3D World, a District 75 VR Learning Project

Ever have one of those days, when you keep walking but you never get anywhere?

There is a touch of controversy in 3D World, as this year’s Best Apartment Design (individual) — Fawlty Towers #6 — also won last year, with the same furniture and design!

Until the judges clarify, we have been asked to suspend the contest winner…

The winner for the Best Apartment Design (group) remains Brownstone #2.

The most popular job sites in 3D World for 2018-2019

Another way to view the data

3D World held a contest for The Best Apartment Design. Students had to purchase and place furniture, groceries, and decorations in their apartments. During Lesson 20, the “Open House – Meet the Neighbors’ lesson (May 9, 2019), we picked a winner for both individual apartment design as well as whole building design.

I am not sure what I did to get this result in the sky. I must have been dreaming….

Take a photo at the photobooth! Do YOU know where it is located? This intrepid avatar did her best to smile for the camera…until she started glitching!

Having a hard time riding a bicycle? Does it drive you up a wall?

Is this a little avatar jumping off a branch, or a normal avatar running in the sky, oh-so-far away?

A new feature of this website will highlight a “3d World weirdness:” some strange moment during community time in which an avatar glitches.

Today’s Glitch of the Day shows Nicole Ponycat grabbing some massive, slow-motion air on her ride.

Way to grab air, Ponycat!

The 3D World city planners decided that 2nd Avenue, over by the West side water, should really be 3rd Avenue. And so what happens to the old 3rd Avenue? That little street is currently being called Dagud Place, but it will be the prize in the apartment design contest to be held in the spring. Whichever school wins the apartment design contest will get to rename Dagud Place to whatever name they want.

JoseSHamstershark is walking on sunshine, and don’t it feel good!

The river froze this past week in 3D World and a whole bunch of us went skating under the K.I.G.E.R. bridge. Everybody put on free skates (courtesy of the big purple box)! We had races (purple beanies for the winners) and there were jumping ramps, too. The motto of the day was “No Haters! Just Skaters!”

Afterwards, some of us even kept our skates on to glide along the sidewalks!

Next week, play time will be over and we will have to start thinking about 3D World jobs. Remember to detach the skates (inventory-> worn -> detach) before going for job interviews!

An escaped sea turtle (or, rather, ground turtle) was swimming/digging through Coffina Circle…

I tried to capture it but it was moving too fast.

We are crunching numbers from last year’s jobs report and discovered the hardest worker in 3D World was JohnWoo Donut from 255Q. He completed over 120 jobs! Congratulations to the Worker of the Year.

Here is JohnWoo Donut posing in front of Shoulder Petz pet shop.

We are crunching data from last year’s jobs report in 3D World, and discovered the busiest day was April 26, 2018: Over 86 jobs were completed!

We crunched the numbers and discovered the most popular job sites in 3D World.

Here is our list, from greatest number of jobs completed to least number of jobs completed.

Here is a graph of the data

We are looking forward to another productive year in our home-away-from-home, better known as 3D World.

The students from 277Q are known as the Gold avatars. At the 2018 STEM Fair they were LEGO-ized for a photo…so should we call them the LEGOLDS?

The Golds (277Q avatars) in real life enjoying a trip to the Intrepid during the 2018 District 75 STEM Fair.

Thank you, Charles Gerber, for the photograph.

Please join me in congratulating the winners of this year’s Apartment Design Contest! They are…

Tie for Best Individual Apartment Design: Tipton #7 (369K) and Fawlty Towers #6 (277Q)

Tipton #7

Fawlty Towers #6

Best Overall Building Design: Fawlty Towers

The winning avatars get to submit a special name for a place in 3D World. Some of the places that have not yet been named are the river, art museum, poster shop, and oceans.

We caught up with CameronM Donut in real life. Can you tell which is the avatar and which is the student?

The 3D World map has been updated.

The latest version, dated 03-29-18, includes both health clinics, as well as the pizza shop.

This just in from 3D World-er Charles Gerber, 277Q:

“I felt inspired after the last 3D world PD and I wanted to show you the new controller I made for one of my students with limited fine motor movements so they can participate more independently in our Thursday community days!  I put it on top of a metal counter so that all he needs to do is lay his opposite hand on the counter to complete the circuit! Looking forward to some gained independence! Have a great afternoon”

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I had an unusual 3D World experience last week, when the entire world started shaking. Earthquake? The countdown clock signaled the end of the world…

I have never see a region go down before.

The “Gold” squad of 277Q sitting in the lobby of Fawlty Towers apartment building.

Thank you to Charles Gerber for the image.

We had our first 3D World professional development at 811K. A mix of new and returning teachers, (mostly) good bandwidth, and enjoyable activities made the day fly by.

There is a new 3D World map available, which includes all of our contest winners’ renamed parks and playgrounds. Updated 6/27/17.

Download map

Here is a chart of the number of student avatars employed at the different job sites:

Most popular site was Lynndas Grocery.

Congratulations to the four hardest working avatars in 3D World!

Thanks to Eloise Pasteur for maintaining the job task site.

Work, work, work! Here is a graph showing how many jobs were completed this year.

Duplicate jobs and incompletes were not counted. Thanks to Eloise Pasteur for maintaining her 3D World task report website.

Teacher Yihong from 53K submitted some photographs of her students’ adventures both in-world and in real life.

As we stated in a previous post, 176X won the contest for the best apartment design (individual) for their stunning Tipton Apartment #7. According to 176X teacher Jessica Hawk,

“We are excited to finally announce that we’ve come to a unanimous decision in regards to what we would like our prize area and name to be.

We’ve chosen Brooklyn Park and would like to call it “Hawk’s Nest” as a tribute to our family 3D world name.”

So requested, so done.

Be sure to stop by Hawk’s Nest park during the Block Party to enjoy all the rides and attractions!

3D World held a contest for The Best Apartment Design. Students had to purchase and place furniture, groceries, and decorations in their apartments. During the “Open House – Meet the Neighbors’ lesson (April 27, 2017), we picked a winner for both individual apartment design as well as whole building design. This year we have a special mention prize as well.

The results are in:

The Best Apartment Design (individual) winner is Tipton Apartments #7. Congratulations 176X.

The Best Apartment Design (group) winner is Parkview Apartments. Congratulations 811K.

The Special Mention Apartment Design (individual) winner is Brownstone #14, 2nd floor, front room. Congratulations 79M.

For their prizes, contest winners will get to choose special names for parks or rename existing places in 3D World.

Thank you to all the avatars who decorated and designed their apartments with care and feng shui!

Have you visited the new Seasonal Carnival? Ride the Ferris Wheel, become a Human Canon Ball, and try the bouncy house!

Find it in Brooklyn Park on the updated 3D World Map.

Spinning Wheel Turns Me Around.

Try it, in the Seasonal Carnival at Brooklyn Park.

Dashing group photograph of the 811K avatars!

To all the real (and virtual) participants of 3D World, welcome back! We are looking forward to another exciting year.

If you have not done so, please register for the required 3D World workshop, to be held October 6 at the District Office.

Here is the ranking for the most popular job sites for 2015-2016

3D World held a contest for The Best Apartment Design. Students had to purchase and place furniture, groceries, and decorations in their apartments. During the May 5, 2016 “Open House – Meet the Neighbors’ lesson, we picked a winner for both individual apartment design as well as whole building design.

The results are in:

The Best Apartment Design (individual) winner is Central Plaza Apt #3. Congratulations 176X.

The Best Apartment Design (group) winner is Overlook Apartments. Congratulations to 811K.

For their prizes, contest winners will get to choose special names for parks or rename existing places in 3D World.

Thank you to all the avatars who decorated and designed their apartments with care and feng shui!

This Friday will be the last day to send in a photo for the 2nd Annual “Best Dressed Team” contest. Every student in your class must have a customized avatar (no grey striped shirts and jeans/ no pink polka dot dresses). The teacher will take a class photo, which will be a screen shot of the avatars in some scenic location in 3D World. (Use the camera app in the bottom toolbar to take and email a snapshot)

A special guest judge will be selected to pick the best photograph. The winning team will get special naming rights to a location in 3D World!

Last year’s winner was 811K, who named a field “Haring Street Park.”

On May 5, 2016, the 2nd Annual Apartment Design Contest will be held. During this lesson invite your neigbors into your apartment for a tour. A special judge with experience in interior design will pick the winner for Best Apartment Design – Individual and Best Apartment Design – Group (for an entire building). Winners get naming rights to a piece of 3D World.

Things are expensive, espcially in New York City. The budgeting lessons in 3D World will help you in real life as well.

Roblox combines SecondLife, Playmobile and Minecraft. Avatars explore different worlds and have to complete different tasks.

There is potential here…have you tried it in your school?

Welcome back to 3D World.

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The District 3D World program is closed for the summer for maintenance, but will be back in the fall.

Please email Cara or Charles with your suggestions for next year.

The results are in!

The rank of job site by number of students who worked at that site:

The rank of job site by number of times students completed jobs, with no repeats (meaning, if a student completed a job ten times during one session, it only counts as one completion):

The rank of job site by total number of jobs completed (including if a student repeated the job many times during the session)

When you go to the year-end block party tomorrow, be sure to admire the new names of the parks where the party is being held. And now, the 86th street bridge/overpass has a name, too.

Congratulations again to our 2015 contest winners:

– NelsonM Spot – The Best Apartment Design (individual)

– 811K – The Best Dressed Team

– Keisha, Irene, Gina, Essie, and Rashida – The Best Apartment Design (group)

3D World had a contest to choose the Best Dressed School Team. The rules were that every student in a team must have a customized avatar (no grey striped shirts and jeans/no pink polka dot dresses). The teacher had to take a class photo, a screen shot of the avatars in some scenic location in 3D World. A special guest judge selected to pick the best photograph.

And the winning team is…811K. 

Congratulations to AngelR Kroll, JuanP Oodles, AnesiaP Spot, TseringP Coy, DashawnR Kroll, BrandonS Spot, AkeemMA Ashland, GraceP Oodles, ArnelWS Spot, and ChristeleeT Kroll! You are the Best Dressed Team!

Here is the team IRL (in real life):

For their prize, the winners will get to name a place in 3D World.

Congratulations to teacher LisaH Highwater and co-teacher Jacqueline Gemino!

Thank you to the other teachers who submitted photographs.

3D World held a contest for The Best Apartment Design. Avatars had to purchase and place furniture and posters in their apartment. During “Lesson 20 – Open House…Meet the Neighbors” (April 30, 2015), a special guest judge, who specializes in interior design, joined us in 3D World to visit the apartments.

Some of the things the judges looked at were furniture position, lighting choices, decorations, carpeting, living room furniture, and kitchen organization. Because there were so many contestants, the judges decided to offered prizes to both the single most beautiful apartment, as well as the apartment house or brownstone that had the greatest number of beautiful apartments within.

The results are in:

The Best Apartment Design (individual) winner is Brownstone No. 5, apartment 3R. Congratulations to avatar NelsonM Spot (811Q-QHST) for your design.

See a video walkthrough of his apartment. (The password for video is the same as for the website.)

The Best Apartment Design (group) winner is Brownstone No. 4. Congratulations to avatars IreneC Coy, RashidaA Ashland, KieshelJ Kroll, GinaR Spot, and EssieN Coy (all from 811Q-QHST) for your designs.

See a video walkthrough of that building. (The password for video is the same as for the website.)

For their prize, the winners will get to choose special names for places in 3D World.

Congratulations to teacher XinglongY Hurricane.

Thank you to all the avatars who decorated and designed their apartments with care and feng shui!

Here are some resources for the lesson on Personal Health, from Ms. Lisa Hillard at 811K.

Personal Health Worksheet.doc

Personal Health Questions .doc

Personal Health Pictures .doc

 Well, it may be no UltraMega Supermarket, but Lynnda’s Grocery has “ultra mega” charm. Some new features of the store include aisle signs, paper goods, hygiene products, and a produce section. Stop by off the corner of 6th Avenue and E 86th Street.

The Contest for Naming Rights has two categories: The Best-Dressed Team and The Apartment Design.

The Best Dressed Team Category: Every student in the class must have a customized avatar (no grey striped shirts and jeans/ no pink polka dot dresses). The teacher will take a class photo, which will be a screen shot of the avatars in some scenic location in 3D World. A special guest judge will be selected to pick the best photograph.

The Apartment Design Category: Every pair of roommates will have to purchase and place furniture and posters in their apartment. During “Lesson 20 – Open House…Meet the Neighbors” (April 30, 2015), a special guest judge, who specializes in interior design, will join us in 3D World to visit the apartments. The judge will decide which apartment wins the award for the best design.

The class that wins in each category will get to choose a name for a special place in 3D World.

We will be planing a competition in 3D World, winner of said competition to earn Naming Rights for the streets around what is now called Coffina Circle. Impress your friends by having a street (or is it a circle?) named after you (or your class). Details on the competition to follow.

Just in time for our next unit on working, there is a new app out that simulates a real grocery store shopping trip. Storest app simulates the shopping experience, complete with choosing items, paying out the cash register, and the best part? Print out the grocery store items, then use the the iPad’s built-in camera as a cash register’s bar-code scanner. Just like the real machines. Well worth the $2.99 price.

The 3D World map is updated. Go to resources to download.

New features include:

• East and West Sides
• Larger Apartment Building Landmarks
• Legend
• More Stores Listed
• Etc.

Welcome to our website for 3D World – District 75’s cutting edge program to teach communication and life skills using a virtual, 3D environment.  For the 2014-2015 school year, we are entering our seventh time doing this program, and we think it has gotten better every year.

If you are a teacher or student in the program, this website is designed to provide you with the information and knowledge you need to fully participate each week.  Please use the password provided at the professional development day to access all the resources.

For any visitors and guests, we encourage you to look around the public portions of the website and learn more about the program.

Congratulations to all of the students and teachers that successfully completed the 3D World program. I made a short video of the excitement and fun from our year-end Block Party. You can watch it on Vimeo on the link below. The password is the same one you use to access pages on this blog.

https://vimeo.com/96914503

If you were wondering what the most popular job site in CityWide was, wonder no more. I copied the data from the 3D World Work Report (http://eloisepasteur.net/nydoe/) and pasted it into Excel. Then I removed the duplicates (hello Immanuel Highwater) and deleted work done by teachers. I counted the results by location and the results are as follows:

Congratulations Lynnda’s Grocery store. You are this year’s Most Popular Job Site!

Since when did Citywide become…the Twilight Zone?!

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How better to advertise Danger House! than with a flaming giant skull?

Because of the real-life snow storm that left many students at home on Feb 13, students will have another opportunity to go on job interviews on Feb. 27. If students have already gone on interviews, they can begin training as scheduled. It is always sunny in Second Life!

Post your questions, ideas, and success stories here.  To get started, you are welcome to share a short description of a successful 3D world activity which you feel had an impact on a student: