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World of Warcraft Sessions at Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education 2011

Friday, March 18th

6 am SLT

The Virtual Worlds Exploration stream of the Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education www.vwbpe.org invites you to a World of Warcraft event on the Sisters of Elune realm, United States server.
 
“A World of Warcraft Virtual Field Trip With The WoWinSchool Project.”
Your host is Lucas Gillispie and these are your tour guides. http://tr.im/Qodm
This 50 minute tour starting at 6 am SLT on Friday March 18 is for educators who are new to WoW. Participants will receive tours with experienced WoW players – and did we mention students! Topics to be covered Quests, Character Improvement, Gaining Experience, Maps and Communication.

West Departure Area 2 West 2 http://slurl.com/secondlife/VWBPE%20West%202/56/76/34

 5 pm SLT

Learning about Community in Virtual Worlds

John Carter McKnight, Elisabeth Hayes

In this session, we describe an interdisciplinary university course that introduces…

Virtual Worlds – Best Practices in Education

It is the start of a new year and the VWBPE Executive Committee is now sending out the first of three rounds of calls for volunteers

In this first round we are looking for people who are interested in being part of the Organizing Committee. The Organizing Committee looks after the running of several key functional areas including providing input into the way the conference is going to grow and develop.

This year we are looking for people interested in the following areas:

COMMUNICATIONS – includes social networks including twitter, eventbrite, SLED Mail-List, Facebook, Linked-in, Press-Releases and any other networking avenues and the creation of any in-world kiosks and posters to be distributed to various locations.

FACILITIES – includes developing and implementing communication and infrastructure tools, teleport boards, chat bridges, translation tools, etc.

PROGRAMS – establishment of the general direction of the conference in terms of overall theme, call for papers and exhibits,…

Virtual Worlds – Best Practices in Education

Call for Proposals

The Virtual Worlds Best Practice in Education (VWBPE) is a community-based conference that provides opportunities for participants in all virtual worlds to share current teaching, learning, and research practices in 3D virtual environments. Conference presentations focus on teaching/learning, scholarly work, projects, events, activities and new and innovative tools for virtual education. Presenters will focus on the identification of best practices in education designed for 3D virtual world technology.

This year’s theme is You are Here.

Whether your virtual adventures take you to Second Life, OpenSim, World of Warcraft, Eve Online or Club Penguin – you are part of a global interconnected network. It’s about people. It’s about community. Its’ about learning. It’s more than a platform – it’s the stories we tell and the way we share them.  The divide between what is real and what is virtual is a state of mind. We learn everywhere and you are already here.

Here is…

Virtual Worlds – Best Practices in Education

The VWBPE Committee is extending the deadline for all submissions from January 31, 2011 to February 15, 2011 owing to the need to accept late submissions to the Machinima track.

VWBPE this year is using the Open Conference System software which is produced as part of the Public Knowledge Project in conjunction with Simon Fraiser University. The software doesn’t allow us to have different cut-off dates for different track submissions so we have extended the deadline for all tracks as a result.

The review process for submissions will be starting on time the week of February 1st, 2011 and confirmations should be going out no later than February 15th for anyone that got their submission in prior to January 31, 2011.

The acceptance rate for the conference is fairly high as we generally only reject those submissions that are clearly outside the boundaries of educational best practices unless we become oversubscribed.

The confernece can accommodate up to 280 presentations, 120 posters,…

Virtual Worlds – Best Practices in Education