The Project Team presentations for the VWEC Student Challenge were recorded on the final day of class this semester and this formed part of their submissions. The presentations were well delivered with participants making a strong showing. The collaboration between Turkish and Irish students was excellent. All video recordings are courtesy of Sitearm Madonna.
The Purple Team:
The Yellow Team:
The Red Team:
Each of the four student groups presented their final Team Projects in the final class of the semester. The work was excellent and very well presented. Each of the students spoke during their team’s presentation and everything went off without a hitch. Many of the guest speakers during the semester were in the audience, along with many others who have an interest in online and virtual education.
Francisco Koohaven from Whole Brain Health made a video of the Student builds supporting their presentations. This video fly-through of each project shows the amount of thought and effort the students put into the supporting work for their presentations.
The practice run for the Team Project was led-out by Sitearm Madonna who put the student teams through their paces. The exercise provided an excellent opportunity to identify exactly what had been achieved by the teams so far and what yet needed to be done. Sitearm also recorded the class for later review.
Next week is a public holiday in Ireland so there won’t be a formal class. The final presentation of the students’ Team Projects will be hosted by Whole Brain Health the following week, 8th May 2023.
There was poor attendance from TU Dublin students at this class so here is a link to the transcript of proceedings. It will give you a sense of the presentation. Tooyaa, Fran and Cats, along with Wisdom, covered a range of useful tools such as making and saving notecards, building, communications options and so on.
Tooyaa also reminded the students of the Masters of the Metaverse modules which can be found here: Lesson Module 1 – Basics and Lesson Module 2 – Synthesis.
Sitearm Madonna presented on the theory of teamwork at today’s class. This was followed by a briefing on the Team Project No One is too Small to Make a Difference by John / Tae.
Our friends from Çağ University joined us for the first time today and Sitearm Madonna gave us a gentle introduction on how to work together in teams in a virtual environment. The Turkish students and their facilitators joined in seamlessly as if they had been working in Second Life since the beginning of the semester.
After the talk Sitearm gave the class an immersive collaborative experience through music. It was tremendous fun and we were sorry not to have more time to engage with his brilliant instruments.
This week we met at the Çağ University Virtual Campus in Second Life where Valibrarian Gregg spoke to the class about Metaliteracy and Citizenship in the Digital Age. Her talk was based on her book Metamodernism and Changing Literacy: Emerging Research and Opportunities, 2020.
Following the talk Val invited us to the Virtual Community Library where Sitearm hosted a debrief session with the students and led a discussion about defining what is meant by the metaverse in a collision of ideas.
John / Tae explores the thinking of Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) whose work is central to an understanding of media theory and provides a useful framework for examining digital social media and online collaborative tools.
Virtual Environments: Is one life enough? 