2019 #WVEDU: BIZ: Do we have a professional learning community (PLC) in the virtual worlds (MUVEs)?

Do we have a professional learning community (PLC)
in the virtual worlds (MUVEs)? #WVEDU

Sort of.  We have a many educational organizations and activities in virtual worlds and some loosely organized communication among them.  But they do not yet form a cohesive community with community plans or community actions. Can we form a stronger professional community?

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What is a Professional Learning Community?

• Professional learning community (PLC) (Wikipedia)
• Scholarly articles for professional learning communities
• EdWeb Join a Professional Learning Community

We have several inworld groups that might fit into a PLC

• Here are a few that I know:
• Rockcliffe University Consortium (RUC)
• Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education (VWBPE)
• Virtual Worlds Education Round Table (VWER)
• Institute for New Paradigms (in learning) NPI
• New Media Arts (NMA)
• NonProfit Commons (NPC)
• Community Virtual Library (CVL)
• International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)
• If these groups increase collaboration, they could make a PLC 

• #VWEDU update 5/10/2019 VWBPE Conference Proceedings. Entrepreneurial educators

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Groups (in Virtual worlds) that fit into a PLC

Rockcliffe University Consortium (RUC)

• Rockcliffe University Consortium

• Articles in this blog about RUC

Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education (Conference)

• Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education 

• Articles in this blog about VWBPE
• Hashtag: #VWBPE
• #VWBPE hashtag on Twitter

Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable (VWER)

• VWER – Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable

• Articles in this blog about VWER

Institute for New Paradigms (in learning) INP

• Institute for New Paradigms
• Empire State College (ESC) Virtual Residency (applied practice)
• SUNY Graduate Student Collaborative. Online students need not feel isolated here!

New Media Arts (NMA)

• New Media Arts, Inc.
• Articles in this blog about New Media Arts

NonProfit Commons (NPC) and Avacon

• Nonprofit Commons

• Articles in this blog about Nonprofit Commons

Community Virtual Library (CVL)

• Community Virtual Library – Real librarianship in virtual worlds

• Articles in this blog about Community Virtual Library 

International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)

• ISTE© - International Society for Technology in Education
• secondlife@iste.org
• Articles in this blog about ISTE

What did I leave out?

• Tell me in comments on this article
• Better yet, drop by my web places when I am there (see below).
• We can talk about it.

Groups and products of likely interest to educators

• Guinivere project: A Language learning game in a 3D immersive environment
• Black History Museum: Keng City: Educational destination on the hypergrid
• Why I specifically recommend Kitely for hosting a virtual campus (MUVE)
• Let's gather a list of educationally useful places on the hypergrid
• The International Spaceflight Museum in Kitely
• International Spaceflight Museum 2012
• More: (TBD)

Professional learning communities on the web

• EdWeb Join a Professional Learning Community
• Virtual worlds in EdWeb 
• The Digital Educator
• Computer Science & STEM Learning
• Game-Based Learning
• Ignite Digital Learning
• Inspiring Entrepreneurship
• Student-Driven Learning: Project-Based Learning, Makerspaces and more
• Success in a Digital World
• Technology in Schools
• Engines for Education - Welcome
• The Global Education Report

What would we need to have an effective PLC?

• The basic thing a community needs is communication.
• Perhaps a collaborative blog that many groups in virtual worlds could share.
• Perhaps it could start with a shared hashtag on Twitter
• Twitter can serve as your timeline and you can embed it in your blog

Collaborative blog

• A collaborative blog is social media if you use it that way
• Blogging in virtual worlds. How to... Summary
• Build an effective community blog for 3D virtual worlds
• Blogging for beginners, the virtual world advantage. And a demo of blogging for instruction.
• The whys and hows of blogging.
• Blogging as instruction and information in virtual worlds, summary
• Community blogging your virtual world.
• How to use a blog to organize a developing themed collection of information
• Tech info for collaborative blogging on Blogger
• Create a collaborative blog to market your writing

What I am doing now

• I am putting the hashtag #VWEDU on my education-related articles
• And adding that hashtag on education-related articles that I repost.
• People can send me links to articles related to education in virtual worlds.
• I will post those links in a persistent place on my blog.
• You can send me links in my MeWe group: Talk Virtual Outworlding 
• Or post comments on my blog.

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Visit me on the web

• Drop by my web offices Weekdays: 12:-12:30 Central time (US)
• Cybalounge and 3DWebWorldz (Orientation room)
• I will be in both places, so you may need to speak to get my attention.
• Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds running in a browser. Summary
• And we can visit the Writer's Workshop on the Web
• Don't register -- enter as guest.  

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