2020 #VWEDU: The flipped webinar of virtual worlds, a place for exchanging information. No cost, no reservation. Come as you are. Meet the online educator community.

The flipped webinar of virtual worlds,, 

a place for exchanging information.  

No cost, no reservation.  Come as you are.

Meet the online educator community.

The online Professional Learning Community will be flipping webinars.  

A flipped webinar in a gallery

The online educator community

• Develop your online professional learning network (OPLN) in virtual worlds. The community in your laptop. Always ready. always handy
• We can flip an art webinar into an art gallery.
• Virtual worlds are social virtual reality.
• The flipped webinar: Discovering online learning. The potential is huge, but you gotta know the territory.
• The flipped webinar: a strawman plan for the online Professional Learning Community (PLC)

What is the flipped webinar?

• Flipped classroom  (The focus shifts from the teacher to the students.)
• Flipped webinar (The focus shifts from the speaker to the participants)
• Oh there will be knowledgeable people there all right.    
• They just won't take up your time telling you what they think you need to know.
• They will expect you to indicate what you want to know.  
• Then they will tell you what they know about that.
• And probably give you web links for more information.
• They won't expect to ge paid for sharing what they know.  
• They view the flipped webinar as a place for exchanging information.  
• That means they seek the information they want to seek.
• And give the information they want to give.
• Nobody expects to get paid for this, so no charge is needed.
• And virtual space has no practical limits, so no reservation needed. 

After the break

• Who is flipping webinars?
• What are the flipped webinars about?
• How can I find the ones I am interested in?
• How do I get to them?

• Update 12/17/2020 The Dickens Project 2020 Edition. VWBPE2021: RECONNAISSANCE Call for Proposals.

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Who is flipping webinars?

• The digitals, of course. The people in a digital community.
• That's partly because webinars are so easy to get to.  
• Digitals can go anywhere in 30 seconds.  At no cost.  
• And without leaving home.  (So no child care problems)
• Then, too, the digital world changes so fast that there is always something new.

What are the flipped webinars about?

• Whatever the community wants to learn about.
• Usually that includes something about doing things online in a virtual world.
• This article is about webinars for educators (and by educators).

How can I find the ones I am interested in?

• They are announced in the communities that organize them.
• Develop your online professional learning network (OPLN) in virtual worlds. The community in your laptop. Always ready. always handy
• There is a calendar in that article--you can add it to your Google calendar.  
• (Click the + sign, bottom right.)
• Many of the meetings listed there operate as webinars, sometimes flipped.
• if you see a meeting that looks interesting, click it to get more information.

How do I get to them?

• Many of these meetings are held in installed virtual worlds.
• For these you need a computer (desktop or laptop).
• They will be held in a "grid,"  such as Second Life or Kitely.
• You go to the web page for instructions to install the viewer and register.
• Here are the skills you will need:
• Newcomer welcome coach: Basic skills needed promptly
• Basic skills needed for attending a meeting or class in a virtual world. 
• For meetings in web-worlds, you follow a link to the place--it runs in the browser.

Social virtual worlds

• Virtual worlds (Wikipedia)
• Social virtual worlds
• Scholarly articles for social virtual worlds
• What are virtual worlds?
  
• Virtual reality (VR) (Wikipedia)
• Scholarly articles for social virtual reality

Calendars: grid and community

• #VWEDU Educators Online Calendar
• Kitely Calendar
• Inspiration Island event schedule
• Littlefield events calendar
• IMA Social Web and Virtual World Events, Music, and Meeting Calendar
• Community Virtual Library (CVL)
• Nonprofits in Second Life Calendar
• More (TBD:) If you have a busy calendar, send me a link.

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Visit me on the web

• Drop by my web offices Weekdays: 12:-12:30 pm Central time (US)
• I am available for free consulting on any topic in this blog.
• 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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• Selby Evans in Kitely and Hypergrid, Thinkerer Melville in Second Life.