Flat Classroom Workshop. Part of American School of Bombay Unplugged. Mumbai, India. 3D Virtual Worlds Workshop.The slides you didn't see because of the two 1-hour hands-on session format. Second Life, OpenSimulator, Minecraft, MinecraftEdu, Jibe/Unity, Quest Atlantis, Alice.

1. David W. Deeds, IT Manager/Teacher
Changchun American International School
Flat Classroom Workshop, Mumbai
February 24, 2012
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2. 80% of all jobs created over the next decade will
require technology skills. – Our Future Demands
(http://www.microsoft.com/
presspass/presskits/citizenship/docs/stem-ig.pdf)
We are living in times of EXPONENTIAL change.
Are you preparing kids for your past or their futures? –
Ian Jukes’ 21st Century Fluency Project
http://www.fluency21.com/)
21st century education is as much about HOW you
teach as WHAT you teach. – Did I Say That?
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3. What are we trying to do?:
 Introduce 3D virtual worlds to “noobs” (newbies)
 Provide more 3DVW info to those already familiar
 Discuss why 3DVW’s are the best thing to hit
education since the invention of the printing press
 Discuss how your school can get started (e-books)
 Give you a chance for some HANDS-ON FUN!
What are we NOT trying to do?:
 Convert the hopeless heathens to the true faith
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4. International educational technology
conferences during 2011:
 Flat Classroom Conference in Beijing
 AACE Global Learn Asia Pacific Conference in
Melbourne (2nd consecutive GLAP)
 AACE ED-MEDIA Conference in Lisbon
 Global Meeting on Gifted Education in Second
Life Conference (inworld)
 TechEx 2011 in Bangkok
 Global Education Conference (online)
 Beijing Learning Summit
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5. Workshop Checklist:
 Using 3DVW’s for K-12 education, specifically
in international schools
 Second Life – 3DVW with economy
 OpenSimulator – DIY Second Life
 Quest Atlantis – Readymade 3DVW
 Minecraft – “OpenSim Lite,” other focuses
 Jibe/Unity – 3D games/apps!
 Alice – “Unity Lite,” other focuses
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7. To use Second Life and/or OpenSimulator, you
will need:
 Viewer
 Account/Avatar
Same viewer for both, Imprudence:
http://wiki.kokuaviewer.org/wiki/Imprudence:
Downloads
Download/install 1.3.2 (Windows, not +SSE2)
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8. Virtual world – a 3D computer environment in
which users are represented on screen as
themselves or as made-up characters and
interact in real time with other users
– Computer Desktop Encyclopedia
MMOG = Massively Multiplayer Online Games
MMORPG = MMO Role Playing Games
MUVE = MultiUser Virtual Environment
(Immersive Virtual, Immersive Learning)
(Try to avoid using the word “game”!)
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9. Get a copy of:
 “2011 Horizon Report K-12 Version,” free:
http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2011-Horizon-
Report-K12.pdf
 “OpenSimulator: School Quick Start Guide,” free:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/57959626/Open
Simulator-School-Quick-Start-Guide
 “A Practical Guide to Using Second Life in Higher
Education” by Maggi Savin-Baden, not free:
Open University Press (McGraw-Hill),
ISBN: 978-0335242146
(http://www.ebooks.com)
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10.  “Jibe/Unity: School Quick Start Guide,” free:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/81798024/Jibe-
Unity-School-Quick-Start-Guide
In China? Scribd blocked by The Great Firewall,
so use SlideShare instead. Also Google Books
for “OpenSimulator.”
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11. The 2011 Horizon Report says games-based
learning will be MAINSTREAM in K-12 schools
in 2-3 years (as early as 2013).
 Supports Web 2.0’s 3 C’s – Connection,
Communication, Collaboration
 Helps develop dispositions well-suited to
rapid change and an information culture in
general (problem-solving, self-reliance)
 Includes social aspects of teamwork, project
management, play (4th C: Cooperation)
(How about being FUN? ISTE NETS! STEM!)
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12. Savin-Badin’s “Practical Guide” says “immersive
virtual worlds” have many advantages.
 Space in which experimentation can occur not
possible in real life
 Good fit for a culture that focuses on the
visual
 Provides a sense of freedom and openness in
teaching and learning
 Offers exposure to wide range of scenarios
 Enables process- or task-based
teaching/learning
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13. Deeds says that 3DVW’s will be an
indispensable part of if not the focal point of
21st century education, for K-12 and up
 No better way to teach the 3 C’s: Connect,
Communicate and Collaborate (#4?)
 For international schools, 3DVW’s help
students (and teachers) transcend the
language barrier
 Gifted and Special Needs programs built-in
 K-12 OpenSimulator Grid/Second Life Islands
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15.  ASMeB = Anti Social Media Behavior
 2D tools (wikis, blogs, etc.) enable the
3 C’s…(4?)…people just won’t/don’t do it
 Facebook Phobia: people lose jobs for
posting: photographs; opinions; etc.
 Privacy concerns; awareness of permanence;
hesitation to write in general
 Exchanges are generally asynchronous, text
 Innovative? Interesting? FUN?
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16. Generic international school problems:
 Schools are geographically separated, isolated
 No IT classes, or Design/Technology split
 Teaching 21st century tech: teachers, budgets
Specific 3 (4?) C’s Problems:
 Students aren’t necessarily fluent in LOI
 2D tools are limited: subjects especially!
 Privacy; permanence; ASMeB; FUN?
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17. Second Life
Got Imprudence yet?
http://wiki.kokuaviewer.org/wiki/
Imprudence:Downloads
Account/Avatar:
https://join.secondlife.com/
http://secondlife.com/
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18. Second Life:
 Launched by Linden Labs in 2003
 3D virtual world with built-in modeling (CAD)
tools and Linden Scripting Language
 Not a game (per se): connect, communicate
and collaborate (also conduct commerce!)
 Q1 2011 holdings: US$30,000,000
 Been in Second Life for 5 years, taken over
500 students inworld for different classes
 Basic membership FREE, Premium $75/year
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19. Second Life Business/IT/Other classes since 2006:
 Professor in Korean university’s International
Business Department
 Students from Korea, China, Russia, Vietnam,
Laos and other countries (widely varying English)
 No lower-level textbooks for subjects such as
Management Information Systems!
 Needed a means of differentiation: “gifted and
talented” plus “regulars” plus “special needs” kids
 Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol
(SIOP), Individualized Education Plans (IEP)
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20. Individualized Education Plans (IEP):
 Started with Ph.D. research, means of
meeting needs of all students across the
spectrum
 Tried formal IEPs but involved a lot of
paperwork, easier to make informal,
although signatures help
 Better to develop “skeleton” lesson plans
that can be adapted, special needs or
gifted/talented kids and all “regulars”
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24. OpenSimulator
Viewer: http://wiki.kokuaviewer.org/wiki/
Imprudence:Downloads
Account/Avatar:
(1) ReactionGrid:
http://grid.reactiongrid.com/register_rg_b.aspx
(2) Jokaydia Grid:
http://www.jokaydiagrid.com/signup-for-
jokaydiagrid/
Imprudence:
http://jokaydia.metaverseworlds.com:8002/
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25. OpenSimulator:
 Came onto the scene in 2007, now at 0.7.2
(still alpha, not yet at Version 1)
 NOT a Second Life clone! (Viewers are)
 3D virtual world with built-in modeling (CAD)
tools and Linden Scripting Language
 Not a game (per se): connect, communicate
and collaborate (conduct commerce later?)
 Been in OpenSimulator since 2008, taken
over 200 students inworld for different
classes
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26. OpenSimulator:
 FREE, although hosted solutions best for most
schools (if you have good Internet access!)
 Two Do It Yourself options: client/local or
client/server
 Still not mature, but getting there…soon (??)
should be able to do everything Second Life
does and so it’s predicted to come out on top
 Open Wonderland, others have come and
gone… OpenSimulator will be the #1 choice of
schools
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30. At CAIS, we use:
 Munchkinland for PYP (elementary school) ICT
classes: running on local server “Big Bertha”
 4-region private grid called Florida Caisland
via ReactionGrid for MYP Technology classes
 1-region public grid called just plain Caisland
in ReactionGrid (K-12s Inworld headquarters)
 An almost 10,000-square-meter
cybercampus on Teaching in Second Life
(K-12s Inworld HQ) for DP Info Technology in
a Global Society classes
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31. Advantages of OpenSimulator over Second Life:
 FREE (the software anyway)
 Private versus public (if you want it this way)
 Complete control over parameters
Advantages of Second Life over OpenSimulator:
 Where everybody is, at least grownups!
 Economy, exchange of goods and services
 More mature, it’s a for-profit business
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32. Second Life and OpenSim:
 Built-in computer-aided design (3D modeling)
tools: students build their own worlds
 Built-in Linden Scripting Language: students
easily learn programming with instant payoff
 Project management: students must work
together in teams with defined roles and
responsibilities
 Language exchange programs: virtual field
trips!
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33. Second Life: Teachers/Admins & Students 16+:
 Teachers/administrators can attend meetings
and otherwise network with professional peers
 Students can produce products and run their
own businesses, making actual profits if
successful
 Teachers/administrators can recruit and
otherwise advertise their organizations
 Students can visit the cybercampuses of
universities or colleges they want to attend
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34. OpenSim: Teachers/Admins & Students 3-19:
 With grid, teachers/administrators can do
everything possible in Second Life, except
perhaps economics
 Students can enjoy completely private
regions/grids while intermittently going on
virtual field trips
 Technology classes can feature true continuity:
students starting as of PYP could be
professional builders/programmers by DP
 Younger students learn all computer basics plus
advanced aspects such as project management
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35. Problems? What problems?
 Geographic location/isolation no longer a factor
(except for time zones). Virtual China or Italy
“next door”! 3D meetings 24X7.
 Information and Design Technology tracks
combined! Or just Design, using 3D modeling.
 21st century educational technology at $100 a
month, with teachers and students training
simultaneously!
 3D enables struggling students to succeed, while
native speakers excel: ultimate differentiated
classroom! Special needs and gifted/talented.
 Avatars are anonymous; people talk, not write;
no such thing as ASMeB; and yes, it’s FUN!
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36. Second Life and OpenSim, what have we learned?
Students:
 Computer-Aided Design, Programming, Project
Management, Business, English
 Social Constructivism (Reality, Knowledge
Learning), Learner-Centric Instruction, IB
Design Cycle: Investigate, Design, Plan, Create,
Evaluate
Teachers:
 Inclusion, Differentiation, Sheltered Instruction
Observation Protocol (SIOP)
 Problem-/Task-Based Instruction,
Action/Active Learning, Reciprocal Guidance,
Inquiry-Based
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37. Getting Your Cyberturf (See the e-book!)
Second Life:
 New Media Consortium
 Jokaydia Grid
 International School Islands
OpenSimulator:
 ReactionGrid
 Jokaydia Grid
 Do It Yourself: Client/Local or Client/Server
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38. Quest Atlantis
(Guest) Account/Avatar:
http://atlantis.crlt.indiana.edu/
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39. Quest Atlantis:
 Prebuilt 3DVW with quests (you can build/create)
 From the University of Indiana, FREE
 For students 9-16, maybe as young as 8
 CAIS took MYP English classes inworld 2009-11
 Six teachers completed training late last year
 Trainers in Australia, regular schedule
 Must have 2 teachers, 4 1.5-hour online classes
Contact Bronwyn Stuckey: bstucke@indiana.edu
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42. Minecraft:
 Regular version: http://www.minecraft.net
 20 MILLION+ registered users worldwide,
5 MILLION+ have bought the game!
 Building things, mining for minerals,
fighting monsters, you name it!
 Singleplayer (free) or server (licensed)
 Kids (and adults) love the game, but how to
use it in the classroom elusive until Edu
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43. MinecraftEdu:
 Special mod for education:
http://minecraftedu.com/
 “Playing offline,” no licenses needed
 Puts teacher in charge of student projects
 Currently being used for CAIS MYP Technology
digital storytelling and urban planning units
 CAIS MYP 1-3 Blog:
http://minecraft.caischina.asia/society
 Contact Santeri Koivisto: santeri@appliedscg.fi
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47. Jibe/Unity:
Unity3D: http://unity3d.com/
Fantastic, FREE (basic version) 3D game/app IDE!
3D game/app development without programming,
iPhone or Android license costs money, US$1500
Jibe: http://www.reactiongrid.com/
Proprietary server platform for Unity development
ReactionGrid offers starter programs: $125/3 mos.
Contact Kyle Gomboy: create@reactiongrid.com
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51. Almost 1,000 reads first week up!
“Jibe/Unity: School Quick Start Guide,” free:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/81798024/Jibe-
Unity-School-Quick-Start-Guide
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52. Alice (http://www.alice.org/):
 Tool for teaching introductory programming
(3D Scratch, although there is S4SL)
 Free, from Carnegie Mellon University
 3D programming environment for telling a
story, playing a game, creating a video
 Drag and drop interface, object-oriented
 Different levels: 2.0/2.2 for high school and
college, Storytelling for middle school
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54. Thanks…
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55. Thank you for your attention!
Questions/Comments?
David W. Deeds, IT Manager/Teacher
Work: +86-431-8458-1234,
ddeeds@caischina.org
Home: +86-186-8668-4534,
davidwdeeds@yahoo.com
Facebook & LinkedIn: David W. Deeds
Skype: davidwdeeds, Twitter: dwdeeds
Second Life: Deed Davids (visit Teaching!)
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