Author Archives: Kavon

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

Virtual Worlds Best Practices is Looking for Some More Volunteers during their ramp-up time.  VWBPE is fully online mostly in Second Life and is held from March 15- 17, 2012. To sign-up go to  http://bit.ly/qNmbjP  Posters The poster area with Abacus … Continue reading →

My Nominations for Edu Blog Awards Best individual blog  -Design for Learning http://deangroom.wordpress.com/ Best individual tweeter – @jackiegerstein Best new blog – Gridjumper’s Blog http://gridjumper.net/ Best ed tech / resource sharing blog – Gridjumper’s Blog http://gridjumper.net/ Best twitter hashtag – #iste11 Best teacher blog – Edurealms http://edurealms.com/ Best School … Continue reading →

At the UnSymposium – we spent some time and came up with a CFP for a Games and Simulation Fest for VWBPE! The crowd thought it was especially important to celebrate creativity and user created content whether it was in … Continue reading →

From the editor: Virtual Education Journal http://www.virtualeducationjournal.com/ VEJ – Issue 3, Deadline November 20th. Help us get the message out to people about the important educational work that is going on in virtual environments! As many of us talked about … Continue reading →

Here are a description of some the Games, Play and Community sessions; Discussion on World of Warcraft, cognitive surplus and theorycraft. We are going to do a in-depth look and discussion on how MMORPG players are using their cognitive surplus … Continue reading →

They are now out! If you would like to have your proposal peer reviewed please see our CFP. If you would like to do more of an unconference session please see our Sign-up. and if you have any ideas that … Continue reading →

Since our theme this year is Games, Play and Community and after all  –          it is an Unsymposium.   We are going to play with the design. So, how do we use the in-depth discussion and collegiality inherent in symposiums, mash … Continue reading →

We are now moving the UnSymposium to Friday November 4th- November 6th. The Theme for this year is….Games, Play and Community Why? It seems to be what we are doing – we have been developing ARGs, testing out 3D gamelab; … Continue reading →