Transcript of the Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable: February 4, 2021 Topic: Open ForumPhotos by Beth Ghostraven Sheila Yoshikawa: Hi everyone, and welcome to the Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable. We meet on Thursdays at 12 noon SLT for an hour.Remembered Ghost: can you talk in voiceSheila Yoshikawa: VWER is a forum to educate and inform the … Continue reading February 4, 2021: Open Forum
Transcript of the Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable: October 15, 2020Topic: Visiting Educational LocationsPhotos by Beth Ghostraven In this VWER session we will visit a few educational locations together and discuss what we find educational about each one, what features we could use in our own educational work, and how we might improve things further. Prepare … Continue reading October 15, 2020: Visiting Educational Locations
On 3rd September 2020 there was a joint event with the Virtual Worlds MOOC, in which we visited Ethnographic exhibits of two cultures from the Republic of Panama: Molas produced by Guna women; and Emberá cosmology & ethnobotany, curated by ethnographer Nexus Dot with the support of Shiloh Emmons. We started as usual at VWER … Continue reading September 3rd 2020: Ethnographic exhibits of two cultures from the Republic of Panama
Transcript of the Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable: May 28, 2020 Topic: Aha! Moments Photos by Beth Ghostraven Please come along to share those moments in your teaching (or your learning) where you felt you suddenly had a good insight or enlightenment. It can be large or small: realising why a small activity worked; suddenly understanding … Continue reading May 28, 2020: Aha! Moments
Transcript of the Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable: May 21, 2020 Topic: Mark Childs on "Choose Your Reality"Photos by Beth Ghostraven The session will be led by Gann McGann (Mark Childs outside Second Life) and will be in voice (with transcription) and text chat Virtual reality, virtual worlds, videoconferencing, text conferencing, the physical world. They all … Continue reading May 21, 2020: Mark Childs on “Choose Your Reality”
Transcript of the Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable: July 11, 2019 Topic: A Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) in MUVE (virtual world): What would it do? https://virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com/2019/07/2019-vwedu-digital-teaching-assistant.html Competitive sports for online schools. Robotics, search-masters, DTA-Turing challengeshttps://virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com/2019/06/2019-vwedu-competitive-sports-for.html ThinkererSelby Evans (thinkerer.melville): let's start now -- I will put some things in text. A draft prospectus for the development of … Continue reading July 11, 2019: A Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) in MUVE (virtual world): What would it do?
[2019/07/04 12:05] Sheila Yoshikawa: Hi everyone, and welcome to the Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable. We meet on Thursdays at 12 noon SLT for an hour. 8pm In UK, 3pm EST. VWER is a forum to educate and inform the community about issues that are important and relevant to education in virtual worlds. This is a … Continue reading July 4th, 2019: Open Forum
Transcript of the Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable: May 9, 2019 Topic: The Horizon Report 2019 Photos by Beth Ghostraven Transcript edited by Scot Headley The annual Horizon report started 16 years ago. The idea is that a panel of experts interact (using a Delphi Study format) to forecast short, medium and long term trends involving … Continue reading May 9, 2019: Horizon Report 2019
Transcript of the Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable: May 2, 2019 Topic: Fantasy in Virtual Worlds EducationPhotos by Beth Ghostraven We are approaching the end of Fantasy Faire https://fantasyfairesl.wordpress.com/ so it seems a good time to discuss the role of fantasy in virtual worlds education. Is it liberating? Creative? Or can it be alienating for some … Continue reading May 2, 2019: Fantasy in Virtual Worlds Education
Transcript of the Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable: April 25, 2019 Topic: Open Forum Photos by Beth Ghostraven Transcript edited by Scot Headley Beth Ghostraven: Hi everyone and welcome to the Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable! This is a public meeting in TEXT chat. We log the chat and publish a transcript of each meeting. VWER has … Continue reading April 25, 2019: Open Forum
VWER - Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable 