The seventeenth annual Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Conference, starting on Thursday, March 14, 2024, can be a web-based distributed convention taking place in a number of digital areas. This convention focuses on using immersive digital environments for academic functions together with digital and augmented actuality.
This yr we’re returning to our Earth construct. Every area represents a distinct terrestrial biome, together with wetlands, desert, badlands, grasslands, and forests. Convention attendees can be among the many first to have the ability to discover!
To the perfect potential attainable, VWBPE offers academic and networking alternatives which can be related to academic curriculum improvement using digital environments and “greatest practices.” These embody
- serving to to construct neighborhood by way of extension of studying greatest practices to sensible software of these concepts and methods;
- offering networking alternatives for educators and the communities that assist help schooling; and
- offering entry to present improvements, developments, concepts, case research, and different greatest practices for educators and the communities that assist help schooling
One of many key challenges confronted by the academic neighborhood is learn how to make the perfect use of latest immersive applied sciences in a manner that’s sustainable and accessible primarily based on restricted budgets out there to each instructors and college students. Platforms which can be free or open supply, or that may be shared throughout a broad viewers are showcased, together with strategies and analysis round greatest practices of their use and applicability.
Our theme for this yr is Mythic Origins.
Mythic tales can present a technique to interact college students in crucial pondering and evaluation, in addition to growing their creativity and creativeness. Mythic origins can present college students with a deeper understanding of their very own cultural heritage and the way it has advanced over time. It permits us to discover the origins of our socially constructed myths and legends which have impressed educators and their varied works.
Be a part of us as all of us share experiences and successes in how digital applied sciences used within the classroom have helped form schooling for the higher.
This yr’s keynote audio system are Wagner James Au and Dr. Nellie Deutsch. Invited audio system embody representatives from Linden Lab, and the 2020 Thinkerer – Renne Emiko Brock.
The VWBPE convention keynote audio system and their respective shows are featured on the conference website, together with a program of thrilling shows, social actions, and networking occasions that may set extraordinary discussions in movement.
The VWBPE Immersive Experiences showcase distinctive and attention-grabbing work being carried out throughout the metaverse. We invite you to affix us as we discover eleven interactive and fascinating places throughout 5 digital environments. The Immersive Experiences are scheduled from March ninth by way of thirty first (unique of the convention dates). Particulars and entry directions for the experiences are discovered on our program page.
Moreover, this open and free convention wouldn’t be attainable with out the beneficiant contributions of our VWBPE sponsors.
The Rockcliffe Registration Portal is open for individuals to register new Second Life® avatars and discover out extra in regards to the VWBPE convention in-world. Go to https://www.enroll.onl/
The full conference program is online.
You can even view shows live on YouTube.
The entire convention occasions can be in Second Life this yr, and the places are included within the listings. Whenever you click on on a convention occasion and click on Add to Calendar, you possibly can add the occasion to your individual calendar.
Direct SLURL hyperlinks to VWBPE places:
You can even observe VWBPE on social media: Second Life group, Facebook, Flickr, LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube.
Keynote: “Mythic Origins of Metaverse Myths”
Speaker: Wagner James Au, also called Hamlet, Writer
Time and Location: 4 p.m. SLT on Thursday, March 14 within the VWBPE Auditorium.
Keynote: “The Hero’s Journey of Studying Transformation within the Digital Age”
Speaker: Nellie Deutsch, also called Nellie Homewood, Co-Chair of TESOL CALL-IS and teacher on the Worldwide Hellenic College
Time and Location: 9 a.m. SLT on Friday, March 15 within the VWBPE Auditorium.
The full list of speakers is here.
The key sponsors of this week’s VWBPE occasion are Linden Lab, Rockcliffe University Consortium, Hire A Helper, Porch.com, Knomaze Corporation, Virtual Ability, Agile Dimensions, Journal of Virtual Studies, and Whole Brain Health.
