Transcript of the Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable: April 19, 2018 Topic: Open Forum Join us for an open discussion of anything about virtual worlds and/or education. Kali Pizzaro: Hi everyone, and welcome to the Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable. We meet Thursday 12 noon SLT for an hour. 8pm In UK, 3pm EST. VWER is a … Continue reading 2018-04-19 – Open Forum
Transcript of the Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable: April 12, 2018 Topic: Misinformation Disinformation, misinformation or fake news? There are increasing numbers of official reports and discussions about misinformation and fake news at the national and international level. This week, Sheila Yoshikawa will introduce key points from the recent European Commission expert group report http://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/final-report-high-level-expert-group-fake-news-and-online-disinformation. We … Continue reading 2018-04-12 VWER – Misinformation
Transcript of the Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable: April 5, 2018 Topic: Using Avatars to Bring Students into Historical Spaces Join the Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable for a TEXT discussion based on "Empathy and Engagement: Using Avatars to Bring Students into History" by Steven S. Volk https://www.aacu.org/publications-research/periodicals/empathy-and-engagement-using-avatars-bring-students-history Camie Rembrandt: Hi everyone! Welcome to the Virtual Worlds … Continue reading 2018-04-05 – Using Avatars to Bring Students into Historical Spaces
Transcript of the Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable: March 29, 2018 Topic: Open Forum Note: The local chat from this meeting might look rather strange because the only members attending (besides me [Camie]) were Selby and Marly and they used voice most of the time. Some things mentioned during the meeting might be useful, like the … Continue reading 2018-03-29 – Open Forum
March 15, 2018 - VWBPE Conference In lieu of our regular meeting, we attended the Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education (VWBPE) Conference in Second Life, which was underway at the time. For more information about the conference, see http://vwbpe.org. VWER Meeting Transcripts by Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs … Continue reading 2018-03-15 – No Meeting (VWBPE)
Transcript of the Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable: March 1, 2018 Topic: Favourite Tools for Educators in Virtual Worlds What are your favourite tools or equipment for teaching and learning in virtual worlds? Please bring along examples of them, to demonstrate if you can! Sheila Yoshikawa: Hi everyone, and welcome to the Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable. … Continue reading 2018-03-01 – Favourite Tools for Educators in Virtual Worlds
Transcript of the Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable: February 15, 2018 Topic: Managing Our Time We’ll discuss how we do this, and any tools or tips for managing and planning our time well as educators. Moderator: Sheila Yoshikawa Sheila Yoshikawa: Hi everyone, and welcome to the Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable. We meet on Thursdays at 12 … Continue reading 2018-02-15 – Managing Our Time
Transcript of the Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable: February 1, 2018 Topic: Global Citizens Photos by Beth Ghostraven This weeks theme is Can avatars become global citizens and influence change? Kali Pizzaro: Hi everyone, and welcome to the Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable. We meet Thursday 12 noon SLT for an hour. 8pm In UK, 3pm est … Continue reading February 1, 2018: Global Citizens
Transcript of the Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable: January 4, 2018 Topic: New Media Consortium In late December sudden news came that the New Media Consortium was closing. The NMC is best known for the annual Horizon Reports, but was also very active in the early days of SL (with several sims, free educator tools etc.) & … Continue reading 2018-01-04 – New Media Consortium
Transcript of the Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable: January 12, 2017 Topic: New Year's Resolutions 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 … Continue reading 2017-01-12 “New Year’s Resolutions”
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