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 the usage of immersive digital environments for instructional functions together with digital and augmented actuality.
This 12 months we’re returning to our Earth construct. Every area represents a special 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 potential, VWBPE gives instructional and networking alternatives which are related to instructional curriculum improvement using digital environments and “finest practices.” These embody
- serving to to construct group by extension of studying finest practices to sensible utility of these concepts and strategies;
- offering networking alternatives for educators and the communities that assist assist training; and
- offering entry to present improvements, developments, concepts, case research, and different finest practices for educators and the communities that assist assist training
One of many key challenges confronted by the academic group is how you can make the perfect use of recent immersive applied sciences in a method that’s sustainable and accessible based mostly on restricted budgets out there to each instructors and college students. Platforms which are free or open supply, or that may be shared throughout a broad viewers are showcased, together with strategies and analysis round finest practices of their use and applicability.
Our theme for this 12 months is Mythic Origins.
Mythic tales can present a strategy to have interaction college students in crucial considering 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 developed 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 part of us as all of us share experiences and successes in how digital applied sciences used within the classroom have helped form training for the higher.
This 12 months’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 can set extraordinary discussions in movement.
The VWBPE Immersive Experiences showcase distinctive and attention-grabbing work being performed throughout the metaverse. We invite you to affix us as we discover eleven interactive and interesting areas throughout 5 digital environments. The Immersive Experiences are scheduled from March ninth by 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 potential with out the beneficiant contributions of our VWBPE sponsors.
The Rockcliffe Registration Portal is open for folks 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.
All the convention occasions can be in Second Life this 12 months, and the areas are included within the listings. Once you click on on a convention occasion and click on Add to Calendar, you possibly can add the occasion to your personal calendar.
Direct SLURL hyperlinks to VWBPE areas:
You can even comply with VWBPE on social media: Second Life group, Facebook, Flickr, LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube.
Keynote: “Mythic Origins of Metaverse Myths”
Speaker: Wagner James Au, also referred to as Hamlet, Creator
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 referred to as 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.
