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At last years UnSymposium I was big into presenters sharing through methods that take advantage of the virtual 3D experience. This year I will continue to share my enthusiasm for dynamic and interesting presentations. As part of that I have … 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

On Monday, June 27th at ISTE SIG Virtual Environments we had the opportunity to talk about more than just logging in to virtual worlds. For some of us, our PLN (personal learning network)  is our personal learning community and provides us with professional development. (For more … Continue reading →

The ISTE Special Interest Group Virtual Environments (SIGVE) is holding a People’s Choice Award for its student category. This Machinima Fest is truly international with submissions from Great Britain, Indonesia, Australia and the United States. Whether you can attend F2F … Continue reading →

Do you know what a MOOC is? It’s a Massively Open Online Course. It’s kind of a play on a MMORPG ( Massively Online Role-Playing Game). I participated or played PLENK2010 (Personal Learning Environments and Network Knowledge) and LAK11 (Learning … Continue reading →

Are VWBPE (Virtual Worlds Best Practices) people part of your PLN (personal learning network)? They should be. And over the next two weeks, there’s a couple of places to follow them, meet them and attend events inworld. For Participants and … Continue reading →

This blog is a way to inform and crowdsource the Virtual Worlds Graduate UnSymposium to be held October 21- 23, 2011 in a variety of virtual worlds. The UnSymposium’s objective is to promote innovation and sharing among the community of … Continue reading →