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Virtual Worlds Education Roundtables

Starting Jan. 1, 2010 at this page.

SL Education Roundtables: 2009

December 22: Meeting Management & Event/Function Facilitation Tools
December 15: Language Instruction in Second Life
December 8: Roleplay for Education in SL (special guest Viv Trafalgar)
December 1: Clinical Simulations in Virtual Worlds (special guests JS Vavoom aka John Miller and Professor Noarlunga aka Dr Scott Diener)
November 24: Use of Voice & Voice Etiquette
November 18: Special Field Trip to Rezzable's Heritage Key Virtual King Tut Experience!
November 17: Future Topics
November 10: Information Literacy Guest Moderator Lori Bell (SL: Lorelei Junot) and Special Guest: Sheila Yoshikawa
November 3: The Virtual Worlds Story Project (Special Guests Jenaia Morane & Marty Snowpaw)
October 27: Burning Life Wrap Up & Hosting Arts Events
October 20: Working with Student Content (MP3 File available)
October 13: Asynchronous Learning
October 6: Rezzable, Heritage Key, Greenies, and More. Guest Speaker Jon Himoff, CEO of Rezzable (SL: RightAsRain Rimbaud)
September 29: Assessment
September 22: Educational Builds (Guest Moderator: Olivia Hotshot. Special Guest: GeoFrank Taurog of NASA's eEducation Island)
September 15: Communities of Practice: Presentation Tools (Guest Moderator: Ignatius Onomatopoeia)
September 8: Andragogical/Pedagogical Issues in SL (Guest Moderator: Olivia Hotshot)
September 1: Guest Speaker Tom Boellstorff (SL: Tom Bukowski), Author of Coming of Age in Second Life
August 25: Hosting / Moderating Events in SL
August 18: Presentation / Call for Participants by Case Study Group on SL
August 11: "Why Have More Than One Avatar in SL?" (guest host: Ignatius Onomatopoeia)
August 4: Open Forum
July 28: Open Forum
July 21: Open Forum (surprise guest from Mosul, Iraq)
July 14: Non-Virtual-World Issues
July 7: Open Forum (in Voice, with transcription)
June 30: International Perspective
June 23: Are We Our Avatars?
June 16: Virtual Worlds Other Than SL
June 9: Increasing our Ranks
June 2:  "Our Engaged is Not Their Engaged: The Myth of Undivided Attention." Special Guest: Harry Pence, (SL: John2 Kepler)
May 26: Ideas for Future Topics/Speakers
May 19: Administering Your Second Life (Land, Parcel, and Group management)
May 12: Students in Second Life. Special guests: students DMZ Oh (U Richmond), Jango Carlucci (Del Tech), Nemo Carrasco (Universidad Bicentenaria de Aragua in Venezuela), & Socrates Turbo (U Richmond)
May 5: Health and Health Education in Second Life. Special guest Carol Perry (SL: Carolina Keats)
April 28: Changes to Adult Content - An EDU Perspective. Special guests Claudia, George, and Pathfinder Linden
April 21: Administering SL
April 14: Bringing Faculty and Students into Second Life. Special guests Alan Levine (SL: CDB Barkley), Alice Krueger (SL: Gentle Heron), Jennifer Ragan-Fore (SL: Kittygloom Cassady), and Suzanne Medders (SL: Mirt Tenk).
April 7: The Ramapo Island and Teen Grid. Special guest Maggie Marat
March 31: Virtual Worlds for Hybrid and Online Learning. Special guests: Brenda Boyd (SL: Stargazer Blazer), Ellen Marie Murphy (SL: Elani Matova), Jane Wilde (SL: Esme Qunhua), and Sharon Collingwood (SL: Ellie Brewster)
March 24: Assessment Issues in SL
March 17: Art and Education in SL. Special guests: Anthony Fontana (SL: AnthonyFontana Chevalier), Ken Hudson (SL: Kenny Hubble) and Mick Brady (SL: Chrome Underwood)
March 10: Games and Gaming in SL. Special Guest Jeremy Braver
March 3: SLOODLE: Where From and Where To? Special guests Buddy Sprocket and Jeremy Kabumpo
Feb 24: Open Forum (during Mardi Gras!)
Feb 17: Libraries & Library Services in SL (special guest: Lorelei Junot)
Feb. 10: "Come As Your Alt! Why do we have Alts in SL?"
Feb 3: "A Linden Perspective," with special guest Pathfinder Linden
January 27: at the Second Life Educational Support Faire
"The Upcoming Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education in-world Conference"
January 20: "In With the New": Ideas and Guests for the Year Ahead
January 13: What keeps us in SL? What Hindrances Exist?
January 6: Possible, probable, and preferable futures of Education in Virtual Worlds

SL Education Roundtables: 2008

December 23: The Year in Review (a URL-filled holiday fest, with Santa and a snowball fight!)
December 16: The Lure of Other Virtual Worlds, SLOODLE explained!
December 9: Open Topics (Inventory Loss and Inter-school Collaborations)
December 2: Premium Memberships
November 25: Openspace policies and education

Earlier Roundtables:

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