2014 EDU: PEOPLE: VWBPE Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education (VWBPE) Conference: April 9-13 2014

Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education (VWBPE) Conference: April 9-13 2014
Updated May 25, 2015

-

• April 9-12th, 2014
• Two immersive environments: Second Life and OSGrid
• Free registration 
• Web Site
• Full Schedule

Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education is a global grass-roots community event which focuses on education in immersive virtual environments. This open conference is organized by educators, for educators, toto showcase the learning that takes place in this community of practice

Over 2000 innovative educators from around the world will be sharing their achievements and challenges that they face in enhanced learning technology as well as their vision of future collaborative learning in virtual worlds and games.

 2014 Keynote and Featured speakers

Opening Keynote: Closing the Gap: Virtual Reality & Education
Presenter: Philip Rosedale, CEO High Fidelity
Date/Time: Wednesday April 9th, at 1:00pm PDT
Location: Second Life – VWBPE Central Auditorium

Featured Keynote: Connections in an Open Place
Presenter: Justin Clark-Casey, President OpenSimulator umbrella Overte Foundation
Date/Time: Thursday April 10th, at 7:00am PDT
Location: OSGrid – VWBPE Gateway

Featured Keynote: The Coming 3D Future Shock
Presenter: Maria Korolov, Editor in Chief – Hypergrid Business
Date/Time: Thursday April 10th, at 10:05am PDT
Location: OSGrid – VWBPE Gateway

Featured Keynote: Using Virtual Worlds and Gamification to Enhance Learning
Presenter: Andrew Hughes, CEO Designing Digitally
Date/Time: Friday April 11th, at 7:00am PDT
Location: Second Life – VWBPE Central Auditorium

Featured Keynote: TBA
Presenter: Ebbe Altberg, CEO Linden Lab
Date/Time: Friday April 11th, at 1:00pm PDT
Location: Second Life – VWBPE Central Auditorium

Featured Keynote: Design Implications of Game-Based Analyses
Presenter: David Gibson, Associate Professor at Curtin University in Perth, Australia
Date/Time: Saturday April 12th, at 7:00am PDT
Location: Second Life – VWBPE Central Auditorium

Featured Keynote: "There’s always room for a virtual zipline”, and other lessons from SciEthics Interactive
Presenter: Dr. Larysa Nadolny, Assistant Professor, Iowa State University
Date/Time: Saturday April 12th, at 1:00pm PDT
Location: Second Life – VWBPE Central Auditorium

VWBPE14 Location Links. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen

Calendar: http://vwbpe.org/conference/vwbpe-2014-calendar
Accessing the Conference: http://vwbpe.org/conference/accessing-the-conference
Watch Live Now:  http://vwbpe.org/conference/watch-live-now
Keynotes:  http://vwbpe.org/conference/keynotes
Panels:  http://vwbpe.org/conference/featured-panels
MOOC Information: http://vwbpe.org/blog/vwbpe-virtual-worlds-tour-mooc-kick-off
Sponsors: http://vwbpe.org/our-sponsors

Past conferences

VWBPE  2013

• VWBPE: Poster sessions 1. Wed., 7/24 to Sat. 7/27
• Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education (VWBPE) Call for proposals
• Aug 1. 2013 What did you learn at VWBPE?

VWBPE 2012

• EDU: VWBPE Sponsors and Posters (5+summary)
• Afganistan Museum. VWBPE poster sessions, sample
• SENIOR PROJECT. VWBPE poster sessions, sample
• Sponsors and Posters at VWBPE
• VWBPE Posters and Sponsors (2)
• Posters and sponsors at VWBPE (3)

VWBPE  2011 

VWBPE -- Time Machine
• Career academy--VWBPE 2011 Machinima Stream
• VWBPE Education Water CycleVWBPE 
• VWBPE 2011: Training in a virtual lab
• VWBPE 2011 Gateway - Experience report

Previous Conference Proceedings

• 2013 VWBPE Conference Proceedings (PDF)
• 2012 VWBPE Conference Proceedings (PDF)
• 2011 VWBPE Conference Proceedings (PDF)
• 2010 VWBPE Conference Proceedings (PDF)

Video Archives

• 2013 VWBPE Conference Recordings
• YouTube Playlists
• Treet TV Business
• Metaverse TV

Slideshare Presentations

• VWBPE Slideshare

VWBPE Awards

• 2013 VWBPE Conference Awards
• 2012 Awards
• 2012 Exemplary Volunteer Awards
• 2011 Awards

News and Notes

• Notes:  Major Firestorm Release 4.6.1.40478
• The Creature from the Black Lagoon Opens with a Party!
• Faultless Delivery From Kitely Market to OSgrid

******
Video-Machinima in virtual worlds

• Videos from virtual worlds Summary 
• Hobbies: Doing video/machinima in virtual worlds
• Music Videos from virtual worlds Summary 
• Art videos from the virtual world
• Comedy videos from the Virtual World

*****

• For more on topics like this, circle Selby Evans in Google+ 
• What do we do in Virtual Worlds? 
• Kitely: low cost virtual worlds.
• Search on page with Google Chrome: Ctrl+f, search bar upper right.
• To find  events, scroll down to "Lables used on this Blog," click EV
• Google search this blog: Search bar, upper left--or:
• Put site:virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com at the end of the search terms 
• What is Second Life?
• Annotated screen shots made with Jing
• All original content on this blog is Creative Commons License, attribution only. 
• Second Life, Linden, SLurl, and SL are trademarks of Linden Research Inc. 
• This blog is not affiliated with Second Life or anything else. 
• Ads are from Google 
• - 
• Drop by my place in Second Life 
• Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen: 
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cookie/136/100/22
• Feel free to send me an IM, notecard, or friend request. 
• Thinkerer Melville/Selby Evans