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EDUCAUSE southeast Regional conference

Group Notice From: AJ Brooks



Please join us at 8:45am on Monday, June 1st, for a simultaneous meeting of the EDUCAUSE Virtual Worlds Constituent Group.



On-site attendees will be meeting at 11:45am local time in Atlanta, GA, at the EDUCAUSE Southeast Regional Conference and in-world attendees will be meeting at 8:45am SLT in the CHSSSouth Amphitheater (LM attached to in-world notice: "Montclair State CHSS South Amphi, Montclair State CHSSSouth (124, 153,… Continue

Added by Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin on May 29, 2009 at 8:24am — No Comments

SLCC09 Education Track: call for PIPs

REPOST from Kevin Feenan (SLED post March 29, 09)



This year the SLCC Education Track (August 13-16 2009) is going to look substantially different from previous years. We are putting together a track which will have a large emphasis on Community, Professional Development, and Participatory Interactive Presentations (PIPs). For the program to be a success we are looking for you to PIP up and tell us your story at the SLCC. What are you good at, what can we do better, what… Continue

Added by Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin on May 29, 2009 at 7:30am — No Comments

CFP: Special Issue JVWR: Government and Virtual Worlds

Special Edition: Government and Virtual Worlds



Guest editors:

Paulette Robinson, PhD

Michael Piller, PhD

Information Resources Management College

National Defense University

Co-Leaders-Federal Consortium for Virtual Worlds



The government has been increasingly interested in creating and using

digital collaborative environments to interact within agencies, across

agencies and with the citizens. The current Obama administration… Continue

Added by Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin on May 20, 2009 at 1:40pm — No Comments

CFP for ITALICS November 2009

ITALICS November 2009 - special issue on Virtual Worlds: play or education?



The third issue of ITALICS (the e-journal of the Higher Education Academy's Subject Centre for Information and Computer Sciences http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/italics/index.htm) for 2009 will be a special issue on Second Life and other Virtual Worlds in use in higher education. The Guest Editors are Jane Chandler, Timothy Collinson, Jonathan Crellin, and Emma Duke-Williams from the University of… Continue

Added by Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin on May 20, 2009 at 1:37pm — No Comments

Memorial University is Nationally Recognized in Canada for Excellence in Innovation using Second Life.

REPOST: Posted by Pathfinder Linden on May 15, 2009 1:23:16 PM



Greetings!



Memorial University just won a national award in Canada, recognizing their innovative use of Second Life in teaching and learning. This is insanely great. Congratulations to everyone involved! Here are the exciting details:



National award recognizes value of virtual world technology in teaching and learning…



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Added by Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin on May 18, 2009 at 2:57pm — No Comments

My ARVEL Badge



Visit ARVEL SIG

Get yours by clicking on 'Badge' at the bottom of any page once you are logged in ARVEL SIG. Follow the prompts and collect your embed code to use on any blogs or websites of yours. Add it to your email signature!



Screenshot of the bottom of your page:…

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Added by Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin on May 18, 2009 at 10:00am — No Comments

SITE 2010 -Call for participation: 10/21/09

COLOR POSTER--SITE 2010 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: http://site.aace.org/conf/pdf/SITE10poster.pdf



** SELECTED PAPER BOOK FOR SITE 2010 **

Submit Your Full Paper for Publication in a Book of Selected Papers



SITE 2010 will offer for the first time an alternative Full Paper submission category. "Full Papers (Book)" are Full Paper submissions submitted in their final by Oct. 21. These will be reviewed… Continue

Added by Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin on May 18, 2009 at 8:51am — No Comments

Cafe 101 is at NISOD in Austin on May 26.

in-world group notice: [...] We're in the process of starting up our social networking site and YOU ARE INVITED! Come check us out and add your own ideas, photos and questions to Lone Wolf Virtual Partners site! Find us at http://lonewolfvp.ning.com today!"



Go get your badge to add to your website, blog, etc.



Visit Lone Wolf Virtual… Continue

Added by Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin on May 17, 2009 at 7:52am — 1 Comment

NECC Name Badges

I am sharing a ISTE group notice regarding the NECC conference in Washington, DC this summer:

" Would you like a SL name badge? Please tp to the photo booth and take a pic of your avatar. The sign next to the photo booth will give you further instructions. Deadline is June 15. Thanks, Louise"

Photo Booth: ISTE Island, ISTE Island (218, 242, 22)…

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Added by Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin on May 15, 2009 at 12:00pm — No Comments

MacArthur Foundation in SL: Launch of island with public forum

Need of grant money to develop your inworld research/application/etc? The MacArthur Foundation should remain at the top of your list. The Foundation has been interested in promoting VW research and solutions.



source: MacArthur Spotlight Blog



"To mark the launch of MacArthur Island within Second Life, this forum will examine the future of virtual worlds… Continue

Added by Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin on May 8, 2009 at 7:00am — 2 Comments

List of inworld research

The Virtual World Researcher Discussion group meets every other week inworld (http://vwresearchersgroup.pbworks.com/Meeting-Schedule-and-Transcripts). But you can contact researchers directly based on your interest in their research (http://vwresearchersgroup.pbworks.com/Virtual-Worlds-Research-Projects). Please add yours as… Continue

Added by Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin on April 29, 2009 at 7:33am — No Comments

Call for papers: journals/conferences

Here is a site that collects CFPs. Something we all enjoy bookmarking. Also notice that you can add to the page. Just request access and Debbie McCormick or Greg Wadley will get you in:

http://vwresearchersgroup.pbworks.com/CALL%C2%A0FOR%C2%A0PAPERS%C2%A0-%C2%A0Journals+and+Conferences

S.

Added by Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin on April 29, 2009 at 7:28am — No Comments

Federal Consortium Virtual World online conference NOW

Conference info: http://www.ndu.edu/IRMC/fedconsortium.html

Registration (free): http://www.ndu.edu/IRMC/fedconsortium_reg.html

Live stream in 7 VW (Forterra, Protosphere, Second Life , Vastpark, 3DXplorer, e3DMe, activeworlds --get the VWurls: http://www.ndu.edu/IRMC/fedconsortium_live.html) and in browser… Continue

Added by Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin on April 23, 2009 at 8:55am — 1 Comment

AERA-ARVEL: reminiscing

Finally back from San Diego (do avoid Houston at all cost. Those of you -who like me- flew on Saturday are probably still recovering from missed connections and a sleepless night on the minimally comfortable chairs at the airport), only to discover that my last download triggered a lsass.exe error on my latop and my cellphone voice messaging has a number apparently no longer in service. oh well. That's for another story.



So ARVEL's first performance. Kudos and congratulations to the… Continue

Added by Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin on April 22, 2009 at 8:38am — No Comments

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