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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.
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