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IM 554, Skills for Online Learning and Teaching

Topic for the lab this week: Virtual Worlds (VW): ASVR

Plan:

Prior to class meeting

• Who am I: pls share link https://web.stcloudstate.edu/pmiltenoff/faculty/ prior to class, so they can ask questions, if more info needed
• Ask students to create accounts in ASVR using the 2D option, if they don’t have goggles: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/altspacevr/9nvr7mn2fchq?activetab=pivot:overviewtab
  1. Download 2. Create an account 3. Share with instructor (you) their ASVR avatar names 3. Befriend avatar “Plamen” (alternatively avatar “IMS”)
• Students with Apple/Mac can follow our ASVR activity though my Oculus goggles, which will stream live my view at my personal FB page: https://www.facebook.com/plamen.miltenoff

During class meeting

• Who are the students: about 5 min to learn who they are
• What are virtual worlds: about 15 min to explain their part in immersive technologies and what immersive technologies are
• What is ASVR and the main competition bout 5 min:
  • EngageVR,
  • Spatial
  • Mozilla Hubs
  • Virbela
  • OrbusVR
  • Somnium Space
  • FrameVR
• Troubleshoot issues with download, installation, creation of an account  ~ 15 min
  • share your avatar names in the Zoom chat session and befriend each other in ASVR
• Meet and organize ourselves in ASVR ~ 5 min. Transition completely from Zoom to ASVR
• How to “read” and find events in ASVR – 5 min
• Explore VR – 15 min
• Ideas to
  • lead instructions in VW
    https://medium.com/causespacevr/altspacevr-101-full-beginners-guide-4780136a215c
  • professional development
    • organized at the institution
    • seeking out and joying communities
      • Educators in VR
      • Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Conference * Reconnaissance * March 18-20, 2021
      • MinnState XR COP
      • MinnState workshop “Teaching with VR” (free)
        https://sites.google.com/d/1Hylw2DiTCaVFA7-kQBVKJM2wLZyjWlWV/p/1NV7ba35EaVztB5Micngd-xGxj9c65yha/edit
• Discuss students’ ideas about opportunities with ASVR and virtual worlds – remaining time

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more on IM 554 in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=554