 So, I'm going to start off just by some introductory comments. This is we're going to look at the different ways that instructors use. Of the campus here, Noah's campus in 2nd life history on myself. I came into 2nd life in. 2010 started actually managing this campus in 2012. We didn't really have any activities here, then we now have 23. It would take a better part of a full day to visit all 23 of those. So we're only going to look about 4 activities. If we have time, we can actually look at a 5th 1, but usually I have found that 4 activities. Um, feels very, it takes up all our time. So we're going to look at 3 activities. Um, this is briefly my history here. So in the past, this is probably about the 5th, I've given for Nova, but in the past, we focused on seeing new activities. What are we added recently? It's kind of fun. We haven't added anything in a few years now. Well, what I want to focus on more is how do we use these different activities? We have. Different ways we use these activities and we're going to get 4 different ways to use them. So each of the activities we're going to be visiting is used in a different way. And some are models, some are other things, but we'll see how we use these when we have a look at it. So, you'll see here, these are the 4 types of uses we're going to look at. 1's exploring models, the model we're going to look at is the Grand Canyon. Exam and view quiz reviews, exam and quiz reviews. Something I didn't think would be that popular in 2nd life, but it's 1 of our most used activities here. Interactive activities where students actually engage with an object, they touch things and things change and stuff like that. That's what we have the most of really most of our activities. We have our interactive activities. Then student posters where students make a poster, it gets posted up here. And students read these posters and answer some questions and stuff. So, 4 different ways we're using these activities and this is what we're going to be exploring today. So, this is the model activity we're going to look at. It's the Grand Canyon. We'll talk more about it when we get up to the Grand Canyon. It's on a platform way high in the sky. The students explore the different strata as they descend the Canyon wall. So we're 11 strata here on this canyon. And that we're going to be looking at that and you'll have a chance to explore how students look at that. These are the anatomy and physiology slides students use these to study for exams. And so it's, it's kind of like a PowerPoint presentation that they have there. They could probably do this with PowerPoints provided to them by the professor. But they're all here and they come in and use these to study mainly for exams and quizzes. This is the interactive activity to look at to display a double fertilization plants, but there's 2 other interactive activities. They're in that same thing with the plants and we'll look at all 3 of those. And you can see how those work on how students interact with that. And the 4th one, we're going to look at the posters of student posters. The students create their poster and share it with the class. This is quite popular. We had the last 2 weeks. We've had lots of students coming in looking at these posters. So we're up about 135 students so far for this semester using this campus. It's about average for fall. You get more in the winter or spring semester than we do in the fall semester because of closures due to snow and stuff at the Nova campus and students are sent in to do activities here. So we're about average for fall 130 and so in most of these are been looking at the posters here and also at the anatomy and physiology slides. Which always think it's interesting that students want to do that in second life. Couple of things to do before we go touch the board to the right to join the Nova tours. You're right not mine underneath the web page there. But touch that you're going to touch that you'll see and nearby chat. You'll see a thing where you can touch Nova tours. Touching that nearby chat brings up a window for that group and just say join the group. I will remove you from that group after the tour and we try to keep that group pretty much empty. And when we do a tour, we put people. This will allow me to talk to you wherever you are on the region on the campus here using the Nova to a chat so I can send not talk to you voice but I can talk to you. I can send you emails and stuff to everybody. Because some of you will be out of range tours are like that, especially when you're looking at a large Canyon. Different things will be looking at that people can walk around and explore. I will be able to communicate with everybody if you're in the tour group. The other thing you want to do is be sure you touch the poster to your left my right underneath the slide board there. And you're going to get a note card and that note card contains the landmarks to every place we're going. So you should have I think there's 6 landmarks there. First ones for the classroom you're already here. We're going to the Grand Canyon, the Grand Canyon. There's also a landmark for the Grand Canyon to get there. Then there's a grand landmark to get to the top of the Canyon. We kind of start to we're going down. We'll do that eventually. Then there's a landmark to go to the A and P anatomy and physiology area. There's a landmark to go to the plant science area. A landmark to go to the posters that way you don't have to try to figure out how to get to these places. They're going to be there and easily to get to once you get you teleport in there. Please move quickly because there's going to be people coming on top of you. So sitting around there is not going to be the best thing to do. So have those landmarks be in the tour group. These are anything else here. There's my contact information. You're free to contact me if you have further questions. I'm happy to talk to people about campus and we have lots of visitors here. So come in and visit. See what you want to do here. A few more things before we head out. Because we're being filmed, please use chat. Don't use voice yourself. I'll be talking in voice. But if you're using voice, it starts to mess up the filming. So if you want to talk to me, chat works fine. But don't use voice in the group or it messes up the filming. So just a note on that. Let's see how we're doing it. How many people can't hear me? Hold that up and get an idea. If you can't hear me, just say something. Hopefully, tagline's typing. Maybe tagline can't hear me. I don't know. Some people are still coming in. It looks like also. Okay. Let's move up to the Grand Canyon. What is Shiloh trying to get? So when you touch on the panel to your right, go to a nearby chat and it will say Nova tours. There'll be a little thing that says Nova tours there. Click on that. And then a menu appears on your screen basically about the about the group and about halfway down on the right side of that menu, that box, you're going to see it says join group. And then you'll be in the group. So if you're having trouble with that, I'm going to go to the group also and I'll send a chat out to everybody. So I'm sending out a chat there to everybody in group chat. Hopefully you're seeing that. And feel free to talk back in group chat to me. Everybody will see that and it doesn't matter where you are on the doesn't matter where you are on the on the campus. You should be able to get the group chat in there. Is anybody not seeing the group chat? When you have the group on click on chat, there's one of the options within the group once you've got it loaded there is chat. So make sure then you'll be receiving the chat so click on that Activate it then under when you click on it. There's a thing that says chat. One of the options is chat. Make sure that chat is open And then you'll be in there. Okay, great. Looks like Shant got in there Dades in there. Yay. Okay. Um We can Get up to the Grand Canyon So please go up to the Grand Canyon with me. I'm located Location two on your note card. Okay. Do we have most people here? You see, um There's still a few down below. I'll teleport them up. Yeah, let's see. We got I think there's only one more down there Okay, I think everybody's here This is the Grand Canyon activity it's uh was built by um Misty a builder a friend of mine is a builder with funds from the nova foundation grant. So we got money to do this um And it's useful to look at for small funds like that. I think we got a three thousand dollar grant um and Misty was able to Uh go ahead and build this and several other things she worked on. So she did a lot of work for us for three thousand dollars um For those of you who don't know it the Grand Canyon is a Very large and deep canyon in the western united states It runs many miles. Um What we have been able to do is uh Recreate a small section of that called the Kaibab area and This is what we've done here So that students most of our students at the nova are in virginia on the east coast of the united states Where this canyon is a lot further away and so It's going to be um different for them and they never get out here to see this And so we recreated this. Um, it's part of for geology classes and for an environmental science class that used this um It's not being used currently I haven't seen any students up here, but i'm encouraging some geology professors to try to come back in here and use it And see what we can do with this So, uh, we're trying to uh get this up and going again There are 11 strata here laid down from 500 and 25 million years ago to 200 Uh and 70 million years ago. So they started almost, you know Half a billion years ago basically Making uh the strata and it worked its way up the very top is only about 270 million years old um and for each A model interactive activity we have at nova there's a student handout and students get the handout from their professor as a word document And so for here we have the word document available for you if you pick on that Orange sign behind you You will see that there is it says right click and select touch for activity handout You can see the handout that the students get They get it as a word document from their professor. Um And so like we post it on blackboard for all their students in the class and they can come in and use that handout To do this activity It's going to guide them through what they should do here and it ends up giving them some questions that they Then need to go ahead and answer and turn in for a grade So there's the handout the first thing that the handout does is ask them to go over and look at these signs Um, and so you're going to follow these red arrows. Let's go over there What we have here is a very nice picture of the grand canyon. You can see what the canyon looks like in real life um and then you can see Information about this strata. There's 11 different strata at the cab section of the grand canyon so we're gonna The students will then look at those strata and look at the study that a bit get a feel for The thickness of those strata get a feel for the age when these strata were laid down Get a feel for the names. You can see the kayak was at the very top and then they go down Um and going down and answering questions about these they can then this other one over here gives them more different information about the Period geological period when they were laid down and these sorts of things. Um, and gives you Feet sort of a a bar there that you can kind of compare the height The canyon drops, you know about 4 000 feet 1200 meters It's quite a drop It's a good long hike to get down there and it's a much harder hike to get back up. It's it's pretty steep So, um, you can go to it's a national park in the united states the grand canyon national park You can go and visit you can go down you can hike down I think you can take helicopter rides down. I think there are mule rides down There's many ways to visit this park you can see this But for our students, it was an idea. They're in a geology class. They can get out and look at this amazing geological structure um, and uh One day they'll probably not see for a long time until they actually Take a vacation to that area or something. It's a pretty remote area. So it's not it's a kind of a flyover state You're going to Los Angeles or something like that from virginia. You might fly over it But it's a stop and see it. You really have to make an effort So once they've done that once they've looked at these posters um It's going to ask them to go back To the other side of that Uh of this platform and on the way back there what they're going to do is they're going to look at Fossils give an idea and hand out ask them about some of the fossils there. Let's go back for all these red arrows um And you come over here and we've got some types of fossils just to give them an idea what fossils are They can see a plant an insect a clam These sorts of things with the fossils there And at the very end of that last red arrow drops them off at a teleport site the teleport up to the top So open up your note card. Hopefully you've kept it very minimized at the one you got down below open that up and to uh Know what grand canyon top we all want to go up to the top I'll meet you up there at the top the students at this point would be going up to the top Of the grand canyon But we'll do that also and and go up there and for those who don't have that we'll try to get you up there in a second I'll meet you up at the top So I think we got everybody's he's got a teleport up here Okay, so this is the top um come out on the glass structure if you want To my left just come out straight there. Here's your view of the grand canyon. Um, you can look out there Um, we've had students who are afraid to walk out there. And even though it's second life. They have a height issue um They have a structure like this at the grand canyon is why we recreated it As you look down the face of the canyon Which is kind of nice to do and you can see The different strata there We struggled with how to get students down these sharp walls. These are very steep walls here. Um, yeah So how do you walk down this there's a trail at the grand canyon the real grand canyon has the trail We couldn't do that because students would just fall off it. We put steps in Instead still fell off it so you can go down these steps, but there's Transparent walls all around you so that you do not Fall off these stairs. It was a big issue trying to keep it so people did not fall because You guys know how to fly and how to move around but people who are brand new like students when they come in Falling off of this is kind of dramatic for them. And so we tried to avoid that So what we're going to do now is um Go down to the go down the steps to the first platform um And each platform has a no card available with it And what we're going to do that you can see how that works for you So we'll go down to this first platform here there's so they see a sign that says Hey above for uh formation click on that and you'll get a no card that describes the geology of this structure and it's going to um Give you some images of the fossils associated with this structure People always wonder why there are no dinosaur fossils. Well, there weren't dinosaurs 270 years ago And so there weren't any in this area and it wasn't the dinosaur again. So Um, these are before the dinosaurs. So mainly invertebrates were seeing in this structures. Um, and so this is the How each of these 11 strata they have a sign like this. So the students would descend the wall Look at each of these 11 strata get information from the note cards See the fossils associated with that strata and then they're answering the questions in the back of that handout This is how a professor would use this the students would then send those Answers to their professor for a grade the professor does never needs to come into the To the second life the students do And then They've experienced the grand canyon students living in virginia who Will probably never see the grand canyon any of them I've actually got to know the grand canyon a little bit know the 11 strata at least in the kebab area of the wall and Got a feel for this now. You can walk on down. This is a very steep first one. So what we have here We had we couldn't put stairs in We tried we struggled we figured how we could do this. We couldn't do it. So what we had here And so you click the top of that ladder you'll see a ball There's a ball there. I touched that ball and I climb on down the ladder um, the handout tells students to do that but uh You can just jump down too if you want it doesn't really matter. Um Come on down You'll see our second strata here And it's the same idea That you climb up you climb down and just jump down if you want The idea is just to get down to this platform Usually the students do this uh one or two students at a time. So you don't have a huge group around And uh to get an idea how this looks So this is uh the note card for the next strata and you just thought the students are just for all the red arrows And then sure you end up at the bottom So i'm gonna give you some freedom to look around fly around walk down the stairs if you want or you can fly around and look at the strata Uh look at some of the note cards just to get a feel for how This works. Um So feel free to walk around the canyon Uh fly around and do what you want. We'll meet at the bottom So i'll meet you guys uh down there at the bottom. Um And then we'll go to the next location after that You can also use your teleport to get down there. So i'm say no card. We have the bottom They just said this is too hard for their students, but now anybody can do it You don't fall off the stairs anymore Okay, we're getting numbers here Students and anatomy and physiology classes to review for exams and quizzes And frankly I did not think that this would be very popular to use. I thought nobody would want to do this in second life But it turns out this is one of the most widely highly used areas There's a whole bunch of students about 20 that spent a lot of time up here this semester Reviewing for activities or for exams and quizzes And this activity which is Basically by clicking on a powerpoint presentation Allows them to do that. So I was extremely surprised that this was that popular But it is So when I first came to nova They wouldn't let me build at nova state manager didn't want me messing around. They're doing anything and so Another community college in virginia Invited me to build on a parcel at their land and I went over it's called tidewater community college and one of the people there Michael michael Had this build inside of a castle. He had this A&P exam review build inside of a castle there The different floors had different Slide presentation areas It was pretty dark and dreary inside the castle, but students were using it and in 2012 they lost that they lost their Region in second life. No, that was the time the many universities and colleges left and so Michael didn't have a place to do this in some time around the end of 2014 Michael Came back here and I invited him to go ahead and build here if you wanted to And so we built this Much more open format It's not the dreary castle that we have there, but you can see We recreated that I thought okay, we'll put this here. No one's going to use about what the heck we have it But then it's been heavily used ever since and this is totally Students do not get a grade for coming up here and doing this It's totally voluntary, but man, they are up here almost all the time and so It's a bit it's really Quite useful to the students And I think that's really neat Now nova I cannot get the nova a and p anatomy and physiology faculty to send students up here and use this But Michael students use it a lot. So we get his whole class more or less is up here Using this every semester And so it's quite popular. Let's go over to area two The there's 14 areas here And we'll look at What we see over an area two just to give you an example of how that this is used So Let's do that So area two is going to be over to this side just following So michael's put together all these slides sideboards You hit the start at the bottom. It takes you to the first slide Then the green arrows on the sides of the board so advance or take you back to the previous slides And so in students spend hours here doing this. It's quite amazing And this is all about cell cycles now if you got into Biology and these sorts of things, but yes, it's test questions here. So we go to start There's that that talks about the quiz that's coming up Um, ask you a question use you an answer Um, so how many chromosomes do most of our cells have? 46 is the answer um Two scientists that discovered the DNA. Who were they? That's the question. There's the answer and so the students Spent a lot of time studying for their quizzes with us It'd be interesting to know if the students who spent time here do better than the students who didn't um But then you have the thing that the students who spent time here are probably better students to start with They're taking the time to study and stuff. It's not a random sample But it's an interesting thing and again, I was very surprised at the level of Voluntary use of this by his students And I'm kind of discouraged that I can't get any of our faculty at nova who teach a and p to come in here and Use this site So have a look at these slides play around with them a little bit. You'll get a feel for how they work Don't worry about answering the questions, right? But you'll get some feel for how the students use this how michael's designed this It's it closely follows his textbook. I think in his of course his quizzes and and test And so it might not be as appropriate for another professor's students unless they're using the same sort of textbook But it's a pretty cool way for them to Yeah, I think some some people would be Yeah, some people would be turned off I try not to have faculty come in that much because once I get faculty in here Mostly they get they just realize this is a huge learning curve and they don't want to get involved But they're not they will send their students in and the students many of them It's not quite the learning curve for them Many of them are already active in virtual worlds and things like that and they understand this better Um, but it is yeah So this is the um just looking at the time we can move on to the next site, but this is uh Widely used it's a different way to use virtual worlds provide basically power point presentations that allows them to study um And there's 14 areas and each area has six to ten of these slide boards And so the number of slides here's in the hundreds Um, it's just a really high number of slides Up here and it's I guess an easy way for students to access these slides Um rather than trying to go online and download them as a power point presentation and doing that So when you're ready, uh, let's go down to the plant science. It's location five on your on the card Get in there and let's go on down. Okay. I think everybody's here now um We'll get going on this So this is an example of an interactive activity where the students actually do something besides just looking at slides or looking at no cards um that they would get with uh The model of the geology model of the Grand Canyon. There's no cards to look at and read And and the other thing they just slide boards to look at here. They're actually interacting with different things Most of the activity I think we have 16 interactive activities here on the campus So most of our activities are in this area um This was built by symbol And symbol is uh, that's her avatar name a very skilled builder Took a lot of scripting to get this stuff to work We have and what I found out from that experience is that I have to work very closely And to with the builder make sure the science is right and the builders working closely with me to make sure that You know the scripting and stuff like that is actually going to work So we Spent a lot of time together going over this build. We have a building platform up in the sky It's not we're open to the public really But um, she and I were working up there getting this right and so that things would actually work What do we have here? We have um There's a student hand out here too. You can pick that up It's on the orange poster again just like for the grand canyon And so what we have here Facing to the activity So on your left There's a thing that covers xylem and flume transport and plants So what the student does is they come over here And they can click on these And so, uh, let's just do the one for we're looking at transport and plants here So we'll look at For xylem flow and you see the water it starts to move up from the roots Out the stem here It's going to go to the leaf When it gets to the leaf it's going to go down the patio into the leaf And it's going to start coming out and things are labeled and stuff like that And you can kind of see it evaporating from the leaf and this is xylem flow. It's very directional from the roots to the leaves on the other side It gets flown flow and Hopefully this works It might have to be that this is done first. Okay. It looks like it's starting and flume is the sugar sap within a plant made in the leaf And it can go to the roots it can go to wherever sugar is needed in this case. It's going to the flower And so we wanted to dispel the fact that only goes to the roots it goes up through the flown vessels and into the flower and there it's used To as a sugar source and mineral source and stuff like that But maybe sugar and some hormones and things are in that and so you're getting this sort of thing going on there And so steams can sit here and you can read this in a textbook Uh, but actually seeing this Visually it's actually a little better for them We have uh slides here. You can see these are slides of tissues of um plants. There's a slide on the Just above the board there and when clicking on that we change the tissue types And so different tissues come up and the students didn't have to identify those tissues We have them identified to the Right of the microscope but then on the left are the ones that they have to compare and figure out what tissues they're looking at Coming over here double fertilization Probably you don't realize that plants actually do produce sperm and they do touch it uh the sperm find the egg The touching on that you'll see it. Um, it starts off labeling parts of the this is a flower parts the female part of the flower At the very top we have a pollen grain that landed on top of there Um, it started to grow a pollen tube coming out um And you'll see in just a second it will start up and uh The labels go away. There's the pollen tube labeled and it's going to start to grow The pollen tube will grow down to the egg. There's the generator cell. It comes in out of the pollen And it's going to come down and divide to make two sperm. You see it coming down there Only two sperm coming out of that one pollen grain And you can see the pollen grain the pollen tube grows down the sperm move down And they're going to go into the ovial of the Purple here the first sperm fertilizes the egg. That's what happened there And the second sperm goes to the back and joins those polar to blue polar nuclei to make um The end of sperm which is going to be the food source for the seed. So this is A visualization of this and you can see how And you can read about it, but this students actually see it here It makes it a little better for them and the third thing we have here is just this is the seed Being developed. We're going on from that point. We've got the Endosperm the blue there in the middle. We've got the embryo this fertilized seed there And you'll see in the chart on the right kind of shows you the different phases of this But we're starting to see how this goes in the endosperm Which has all the nutrients for the seed once it germinates Takes over becomes large And then the embryo starts to grow Going to two cell stage and You'll see how it develops So this was all scripted by uh symbol. It's it's extremely difficult to script this as you might imagine Takes a lot of effort and we worked closely on this just to get it to work But this is pretty cool And so students can come in and watch this and get a visualization of how this works You can see we're going through these different Levels there on the poster on the right of that and ending up With The final poster there or the final image and the students all labeled and stuff like that for them So they they zoom in on that and they can get a really good feel for how does this Embryo develop into a seed and that's the seed that we've got in there So Don't have a whole lot more time But let's zoom off to the last to the posters and we'll talk about things there and I'll answer just some general questions at the posters so It's the last thing on your note card move over the poster area and We'll go ahead and Talk about those and you're answering any general questions you have there Let me see who's away from us. Oh, it's like everybody's here. Great Okay So, um This is a poster area obviously. It's like a big poster presentation I saw Early on when I was in second life anything before I was managing this at college campus I saw another professor do a poster session And the students stood there and people came by and asked them questions about their posters And I initially did that with my honor students Only had like 10 students. I'd get other faculty to come in Who had avatars and they would talk to them and ask them questions Each student would present their poster and answer questions But when we got to larger classes like a 25 student class, you can't really do that. He doesn't have the time It's hard to get everybody in at the same time to do that So what we do now is the students make a poster as you see here and so they do this in powerpoint They save it as a jpeg Which they send to their professor Their professor then sends me the jpegs Files and I bring them into second life and I load them on as textures onto these boards And adjust it and stuff. So it's looking okay and people can read it And so the students are graded on both the design Of their poster and the information that they provide So if you have like a pretty poor poster that doesn't give you much That doesn't look very nice. It's not fun to look at we can compare the two posters over here Just showing you two posters to look at this one To my right is pretty boring lots of information the one to my left is a little bit better Um, and so students can walk around and say, oh, yeah, I should have maybe thought about Designing something and making some color. This one is really quite a boring one Excuse me. So, um, this is what they do. They learn how to make a poster They learn a little bit about the design of a poster They put the presentation on there And then they come up with three questions that students should be able to answer if they've read their poster And these are given to all the students every students get a list of these questions for each poster They don't answer their own poster questions, but they answer those for the other students And so you get students come around looking at these posters and answering those questions after they've read them So they come in they learn a lot And it's yeah, it's a good way to get started on how you publish and stuff like this And if these students go on to do in even senior activities, sometimes they get posters at conferences Definitely graduate work to get posters at conferences. And so they've had experience making a poster and seeing how that works and talking about Walk around looking some of the posters if you want, let's see which ones you know Good ideas of how some students made really nice ones some not so nice and some really terrible ones But you get a good idea for how this works and what the students can learn from this Um Time's just about up though. So and then we just see if there's any general questions that people have either in We're all here. So soon as nearby chat and just Ask me some questions if you have any feel free to come back and look around. Um, it's uh Very open area. We don't restrict it or anything like that Um Yes, you're able to return any time. Like I said, we looked at four of 23 activities Um, there's a whole lot of activities here that we didn't look at And um, you can uh, see those activities just by walking around those red telephone booths I see we see one here. Yeah, there's a red telephone booth down there at the end of the posters there Those are teleporters. Um, they will take you all over the campus And so when you come back to look at things, just look at those teleporters and You know, they'll take you around you can see all the different activities we have here. Um Yeah, I think there's a lot of things that could benefit. Uh, we've had a chinese language teachers using this area, um And they're teaming up with students in china and american students talking to each other Chinese students are learning english the american students are learning chinese so they kind of work in both languages Um We've had some arts people using the campus Yeah, well, thanks for coming everybody. Uh Happy to have you you got my On the screen up there the classroom go back to the classroom if you want there's my contact information if you didn't get it um below that whiteboard in the middle there's a Link to a manual we have on second life teaching in second life. It talks about 15 different ways you can use second life Um in education so go and look at those if you want to get get a hold of that And now let's keep the discussion going Thank you I'm happy to have people here. Sorry. We don't have a ticket We had this like three or four hours. We can see a lot more, but we just don't have the time And if you ever want to come back or just if you want me to show you other things just come back and ask me I'm always around here. I'm often here Yeah, maybe part two in june. Let's see All right, and hopefully get some ideas from this how you can use virtual worlds for your classes and education and stuff like that It just I thought I'd be teaching in a classroom like when we first came in I have never done that I mean, there's a lot of ways to use it You just have to walk around and explore and see how people are using it and get ideas How does that fit for your curriculum and your students and what you want to do and then design it that way Everybody's welcome. Thank you for coming appreciate it Again, if you have questions, just let me know or you can send me an email later or I am me And we'll get get in touch Yes, you'll be welcome back. I go Thanks to everybody who came Nice to always nice to give a tour My cat even behaved. He didn't attack my computer Sustainable is an issue It's So far we've been able to keep this going since I've been involved since 2010 And it's You know, how do we how do we keep it going our usage our number? No certain professors have come in and tried things and they've left and others have Uh Come in so you have The usage doesn't increase so much over time. It's just that we have A lot of things we have certain people really like it and they always send students in So we always get the students up at the a and p area. We always get the poster sessions going I think a lot of professors prefer to do the posters and have the students do a paper They have to read it's a lot. It's actually easier for the student for the professor Um, we get a lot of people using those interactive things like the plant science For labs that are missed because of snow. So we have a lot of snow in spring semester normally in virginia So we'll have we've had once the campus is closed for a whole week We had 800 students in that year. Um, so it just depends It's just sustaining this you got to have usage. You got to have commitment from the administration to keep paying for it So far we have that but it's hard to find someone else to take this over which is kind of what i'm looking for I'd like to see someone take it over Like it's starting to snow now. Maybe we'll get some more students coming in Yeah, and uh, I have one person at nova. I actually live in california I live 3 000 miles away from the nova campus. So I don't go on the campus that often But I have one person there who does help me she can put these posters She can put the jpegs up here Import them in and put the textures on And that's basically all we have to do right now. Everything else here runs itself. We've made this so it's really maintenance free Usually we don't have any issues here unless we get a griefer or something like that and that's um Not that that that common you only have like one or two in my eight years of running this Yeah, if you have a college that wants our online resources, um Uh, bring them in show them around show them I get that manual and you can look at the different sorts of ways we can use this He talks about other ways besides the ones we looked at we only looked at four There are 15 ways discussed in the manual of using this If you want to be more quantitative we have three activities actually students collect data And interpret that data and put it into tables and stuff Well, I was trying to get the online people at nova to use this more to also for office hours because one of the things I get from students for hybrid or online classes not hybrid but online Is that they never meet the professor? The professor's often doesn't respond very quickly to emails and stuff like that And so they can actually um come in and have an office hour where they have more of a personal interaction Yeah, tagline. We actually have well, they're they're experiments that are set up where the students collect data Yeah, and interpret that data We have a couple over in the cell area with photosynthesis and cellular respiration. We have some unnatural selection We have a forest and see the forest just behind the posters there behind you That forest is an ecology activity where they uh Figure out relative abundance relative density and stuff like that for the forest um So there's we have some activities where students actually collect data and interpret that data Yeah, the online classes. There's a big social aspect to Even get that with the community college system where students don't live on campus normally And they go and like a job and they go back The home or something so it's you don't get that on That experience that you would have living in a dorm on a campus, but The online classes is is really amazing that you you don't see other students. You don't see the professor There's no really personal interaction. So I think it's uh Second life can give you that personal interaction even though it's a online class Any more questions that we have to answer just you have my email You have my iam just dodge three birds Um, I'm happy to talk to people about this Thank you everybody This stuff is my passion. So I'm happy to talk about it And feel free to come back and look at the other things things we didn't get to talk about Look around the campus You're always welcome. It's a very open campus Handouts are associated with most of the activities. You can see the handouts and stuff We made a lot of mistakes We kind of fixed and we learned a lot of how do you you teach and do students and get activities working in a college situation in second life And most of that information is available in the manual. So Get a get a copy of that if you want Yes, feel free to head out. I think we're done and uh Feel free to walk around and look at things too if you want you can do that now you can do it later I don't know what your times are like, but we're a very open campus. So just come anytime you want and look around Okay, Mike. Thank you for filming that Stay warm Take care. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye class Enjoy your weekend everybody