Insane VR Minecraft MOOC in Epic Virtual Worlds

19 in atlanta uh we did this we did it again a similar thing and had it hybrid then in 2020 they canceled the conference in denver i believe that year was is that right anyway uh yes but we the electronic village online gave the presentation anyway online

At about the time that it would actually have happened in denver had it uh had it been then so so we were the i think we had an event later for that uh and then last year uh we didn’t oh there’s a virtual conference last

Year as well so and we were uh part of that so basically this is we’ve done this often before and uh we are jane and i are going to talk about edo minecraft book and that’s our session the we’ve been doing this for eight years now this is our eighth year and we

Started in 2015. and uh this year we have let me see if i can move this little window here okay so we have uh i’m the lead moderator of the evo minecraft book since 2015. and aaron schwartz is one of all the coal miners co-moderators are listed here aaron schwartz

Handles the back end he does the he keeps the server running he has possibly the hardest job i think there is the toughest barbara stevens my wife uh is uh co-moderating with us this year katrina maria all these are in alphabetical order by the way and katrina is someone who

Was so prominent last year that we asked her to be a moderator this year she’s very uh personable and is learning he’s learning and is therefore a good model for uh other participants and then haika phil who is also co-modeling the uh building and virtual world and she’ll she’ll be talking later but

She she was a part of this one she might have a word to say uh at some point and then jane sheen and matthew sai who is her son so we encourage people to bring their children and we have lots of young people joining us we learned from them

Um and jeff kuhn who uh he and i wrote an article in uh i can’t anyway so there’s a last slide here to show some references it’s queen stevens and it’s about participatory cultures and then we also have dakota redstone and olive tree lighthouse who um Okay yeah who were moderators in the past but are not really operating in moderator capacity except that they really are de facto moderators and we really appreciate their work the links at the bottom of this these slides will work so at some point we need to give you the

Uh the link to the slideshow slide presentation and so that you could hit those links but we’ll distribute that at some point okay uh so there’s bobby and heike my wife bobby bear is what she looks like in actual fact she has no avatar she is an avatar and uh Why did you include this slide jane yeah this is our like opening event um we always started with an opening event and um dakota built an area and invited us for a fish fry event on social events so that we can get together and uh know each other um to start off the

Evil minecraft mooc yeah okay next slide okay yeah so um you know this this is we’re fishing um and these are the people who attended and and um we really enjoy getting together and fishing and um learning how to you know put our fish in a campfire and yeah get it cooked

Yeah this is a good example of language activity some people don’t know how to fish you have to get them fishing poles or teach them how to make them and then you explain how to fish how to throat you can see the lower right there’s a

Fishing rod you throw it into the water you catch fish and you can take that fish back to Where we were a moment ago and cook it it’s just an activity that is kind of like the old moves the multi-object virtual environments that we used to habitate except that these uh this one is richer in many ways and then of course the immersive worlds that doris and

Haika are talking about are intensively uh will immerse so and this also has lots of language activity which they’ll talk about okay and then um because we’re communicating through uh discord and there are a lot of uh participants um we have yeah and so um also we have like young learners uh

Who were there joining us and and um we were actually talking over each other and you know um um we had a discussion on um how how do we how do we communicate through discord uh when it’s in a like a crowd when it’s a crowd like this and um having conversations on

Um the online voice communication etiquette and that’s something that we ought to teach our young learners as well so that’s a lesson learned through the event yes again it’s a point of discussion and for language learners uh it’s a real topic that you can discuss with your learners and in this particular case

The kids who they were just unaware that they were being distracting but once they figured that out they became very blight and reasonable after that and what were they distracting us about they were having us all ride around on these uh striders this is something they they get from the netherworld they

Brought them up from the netherworld you can only find them in the netherworld or if you join evil minecraft book you might find them just about anywhere but uh anyway they brought these up and uh showed us how to ride them to ride them you have to carry a warped mushroom

In on that stick and that makes it that makes the strider go you can also ride horses in minecraft but striders are kind of interesting yeah okay anything else about that jane um perhaps the next slide okay yeah and um actually maddie put together this uh strider writing and he um

He left us a note and this is the note he uh he he uh had written uh hi there hey there man i want to get a ride introducing the uh rideable freezing blocks um yeah you just take a warped fungus on stick and rent one it’s free

Just don’t let them perish into white smoke maddie and um so maddie and i are based in taipei taiwan and and so english is to us is a foreign language in tomati as well and um he has learned so much uh by participating in this community and

Me as his mom observing how his language developed over the years um and and is doc was documented by advanced uh you know over these years from he was very young like at the age of four you could really see um his uh progress in in terms of um

Speaking communicating and finally he’s able to write something and type it up something and um although you still notice that uh you know he still needs some work on the writing conventions but um i’m i’m really glad um that about this platform minecraft mooc um um engaging in learners and also

Educators we um and um you know so uh we get to know um how how learners learn in this minecraft uh world yes the last slide is references and jane’s article that she wrote in tessely ej about vocabulary development using maddie and a few of his friends in minecraft is there and also

Last year we put together we had i made transcriptions of a discussion that we had at one of the best of ebo events and that was very revealing about what people are learning for example typing skills um accents i never thought of that but they learn accents from one another

Uh which just never seems to come up in their context so okay what’s next oh and um we really enjoy building and dakota uh loves building extravagant um uh things like this um pyramid and uh we were having fun around it um yeah yeah we have a dynamic map

Uh we’re not going to show it to you here but uh we can find these places on our map and we can see the relationships the various places and we can see so we often go to dakota’s pyramid This is a neat place to hang out okay yeah and who built this and maddie when he was in fourth grade um i took him to visit the statue of liberty and uh what’s nice about minecraft is kids get to build uh what you know what they

Encounter and what you know in the real life and and go through like the some of the histories and um when he showed this bill to his friends his friends was asking why isn’t it agreeing and you know so he sort of have to explain to

To his friends and this is like um um a great example of how you could uh carry on a conversation and go into details um of uh something um um in a real world and you know because of the minecraft build uh by the learners

Okay i just checked the chat i don’t see any questions there i don’t know if i told people we have a well-behaved audience but uh we appreciate if you stay muted and if uh only the presenters have their uh screen have their videos on that’s uh standard going to be standing for all

The best of dvo events and if you have a question you can put it in the text chat and put a queue in front of it and that will alert doris who’s monitoring that that you have a question and we’re 15 minutes into our presentation so we have

Another half hour for our part of it but of course we don’t want to be talking the whole time but we would like to leave if you have any questions we’re going to leave a little time for that by 6 30 we’re going to hand over to doris and ike okay

Let’s see the next slide a game we all played yeah um and this is so so maddie is the the tech person in you know minecraft he has the the skills of you know a building a mini game you know and setting up something like this this is the

Year of the tiger and he’s set up a mini game for us to play like each year every year um it this involves redstone which i don’t know much about it um so i i he learns the language from the community by communicating with us and i learned the building techniques the

Redstones and all that from him yeah yeah again another example of uh how you interact with students about real topics things of interest to both of you you’re the teacher but suddenly you’re the learner they’re the teachers and that’s uh one interesting thing that minecraft does i think okay so

Now it’s time for me to talk a little bit i’ve patted an evo minecraft mook on dave cormier’s video which you can five steps to succeed in a mooc and by the way mook as far as i’m concerned stands for minuscule open online course the principles for minuscule open

Online course are the same as for a massive open online course except there are a few fewer people but the principles are pretty much the same as it happens this way year after year the first week people orient because moocs are confusing by definition so people have to figure out

What’s the lay of the land here where am i how do i uh communicate so we get people a week to do that and then the second week declare that’s where dave says that people can start explaining who they are and why they’re there and the third week is

Network people start networking they start we start sharing networks for example we get the vste virginia society for teaching and education technology and education yeah okay and uh visti has a minecraft mooc every month once a month the first monday and every month i believe minecraft monday and uh so we made them

Part of our first ever minecraft one day conference on language learning and um people in moocs after the third week they start networking but then we find out we’re in different time zones and people with like interest start clustering together and five is really where you focus but it could it extends

Into after the uh after the mooc so i’m not sure if i click this what will happen let’s see this is the this is our conference site it’s uh let’s see okay so this this let’s see if i can go down to find the oh that’s the i’m not sure

Game oh here we go there we go so this this is our announcement for the conference and it happened on february 8th and you can find out everything that happened here including all the recordings so we’re going to talk a little bit about what happened at the conference and

Because this is a really unique event uh okay if i hit how do i get out of here let’s see if i can go back what will happen no um how do i close that no that doesn’t work either maybe i should oh okay so i stopped the

Share kind of inadvertently i’ll come back here let’s see i’ll start the share again and uh So i’m gonna have to clean up here um i don’t see the oh goodness i think i’ve closed everything oh okay um i can change yeah yeah you go ahead and share okay okay okay i can take it from dave’s slide and go on to the next one

Let me excellent you see how we work together we all collaborate so yeah you come down to fight how’s that ken no you need to go yeah there you go okay so that’s the all the i just showed you uh all the events were recorded i’m not going to

Click that link but that takes you to this blog post and that blog post has all the recordings listed there and you just click on them and you can you can see them so they’re either in youtube or they’re in facebook all right you want to move on jane

Coming down 20 minutes after the hour okay sorry yeah this is the first one there was james york’s presentation uh he didn’t actually do a presentation he just held a discussion you can see on the left there part of our dynamic map you can see where we’re sitting in this uh in

Sort of a compound we’re sitting around a table which dakota made for us very quickly at some point we started standing on each other’s heads we got tired of sitting around the table and basically we had a discussion about What’s the language benefit from minecraft how easy is it to implement and let’s hold that question because we’ll come back to it in a second okay you go over to walton’s presentation walton showed us how he creates scripts for activities which will help him to communicate with students

In minecraft so he sets up tasks for them they do the tasks and he’s got scripts which we keep track of their progress and that’s his pagoda which he built in order to house his presentation okay do you want to go to the next one okay so this is robert and robert

Kumarab and that’s one of the roberts they’re from japan what they did was they uh they built this this area which actually they didn’t build it like this dakota came along and he filled in the ceiling and all the decorated quite a bit which is another really interesting aspect of minecraft

Everyone’s a builder everyone’s a creator uh again you can click on that youtube link and you can see their presentation but they were meaning to have us write in books they had a wall over here to the left you can’t see the wall but there’s a wall there where we

Posted ideas for how they could run their resource center they had a resource center and they were trying to integrate minecraft into it how can they do that how could they get how could they use minecraft to get uh japanese language learners to you know open up with language so

We all post it over there and yeah this is they they use minecraft as a platform for self-learning as a self-learning center for uh college students and yeah have monthly uh build challenges for them too yeah and we okay yeah and then i don’t know i is here she

Could say something about her presentations uh she talked about excalibur chris binder talked about mind test which is a free open source uh minecraft kind of like environment that it’s very interesting because it’s open source open source open source it’s free and then andrea that’s if i can just come back to

James’s question what are people doing in minecraft to um to help language learners practically speaking uh andrea works in italian schools and he had many examples so he pretty much answered that question so how could you take just a few minutes to uh i actually you said it most of it

Already so that’s perfectly okay um the presentations are have been very fascinating and andrea bennasi works for india which is the italian research organization they do a lot of piloting in schools and there are quite ahead of time uh with regards to in the european field

Uh it’s a great privilege to be able to work with them and india is once again oh well europe is once again a project partner in excalibur excalibur is a project that is about to start which will take two years it has received funding to develop expertise for teachers on how to use

This environment to facilitate language learning And to encourage the students to build if possible uh with the sustainable goals in mind yeah so this is the long long excalibur acronym of things and uh so but this is as i said it’s just about to start and uh takes two years and then we had chris pinder

Explain about mind test and mind test is a beautiful alternative for those who cannot afford the java version of minecraft and who cannot use the mine uh craft version of microsoft which is also free for if you have the office suit so it’s it’s for for those out

There in the field who are left without any alternatives mind test and their block a lot administration tool is a great tool for teachers to have students join the space to build with that and also with security concerns uh very easy and free and that’s it from from my side yeah

Okay thank you black lot helps you make maps so uh it looks like jane’s going to tackle the question of why minecraft at school she didn’t answer it she’ll answer it now oh no no this is um this is from andreas andreas presentation ah okay on the link on haiku slide there’s a

Link to all three presentations all together in one youtube video but each of the presentations is also split into its own so if you go to the blog post that we showed you you can that’s learning together learningtogether.net if you go there that’s one of the most recent posts

So you can play all of the you can you can get all the videos and the one day conference in minecraft it’s the first because um You know we’ve been doing a lot of virtual conferences lately especially with tesol but uh and it’s a conference on language learning but this is a conference in minecraft about language learning it’s the first that we’re where i keep saying this nobody’s challenged me on it so i think

It’s the first time anybody has set up a a conference on language learning in minecraft and so it’s interesting in that respect okay so now this is uh i so i did a presentation on an analysis of minecraft activities for language learning um but i i think this is the

Slide i would like to emphasize um so as we observe like maddie you know learner young learners um participate in a minecraft world for language learning um we look at their language competence they you know maddie started uh low in this area this area um and with low language confidence not not

Being able to speak much english but being able to listen and comprehend what others others were saying um and also the uh minecraft skills okay this this part was would be minecraft skills would be low minecraft skills and low language competence and then as time moves on and

He keeps on playing and communicating in this um on our server interacting with peop you know uh emanuel from brazil and also um um who else was i forgot her name um based in europe and there were um so his language he is able to uh you know communicate in english more and

His minecraft skills advances and right now he’s here in uh in this area where he could build game many games and you know um you know do role plays narrative storytelling uh with um you know high minecraft skills and high language competence and for teachers all we need

Is start from here um we have high um language confidence where you know native speakers or you know and then we need the minecraft skills um from this area and moves on to the um this area yeah yeah and that’s the purpose of ebo minecraft book and by the way we have

Two minutes uh okay so yes excellent okay so uh the purpose of the video minecraft book which should probably have been said at the very beginning is to give teachers experience in minecraft and help us learn from each other and be models for each other and it’s just in time learning we

Tried setting up little tutorials along the way we’ve i said we’ve been doing this for eight years but i just personally gave up on that uh it’s best just to get people into the world if people aren’t going to come into the world anyway they’re just not going to

Learn it and i know doris will have a lot to say about that because she skillfully brings people into her uh into her metaverse yes intersection open sin actually now this these references uh that first article i mentioned that jane had an article in tesselli j so that’s

Uh research she did on language development conan stevens is the second one down here and uh the next to the bottom which is stevens 2021 march 27th that has lots of examples of how of what we said that’s a transcript of a conversation we had at the last tesol conference

And there’s also a page of more articles at the pedagogy of minecraft link at the very bottom of this slide and i think i’m going to put the link to the slides in the text chat once i get off the stage is there any there’s one more slide yes

Thank you very much for attending our presentation and it looks like we’re turning over to haika and doris just in time so we’ll let them introduce their session please keep your microphones muted please keep your video off for us please and um if you have questions i saw a question come in

Uh a moment ago so if i guess we’ll take questions at the end we have time yes fans there are two questions there is one about how to avoid students becoming game addicted and the next question is what is the minimum age group to use minecraft

Okay i can i can the minimum age group it’s been used with young children pre-literate so Kids can learn how to play minecraft at a very early age uh maybe two is a little too early three or four surely by four four they can do it and as far as the other question was uh how do we avoid addiction actually we’re not trying to avoid addiction we’re

Trying to encourage addiction to learning the language it’s that’s actually that kind of addiction constructively channeled is what makes minecraft work for certain students uh jane mentioned the person a person that uh uh emanuel like no no no uh mariana schmolchetz is that who you were thinking phillip

Phillip yeah phillip phillips mulches is a her son and that’s how we actually got started with ego minecraft book uh she did a study about her son’s um language development how flu how he became fluent by interacting with other students because he’s in croatia his language is creation and also

To learn minecraft they had to watch videos they didn’t understand a word and he told me when i went and visited them in croatia that the language just emerged so uh it’s it’s effective when kids really get uh into the flow in minecraft um so i don’t think a game addiction in a

Itself is the problem but you want them to get into the language you want them to get into the game so that they can use that to learn their language okay all right thanks yeah okay sorry i took two minutes of your time okay okay now it’s your turn

Thank you very much indeed and uh this uh i can just encourage you to look at the conference the minecraft move conference the one day conference because what’s been put together here is very very unique and we thank vance very much for organizing this so wonderful to lead

And i’m happy to start my presentation on the immersive storytelling uh immersive building the mercy of storytelling was last year okay um also have the chat open feel free to ask questions and i’m just to send um jane if you could check out the links that i just sent you in

Private chat if you could paste them bit by bit into the public chat if that’s okay as we’re going through thank you so much so best of evil a really great privilege to be hybrid virtual in pittsburgh sorry that was um first light so excited thank you very much for inviting us

We’ve been really proud to conduct the immersive building in virtual worlds and virtual reality and i’m thank you mastoda and i’m going to show you some really really great examples of new 3d software that has blown our minds and that are officially classed virtual reality but that offer teachers the

Possibility to build a 3d environment within minutes and to encourage the students to join in seconds and encourage the students to build in the street environments within 10 minutes it’s absolutely incredible and i’m so proud that this fantastic team of moderators that you see in front of us

Has joined uh it’s been 10 we’ve been 10 moderators and one co-moderator who especially showed us a specific platform and so we looked at a number of solutions in the five weeks which was attended to by 150 participants very exciting and i mentioned before that the expression virtual worlds and virtual

Reality which we chose immersive building in virtual worlds in virtual reality last summer when we proposed the session this was the state in the autumn it was called the metaverse so we could we could proudly uh sort of show that we’ve been looking at the metaverse here so we went into opens them

Unkindly open sim is similar to second life very good building uh possibilities frame vr io which is the one i’m very excited about mozilla hubs fantastic open source again all space gear these were the four solutions that we looked at hi ashvan welcome to the session in opensim we already established a

Beautiful foursim island with great uh excitement last year we built on it and this year we said here’s the plot of land let’s build edu nation village and this is what it looked like afterwards i’m not sure whether it’s very small obviously it’s a and a bird’s

Eye perspective here but if you go to kitely and everybody can go at any time you will see here a huge workshop on how to build idioms in open sim so we conducted general building workshops idioms building workshops which is so fun because you can With a few elements you can build these you know the lame duck eye icon sort of thing or who has the cut got your tongue and and things like really great idioms um amazing array of idioms and um then we did this belt building workshop in frame vr sorry all space as well

Mozilla hops and now we have a new location for edu nation so imagination agination is the name of the uh the two islands that we run running second life and now the new island in kitely another four islands in kitely are also called agination so if you google agination

This is also something where you find what what i would like to point you to is the v languages pv works so if we could perhaps uh jane if you could put this in the chat because in a on this side that wiki is where we collect all of the information about language

Learning and virtual worlds that have been we’ve been around and doing this for 15 years that includes all the number of ear funded projects but that also includes the conferences we conducted in the past and we are now part of virtual world best practice and education a language strand of that big

Big bigger conference and um also the evo sessions everything so i’m we’re going to go to the languages wiki in a minute i would like to sorry not to thank you but i would like to change over to this one because i would like to show you the beautiful results

And i’m going to show life some of these results so this is the wiki the language is wiki thank you aisha and here you will find on the home page out front you’ll find the immersive building session as we conducted it and the beautiful results

So you’ll find that here is the name of the person who conducted the session uh sorry who produced the results sorry we conducted the building workshops but our participants created with these environments amazing sites and so christiana pivetta was one of the participants thank you so much yeah we can do that

Actually it’s a good point so um i can share that one like this now great asking because i didn’t give this to jane i forgot about this one so you’re welcome so cristiano was participant of the work of the evo session and she started to build in iframe vr

And she was so excited she is very master built in other environments and she uses blender and what she did she created a specific building in blender and then imported this in iframe so let’s look quickly at her sites and here is the museum dante and the domus romana and

Mohammed you have a question would you like to put the question in text chat and i’ll address it same time so do you see iframe build up okay this is the environment all i do is i put my name in here i type hiker i click on connect and this is how easy

Your students can go in so permit this to build up it’s the the space that she used here is the uh so-called gallery space and what you built here is a site with information about dante you can the students can walk through here they can click on

A few things so whenever they click on it they get information they can read the information or they can click here to visit other rooms we found there’s no end of rooms to this iframe everybody can use iframe three different sites for free iframe is produced by verbeela and

Verbilla itself is rather expensive and iframe has become their kind of common solution for it it supports voice as you can see microphone it supports people so you can with this very simple link frame vr i dante people can go there and soon start to interact as i said everyone can do this

And then there is for each of the three spaces that you can get for free you can this the first visitor look at that how quickly yes this is what they look like the avatars but you can change the avatar to a human looking one at the moment it’s a

Robot he looks the other way that’s why i don’t see this eyes you know he saw her eyes that’s it from the front okay so and this guest this is how quickly students can go in one of the teachers she created a site i’ll show you that again from the results page

She created a site here this is georgia moneta partisan she created a site called frame vr the uk so she built and allow me to leave this quickly because i’d like to just click on the uk as that it builds up in a few seconds there’s no software to be installed no um You can you can easily build there i’ll show you in a minute those samples of students what they did it’s not not that they can just go there and walk in allow it to build up and as you can see everything about the uk there’s information there’s poems there’s videos you can embed

Yes deep d it’s free you can put in objects like the big ben you know here who is she then when you click on it you get links to websites so that students can check this out absolutely stunning we were blown away to be honest and this is the technology i have been

Waiting for for 15 years 15 years so but i’ll talk you through because iframe is one really really great discovery that we made thanks to jennifer by the way and here we have jennifer’s side jennifer uh one of the moderators she gave a workshop and she invited us all into this iframe and

Look at that the amazing thing is that we as participants when we joined her ascension as i said within 10 minutes we were able to res 3d objects but this winnie the pooh you know somebody peter just pressed winnie the pooh or here this person added a picture

It’s yeah iframe is free you get three iframes for free and you can take 15 students in this space and there is a lot of as you can see here it’s blue or at the top there’s this gallery these are the so-called templates you can use there’s a ton of templates

They include outdoor spaces beaches islands they include include exhibition spaces like these ones here they include um free sitting areas so that the background basically the spaces the environments here there are tons of templates every one of the three free frames that you get so they’re called frames every one of these frames

Um can have up to 12 rooms and even more we we stopped at 12 we’ve we thought it’s endless even that you can have rooms so you can take your students from room to room and different rooms for different purposes like breakout rooms as it were

An online easter egg hunt mirella what a great idea so and here i wanted to show you this picture of helen or carrela some of us know her helen myers she rest this frog she was in the space 10 minutes and that was so stunning for us i mean really incredible equally good

But still a little bit here i would say and a little bit not as nice graphics i would say is mozilla hubs but mozilla hops is open source and so there’s no limit to using it so with iframe iframe is a commercial solution but no no software needed and you only

Get three free it’s a bit like padlet you know we get three padlets um but here once in the hubs is completely open source and i’d like to show you mozilla hubs as well but i want to move on now when it builds up i let it build up

Um because we created in open sim beautiful environments like the the really funny baba yaga house and it was so funny because this house behaved like it was we laughed our heads off because we we showed the the teacher how to make the house fly by creating an invisible

Avatar and then putting this house on her as well and then fly off and when she did it she changed the physics of the house as well so this house behaves baba yaga couldn’t believe it it was so funny when she presented it and beautiful other buildings here lucia this tent

Uh stunning alicia created a whole site of a historic moment in poland and zainab musavi some of you might know as well she created this beautiful tapestry gallery peter o’mall created a house here’s barbara’s workshops with all of the beautiful idioms that she created ah you have to go she also has amazing

Amount of slides for idioms and here’s the description of eva so if you go to v languages peopleworks.com you’ll get to the results of our beautiful evil sessions we’re so proud of what our parties have we’re so proud how much time they spent on it and this brings me to an end

And also of the the last slide which is this one so keep if if we can just copy paste the youtube of these yeah and open for questions anytime the same session next year we always expand and we always increa like look for new challenges because evo is

Not only a beautiful way to invite people to learn but it’s also a fantastic way for us core moderators of these sessions to train ourselves experiment of course but it’s our own training set interestingly isn’t it yeah so we love to to teach or train this

But at the same time we learn more than our participants as usual evil be encouraged to use you know to do evil okay but it’s always you know a big community of educators in this virtual world so if you are interested just contact us and we’ll help you get there and

Yeah there is always nest sessions next year with wonderful things to do too so everybody’s invited and i heard next year it’s going to be called metaverse now everything is metaverse yeah and i need to mention that doris did a stunning session on importing mesh and

This just like these 3d objects which i showed to you these 3d objects to import these into a virtual world like open sim doris is the absolute expert in doing that elena is also here elena is around and she is also a wonderful builder she also have a session on building

So elena if you want to turn off your camera and say hello yes she’s also uh she was also a moderator she worked that you know a lot of people um he’s been passionate about this and yes elena is here yeah she’s missing at the same time i think she has to

She’s muted and okay normally she’s teaching a full-time oh let me give her permission so she can come oh what is it yeah there she is i mean i can nelly yeah i’m afraid can you give her believe me i found her helena is teaching an adult class right

Now it’s possible that she can’t switch on webcam she’s she’s saying that she wants to she says permission she’s here i’m here beautiful elena from grinnies yeah and thank you so much for presenting this it’s been a fantastic experience once again this year working together with a beautiful team of colleagues

Moderators but also teachers from around the world i’m sorry i can’t share my screen or can i i’m at the school right now you can do anything oh yes here i am okay can you see my background wonderful location the end of the first part of my working

Day and i’m sorry i couldn’t attend earlier but uh haike has encompassed everything really and you’ve shown someone if you it’s okay you’ve covered me fully trust me and it was nice sharing my knowledge my skills uh well part of it anyway teaching our colleagues about how they can script how

They can texture how they can insert media and sound and i’m sure there’s much more to do and when nelly asked heike if it’s possible if we’re considering repeating the session next year i’m sure if we repeat it there’s going to be new outcomes and it it’s going to be fantastic

Thanks a lot that’s all for me for the moment main lab is here as well daniel’s here lovely bye take care thank you helena thank you two vans zainab feel free i’ve given you right feel free to share your experiences cena is special she has been with us for two years

Right now and she’s our you know wonderful start thank you so much for this wonderful team thank you thank you all um i couldn’t i couldn’t participate in the in the classes because uh because of my internet but the moderators were very useful and they they taught me all the things step by

Step again and thank you for that thank you so much i think you have a in in in the site hey can you have a cena’s work maybe you can show it share the screen and show her work well i i we get we still have six

Minutes so if you have any questions please feel free now that we are here and in virtual worlds right now and there is going to be a big conference that is called virtual world best practices in education and it’s happening on the 31st from the

31st of march to the 1st of april no 20 the second of april and there you will have the chance to contact and and network with a lot of educators and from different uh virtual uh platforms vr and virtual world so you are all invited to come

Say now do you want to say a little bit about your beautiful build look it really the building and it shines at night we had to yes uh we made a carpet gallery um helena helped me how to add the objects to the gallery and how to

Um how to make the building because i didn’t know anything i couldn’t attend the class but two times during one day she helped me she was very patient and she helped me how to make a building how to add their pictures uh how to change the textures

And how to resize the objects and it was a wonderful experience for me thank you thank you so much helena thank you any more questions from the audience can i ask you a question the audience if you could you know of any 3d building spaces that we can explore next year

That we should go into to learn how to build there and how to make the environment and shape the environment the way we do minecraft of busy being such a beautiful 3d environment to work and creating engage i discovered that yesterday and it’s wow it is really really nice

Engage good engagement point you’re saying it because for the virtual world best practice in education akhahat who is in new york and she has been a moderator of our evil session she presented to us all space vr um but this evening at that’s 2 p.m san francisco time and that’s uh

5 p.m new york time and that’s uh 11 11 10 10 o’clock in in europe and she will take everyone through it’s called an immersive experience for the virtual world perspective uh virtual world best practice and education conference which takes place next week and the immersive experiences are

One week ahead of the conference and she will take us into engage i rehearsed it with her yesterday engage vr which is fantastic it’s not free though or very limited free version of engage but it’s stunning beautiful vr environment i can something that you can you know something that is really

Important is that you get used to all these worlds you know because this is where conferences and training is going to be happening so this is a lot of digital literacy you know just to go maybe just think oh this is too complicated i cannot use that in the

Classroom but it is good to know about it and when the time is right then you will be ready for that that’s my story with when i discover virtual worlds i didn’t have a computer or connection or the knowledge and uh but i started attending conferences and and evo has been

Very important for this evo was the one that opened evil village was the one that opened our well my interest for virtual worlds and i’ve been there since then so this is something that you can do by visiting the different places and then you know picking shoes and you get

Confident and one day you’re hold you’re having your classes too and bring in your students yeah roblox is also very popular for games yes and and yeah because it’s um when we talk about metaverse um so second life and then i i was surprised that minecraft and roblox is

Also mentioned as one of the uh most potential platforms for for that as well um with roblox studio kids are are able to create their own game in you know in the 3d world so these are called sandboxes okay in a sandbox you go build and create that’s

Why these games are wonderful i mean these platforms are wonderful for students can i can i uh thank everyone for the being here at this session and tell jane please enjoy pittsburgh let us know what’s happening thank you everybody turn off your camera so we can take a picture please everybody

System could you could you do something like this so we like you know we support ukrainian and peace in the world and things something like that okay okay one two three say cheese okay great thank you thank you thank you lovely to see you all