Cynthia Cologne and Student Adventure
Channel: Marcus Llewellyn
Date: 2017-05-23

Cynthia Cologne takes some of her students on a shopping trip using OpenSimulator, and then looks at some of their ongoing projects.

Cynthia explains:
"In it, we held a blended reality class spread across several tools, including our CTU online class portal, our Adobe Connect Live Chat area with desktop sharing from one of my monitors, and shared audio and video between two video sources and the demonstrations of Autoscript in the browser. It was a lot of fun!

"You can sense the cognitive load that an instructor experiences when multitasking while teaching, watching several display monitors, fielding two local chat logs, and while responding to a few Instant Messages. Our other tasks included navigating in the virtual world, traveling to OSGrid via the Hypergrid, shopping, hosting design studio planning sessions, and demonstrating how to design, texture, and script content. grins 

"Most classes that involve students who are new to the virtual world do not tackle so many tasks in one night. My hat's off to my brave students for their willingness to explore the Metaverse.

"Marcus's video features our EM 825 class called the Strategic Use of Virtual Worlds during Spring 2017 term."