2020 #VWEDU: OPLN: Catching events in your online PLN. Meetings about online learning. Like webinars except they are free with no registration. More like collaboration than a lecture.

Catching events in your online PLN.  

Meetings about online learning.  

Like webinars except they are free with no registration. 

More like collaboration than a lecture.

Finding events in your Online Professional Learning Network (OPLN). Like webinars except less formal.  And free.  And with more collaboration.

Who?

• Educators, home schoolers, pod schoolers, self-schoolers

Online?

• A OPLN is about sharing information online with a professional learning network.

Virtual worlds? 

• User-built virtual worlds.  These are not games.  You do what you please.
• Some educators have been teaching in these places for years,
• And they have gathered in communities and organized groups:
• Networking in Virtual Worlds - The CVL Education Network
• And they hold events fostering online education: CVL Events.
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OPLN: Catching online events 

• A good system starts with your Google Calendar.
• Versions are available for computers, smart phones, and tablets.
• You can schedule your own events on your Google calendar.
• But if you use another brand, you still need the Google calendar setup.
• Your OPLN consists of web links and email addresses.
• The web links are mainly to organizations and social media sites
• Some of the web sites will have Google calendars, especially those from virtual world organizations.
• You can use those sites directly by visiting them.
• If you expect the use them much, you may want to collect them into your own event calendar.

Your own event calendar

• To copy a Google calendar to your personal collection:
• Click the + sign in the Google Calendar button (bottom right)
• Look for the new calendar under Other Calendars to the left of your main calendar 

Combine calendars

• If you have multiple sparse calendars you may want to combine them:
• Google calendars: blog, display, wear, combine. Summary 
• (The above article describes other uses that may also be of interest to virtual worlders.)

Suggested calendars from CVL

Virtual World Group Calendars

• Community Virtual Library
• Nonprofit Commons
• VWMOOC & ISTEVEN
• Whole Brain Health
• Fantasy Faire
• VWER (Virtual World Education Roundtable)

Relevant education links

• Microschools Meet The Moment
• Cambium Learning Group adds Rosetta Stone to its portfolio of digital-centric learning brands
• MoocLab
• Getting Smart
• Edsurge 
• 10 amazing virtual museum tours
• VirtualiTeach
• Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
• CommLab India
• Simple Homeschool
• Virtual Fieldtrips
• EdTech and Leadership: The Fuel that Feeds the Flame 
• iEARN-USA and WorldTeach Partner Expand Global Opportunities for Educators
• Digital Promise

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• Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds running in a browser. Summary
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