2018 EDU: G+ Communities about education for the virtual worlds

G+ Communities about education 
for the virtual worlds
Updated Feb 26, 2018

Yes for, not in. Not limited to the virtual worlds.  People have interests wherever they go. Virtual worlds are just be one way of pursuing those interests. And they are only available to the people that know about them.  Other people, back in the old world, have also formed communities.  We virtual worlders should talk to them sometime.

• We virtual worlders all know that virtual worlds offer advantages for education.
• We can create environments designed for instructional objectives.
• We can simulate anything in the world and most things imagined.
• We can bring together learners and instructors from around the world.
• We can build and program any instructional game one can think of.
• We can host learning projects with little cost and no risks.
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• We are not getting that word out to the educational community.
• Because we mostly talk to each other.  
• There are many G+ educational communities with general interests.
• Here I list a few and offer a search link to many more.  
• I post about education in virtual worlds to these communities.
• I hope others will do the same.

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Education communities in general

• Education (A G+ community)
• A communication hub for teachers, students, and parents.
• 202,452 members
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• Education: Community to discuss education (A G+ community)
• 29,823 members
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• Educators on Google+
• 95,450 members
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• Gamification in Education
• 11,784 members
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• Virtual Educators
• 339 members
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• Educational Technology
• 344,023 members
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• Self Directed Education
• 74 members
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• Education
• 206,170 members
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• ISTE Teacher Education Network
• 2,351 members
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• Google communities for education (Search)

Education communities with interests in virtual worlds

• VWER (Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable)
• 140 members
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• NonProfit Commons in Second Life
• 696 members
   
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• Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Friends
• 594 members
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• Virtual Worlds Teacher Network
• 316 members
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• Educator Commons
• 53 members

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If you are interested in web-worlds...

• Drop by my web office.
• My office times:  Weekdays: 12: -12:30 Central time  (US) 
• Maybe weekends, too.  Other times by appointment. 
• My web office: Cybalounge.
• Don't register -- enter as guest.  If you don't see me:
• Click the pointed pushpin on the bottom line 
• See if I am in Selby's room.. 
• We can also visit WebWorldz, a professionally-built world if you want. 
• Thinkerer Melville in Second Life, Selby Evans in Kitely
• A web page you can walk into
• Try a browser-based virtual world
• Cybalounge is ready for virtual worlders to use: Tutorials and suggestions