Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education

Conference Locations

• Rockcliffe

  Rockcliffe University Consortium 

   

  • Rockcliffe 1
    

    72 seats

    http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Rockcliffe%20I/25/25/31

• VWBPE Gateway

  • VWBPE Gateway Workshop Area
    

    VWBPE Gateway Workshop Area - TBD
    For info contact Logistic Chair - Phelan Corrimal inworld

    General teleport area http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/VWBPE%20Gateway/128/128/25

• EdTech Island

  Edtech/CAVE Island auditorium

   

  • EdTech Auditoriun

• Posters

  Interactive Poster Displays

  • Poster Display
    

    Interactive Poster Displays on EduCommons Alpha and EduCommons Bravo

    Currently underdevelopment but will open after 6 pm on March 6, 2012

  • Machinima Auditorium
    

    Currently under development but will open after 6 pm on March 6, 2012

    
    

     

  • Tour Departure 1
    Departure Area for Virtual World Exploration Tours to include tours in Second Life, OpenSim Grids, World of Warcraft, EveOnline and Club Penguin.

• EDUIsland8

  • Social Reception Area
  • Social Concert Area
  • Social Tea House

• VWBPE Central

  http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/VWBPE%20Central%201/190/70/57

  • Auditorium
    

    VWBPE Central Auditorium - exact presentation area TBA once builders are done with it. 

    http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/VWBPE%20Central%201/190/70/57

     

• Builders Brewery

  • Builders Brewery

Conference Schedule

2012-03-15

02:00 PM

• Epic Win! Epic Fail!
  Building: VWBPE Central
  Room: Auditorium

03:00 PM

• "Resistance is futile: making a case for virtual worlds"
  Building: VWBPE Central
  Room: Auditorium

05:00 PM

• WoW in School: the Hero's Journey
  Building: VWBPE Central
  Room: Auditorium

06:00 PM

• 3D Games Lab
  Building: VWBPE Central
  Room: Auditorium

07:00 PM

• Baseball in the Virtual World
  Building: Posters
  Room: Poster Display
• Soccer Mini Game
  Building: Posters
  Room: Poster Display
• Explore the 2012 Maya Island while you have time!
  Building: Posters
  Room: Poster Display
• MOOC
  Building: Posters
  Room: Poster Display
• A Musical Odyssey
  Building: Posters
  Room: Poster Display
• Privacy Poetry Poster
  Building: Posters
  Room: Poster Display
• Academic Avatars: A Virtual Student Club at Florida State College at Jacksonville
  Building: Posters
  Room: Poster Display
• Jibe/Unity 3D School Quick Start
  Building: Posters
  Room: Poster Display
• "VEJ - Savor Every Byte!"
  Building: Posters
  Room: Poster Display
• Experience Smithsonian Latino Art Collections in LVM’s Art Island
  Building: Posters
  Room: Poster Display
• House Builders Extraordinaire Contest!
  Building: Posters
  Room: Poster Display
• Crumple's Pet Skunk
  Building: Posters
  Room: Machinima Auditorium
• NMAI Selected Content and Research Focus: Ancient Peoples/Modern Migrations Topic of indigenous Latino immigration.
  Building: Posters
  Room: Poster Display
• Dia de los Muertos 3D experience in the Smithsonian Latino Virtual Museum (LVM)
  Building: Posters
  Room: Poster Display
• Massively Minecraft
  Building: Posters
  Room: Poster Display
• Reaction Grid
  Building: Posters
  Room: Poster Display
• A MULTIDIMENSIONAL INFO-SENSORIUM HOLODECK: EMERGING ANALYTICS TO MEASURE GENERAL ORGANIZATION EVOLUTION
  Building: Posters
  Room: Poster Display
• Be Epic! Online and Virtual
  Building: Posters
  Room: Poster Display
• Learning Genetics by Breeding Ozimals Bunnies
  Building: Posters
  Room: Poster Display
• Tech Stewarding in Second Life - An Example in the Educational Technology Community
  Building: Posters
  Room: Poster Display
• Rockcliffe University Consortium
  Building: Posters
  Room: Poster Display
• Running a journal club in Second Life
  Building: Posters
  Room: Poster Display
• POPULARIZATION AND OUTREACH OF SCIENCE IN THE ITALIAN SECOND LIFE COMMUNITY
  Building: Posters
  Room: Poster Display
• Virtual Pioneer Poster Session
  Building: Posters
  Room: Poster Display
• Number Recognition in a Virtual World
  Building: Posters
  Room: Poster Display
• Epic Educational Apps
  Building: Posters
  Room: Poster Display
• Security Services
  Building: Posters
  Room: Poster Display
• Design Studio Best Practices in Virtual Worlds Using Learning Modules Packaged in a Holodeck
  Building: Posters
  Room: Poster Display
• AFGHANISTAN VIRTUAL MUSEUM
  Building: Posters
  Room: Poster Display
• Cognitive Dissonance, Social Constructivism, and Play
  Building: Posters
  Room: Poster Display
• Open Simulator Tools & Methods for Interpretive Aids in Virtual World Arts Presentation
  Building: Posters
  Room: Poster Display
• MOSES: An Open Source Educational Research Environment
  Building: Posters
  Room: Poster Display
• Muve Out of Your Box
  Building: Posters
  Room: Poster Display
• Machinima: 'Around the Campfire - Moon Theme'
  Building: Posters
  Room: Machinima Auditorium
• Senior Project® Center at P4DL, Inc.
  Building: Posters
  Room: Poster Display

08:00 PM

• Teaching Prejudice and Discrimination Using Second Life
  Building: Rockcliffe
  Room: Rockcliffe 1
• Best Practices Presentation: 3D Virtual Worlds in K-12 (International) Schools
  Building: VWBPE Central
  Room: Auditorium
• Chinese Space Program Simulation
  Building: Posters
  Room: Machinima Auditorium
• Going MAAD - The Growth and Educational Possibilities of Museums in Inworldz
  Building: Posters
  Room: Tour Departure 1

2012-03-16

06:00 AM

• Demonstration of a Virtual World English Lesson: The Cypris Chat English Learning Community
  Building: Rockcliffe
  Room: Rockcliffe 1
• Collaborative Learning, Cognitive Processes, Telerobotic Communication and Japan Recovery in Virtual Spaces
  Building: VWBPE Central
  Room: Auditorium
• WoW in School with Legacy Guild
  Building: Posters
  Room: Tour Departure 1

07:00 AM

• Tech Stewarding in Second Life
  Building: EdTech Island
  Room: EdTech Auditoriun
• Business case-study analysis through cross-cultural online student collaboration, using a virtual world environment, to simulate the complexities of gathering and analyzing relevant background data.
  Building: VWBPE Central
  Room: Auditorium

08:00 AM

• Using Arts Processes for Learning in Second Life
  Building: VWBPE Gateway
  Room: VWBPE Gateway Workshop Area
• THE IMPACT OF INTEGRATING A VIRTUAL WORLD INTO A FEDERALLY MANDATED DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP AND CYBER SAFETY UNIT ON STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT, HIGHER ORDER THINKING SKILLS, AND TEST MOTIVATION
  Building: EdTech Island
  Room: EdTech Auditoriun
• A Tour of Calisto Encinal’s Mi Casa Es Su Casa
  Building: Posters
  Room: Tour Departure 1
• Humane Education Exercises in SL
  Building: Rockcliffe
  Room: Rockcliffe 1

09:00 AM

• How Immersion in Virtual and Augmented Worlds Helps Students in the Real World
  Building: VWBPE Central
  Room: Auditorium

10:00 AM

• ECOMOVE Tour
  Building: Posters
  Room: Tour Departure 1
• Human Computer Interaction
  Building: VWBPE Central
  Room: Auditorium
• Universal Design for Learning in VW
  Building: Posters
  Room: Machinima Auditorium
• The Past, Present, and Future of Virtual World Education
  Building: EdTech Island
  Room: EdTech Auditoriun

11:00 AM

• Interview with Kyle
  Building: VWBPE Central
  Room: Auditorium
• Interactive Base Number Sheets in a Virtual World
  Building: Posters
  Room: Machinima Auditorium
• Teaching and learning in Second Life as Part of a Blended Approach:reflections and lessons learnt
  Building: EdTech Island
  Room: EdTech Auditoriun

12:00 PM

• Engaging Literature Students Through Role Play and Set Creation in a Virtual World
  Building: EdTech Island
  Room: EdTech Auditoriun
• Collaboration on Virtual Harmony: STEM Research on the Mars Geothermal, Nonlinear Game Design on Atlantis and Unity3D, and the Migration to MOSES
  Building: VWBPE Central
  Room: Auditorium

01:00 PM

• Cutting Through The Virtual Hype: Being Authentic is Being Epic
  Building: VWBPE Central
  Room: Auditorium
• Do They Feel Safe ?
  Building: VWBPE Gateway
  Room: VWBPE Gateway Workshop Area
• Tapping the Potential of Open Blended Courses in Virtual Worlds
  Building: EdTech Island
  Room: EdTech Auditoriun

02:00 PM

• USE OPEN SIM AND SECOND LIFE TO HELP STUDENTS CONQUER 3DS MAX
  Building: EdTech Island
  Room: EdTech Auditoriun
• A Cloud Topoanalysis Montage for Learning in Virtual and Cloud Computing Spaces
  Building: Rockcliffe
  Room: Rockcliffe 1
• The Need For Security
  Building: VWBPE Gateway
  Room: VWBPE Gateway Workshop Area

03:00 PM

• Using Mobile Devices for Community and Team-Building in the Classroom
  Building: VWBPE Central
  Room: Auditorium
• Advanced Technology Education: A Case for Uses of Virtual Reality in Teaching Human Services
  Building: EdTech Island
  Room: EdTech Auditoriun
• Experience in Applying Virtual Worlds to Training in a Business Environment
  Building: Rockcliffe
  Room: Rockcliffe 1
• Exploring Science on the New World Grid
  Building: Posters
  Room: Tour Departure 1

05:00 PM

• Gutenberg to Spielberg
  Building: VWBPE Central
  Room: Auditorium
• FIRST RESPONDER ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION
  Building: Rockcliffe
  Room: Rockcliffe 1
• Basics of Cloud Computing
  Building: Posters
  Room: Machinima Auditorium
• Introduction to Conscious Communication
  Building: Rockcliffe
  Room: Rockcliffe 1
• Uru in the classroom
  Building: EdTech Island
  Room: EdTech Auditoriun

06:00 PM

• Choice and Play, Versus Structure in Supporting New SL Users
  Building: Rockcliffe
  Room: Rockcliffe 1
• “Space Makes You Bitter: The evolution of sandbox culture in Second Life and EVE Online”
  Building: VWBPE Central
  Room: Auditorium
• The Saga of UW Maya Island: Digital storytelling, context- and game-based learning in Virtual Worlds
  Building: EdTech Island
  Room: EdTech Auditoriun

07:00 PM

• EVE Online Tour
  Building: VWBPE Central
  Room: Auditorium

08:00 PM

• Mi Tierra/Mi Mundo; My Land/my World, a 3D adventure quest in LVM Second Life
  Building: Posters
  Room: Machinima Auditorium
• Understanding the Holocaust Project
  Building: Posters
  Room: Machinima Auditorium
• Waking Up Part 1
  Building: Posters
  Room: Machinima Auditorium
• A Year in the Life
  Building: Posters
  Room: Machinima Auditorium
• Mi Tierra/Mi Mundo; My Land/my World, a 3D adventure quest in Lvm Eco Explorers Adventure Quest Game in Unity 3D.
  Building: Posters
  Room: Machinima Auditorium
• Dia de los Muertos 3D experience in the Smithsonian Latino Virtual Museum (LVM
  Building: Posters
  Room: Machinima Auditorium
• Nimbus Racing Tutorial
  Building: Posters
  Room: Machinima Auditorium
• Title: Minecraft- Community Part 3: Games
  Building: Posters
  Room: Machinima Auditorium
• VWBPE “Saving the Universe” In School
  Building: Posters
  Room: Machinima Auditorium
• Time Travelers – Episode 4 : The Pattern
  Building: Posters
  Room: Machinima Auditorium
• Testic Ovary Tour
  Building: Posters
  Room: Machinima Auditorium
• I Love Dancing @ Le Cactus
  Building: Posters
  Room: Machinima Auditorium
• Avatar with a KinoEye
  Building: Posters
  Room: Machinima Auditorium
• Pic du Midi a Virtual Tour
  Building: Posters
  Room: Machinima Auditorium
• Transformation: Virtual Art on the Brink
  Building: Posters
  Room: Machinima Auditorium
• Show Case
  Building: Posters
  Room: Machinima Auditorium
• The Pillars of UWA in SL
  Building: Posters
  Room: Machinima Auditorium
• EduMachinima Fest
  Building: Posters
  Room: Machinima Auditorium
• Second Life Student Projects for English Composition and Literature Courses at Florida State College at Jacksonville
  Building: Posters
  Room: Machinima Auditorium
• Maya Island: a Library Exhibit and Tour
  Building: Posters
  Room: Machinima Auditorium
• IceOpal: A Virtual Interpretation of Amy Lowell's "Opal"
  Building: Posters
  Room: Machinima Auditorium

2012-03-17

06:00 AM

• Using Virtual Worlds as a Tool for Project-Based Learning
  Building: VWBPE Central
  Room: Auditorium
• Club Penguin Tour
  Building: Posters
  Room: Tour Departure 1
• Practices in Rhetoric and Academic Use of Spanish Language
  Building: EdTech Island
  Room: EdTech Auditoriun

07:00 AM

• Active Worlds: Tour of NIAUniverse
  Building: VWBPE Central
  Room: Auditorium

08:00 AM

• A Panel On: The Rejuvenation of STEM “Cells” By Avatars
  Building: EdTech Island
  Room: EdTech Auditoriun
• One School’s Approach to Vocational Transition: Gaming
  Building: Builders Brewery
  Room: Builders Brewery
• One Big Soup
  Building: Rockcliffe
  Room: Rockcliffe 1
• Building Educational Assets Within Virtual Worlds
  Building: VWBPE Gateway
  Room: VWBPE Gateway Workshop Area
• Session 1: Learning numbers: Intro to subQuan (pre-K & up)
  Building: Posters
  Room: Machinima Auditorium
• Pedagogical Learning Technology Products and Content
  Building: VWBPE Central
  Room: Auditorium

09:00 AM

• Massively Minecraft
  Building: VWBPE Central
  Room: Auditorium
• Cocoon Lives Again Virtually: Epic Dreams of The Golden Years
  Building: Rockcliffe
  Room: Rockcliffe 1
• Taking a proactive approach to virtual campus tours - 3D Virtual Campus Tours
  Building: Posters
  Room: Tour Departure 1
• POPULARISATION AND OUTREACH OF SCIENCE IN THE ITALIAN SECOND LIFE COMMUNITY – BEST PRACTICES
  Building: EdTech Island
  Room: EdTech Auditoriun
• Session 2: Application of subQuan to Algebra (4th Grade & up)
  Building: Posters
  Room: Machinima Auditorium

10:00 AM

• Representing Latino Cultural Heritage in the Age of the Social Web
  Building: VWBPE Central
  Room: Auditorium
• Be Epic: learn how to make machinimas from scratch in five weeks.
  Building: Builders Brewery
  Room: Builders Brewery
• Virtual Treasure Hunting: Teen Girl’s Game-Making in OpenSim
  Building: EdTech Island
  Room: EdTech Auditoriun
• Session 3: subQuan to Polynomial Derivation and beyond... (9th Grade – HigherEd)
  Building: Posters
  Room: Machinima Auditorium

11:00 AM

• The Smithsonian Latino Virtual Museum (LVM) Tour
  Building: Posters
  Room: Tour Departure 1
• Massively Open Online…..Virtual Worlds, Games and Education
  Building: VWBPE Central
  Room: Auditorium
• Enhancing a Scavenger Hunt Game to Increase Student SL Skills and Content Knowledge
  Building: VWBPE Gateway
  Room: VWBPE Gateway Workshop Area

12:00 PM

• A Brainstorm on Games and Simulations in Teacher Education
  Building: VWBPE Central
  Room: Auditorium

01:00 PM

• Massively Minecraft Tour
  Building: Posters
  Room: Tour Departure 1
• MachinEVO
  Building: Posters
  Room: Machinima Auditorium
• The Four Bridges Project – A Virtual Sustainable Community
  Building: EdTech Island
  Room: EdTech Auditoriun
• Theorycraft: Quantitative Analysis in World of Warcraft
  Building: VWBPE Central
  Room: Auditorium
• The SLAM system: learning languages through your avatar
  Building: VWBPE Gateway
  Room: VWBPE Gateway Workshop Area

02:00 PM

• Virutal Worlds Residency
  Building: Builders Brewery
  Room: Builders Brewery
• Life on an Epic Scale
  Building: EdTech Island
  Room: EdTech Auditoriun
• The Storyboard: Conceptualizing Your Machinima Idea as a Storybook
  Building: Posters
  Room: Machinima Auditorium
• Approaching Training For Generations Entering The Workforce
  Building: Rockcliffe
  Room: Rockcliffe 1