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A more in-depth informational Prezi on the panel in ___ Conference discussing the 7 possible futures of American Education. Panel members included John Sener, Cynthia Calongne(aka Lyr Lobo) and several other education technology forerunners. What to expect in the next ten years or so...
A Virtual Worlds, Games and Education Tour: Four week course giving partipants a weekly tour of one topic in virtual worlds, games and emerging technology and their possible uses in education.
Region: Jaguarland USA Education Second Life is a popular virtual space for meeting friends, doing business, and sharing knowledge. Aether Education & Travel (okay, I'll plug my little project).
(Aether has guided tour notecards from some of the past tours I've done for the university and for Oxbridge--steampunk and Caledon on the lower floor with educational and non-profits on the 2nd floor)
This Special Interest Group welcomes educators, administrators, and educational technologists who are interested in the development of any 3D Virtual Environment platform for connection and collaboration. We are a valuable pivot point for all things virtual environment. Sponsor of the Virtual Education Journal (VEJ).
MITx will offer a portfolio of MIT courses for free to a virtual community of learners around the world. It will also enhance the educational experience of its on-campus students, offering them online tools that supplement and enrich their classroom and laboratory experiences.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
January 25, 2012, 8:00 am article - There's a lot about THATCamp that's inherently playful: as participants show up early to vote on sessions and let the structures evolve as needed, it turns the traditional conference model on its head.
ARVEL = Applied Research in Virtual Environments for Learning
Great resource for new, current articles about virtual worlds and educational application.
***we scored the front page photo, go VWMOOC***
The VWBPE MOOC (Massively Open Online Course) is a "afterglow space" or "work out room" for out- of-conference REFLECTION and "muscle strengthening." REFLECTION is a "best practice" IN EDUCATION. Get your teaching muscles buffed! J Upon reflection, educators may find they experience some of the same frustrations that students face (not enough time to fully process important data).
Learning in a virtual world? See examples of education and nonprofits in Second Life, the leader solution for virtual meetings, events, training and simulations.
The Virtual World Framework (VWF) is a fast, light-weight, web-based architecture for creating and distributing secure, scalable, component-based, and collaborative virtual spaces. It leverages existing web-based standards, infrastructure, and emerging technologies with the intent of establishing a powerful yet simple to use platform that is built on top of the next generation of web browsers.
Visit LVM BLOG Read all about creating the Smithsonian Latino Virtual Museum (LVM) in Second Life. Read the full story Visit LVM Interactive Archive Explore a menu of bilingual mixed media resources... Read the full story
The NMC Horizon Project, as the centerpiece of the NMC Emerging Technologies Initiative, charts the landscape of emerging technologies for teaching, learning, research, creative inquiry, and information management. Launched in 2002, it epitomizes the mission of the NMC to help educators and thought leaders across the world build upon the innovation happening at their institutions by providing them with expert research and analysis.
The Learning Registry is a new approach to capturing, sharing, and analyzing learning resource data to broaden the usefulness of digital content to benefit educators and learners.
This is the information site for the Learning Registry. Find out what we are doing. Engage in the conversation. The Learning Registry makes federal learning resources, wherever they are stored, easier to find, easier to access and easier to integrate into learning environments around the country and world.
In my previous post, I invited my fellow panelists to add their thoughts and impressions. Cynthia had a lot to share, so she gets her own guest post: "Here are my observations from our session... Steady as she goes makes sense, especially in the face of incredible growth, as Lisa noted.
Our "Is the New Normal Anything But?" panel at the recent 2010 NUTN Summit rocked! Thanks to Susan Kannel, Lisa Cheney-Steen, and Cynthia Calongne, my fellow panelists*. The "six scenarios" seemed to provide an excellent framework for our conversation; the interaction with our audience and each other was excellent, and the discussion could have gone on for hours.
ISTE Unplugged "unconference" is a series of events that take place in, around, and with the support of the annual ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) conference, the "world's premier...