livestream while working in SL. Thank you guys for sharing your tech anecdotes! My apologies to those of you who were confused with the time. This session was exceptionally planned from noon to 1pm PT, but the scheduled had not been updated on the Ning.

We hope to see you all again at our next session of the ARVEL Inworld Discussion Series. You can contact Patrick on his ARVEL Ning profile page: http://arvelsig.ning.com/profile/PatrickOShea

Comment by Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin on January 25, 2012 at 2:45pm: 01/25/2012 ARVEL SIG InWorld Discussions welcome Salwa Khan, on instructor presence in Second Life for adult courses.

A video archive of the live session "Sarah and Emma: Case studies of two instructors and how they use social presence in Second Life". The video library is at http://www.livestream.com/arvelsig. For some reason, the session was split in two videos, part 1 (46:26 minutes) and part 2 (12:17 minutes).

You can also find the ChatLog at http://tinyurl.com/6plgw3d

Salwa's research can be accessed at http://txstate.academia.edu/SalwaKhan/Papers

Another yet successful session with 23 avatars inworld and 3 Livestream attendees. We hope to see you all again at our next session of the ARVEL Inworld Discussion Series.

You can contact Salwa on her ARVEL Ning profile page: arvelsig.ning.com/profile/SalwaKhan

Comment by Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin on January 19, 2012 at 10:31am: You can also check Mariis Mills's screenshots titled Arvel181212_002 and Liz Dorland's Posterous posts that cover the 01/18/2012 Thomas Conway's discussion. Here is Thomas' presentation on Slideshare:

http://www.slideshare.net/ThomasConway/employ-ablekesslerpresentation

Comment by Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin on January 18, 2012 at 2:40pm: 01/18/2012 ARVEL SIG Inworld Discussions welcome Thomas Conway, a Kessler foundation grant recipient, on Using virtual environments for training people with disabilities in employment skills.

A video archive of the live session "EmployAble" can be found at Video Library on http://www.livestream.com/arvelsig

You can also find the ChatLog at http://tinyurl.com/8yt6uoz

(Slideshares url coming soon)

This session was a great success with over 24 avatars inworld and another 10 on Livestream ARVEL Channel. We look forward to updates on the progress of this research in the near future.

Be sure to explore ARVEL's methodological caves to revisit our previous discussions and play with some 3D interactive objects left by our guest speakers.

Comment by Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin on October 24, 2011 at 10:44am: 10/19/2011 ARVEL SIG Inworld Discussions welcome Roland Sassen on Wonderschool and Nicole Yankelovich on Openwonderland.

An archive of the live session can be found on Livestream at http://tinyurl.com/3t92wjh (you can also go to ARVEL SIG Ning's main page and scroll down to the livestream screen and click on Videos). This is our first recording of a complete live show as demonstrated by a couple of tech issues (first hour of recording needs to be edited out, and the audio recorded both the external mic and inworld sound...now we know how to disable the external mic :-D). Start watching at mark 00:54:10 for Roland Sassen and 1:04:13 for Nicole Yankelovich.

Roland is co-owner of the project WonderSchool. Wonderland is a portal where you can access the animation and learning program Alice in the virtual world OpenWonderland. In WonderSchool you can build your own virtual school. Kids and students can create animations and serious games with the Alice program. Kids and students can program collaboratively in-world and then drag and drop the completed animations into Wonderland and be immersed in their animations. (source: wonderschool.org)

Nicole is the executive director of the Open Wonderland Foundation. "Yankelovich, who initiated and ran the Wonderland project during her tenure at Sun, will oversee the transition of the project. "While leadership of the Wonderland project is now in the hands of the Foundation and the open source community," she explains, "many important aspects of the project will remain unchanged. Many of the original Wonderland core team members will continue to contribute to the open source project and the new leadership is more committed than ever to advancing both immersive education and business collaboration" (source:http://openwonderland.org/component/content/article/180).

You can browse through Nicole's presentation on Slideshare at http://www.slideshare.net/nicoley/open-wonderland-for-education

Visit Open Wonderland at http://openwonderland.org/ to learn via tutorials, browse the module warehouse and verify download pre-requisites.

Comment by Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin on May 5, 2011 at 4:16pm: 05/05/2011 VWER welcomes Wainbrave Bernal

Chat log

Comment by Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin on May 5, 2011 at 4:07pm: ARVEL SIG and Tools.Jam

05/03/2011 Cooper Macbeth (SL) on how to animate textures.

Tools.Jam's post: http://itj.posterous.com/toolsjam-cooper-macbeth-shares-the-coolest-te

Chat log: 2011-05-03 Tools.Jam Animated Textures