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Virtual Worlds Education Roundtables 2010

August 26: Tools for Teaching in Virtual Worlds
August 19: Reflections on SLCC 2010
August 14: SLCC 2010, Boston, MA (and in SL)

August 10: Back to School! What do we need to know as the school year starts?

August 3
: Virtual Tech Museum (Special Guests, Linden Prize Winners
Stephe Roux and Agent Heliosense
July 27
: Grassroots Volunteering in SL

July 20
: "What the hell are you wearing?" (Appearance of avatars)

July 13
: How does SL enhance learning?

July 6
: interview with Jonathon Richter (SL: Wainbrave Bernal)

June 29
: What Educators would tell Philip Linden were he at the meeting

June 22
: Open Forum, with focus on meshes in SL, "creepy treehouses" and more

June 15
: Open Forum, with focus on Linden Lab Layoffs & Future of SL in education

June 8
: SLCC 2010 in Boston. Special Guest Chris Collins (SL: Fleep Tuque)

June 1
: UT System in SL. Special Guest Mario Guerra (SL: Luigi Miles)

May 25
: Managing Large Classes in Second Life

May 21
: VWER visit to Third Rock Grid

May 18
: Reading Meeting on "The Learning Gains and Student Perceptions of a Second Life Virtual Lab," by Cobb, Stephanie; Heaney, Rose; Corcoran, Olivia; Henderson-Begg, Stephanie.

May 11
: How To Teach In SL Without Owning Land

May 4
: Copyright and Intellectual Property. Special Guest Stephen Wu (SL: Legal Writer)

April 27
: Visual & Multimedia Literacy in SL
April 23: Field Trip to Heritage Key's Ancient Egypt & Stonehenge. This transcript is in parts one and two

April 20
: Reading Meeting for April, "Press Enter to 'Say': Using Second Life to Teach Critical Media Literacy" with authors Jennifer deWinter & Stephanie Vie

April 13
:
How to Use Second Life as an Environment to Stimulate Reflection
April 6
: Canadian Border Crossing Project (Special Guest: Ken Hudson, SL: Kenny Hubble)

March 30
: Lightning Round--Favorite Places in Second Life

March 23
: The New Viewer in Second Life

March 16
: The Reading Meeting for March, "Children's Participation in a Virtual Epidemic in the Science Classroom: Making Connections to Natural Infectious Diseases." by Special VWER Guest Nina Neulight/June Grantly
March 11: Visit to New Zealand Grid (Host: Scott Diener)

March 9:
Faculty Panel  Special Guests: Lee Carleton (U Richmond) (SL: Beeble Baxter ); Dan Holt (Lansing CC) (SL:Profdan Netizen); Paula Selvester (CSU Chico) (SL: Cotton Dover ) & her student Maximum Goldshark
March 2: Special Guest Sarah Robbins (SL: Intellagirl Tully)
Feb 23
: Special Interview with Jeff Young, Chronicle of Higher Education

Feb.18
: Field trip to Reaction Grid

Feb. 16: Reading Discussion of "Promoting Reflection through Action Learning in a 3D Virtual World." by R.L. Sanders, L. McKeown in the International Journal of Social Sciences (vol 2, No1)
Feb 9
: Special Meeting with Dr. Barry Fishman, Associate Professor of Learning Technologies in the University of Michigan

Feb. 2
: "Legal & Ethical Issues in Teaching in Virtual Environments." Special Guests: Hope Botterbusch (SL:Esparanza Freese) and Rosemary Talab (SL:Veronique Ansar).
Jan. 26: "What Do We Want?"

Jan. 19
: Reading Discussion of "A Methodology for Measuring Usability Evaluation Skills Using the Constructivist Theory and the Second Life Virtual World"

Jan 12
: "The Future Through the Eyes of M. Linden" [response to his predictions & reflections]

Jan 5
: "Possible, probable, and preferable futures of Education in Virtual Worlds - Redux." Special Guests: Anthony Fontana (SL: AnthonyFontana Chevalier), Chris Collins (SL: Fleep Tuque), Daniel Livingston (SL: Buddy Sprocket), Jonathon Richter (SL: Wainbrave Bernal), Ken Hudson (SL: Kenny Hubble).  Note: Video available as well here.

 Looking for older transcripts from the Second Life Education Roundtable? Visit this page.