Transcript of Jan. 27, 2009 Second Life Roundtable Discussion.
Location: Second Life Educational Support Faire
Topics: The Upcoming Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education in-world Conference
Iggy's Note: I've combined remarks for clarity and eliminated many yes/no replies unless they clarify a remark. One exception for this transcript occurs when folks say whether or not it is their first visit to a Roundtable (so our organizer, AJ Brooks, can get this data for his records).
I've also added links to URLs in the transcript (all will open in new tabs or windows). Forgive the boo-boos: email me at iggyo -at- mac -dot- com with corrections.
Links Mentioned:
Wainbrave Bernal: any content experts in SL please sign up to vet 3D learning assets for MERLOT at http://eduisland.net/salamanderwiki
Pathfinder Linden: what's the max # of people that can fit around this table?
Ignatius Onomatopoeia: 40 at the table?
AJ Brooks: lets go until it stops giving chairs! :-)
AJ Brooks: save one for me, though
Ignatius Onomatopoeia: Let me check to see if those in the back are in chat range
AJ Brooks: I don't want to sit up here all night
Zotarah Shepherd: hehe
Wainbrave Bernal: you just need an apple in your mouth AJ
JeanClaude Vollmar: That's a pretty good trick AJ
AJ Brooks shouts: folks - there is room at the table, come on up and have a seat - we can accommodate up to 40
Pathfinder Linden shouts: let's pack the table!
AJ Brooks: well - we have up to four sims we can crash
AJ Brooks: :-)
Pathfinder Linden: none of these regions have crashed yet. i had to restart one to try and nudge something, but that wasn't a crash
Ignatius Onomatopoeia shouts: that way you can all hear us w/o us shouting!
AJ Brooks: I put a HUGE CUBE up above us
AJ Brooks shouts: warning everyone of the SIM CROSSGIN
Chimera Lemon: the ground is shifting under my virtual feet!
Phelan Corrimal: hehe --- Pathfinder is playing with SIMantics :-)
Chimera Lemon: Famous last words? LOL
Wainbrave Bernal: Hooray for Pathfinder!!!!
Olivia Hotshot: The path around it too
Chimera Lemon: haha :-)
Wainbrave Bernal: people keep discovering the abyss
Chimera Lemon: Stage Dungeon
Olivia Hotshot: i have spent more time under the area than in it
Chimera Lemon: just teaches SL survival skills!
Zana Kohime: oops sorry
Olivia Hotshot: the strong survive
Del Hapmouche: quite all right!
Ignatius Onomatopoeia: that which does not kill us makes us laggy
Wainbrave Bernal: very
Chimera Lemon: more newbies all the time. . .edu noobs that is
ArthurConan Doyle: Much better.
MLani Montgomery flexes her muscles.
Wainbrave Bernal: We do need a little better coordination
Wainbrave Bernal: warm up your fingers, ladies and gentlemen: this is chat (mostly)
Zotarah Shepherd shouts: Everyone get within text range so you know what is being said.
ChrisG Techsan: I mean I have heard of creative table center pieces, but this is a bit different...;)
AJ Brooks: ok - lets go ahead and get started
Wainbrave Bernal: save prims: go bald
AJ Brooks shouts: If everyone can grab a seat
AJ Brooks shouts: oh - sorry - keep forgetting to shout
AJ Brooks shouts: we'll go ahead and get started
AJ Brooks shouts: Hi everyone, and welcome to this weeks Special SL Education Roundtable.
AJ Brooks shouts: As a note to everyone - this week, and every week, our meetings are text chat based, so we will not be using voice today.
AJ Brooks shouts: The SL Education Roundtable meetings are made possible by the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Montclair State University. We meet every week at 2:30pm SLT for an hour. Sometimes we have a topic, sometimes its an open forum.
AJ Brooks shouts: Behind me you will see the GIGANTIC display boards. Each of them is clickable.
AJ Brooks shouts: The one on the left will give you the URL where you can find our most recent chat transcripts. Major kudos and thanks to Ignatius Onomatopoeia for putting this together. Iggy has volunteered as our group scribe and done an amazing job.
Ignatius Onomatopoeia: 95 folks between the 4 sims--most of them here
AJ Brooks shouts: The one in the middle will add into your LOCAL CHAT a URL to subscribe to SL Education Roundtable Group as well as a URL for the SL Education Roundtable Facebook group. I encourage your to join both (or either)
AJ Brooks shouts: The one on the right will give you a notecard with our upcoming events schedule and a landmark to where we normally meet.
AJ Brooks shouts: Our topic for this week is the upcoming Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education in-world Conference. Our special guest is Phelan Corrimal, Chair of the Conference.
AJ Brooks shouts: A few announcements, before we get started.
AJ Brooks shouts: Please be sure to visit our "booth" area, just over the hill at the back of this Pavilion (where you see the MSU flags flying). There we have information on the SL Education Roundtable Group, the EDUCAUSE Virtual Worlds Group, and the CHSSSouth Free Land Initiative (yup, I said free land!)
AJ Brooks shouts: Volunteers from all three efforts have agreed to staff the area during select hours - stop by, say hi, network, chat, and get some interesting information if you want.
AJ Brooks shouts: Something new - we are now on FACEBOOK. If you are, too, please join out Facebook group http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=44078263753&ref=share
AJ Brooks shouts: If you have Mystitool on, or other similar tool, please put it to sleep or detach it for now. :-) It tends to lag things.
AJ Brooks shouts: Ok - onward and upward
AJ Brooks shouts: Although we have never tried this with such a large group, I'm feeling adventurous and think we'll give it a shot today. We'll start our meeting as we usually do. Please introduce yourself. Tell us who you are, where you are from, and what you do.
AJ Brooks shouts: No need to wait for others to type - go ahead and enter your information right away, we can all catch up in chat history.
AJ Brooks shouts: I am AJ Kelton, I'm the Director of Emerging Instructional Technology for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Montclair State University and the Coordinator of the Second Life Project for the College of Education and Human Services, also at MSU.. We're located in northern New Jersey, just fourteen miles from midtown Manhattan.
Phelan Corrimal shouts: My name is Kevin Feenan (Phelan Corrimal in SL) and I am the President of Rockcliffe University Consortium a soon to be 501c3 SL-based education provider (paper work was just filed today actually - yah!).
Grinn Pidgeon: Tri-C. cleveland, Ohio, instructional technologist
Edina Gumbo: Edina from Montclair state university, Asst. professor of counseling
Birdie Newcomb: Birdie Newcomb (Newborn) Beach College Academy
Jacqueline Despres: Amy Groves, IBM, focusing on corporate education in virtual worlds
Philled Graves is Rick Shaw, Director of College Technical Services, Ventura College
Oronoque Westland: /I am Roberta Kilkenny. I teach Caribbean History at Hunter College in New York.
Ignatius Onomatopoeia is Joe Essid, University of Richmond Writing Center Director
Kavon Zenovka: Kae - from Front Range Community College outside of Denver
JeanClaude Vollmar: I'm JC (Jeff Le Blanc in RL). I work for the University of Northwestern Ohio as their VP for IT.
Olivia Hotshot: Ann Steckel - Cal State University Chico - Tech Consultant & Educator
Zotarah Shepherd shouts: I am a MA in Education (technology and psychology) student at Sonoma State University in northern California working an a curriculum project: Teaching and Learning Life-Skills in Second Life
Margaret Michalski: Margaret, University of Illinois at Chicago - Research Information Specialist/Doctoral Student
Bracken Homewood: Margaret Derrington Kings College London. I train ICY teachers.
Pathfinder Linden: i focus on customer market development in education and healthcare. background in neuroscience, medical education, and online communities of practice. more details at http://pathfinderlinden.com
Wainbrave Bernal: Jonathon Richter, Center for Advanced TEchnology in Education at the University of Oregon
Abacus Capalini: I am an Instructor with Front Range Community College and I am the Director of the North Metro Small Business Development Center
Bill Barcelos: /shout I am a Technical Trainer for VMware, Inc. We do virtualization software for the datacenter and the desktop.
Manifrey Guisse: Doug Jerolimov, Dept of Science, Technology, and Society at the University of Virginia
Pippy Ballinger: Paul Harrington from the International Baccalaurete in the UK
Ygraine Caerndow: Laura Willson. Just a lurker.
Helene Lauria shouts: Tamar Schiller; Center for IT & Privacy law @ John Marshall Law School, Chicago
ChrisG Techsan shouts: Chris Gibson AVP EdTech for Texas State Technical College and lead on vTSTC
Blueshells Sands: Shelley Grabel Ed Training/corp training - Delaware Tech
Mare Danick: Mary Anne Bertola, graduate student at James Madison University, researching the effects of SL on student understanding
Rachelle Munro: The University of Texas at Tyler and Texas A&M University, Rochell McWhorter
Bluewave Ogee shouts: Leslie Jarmon, University of Texas at Austin / and / the Educators Coop in SL :-)
Profesora Farigoule: Delaware Technical & Community College, Newark DE - teaching inworld for first time this term
Fred Brecher: I'm Fred Hagemeister, Coordinator Academic Technology Services, University of Richmond
Zana Kohime: I am Marlene Brooks from Memorial University Newfoundland Canada responsible for the implementation of Virtual World technologies at the university.
Professor Bimbogami: David Dixon, Professor Art & Design, East Tennessee State University
Steve Appalachia: University of Wisconsin - Madison - Academic Technologist
Del Hapmouche: John Gustafson, University of Maryland University College
Durandal Muircastle shouts: I'm Grey, a Seattle-based eLearning Designer and Interim Education Tutor (for hospitalized & homebound students)
Chad Sawson shouts: Bob Barnes, Videocnference Network Manager for Texas region 10 Edu. Svc Center and President-elect of the texas Distance Learning Association
Ilene Pratt shouts: Ilene Frank University of South Florida - librarian
Juice Gyoza: Tanya Joosten, Inst Consultant and Communication Instructor, Univ Wisconsin Milwaukee
Olivia Hotshot shouts: Ann Steckel - Cal State University Chico - Tech Consultant & Educator
AJ Brooks shouts: great - keep em coming
StoneAngel Inglewood: Peter Engelbrite = I develop educational software in rl (i'm working on an algebra conversion at this time) I also run a SL television network KMTV
MonicaMarlo Martinek: Monica Martinez-Gallagher, Oregon Community Colleges - Instr. Tech.
Proprof Zerbino: Sue Stalewski - director of Dist. ed - Health Sciences - UW-Milwaukee
Deanna Streeter: Deanna Streeter-University of Phoenix
Irix Ladybird shouts: Marta Sponsiello, italian phd student, researching immersive education
AJ Brooks shouts: this is awesome - keep going!
MLani Montgomery: Rinda Montgomery Conwell, Assistant Superintendent, North Central Education Service District, Oregon
Chimera Lemon: Liz Dorland - Washington U in St. Louis - visualization in science + fac dev
Zage Farman shouts: Frederic Emam-Zade, Executive Director of FUNGLODE (Fundación GLobal Democracia y Desarrollo) a think tank in the Dominican Republic
Tuxedo Ninetails: I'm Mex Butler, currently graduate students at Melbourne University in Australia. Owner of the Rural Learning Network project supported by Montclair State U and U of West Scotland
KarenKate Sands shouts: Karen Evans (sl KarenKate Sands) Instructional Technologist, Howard Community College, Columbia, Maryland
Jacobs Piers: Checking out how to use SL for Environmental Literacy Outreach/Extension
AJ Brooks shouts: say YES or NO - For how many people is this their FIRS SLER meeting?
MonicaMarlo Martinek: NO
GinaMarie Latte: Jean Lotz SL explorer for SL and AAUW Facebook younger member and Student Affiliate mentor
Ygraine Caerndow: Yes
Tuxedo Ninetails: NO
Wainbrave Bernal: no
Donna Piaggio: NO
Olivia Hotshot shouts: No
Durandal Muircastle: Yes
Del Hapmouche: no
Chad Sawson shouts: YES
Philled Graves: no
Phelan Corrimal shouts: YES
Pippy Ballinger: Yes
Grinn Pidgeon: no
Manifrey Guisse: no
Margaret Michalski: NO
Mare Danick: yes
Kavon Zenovka: NO
Bracken Homewood: no, my second
StoneAngel Inglewood: yes
Blueshells Sands: YES
Helene Lauria: yes
Edina Gumbo: yes
Irix Ladybird shouts: no
Livia's translator: Too many HTTP requests too fast.
Abacus Capalini: /shout NO!!!
MLani Montgomery shouts: No
Pathfinder Linden: no
Bill Barcelos shouts: Yes
Davidovic Dean: David van Gent, IBM Learning
Steve Appalachia: no
Zotarah Shepherd: Nope
Firery Broome shouts: no
Deanna Streeter: My major is Information Technology
Eneias Pessoa: Eneias Pessoa (RL Virgílio A. P. Machado) is a Professor of Industrial Engineering at the Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal.
Profesora Farigoule: no
John Siamendes: Yes
Adra Letov: Diane Nahl, professor University of Hawaii, Information Science
Ignatius Onomatopoeia: no
Eliasdehart Sixpence shouts: yes
Salamanca Congrejo: no, not first meeting
AJ Brooks shouts: you can shout by holding down control when you hit enter
Bluewave Ogee: not first meeting
Eliasdehart Sixpence shouts: yes
KarenKate Sands shouts: no
Jacqueline Despres shouts: YES
Samu Lorefield shouts: no
AJ Brooks shouts: Ok - thanks everyone. Oh, one final note - it is really hard for me to keep up with IMs while I run the meeting, but I promise to get back to anyone who IMs me as soon after the meeting as I can.
Pathfinder Linden shouts: you can shout if you hit control-return as opposed to just return
John Siamendes: yes
Eneias Pessoa: No
Bluewave Ogee shouts: TY, Pathfinder
AJ Brooks shouts: So lets get to why we are here today
StoneAngel Inglewood shouts: ok
AJ Brooks shouts: in a few short weeks
AJ Brooks shouts: we'll be having a conference in world
AJ Brooks shouts: The chair of that conference is here with us today as our special guest
Bracken Homewood: Or scroll to Shout on the Say button beside the chat line
AJ Brooks shouts: so without further ado
AJ Brooks shouts: I'll turn it over to Phelan Corrimal. He'll tell us a bit about what is going on - and then we'll turn this over to you guys
AJ Brooks shouts: to ask questions
AJ Brooks shouts: get answers
Phelan Corrimal shouts: Awesome - TY AJ
AJ Brooks shouts: and don't be afraid to speak your mind or say what you want to know
AJ Brooks shouts: only ask one thing
AJ Brooks shouts: try to channel questions through me
Phelan Corrimal shouts: hehe
AJ Brooks shouts: it might make it easier for all to read
Phelan Corrimal shouts: As mentioned earlier I am the General Chair of the Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education 2009 SL Conference.
AJ Brooks shouts: anyway - HEEERRRSSSS PHelan
Phelan Corrimal: woo
Phelan Corrimal shouts: The Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education 2009 SL Conference is the successor to the Second Life Best Practices in Education conference held in May 2007.
Phelan Corrimal shouts: At that time the conference attracted 1300 educators and researchers in the field of education and hosted over 30 academic presentation from several countries, including Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States.
Phelan Corrimal shouts: This year the conference is scheduled to take place March 27-29 and we have already attracted a very strong support group of about 20 from both RL and SL academic institutions to help plan and organize the event.
Phelan Corrimal shouts: The VW-BPE conference will promote the best and brightest from the Second Life education community in various fields of practice including everything from demonstrations to hands on theory.
Phelan Corrimal shouts: The Call for Proposals just went out last Sunday and we are expecting to receive somewhere between 80-120 academic presentations.
Phelan Corrimal shouts: Similar to the Education Faire here we are also expecting to have exhibits, demonstrations, tutorials, and vendors all which focus on increasing the effectiveness of teaching using Virtual Worlds.
Phelan Corrimal shouts: Proposals are due on or before Saturday February 28th SLT (which means there is probably going to be a day or two of give and take :-)
Juice Gyoza: what's the url again?
Phelan Corrimal shouts: We are also encouraging people to submit academic papers in addition to simply providing educational presentations.
Phelan Corrimal: http://www.vwbpe.org
Phelan Corrimal shouts: Papers submitted for publication will be published in the Journal of Virtual Studies, a peer review publication put out by Rockcliffe.
Phelan Corrimal shouts: This will actually be our inaugural issue as is expected to be published with 30 days after the VWBPE closes.
Chimera Lemon: scary!
Phelan Corrimal shouts: People can get more information on the VWBPE by visiting the website for the conference at http:/www.vwbpe.org
Phelan Corrimal shouts: Alternatively there is an SL Group set up which is open enrollment.
Phelan Corrimal shouts: We are still looking for a number of volunteers. We have a few committee chair positions still open and sub-committees such as the Volunteer and Social committee are going to require a lot of help during the 3 days of the conference itself.
Chimera Lemon: Lindens are so useful!
Kavon Zenovka: need to take screen shots
Phelan Corrimal shouts: In addition, we could use a lot of help with marketing and communications. Getting word out beyond SL to RL Educational groups to encourage people to come into Second Life and see what all the fuss is about :-)
MLani Montgomery: Oh yes, we are.
Chimera Lemon: I need one...
Phelan Corrimal shouts: The conference is free however we are looking for sponsorships to help with some of the expenses.
Phelan Corrimal shouts: Sponsorships and vendor booths will be opened up in about 2 weeks once we have our preliminary budget completed and we have an idea of how much money we need to raise to keep the event free of charge for all to attend.
Phelan Corrimal shouts: Also A number of our Chairs and Volunteers are here at the table including Zana Kohime, Oronoque Westland, MLani Montgomery, Kavon Zenovka
MLani Montgomery: Hey Kavon!
AJ Brooks shouts: OK - 2nd table for folks to sit at
Phelan Corrimal: So at this point i would like to open up to questions - comments
Phelan Corrimal: talking food
Kavon Zenovka: Hi Mlani - i'm taking notes
AJ Brooks shouts: ok folks - what question do you have
MLani Montgomery: ty, Kavon
Olivia Hotshot: How does one volunteer?
Deanna Streeter: Point of order-to whom may I donate lindens to help with the expenses?
Olivia Hotshot shouts: How does one volunteer?
Bluewave Ogee shouts: For the published papers, what kind of criteria? :-)
Phelan Corrimal shouts: Just send me an email at ktfeenan@knomaze.com and I can get you added to the google group for the organizational committee
Wainbrave Bernal: how will other virtual worlds be represented if the whole thing in in SL? ... Not that I don't love SL, but the title implies....
AJ Brooks shouts: DEANNA, contact Phelan directly for that
Phelan Corrimal shouts: also we will be having an organizational meeting on Rockcliffe X this Saturday at 4pm SLT
Deanna Streeter: Thank you sir
Wainbrave Bernal shouts: how will other virtual worlds be represented if the whole thing in in SL? ... Not that I don't love SL, but the title implies....
AJ Brooks shouts: ok - great question Wainbrave
AJ Brooks shouts: how will other virtual worlds be represented
AJ Brooks shouts: Phelan?
Kavon Zenovka shouts: wainbrave - the social committee would like to do 5 tours 4 people and that isn't even taking into account what proposals may be offered
Phelan Corrimal shouts: For Published Papers - There is a template available (with thanks to the SLCCed folks from last year) simply indicate in the proposal you would like to submit a paper for publication as well and we will put it before our peer review panel
Bluewave Ogee shouts: TY, Phelan
Phelan Corrimal shouts: AJ - Just SL for this one but we know that the skills developed here will be transferable to other Virtual Worlds
MLani Montgomery shouts: Tours in other virtual worlds using education...with a docent guiding the way...
Kavon Zenovka shouts: what other VW should be represented? What do you want to see or show?
Phelan Corrimal shouts: So hence we dropped the SL part of the conference name to allow us to expand it into other virtual worlds as the platform matures
AJ Brooks shouts: Jon?
StoneAngel Inglewood shouts: any new on OSGrid?
AJ Brooks shouts: Wainbrave, it was asked [14:51] Kavon Zenovka shouts: what other VW should be represented? What do you want to see or show?
Kavon Zenovka: IF you want to be in charge of the tour because you are working in the world - contact MLani and me
Phelan Corrimal: hopefully didn't miss any questions - my typing isn't that fast
Wainbrave Bernal shouts: Project Wonderland? There.com? ActiveWorlds?
AJ Brooks shouts: is anyone working in There?
Phelan Corrimal shouts: I would think it would be awesome if we could see representation from any of the 40 or 50 other virtual worlds as well
Olivia Hotshot shouts: what about new 2.5 D worlds like Just leap In?
Kavon Zenovka: WoW, SPore, Open SIm, Whyville, CLub Pengun :)
Ignatius Onomatopoeia shouts: OpenLife folks?
Olivia Hotshot: Viviaty
Zana Kohime: HiPiHi
AJ Brooks shouts: wowo
AJ Brooks shouts: how would those be represented - logistically - how would that be done?
GinaMarie Latte: sounds like the conference has just gotten a lot more complicated
Phelan Corrimal shouts: Exactly Kavon - The thing about Best Practices is that they apply to the innovation created by the technology - not the technology itself
Kavon Zenovka: luckily we've had some Wowheads volunteer
Bracken Homewood shouts: by people who work in those worlds presenting papers on what they do in there
Phelan Corrimal shouts: Although the technology plays a strong role - really the technology is a enabler
Olivia Hotshot chuckles silently
Pathfinder Linden shouts: good point AJ
Kavon Zenovka shouts: You can put in a paper - but we would like to feature 4 tours regardless of the papers submitted
Zana Kohime: I think we can tour the others. If someone has a presentation regarding the use for teaching/learning/research that would be great.
Kestral Karas shouts: We have an ifo machine on WIRED Island #1 that has web links to 117 virtual worlds
AJ Brooks shouts: I think someone should address standards in a presentation
Kavon Zenovka shouts: beautiful - mind if I contact you
AJ Brooks shouts: there is a table below this one for over flow
Zana Kohime: I would encourage proposals regarding the work that is being created in other virtual worlds.
Bluewave Ogee shouts: Kestral - what is that SLURL?
AJ Brooks shouts: what would people like to see at this conference?
Phelan Corrimal shouts: not so much more complicated - I think the focus will still be strongly on SL specifically however as this conference matures in subsequent years we don't necessarily want it to exclude those virtual worlds which also have good opportunities for enabling knowledge emergence and knowledge transference
Ignatius Onomatopoeia shouts: If you put SLURLs or URLs in chat, I will be sure they become live links in the transcript
Durandal Muircastle shouts: For those without SL, how long is the expected delay/lag time between presentations in SL and their material becoming accessible on a website?
Profesora Farigoule shouts: not just tools .... but how/which Instructional design is effective
Wainbrave Bernal: I'd like to see machinima taken of educational projects in SL and showcased
Phelan Corrimal shouts: Hopefully no more than 30 days before they will be published
Kestral Karas shouts: slurl.com/secondlife/WIRED%201/129/17/317
AJ Brooks shouts: don't be shy folks - speak up - what topics would make you come to this conference?
Edina Gumbo shouts: how to help students with the short learning curve
Profesora Farigoule shouts: or shorten the learning curve for students LOL
AJ Brooks shouts: other than a spell check in chat LOL
Davidovic Dean: FYI. This one in Amsterdam will be open for other 3d platforms as well --> http://metameets.com
Edina Gumbo shouts: I want to see what others are doing, maybe have field trips?
Olivia Hotshot shouts: Students presenting about their experiences
Wainbrave Bernal shouts: Design Patterns that other educators can use
Ignatius Onomatopoeia shouts: best sites/methods for teaching skills beyond level-one to students
Wainbrave Bernal shouts: how to assess learning in SL
Phelan Corrimal shouts: If we can get a good technical group together then we can likely get things on the web and/or published as peer review much sooner thou
Durandal Muircastle shouts: Basic SL skills for interacting in learning sims
Bracken Homewood: yes assessment would be very interesting
AJ Brooks shouts: that owl is going to drive me to drink
Edina Gumbo shouts: any research that has been done on using SL with students
AJ Brooks shouts: LOL
Wainbrave Bernal: AJ just needs an excuse to drink
MLani Montgomery shouts: Shoot the owl.
Phelan Corrimal shouts: I seem to have touched a number of people with my idea that we should also do a "Worst Practices in Education Conference" as well at some point :-)
marc Nomura: since when was assessment interesting :)
Olivia Hotshot shouts: Development of virtual identities - a virtual presence profile
AJ Brooks shouts: ok - so we have probably 100 people here - how many of you think you might submit something
Juice Gyoza: those are great -- assessment of students, evaluation of the impact, student presentations, best practices, challenges, etc.
Philled Graves shouts: why would he need an excuse
MLani Montgomery whips out a box of "Owl Helper"
Kavon Zenovka shouts: worst practices is beautiful
Edina Gumbo shouts: yes, what works and what does not, dos and don'ts if you will
Profesora Farigoule shouts: um ...er... aren't owls a protected species ... esp former TG owls?
KarenKate Sands shouts: definitely worth the time, Phelan!
Profesora Farigoule shouts: not for this year ... sry
Edina Gumbo: in SL anything is possible
Nicholas Hawthorne shouts: LOL
Ignatius Onomatopoeia shouts: My first semester in 2007 with SL was a "worst practice"
AJ Brooks shouts: seriously - say yes if you thank you might think about submitting something.
Bracken Homewood: worst practice is a bit of a shame...people had to learn how to teach in here
Zana Kohime shouts: Yes
Edina Gumbo shouts: yes
KarenKate Sands shouts: yes
Durandal Muircastle shouts: Perhaps rephrased as "Discarded practices"?
Ignatius Onomatopoeia shouts: yes
Phelan Corrimal shouts: @Bracken - yep - but understanding what doesn't work is often as important as what does work
Wainbrave Bernal: how to use SL to teach real world skill and how to use SL as a means to create a meaningful SL experience itself
Zotarah Shepherd: Nic was a Estate Manager on Eye4you Alliance . One of the best!
Bluewave Ogee shouts: yes
Olivia Hotshot: Virtual Citizen etiquette?
AJ Brooks shouts: perhaps the organizing committee can offer a "workshop" to help people ferret out ideas
Kavon Zenovka shouts: maybe it's not a presentation- rather 2 minutes w/ an open mic
John Siamendes shouts: y
Zotarah Shepherd: I would like to see a machinima of all Education events in SL.
Edina Gumbo shouts: is there a limit on the # of presentations for an individual?
Bracken Homewood shouts: "Improving practice" might give people the opportunity to compare worst with best...in a positive way
Wainbrave Bernal: do the SLEDsparks inworld (but deal with the lag somehow)
Phelan Corrimal shouts: @AJ - that is a possibility - we can look at that - would be a good idea for the SLCCed as well
GinaMarie Latte shouts: I agree to learn from mistakes. I would love to know what didn't work, why, and a better workable option
Irix Ladybird shouts: will be dedicated some space to theoretical reflections?
AJ Brooks shouts: I would be willing to help people with that
Phelan Corrimal shouts: @Edina - no limit -
MonicaMarlo Martinek: great request Zotarah
KarenKate Sands shouts: great idea, Bracken
Phelan Corrimal shouts: Woo Hoooo! --- AJ's just been drafted :-)
StoneAngel Inglewood: what kind of technology are people looking for?
AJ Brooks shouts: i think people here have great ideas and don't think anyone really thinks they do
MonicaMarlo Martinek: mb one of the stations would cover it again- SLCN? MetaverseTV?
Zana Kohime: As the Program Committee Chair, this and some other guidelines for selection of proposals will be discussed at our next meeting.
Edina Gumbo shouts: maybe a place for pictures and landmarks?
Wainbrave Bernal: How to conduct Educational Research in Second Life
Bluewave Ogee shouts: I'd like to see an array of the different disciplines teaching actual courses in SL - from physics to comparative lit, etc. but all in one place, so to speak, to connect and learn from, as models for new faculty wanting to come on board..:-)
Zotarah Shepherd: Will the teen grid be specifically addressed?
Edina Gumbo shouts: good idea Wainbrave
Pandora Kurrajong: There have to be options for tours
Bracken Homewood: Educational research in SL see RELIVE 08 conference
Phelan Corrimal shouts: @Edina - hopefully we will get a flicker site up, twitter and some other options there
Pandora Kurrajong: presentations alone aren't compelling
Profesora Farigoule shouts: "how to overcome institutional roadblocks "
Philled Graves: good question Zotarah
Mare Danick: I agree with Bluewave. I'm looking for math and its hard to make the connection.
Wainbrave Bernal shouts: yes Bracken!
Pandora Kurrajong: Field trips, tours, let people immerse and have an experience
Gus Plisskin: Zotarah: I hope so re: Teen SL
Zotarah Shepherd: I would like to see a timeline for when the grids can be merged.
Phelan Corrimal shouts: @Zotarah - I hope so - K-12 is a very large component of education in SL - more so than higher ed I think
AJ Brooks: folks - don't forget to shout your input - by holding shift when you hit enter - also - open your LOCAL CHAT to follow the back chat
AJ Brooks: crap
Edina Gumbo shouts: a building workshop?
AJ Brooks shouts: folks - don't forget to shout your input - by holding shift when you hit enter - also - open your LOCAL CHAT to follow the back chat
Pathfinder Linden: there is no timeline for that.
Profesora Farigoule shouts: an avatar workshop for "freshmen avatar" faculty
KarenKate Sands shouts: I'd like a shared google doc spreadsheet linked here... for all group members to add info on discipline specific activities, locations, how assessed, how graded, etc... and a linked sign someplace inworld
Bracken Homewood shouts: there should be an ALWAYS SHOUT toggle......
Zana Kohime shouts: I hope you will volunteer for some of this, the list is getting longer.. lol
Kavon Zenovka shouts: The social committee was planning on orientation and then movement activities
Bluewave Ogee shouts: great, KarenKate
Wainbrave Bernal: I'd like to see a collaborative educational build contest or showcase
AJ Brooks shouts: there are so many great ideas - and they must be coming from someplace - so, let try my straw poll again - how many of you THINK (no commitment) THINK you might be interested in presenting something
Pandora Kurrajong shouts: Why not set up a wiki and treat this like an unconference? People here can volunteer and describe their contributions
Edina Gumbo shouts: awards for some of the best educational sites?
Wainbrave Bernal sighs... forgetting to shout at every turn
Phelan Corrimal shouts: NCI has agreed to do our orientation for new people never in SL before
Profesora Farigoule shouts: .... ooooo building contest :) ;p
Pathfinder Linden shouts: Philip was talking more about possibilities than actual strategy and tactics. we are still working out our strategy around the teen grid. and we'll make information public when we're ready to have discussions around our strategy. :)
Zana Kohime shouts: A contest or two would be fun..
GinaMarie Latte shouts: there are a lot of SL technical classes available right now. Having building classes here is not RL education and duplicate effort. Just please post tp's for places offering free SL technical classes
Bluewave Ogee shouts: yes
Rachelle Munro: yes
Pandora Kurrajong shouts: YES
Phelan Corrimal shouts: They just launched a new OI sim
Bracken Homewood shouts: I am particularly interested in teaching languages in SL...I would like to compare ideas with anyone else who is also interested in this
MonicaMarlo Martinek: Language learning- I really want a Google Map that links places to speak native languages.. Not off billboards, because the map helps me orient the geography, but SL geography doesn't link me to the physical world, just the language.
Samu Lorefield shouts: no
Birdie Newcomb: yes
Zotarah Shepherd: I would if I had time AJ.
Bluewave Ogee shouts: Great, MonicaMarlo
Profesora Farigoule shouts: @phelan - great idea w/NCI.... but their avatar makeovers are not focused to more traditional people
MonicaMarlo Martinek: I got the GoogleMap, if someone's got the links :) Happy to put it together
GinaMarie Latte shouts: NCI is great for teaching people the basics of SL quickly
Durandal Muircastle shouts: How to adapt your existing lessons/lectures to SL presentations -- what translates inworld, what doesn't, what tech you can integrate (ie slides, video, rezzing)
Grinn Pidgeon shouts: will there be a poster session?
Bracken Homewood shouts: Might be an idea to set up groups interested in particular areas...in the interests of maintaining balance and not having repeats of the same thing
Irix Ladybird shouts: braken, it is my field of research
Phelan Corrimal shouts: yes to Posters - we are taking proposals for those now
AJ Brooks shouts: SO - I have a question - that came up earlier
Alanah Chrome: YES TO WHAT TECH YOU CAN INTEGRATE
Edina Gumbo shouts: interesting to keep track of where we all come from - to show the diversity in areas, etc.
Wainbrave Bernal shouts: I would like to find a way to capture SLED know-how in MERLOT's Salamander Project so we can better vet and share our expertise (shameless plug)
AJ Brooks: There seems to be a LOT of redundancy
Birdie Newcomb: Rolig Loon has my list from last year
Zotarah Shepherd: ISTE is still giving workshops on Basic SL skills and Appearance is a possibility.
AJ Brooks shouts: SLCC, This event, your event
Ignatius Onomatopoeia shouts: I would love to present on Millennials using SL. I've been working on the issue of open-ended play in pedagogy.
Zana Kohime shouts: At the SLBPE there was a specific time for 'like minded' people to get together. ISTE hosted the K-12 and Max Science. So, I would talk to the Social Committee if you are interested in heading up a special group get-together.
AJ Brooks shouts: how will people know where to look first
Rachelle Munro: Please send the address again for proposals
AJ Brooks shouts: there seems to be a lot of duplication
Kavon Zenovka shouts: please do !
Durandal Muircastle shouts: @Ignatius: YES please to the Millennials presentation!
Zana Kohime shouts: Okay Prof
Wainbrave Bernal shouts: a demo of Rivers Run Red's "Immersive Workspaces" now open to education would be swell
Phelan Corrimal shouts: @AJ - in what regards?
AJ Brooks shouts: BTW - the VWBPE has a booth - on the other side of this hill, behind the Pavilion
AJ Brooks shouts: well - as you were saying in voice before the meeting started
Zana Kohime shouts: I like the idea Wainbrave.. they do great work.
MonicaMarlo Martinek: demos!!!! Please!! :) open long enough for us to capture something about them to communicate out to our instructors who haven't tasted SL yet.
Kestral Karas shouts: I think the first workshop might be about understanding how to use SL as an way to package experience (instead of just information) and certainly not just another iteration of first life.
AJ Brooks shouts: if the Fiare becomes a quarterly thing - or twice a year, then VWBPE, and SLEDcc, and all the conference (Like EDUCAUSE) - its so spread out
Phelan Corrimal shouts: Was there any questions I've missed so far?
Bluewave Ogee shouts: I'd love to see students presenting their most amazing, cuting edge builds in SL ...
Wainbrave Bernal: Phelan, I'd like you all to pick up our SLEDcc work on developing rubrics for us to develop educational projects that would come with honors (we had one for each of six strands)
Phelan Corrimal shouts: 4 conferences a year would be workable I think - SLCC - VWBPE and 2 EduFaire - 1 per quarter
Phelan Corrimal shouts: I am hoping that VWBPE will run 6 months after SLCC from here on out
Bracken Homewood: You know something AJ...although it is fun seeing everyone here...this sort of conversation would be easier in the ISTE group IM chat...and there wouldn't be laaaag etc problems.....if our main medium of conversation is text chat why are we assembling together .....to crash a sim?
AJ Brooks shouts: well -= SLCC, now that I think about it, is really more of a convention
Kavon Zenovka shouts: things move so quickly in VW - you don't want to wait 6 months to present or learn more
Zana Kohime shouts: Wainbrave, please pass those onto me, I would love to see them and anything that would be of benefit regarding the strands.
AJ Brooks shouts: good point Kavon
Phelan Corrimal shouts: For that matter - Metanomics has a good set-up with chat bridge already established
Irix Ladybird shouts: great idea bracken ;9
AJ Brooks: what is the biggest challenge of participating in an in-world conference?
GinaMarie Latte shouts: I would love to know how we managed to have so many Avs here at one time and not crash!
Wainbrave Bernal shouts: We got some flak from the rest of SLCC in trying to make our track too professional - they want more of a social gathering, not a professional education conference
Mare Danick: Is the conference going to focus mainly on K-12 or higher educational as well?
Phelan Corrimal shouts: if we could get some tools from Linden Labs (hint hint) to help stream things easily - we could do this I think with relative ease
Pathfinder Linden shouts: GinaMarie: it's because LL has been working on stability and scaling. see, we really have. :)
Grinn Pidgeon shouts: @AJ time zones?
Phelan Corrimal shouts: LOL
Jarrad Voom shouts: or a central index of education materials and where to find them
GinaMarie Latte shouts: TY Pathfinder
Phelan Corrimal shouts: had to throw it in there ;-)
Edina Gumbo shouts: @AJ Coordination of everything?
Zana Kohime shouts: There are a number of streams and the focus is on K-12, adult, university and college and training. Educational teaching/learning and research.
Birdie Newcomb shouts: I only crashed once coming here...
Bluewave Ogee shouts: IT's true - Today we were talking about how much more stable SL has become. Terrific improvements :-)
AJ Brooks: well - let me address the meeting - quickly, and once. This is a weekly meeting, it is not affiliated with ISTE or any other organization other than myself - this is my group, my idea - we meet weekly and talk about a variety of things. This week we are meeting here and talking about this topic, next week we'll be back on CHSSSouth with a variety of topics coming down the road
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Wainbrave Bernal shouts: If SLEDcc and VWBPE can coordinate programming a bit it would be nice and thus, workable to have 4 a year
Bevan Whitfield: yes - watching us hit record after record on Sunday's is amazing!
AJ Brooks: I encourage anyone who thinks other ways of meeting are good to organize and advertise - there is room in the education tent for everyone
Phelan Corrimal shouts: That was the key feedback from SLCC07 - the lack of stability - and Philips "one 9" speech in his missing image t-shirt
Oronoque Westland: I want a T-Shirt that reads "My Group, My Idea"
Bracken Homewood shouts: If we actually chatted in the ISTE group IM rather than local chat now even though we are here together...would it make any difference to us??? Maybe we would be joined by even MORE people
AJ Brooks shouts: I forgot to shout - so I'll repeat it
AJ Brooks shouts: well - let me address the meeting - quickly, and once. This is a weekly meeting, it is not affiliated with ISTE or any other organization other than myself - this is my group, my idea - we meet weekly and talk about a variety of things. This week we are meeting here and talking about this topic, next week we'll be back on CHSSSouth with a variety of topics coming down the road
AJ Brooks shouts: I encourage anyone who thinks other ways of meeting are good to organize and advertise - there is room in the education tent for everyone
Profesora Farigoule shouts: :) @ AJ
Phelan Corrimal shouts: I am hoping we can do that - I asked for information to be passed along to the SLCCed folks but I'm not sure if it got presented to them yet or not
AJ Brooks shouts: back to my question. what makes participating in an in-world conference a challenge?
Pathfinder Linden has a whole talk he could give on the importance of emotional bandwidth, regarding why there is tangible value around simply having text conversations in 3d virtual worlds
Wainbrave Bernal shouts: I didn't get any notice bub
Zana Kohime shouts: Room for all of the new ideas and innovation... we have just touched the surface over the past few years :)
Phelan Corrimal shouts: Communications
AJ Brooks shouts: communication?
Birdie Newcomb: Lag
Profesora Farigoule shouts: difficulty : bringing in those unfamiliar with SL
Jarrad Voom shouts: communications
Pandora Kurrajong shouts: Infrastructure. Most institutions here in Aus either have firewalls, block SL, have low bandwidth or insufficient hardware grunt to handle it
KarenKate Sands shouts: the time is not good for commuters in the EST... it's at 5:30PM EST... moving it forward or back would really help, AJ!
Bracken Homewood: yup...different communication methods in SL efficacy and comparisons worth a paper all on its own!
Durandal Muircastle: I appreciate the text chatting for two reasons: first, it's easier to archive; second, less bandwidth AND my Linux client, happy I am to have one, still balks on Voice.
Phelan Corrimal shouts: There are so many different social networks - even though we can reach more people, the people we are trying to communicate with are more fragmented and in niche social cultures than before
Helene Lauria shouts: yeah, it was funny talking to the IT people- "yes, I really need to install second life for work!" haha
Philled Graves shouts: I'm an IT people! ;-)
Profesora Farigoule shouts: me too - had to send out letter to families to explain why students needed it on home computers too
Philled Graves shouts: some of us get it!
AJ Brooks shouts: Yeah - and you need to watch out for Philled!
AJ Brooks shouts: ROFL
Helene Lauria shouts: thanks philled! good to hear :-)
Durandal Muircastle shouts: What metrics are available to provide stats on how well-attended these conferences are, and other info bits that might help cut down on skepticism from higher management?
JeanClaude Vollmar shouts: I'm IT ppl too!
Wainbrave Bernal: Get a mix of communications that plug into a variety of use constellations - then streamline, interconnect, and train folks to stick to it
Pandora Kurrajong: Most educators using SL here face a struggle to be sure!
Phelan Corrimal: @Durandal - that is something we still need to work out
Edina Gumbo shouts: I am so lucky AJ was a trailblazer :) we have support for SL
AJ Brooks shouts: what are the benefits of an in-world conference?
Wainbrave Bernal shouts: feedback forms, heat meters, etc.
Philled Graves shouts: seriously, if your IT folks need a peer to talk to for validation IM me and we can swap contact info
Pandora Kurrajong shouts: For some of the stand and deliver presentations, could we stream the voice via Ustream or Skype so people who can't make it in could still listen and interact?
Phelan Corrimal shouts: We have 7 sims confirmed - 4 more I'm waiting to hear back about - plus we have two other groups that may have sims available for us
AJ Brooks shouts: oh - Edina - thanks. I'll write you that check tomorrow. LOL
Durandal Muircastle shouts: To be honest, I do appreciate the simple existence of a Linux client!
Phelan Corrimal shouts: so we would need to coordinate something on metrics across all of those
Pandora Kurrajong shouts: Benefits - immersion, networking
Rachelle Munro: AJ--definitely collaboration is the main benefit
Edina Gumbo shouts: @AJ - make it a big one :)
Pandora Kurrajong shouts: Ability to move through and touch and interact
Phelan Corrimal shouts: I'm hoping thou that we can pull 2500-3000 people over the 3 days
Wainbrave Bernal: use of the medium under consideration
Wainbrave Bernal: cost of travel
Profesora Farigoule: benefits: worldwide networking & cultural immersion
Oronoque Westland: cost these days is vital
Pandora Kurrajong shouts: Provided the opportunities to network and interact are built in
AJ Brooks shouts: amen
Edina Gumbo shouts: I guess what I was saying is that it seems to be easier if one person is able to push the issue, and then get the rest on board.
Kavon Zenovka shouts: @ Pandora the social committee was planning on having specific movement activities
Oronoque Westland: each week we meet on the Montclair SIM with AVs from several continents...just imagine the airfare alone for such a thing
Ignatius Onomatopoeia shouts: @Phelan--VWs in our culture are only going to grow. 4 confs per year will be only the start...
Profesora Farigoule shouts: idea on schedule: organize a group of activities so a newbie could create their account that day , and come to conference at a level they could handle
MonicaMarlo Martinek: not to mention the carbon footprint (our video cards aside) for all that travel!
GinaMarie Latte shouts: AAUW will be hosting a presentation on Southeaster Universities SL build and how it is used for professors, staff and students at SLU. We are trying to show that their use of SL is a legitimate University expense and a value for the students.
Bracken Homewood shouts: agree Professoria!!
Phelan Corrimal shouts: exactly - and to have this type of access without huge cost outlay for the participants is crucial to developing new knowledge and ideas I feel is highly important
AJ Brooks shouts: ok - straw poll - how many people here plan to attend VWBPE in March? Just say YES (those who don't need to say no! LOL)
Tuxedo Ninetails shouts: For rural people, conference attendance is often unmanageable
Wainbrave Bernal shouts: If the conferences aren't a little bit coordinated or related in some conceptual way, I doubt we'll be able to aptly serve the community nor keep it simply to only four
Zotarah Shepherd shouts: Good to know that Gina!
Kavon Zenovka: @ profesora - we were hoping to have some pre-conference activities for people who want a little more time to feel comfortable also
Durandal Muircastle shouts: yes
Oronoque Westland: I think newbie tutorials a day or a week in advance would be helpful
Samu Lorefield shouts: YES
Leiya Perse shouts: yes
Profesora Farigoule shouts: :) W kavon
Birdie Newcomb shouts: yes
Bluewave Ogee: YES
AJ Brooks shouts: yes
Irix Ladybird shouts: yes
Pandora Kurrajong shouts: Rural people here can't get onto SL - they're on satellite that is barely better than dial-up
MonicaMarlo Martinek: newbie tutes, yes
KarenKate Sands shouts: yes
Alanah Chrome: yes
Bracken Homewood shouts: even better Oronoque
Phelan Corrimal: @Ignatius - I would agree, the cost to do something like this relatively speaking is minimal compared to RL
Durandal Muircastle shouts: Are there any plans for designated newbie mentors?
MonicaMarlo Martinek: Pandora: We need federal help for rural broadband.
Tuxedo Ninetails: If you have animals to look after, you can't just leave. The cows need milking twice a day, no matter what.
GinaMarie Latte shouts: Other universities should give an open presentation in RL about their SL efforts
Phelan Corrimal shouts: @Oronoque - we can talk to Carl about that
Wainbrave Bernal: bcnu all later - thanks AJ - ttys Phealn
Pathfinder Linden: raising awareness of all these virtual academic conferences is one of the functions of this "SL Education Support Faire" as it moves ahead
AJ Brooks: later Wainbrave
Pandora Kurrajong shouts: @MonicaMarla AMEN
Zana Kohime shouts: I hate to say it but there is a cost and one that I have had to figure out for administrators. .. but it can be done. Implementing virtual world technology does take some planning before hand.
MonicaMarlo Martinek: ((waves)) Bye Wainbrave :)
Phelan Corrimal shouts: @Durandal - not at present but we can take that under advisement
Chad Sawson shouts: We are building a wireless 20 Mbps network in north central Texas specifically for the rural school districts
Phelan Corrimal: Thx Wainbrave
MonicaMarlo Martinek: Chad- send your success to Washington LOUDLY :)
Profesora Farigoule shouts: yes Zana- it is *not* completely free... and not all the issues are worked out, espec how to handle $L expenses
GinaMarie Latte shouts: bravo Texas
Birdie Newcomb shouts: That's our selling point -- cheap conferencing
Durandal Muircastle shouts: It might be nice for newbies to be able to rez in from a landmark/whatever, and then not be left to fend for themselves 100%
Chad Sawson shouts: lol, will do! I have already chewed out VPs at AT&T & Verizon... ha ha ha
AJ Brooks shouts: AS we begin to warp up our hour - I want to tank everyone - remind you to click on the three HUGE boards behind us for information - and also, let you know - here is your chance to give advice directly to the Chair of the conference. What are your thoughts, advice, recommendations, etc...
Durandal Muircastle shouts: Part of the appeal of VWs and the like is the more authentic mentoring experience
Kavon Zenovka: @Durandal we will be taking mentor/docents 4 that
Pandora Kurrajong shouts: I don't think cheap conferencing is the main point here - people will ask why not Skype or virtual classroom
MonicaMarlo Martinek: Birdie: Other technologies also offer copresence at a distance. We offer it in Technicolor :)
Profesora Farigoule shouts: great idea durandal ..... some volunteers could be newbie docents ... I would volunteer for that
Bracken Homewood shouts: reception committee for newbies
Pandora Kurrajong shouts: There has to be a REASON for using SL beyond cheap and online -- or people won't go through the trouble
Durandal Muircastle shouts: I would be interested in volunteering for reception committee :-P
Birdie Newcomb: cheap gaudy conferencing!
MonicaMarlo Martinek: LOL
Profesora Farigoule shouts: SL offers ability to *generate* content to all users, not just deliver content
Esme Qunhua: So it gets in the record and I can't worm my way out. I offer to do pre conference newbie training and during conference tours.
Kavon Zenovka: @profesora & durandal - please contact the social committee for that either me or MLani Montgomery
MonicaMarlo Martinek: Hey, the webernets was full of blinking text early on too.
Grinn Pidgeon shouts: conference sandbox for newbies?
Phelan Corrimal shouts: Technology always needs to be used where it is more appropriate to do so - SL isn't always the best medium but it is becoming more encompassing every year
Edina Gumbo shouts: yes
Kavon Zenovka: @Esme - I'll contact you so we can get it in the social agenda
Zana Kohime shouts: Co-construction of knowledge re teaching/learning/research.. professional development
Edina Gumbo shouts: yes
marc Nomura shouts: A good thing about conferences in virtual worlds is we can imagine how to do it so much better and non linearly - the question is will we?
Bracken Homewood: you might even get some help from NCI who really concentrate on newby help
Gus Plisskin: @Phelan: Nobody would use SL to read email, but there are some remarkably compelling uses nonetheless
AJ Brooks: just in case it got lost in the IMs, - - AS we begin to warp up our hour - I want to tank everyone - remind you to click on the three HUGE boards behind us for information - and also, let you know - here is your chance to give advice directly to the Chair of the conference. What are your thoughts, advice, recommendations, etc...
Kavon Zenovka: @brackern I 'll get w/ Phelan since he mentions speaking with them already
AJ Brooks: forgot to shout - crap! LOL
AJ Brooks shouts: just in case it got lost in the IMs, - - AS we begin to warp up our hour - I want to tank everyone - remind you to click on the three HUGE boards behind us for information - and also, let you know - here is your chance to give advice directly to the Chair of the conference. What are your thoughts, advice, recommendations, etc...
MonicaMarlo Martinek: @Blueshells- Agreed. Elluminate has never given me Aiming and working chopsticks. ;)
Pandora Kurrajong shouts: Provide alternative methods for people to access some of the conference - Ustream, Skype, etc.
Phelan Corrimal shouts: If anyone here would like to help with the organizational committee - please just indicate here (yes or no) and myself or one of the chairs will get back to you in the next day or two with more information
Pandora Kurrajong shouts: That way they can learn at their comfort zone
Bluewave Ogee shouts: this will be 24/7, correct?
Profesora Farigoule shouts: good point Pandora
Phelan Corrimal shouts: @Pandora - I hope we can but that is still tbd
Zana Kohime shouts: No Bluewave
Pandora Kurrajong shouts: Use tags to tie materials together and have both a centralised space and allow people to take charge so that there are events scheduled for times convenient to a region
Phelan Corrimal shouts: @blueware - will be 4am - 7m x 3 days
Phelan Corrimal shouts: 7pm
Phelan Corrimal shouts: March 27-29
AJ Brooks shouts: SLT
Chimera Lemon: Just posted a snapshot of our double-decker table onto twitter. Got 20+ views already in a few minutes! http://www.koinup.com/ChimeraCosmos/works/
Zotarah Shepherd: yes
Irix Ladybird shouts: yes, phelan
Durandal Muircastle shouts: By streaming/providing content through other means, it should do a good job to PROMOTE using VWs... nothing like a functional demo to gather interest (hey, I wanna do that too!)
Bluewave Ogee shouts: was just asking on behalf of some euro friends and educators in singapore..:-)
Pandora Kurrajong shouts: Everyone involved should have a badge on their blog that promotes the conference, links to the central site, has the tag, etc.
AJ Brooks shouts: My suggestion - use social media and networking
Phelan Corrimal shouts: The last conference people burned out after 24 hours - we wanted to cover as many time zones as possible while still allowing people to get some sleep
Chimera Lemon: Like twitter LOL
AJ Brooks shouts: SLER just added a facebook group - and its been very popular
marc Nomura: Oh gr8 thats me out :)
KarenKate Sands shouts: yes, Phelan
Profesora Farigoule shouts: yes@@@@ Pandora .... a blog link
Durandal Muircastle shouts: Have a follow-up contact list/group to let people know when material is available on the websites
AJ Brooks shouts: I'd be willing to help out with some of the social media, like Twitter and Facebook
Juice Gyoza: have to go -- cheers!
Edina Gumbo shouts: maybe at Monclair we can have some of the workshops in our classrooms of the future, for faculty not in SL? Could other U do that?
Durandal Muircastle: Thanks much, have to go!
Chimera Lemon: want to put twitter names here?
Phelan Corrimal shouts: it is not just the conference itself but also the prep and wrap up - so the org committee has a lot more work to do than just the times the conference is officially open
Bracken Homewood shouts: anyone know exactly how many avatars there are here?
AJ Brooks: Juice - waiting to hear back from Educause - will get back to you soon
AJ Brooks shouts: the highest number was just over 100 Bracken
MonicaMarlo Martinek: @Edina We have ITV classrooms that can streaming broadcast, is that what you are looking for?
Pandora Kurrajong shouts: Get some press releases/EPKs going too - so bloggers, mashers-up and mainstream press will spread the word
Ignatius Onomatopoeia shouts: wooooot. Great job folks!
Profesora Farigoule shouts: looking forward 2 transcript.... gotta run to switch RL locations before return to SLED faire spot at 5pm sslt :)
Edina Gumbo shouts: maybe, then we could bring in people from outside SL?
GinaMarie Latte shouts: presentations work well here in SL but has anyone held large workshops that broke into small groups effectively here?
Ignatius Onomatopoeia shouts: Transcript will appear next week
AJ Brooks shouts: this goes on the records books as our biggest meeting to date
Pandora Kurrajong shouts: Make sure as much of the content is Creative Commons licensed so it will go viral
AJ Brooks shouts: we have to wrap up now
AJ Brooks shouts: thanks everyone for coming
AJ Brooks shouts: visit our booth
AJ Brooks shouts: well - thanks for the whole event, Path - you and George and the team have done wonders here
Gus Plisskin shouts: Cheers all! I look forward to the full notes!
Pathfinder Linden shouts: next time we'll do it with a stage that does not have sinkholes!
