I had such a cool experience recently! I joined Dr. Reggie Padin for a tour of his L&D University Meta Campus that he has created in Horizon Worlds. Having built a learning environment myself in the metaverse, I can share with you that Dr Padin’s metacampus is an amazing place to visit – classes in there will be awesome! So much skill and determination has resulted in the development of a fabulous, fun, inspirational, colorful, and friendly learning environment. Dr Padin is bringing his creative vision to life in the virtual world! The early meta environment builders (of which I am one) are learning how to create these places by themselves, by trial and error and they are spending hundreds of hours creating and editing. The early builders are finding each other and forming relationships to learn from each other – reminisce of the experiences I had in the days learning html with those first developers! I foresee great learning environments growing, and I know our learners will come to demand being able to attend them!
During the tour of the campus, Dr Padin walked me by the waterfall, by the central pond, to various pods/classrooms, and then over to his virtual podcast studio. It was there that we talked about the fact that I use to teach Podcasting, and I shared how I thought that this was a great idea to have a virtual podcast studio! The traditional podcast studio is far less attractive, stocked with a computer, microphone, a telephone line or zoom screen, and lots of lonely editing time. What a concept – putting a virtual face to the often times lonely podcast studio! The tour was followed up a few days later by Dr Padin hosting a live virtual podcast with myself, Monica Gragg, Carmen Padin and Ann Meyer from the L&D University Meta Campus Podcasting Studio! It was so cool to meet the panel, all in avatar form, to be able to chat, laugh and question, live, face to face, sort of! Checkout the podcast episode above 🙂
Technology is truly amazing, I feel blessed and honored to be a part of every tech revolution, but this one is particularly special to me. Never have I known so much, have I had so much experience to bring to the table, and never have I had such excitement to truly be able to go to other worlds! I am so enjoying working with the pioneers who endeavor to explore and explain to others. We are all teachers, we are all learners! More to come….