Author Archives: Kavon

    For Another Comic-Con in a Virtual World   We did it before with the First Annual Met@Morph: The Second Life Web Comics Comic-Con and Event. We were welcomed by Herve St.-Louis, the owner and Publisher of The Comic Book … Continue reading →

August 1st is approaching….. Why is it so important…….. here’s the site 3D Games Lab http://3dgamelab.org.shivtr.com/ and here’s the videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyaX7rpX6Z4 and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLPIl8MNPGo&feature=related and what is it? While it is being called a “learning platform” – it could easily function … Continue reading →

At ISTE (International Society for Technology Educators), the SIGVE (Special Interest Group Virtual Environments) held their first Machinima Fest with over 40 entries. Based on that number and the number of entries at VWBPE, there seems to be a trend towards the use of … Continue reading →

As we’re doing the preliminary planning for the UnSymposium – we do have options. Is this something we’d like to do in OpenSim or Second Life? We do have space available in each.   Where would you prefer to hold … Continue reading →

The purpose of the UnSymposium is really to have an rather informal gathering where educators and graduate students can meet and discuss topics of interest and also look at building their PLNs. But we still have to have a bit … Continue reading →

If you have already planned to attend you may want to take a look at the online conference being offered next week.  It’s the Reform Symposium e-Conference. It is grassroots and you may recognize some of the names from educational … Continue reading →

This is in response to a questions posed  on Virtual School Meanderings Digital Native – Digital Immigrant How do you respond to a colleague concerning the idea of a digital natives/digital immigrants. Well.. we discuss it. I mean it’s actually … Continue reading →

ISTE SIGVE Special Interest Group: Virtual Worlds  http://sigve.iste.wikispaces.net VWBPE: Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education  http://www.vwbpe.org/”>http://www.vwbpe.org SITE: Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education  http://site.aace.org/conf AECT: Association for Educational Communication and Technology  http://www.aect.org/default.asp iNACOL: The International Association for K-12 Online … Continue reading →

1. Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism.htm 2. Social Knowledge Construction: Emerging Virtual Worlds Pedagogy <a http://edtech.boisestate.edu/ldawley/SNKC_pdf.pdf” 3. Connectivism: Learning as Network-Creation http://www.astd.org/LC/2005/1105_seimens.htm 4. Half-life of Knowledge http://projects.coe.uga.edu/epltt/index.php?title=Connectivism 5. Weaving a Personal Web http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=52376