| Day Two 12:01 a.m. March 13 |
Opening |
| 01:00 |
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| 02:00 |
Self City
Ronald Hunneman
Moderator: Mercyblu (SL) |
| 03:00 |
Virtual Worlds in Schools: some challenges.
Professor Guy Merchant (RL) Gdot Spires (SL)
Professor of Literacy in education and co-ordinator of the Language and Literacy Research Group, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Moderator: Sheila Yoshikawa |
| 04:00 |
Second Language for Erasmus Students
Paulo Frias (RL) PalUP Lingi (SL) Ricardo Cruz (RL) Ricardo Pessoa (SL) Ricardo N. Fernandes (RL) Ric Friedman (SL)
Moderator: Fernando Cassola Fernando Cassola Marques (RL) Fejocama Ubble (SL)
ABSTRACT
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| 05:00 |
SOCIAL ACTIVITIES
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| 06:00 |
Under Construction – The coming paradigm shift in social acceptance of VW
Kevin Feenan (RL) Phelan Corrimal (SL)
Moderator: Jenaia Morane
ABSTRACT - Treet TV - Chatroom A
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| 07:00 |
Revealing the didactic character of imagery in Second Life
Sandrine Han (RL) Kristy Handrick (SL)
Moderator: Jenaia Morane
ABSTRACT - Treet TV - Chatroom B
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| 08:00 |
Virtual Worlds, Culture, and Change - Dusan Writer and Tom Boellstorff in Conversation
Tom Boellstorff (RL) Tom Bukowski (SL)
Department of Anthropology
Moderator: Dusan Writer (SL)
ABSTRACT - Treet TV - Chatroom A
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| 09:00 |
Education and the SL Ecosystem
Terrence Linden (SL)
Moderator Zana Kohime (SL)
ABSTRACT - Treet TV - Chatroom B
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| 10:00 |
SOCIAL ACTIVITIES
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| 10:30 |
Teaching Mathematics in Virtual Worlds.
Evaluating the preliminary results of an experimental course exploring the possibility of mathematics instruction in virtual worlds, primarily in Second Life, offered through Boise State University.
Randall Holmes (RL) Leslie Beaumont (SL)
Moderator: Ju Roussel
ABSTRACT - Treet TV - Chatroom A
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| 12:00 p.m. |
Learning in 3D: A New Educational Dimension
Karl Knapp (RL) Abbott Bundy (SL)
Tony O'Driscoll (RL) Wada Tripp (SL)
Moderator: Marty Snowpaw (SL)
ABSTRACT - Treet TV - Chatroom B
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| 01:00 |
The Rise of Avatars in Loosely Coupled Social Networks for Military Learning Innovations
Andy Stricker (RL) Spinoza Quinnell (SL)
Distributed Learning Architect Air University
Moderator: Marlene Brooks (RL) Zana Kohime (SL)
- Treet TV - Chatroom A
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| 02:00 |
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| 03:00 |
Vendor/Poster |
| 04:00 |
How real is too Real? Chosing the correct degree of environmental verisimilitude for optimal learning.
Amy Groves (RL)
Center for Advanced Learning 3D Internet Technology and Soutions IBM Center for Advanced Learning (CAL)
Moderator: AgileBill (SL)
ABSTRACT - Treet TV - Chatroom A
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| 05:00 |
Who is leading our students into the 21st Century learning?
Bron Bloxome (SL)
Moderator: Brent Werber |
| 06:00 |
The Social Context of Second Life: Knowing your learning environment
Phylis Johnson (RL) Sonicity Fitzroy (SL)
Moderator: Brent Werber
- Metaworld 2 |
| 07:00 |
WoW (World of Warcraft) in Schools
Lucus Gillespie (RL) Magggie Marat (RL) and Peggy Sheehy (SL)
Moderator: Kavon Zenovka (SL)
ABSTRACT |
| 08:00 |
Whose turn to renovate the class today? Analogy between Impact of Architectural Design Characteristics of Learning Spaces on Learners in the Physical World and 3D Virtual World
Noha Saleeb (RL) Noha Turbo (SL)
Dr. Georgios Dafoulas (RL) Daffy Portal (SL)
Moderator: Jenaia Morane
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| 09:00 |
CLOSING CERIMONY
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| 09:30 |
The End is Nigh Party/ Tour Sim and Skydiving
Start at VWBPE North after closing ceremony |