Virtual Worlds & Games UnSymposium

The UnSymposium is evolving! Here’s what we have so far…
Most of the sessions will be livestreamed over the Games MOOC YouTube Channel
Sessions will take place in Second Life, TERAOnline and World of Warcraft

Friday November 2
5 pm – 8 pm SLT (which is PT)

5 pm MMORPGs, Machinima. MOOC & the Metaverse: The Future of Learning in Games
Livestream http://www.youtube.com/gamesmooc

6 – 630 pm Tour and Livestream of TERAOnline
Symposiarch:Vasili Giannoutsos (SL: Bluebarker LowTide)
Livestream www.youtube.com/gamesmooc

630 – 8 pm Horde Halloween Tour by Inevitable Betrayal Educators
US Server, Sisters of Elune, Horde start outside of Orgrimmar.
Livestream www.youtube.com/gamesmooc

Saturday November 3
1 pm – 6 pm SLT (which is PT)

1 pm Future Directions Discussion Group
Rosie Vojtek, editor of VEJ (Virtual Education Journal)
with Gordon Holden, Andrew Wheelock, Marianne Malmstrom and Rober Vojtek.
Front Range in Second Life
Livestream www.youtube.com/gamesmooc

2 pm  Anne Frank MOOC with Andrew Wheelock (SL: Spiff Whitfield)

3 pm To Badge or Not To Badge……
Games Based Learning MOOC Badge Designers
Vasili Giannoutsos, Kae Novak, Tanya Martin, & Chris Luchs
Daily Badger – Stasia Weston
Front Range in Second Life
Livestream http://www.youtube.com/gamesmooc

4 pm Zombie and Games with Therese Ellis
Google Hangout at www.youtube.com/gamesmooc

5 pm Pirate Ball and Mayhem
Front Range in Second Life

Zombies…..

Ninjas….

And Pirates….

No it’s not the Apocalypse. But, it will be disruptive.

There will be rogue teachers.

Games, Virtual Worlds.

MMORPGs and Machinima

MOOCs, OOCs, Badges & Gamification

Think of this disruption ….Play as Professional Development

So come join for the Third Annual UnSymposium

Friday November 2 & Saturday 3, 2012

The Virtual Worlds and Games UnSymposium in its third year is a grassroot community organized yearly event. The theme this year is disruption and we couldn’t think of a better way to pull that theme off than ninjas, zombies and pirates. Disruption in education in whatever shape or form has been a daily topic of discussion in the popular press.

To further show how things including professional development are changing, we will have a discussion with Andrew Wheelock (SL Spiff Whitfield) on the Anne Frank MOOC.

The EduMachinima Fest is organizing the Fiero Film Festival on Friday Evening. The Fiero Film Festival is a viewing of educator, student and community made Machinima. Special emphasis will be on epic successes and epic failures.

We’ll also be exploring badges and discussing the Mozilla Open Badge Initiative. We are in the process of developing the “Marauder” or Pirate badge for those educators demonstrating mastery in edupunk, fiero and epic educational delivery.

The UnSymposium closes with a Pirates’ Ball – you’ve seen the movies, we all know how those end!

If you’d like to register early feel free ….

We will be contacting you with more information!

Zombie invasion! intro – ie BRIEF etymology and history of zombification and zombies in popular culture b. informal introduction to Zombies, necromancers, and liches c. why are the undead so interesting? A couple of reasons why we gravitate to zombie stories with 2+ game representations of each of the above 3 subgroupings of the undead.

Discussion of the 6+ selected games

Suggestions of ways you can integrate zombies and play into your classroom and open discussion e. Plants v. zombies freebee giveaway (yay popcap for making this freeness available right when we need it!… http://www.stopzombiemouth.com/)

The last two years, we haven’t had a design theme but for this year – we had a request. In fact we have had a few requests. So this year will be pirate, zombie and ninja!

We will also be expanding this to the tours we are doing in World of Warcraft and also in Second Life. ( Yes – we’re working on the pirate and the zombie!)

If you’d like to volunteer for the event or have questions please im Kavon Zenovka in Second Life.

The Department of Education has declared the month of August to be Connected Educator Month!

So we’re connecting! Please save the dates of November 2nd and 3rd for the Virtual Worlds & Games UnSymposium!

We’ll be working with a number of connected educators in September and October to organize the event! If you are interested in helping organize please email Kae at que.jinn@gmail.com

Really looking for people who can collaborate and communicate. It is a team effort!

November 2 & November 3, 2012 are the dates for the 3rd Annual UnSymposium!

If you would like to join us now, we’re currently playing in the
ARG Academy May 7 – 28 over at P2P University

and will be doing the Machinima Online Open Course (MOOC) June 4 – 18 and
ISTE SIGVE Machinima Fest on June 26 at San Diego and in Second Life.

We may also be adding a EduMachinima Fest component to the UnSymposium on the night of Friday November 9th!

World of Warcraft Week
in Virtual Worlds, Games and Education Tour
April 2- 9, 2012
in P2P University

The beginning of the sessions on Monday and Tuesday are in Second Life.
The Second Life HQ for our Group is on Front Range.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Front%20Range/128/127/33/

Monday

Overview of World of Warcraft
Two Factions – Alliance & Horde
Roles
Classes
Quests

Tuesday

Economy
Trades
Professions
Tour of Orgrimmar
ScreenShots/Flickr

Wednesday

Alliance Races
PvP ( Player v Player)
PvE ( Player v Environment)
Screenshots/Flickr II

Thursday

Guilds
Guild Meetup with Cognitive Dissonance guild & 3D Games Lab Group

Friday

On your own – unless their is a request.

Saturday

MMORPGs & Machinima in the Morning
Battlegrounds

Sunday
Dungeons
Wrap-up