I'll vamp more or less brilliantly about the leveling value of three dimensional virtual worlds. As Lowly High Grand Poobah Emeritus of the 5,000 member international organization ISTE's Special Interest Group for Virtual Environments, 2010 National Ass'n of Independent Schools' "Teacher of the Future," and recipient of ISTE's "Making IT Happen" award in 2011, I know whereof I speak.
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.
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).
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.
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***
Assessments in Virtual Worlds - Warm-up Exercise I Objective: Identify and discuss how educators are assessing learning in virtual worlds. Resources and Readings
The New Renaissance Welcome to the home of the Virtual Pioneers. This is a group of historically-minded educators that enjoy using Virtual Environments to learn and explore. Please join us...
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
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.
Quick start to capturing online video events, making virtual world live broadcasts, video recordings, and edited machinima video productions. Even if you know zero tools, this tutorial will get you up and running in 10 minutes!
Normally, Kitely launches the default virtual world viewer. This is usually the last viewer that was installed. However, if you have multiple viewers installed then you can choose explicitly which viewer to use by entering it in the file kitely-config.txt.
SIGVE - ISPR: International Society for Presence Research
Understanding, evaluating and researching online, virtual and in-direct forms of presence. Extremely interesting, please read.
A model and matrix for the course developed by Dr. Lisa Dawley. A research paper upon the the participation and discussion help within online courses and their ability to affect the user based upon their level of participation and amount of social media interaction. Fascinating to say the least.