Rezed "Educational Implications of Mixed-age Versus Age-segregated Virtual Worlds."

At RezEd Central, we are always looks for ways we can better serve our growing community of educators.

We had such a great response to our first virtual conference in Second Life last November, that we have decided to hold seasonal virtual meetups for the RezEd community to socialize, network and share information more regularly.

Our first Spring Meetup will take place on Wednesday March 25 at the Foundations Sim in Second Life, generously offered by the MacArthur Foundation.

The topic is a hot one:

"Educational Implications of Mixed-age Versus Age-segregated Virtual Worlds."

We have three excellent speakers who can address this subject from a youth, teacher and librarian perspectives, plus lots of time for Q&A, discussion and socializing.Here's the details:

WHAT: RezEd.org's Spring Virtual Meetup

WHERE: Second Life, Foundations Sim (Teleport Link)

WHEN: Wednesday, March 25, 12-1pm PST / SLT

WHO: Lucky Figtree: Teen Second Life Resident

Peggy Sheehy: Teacher, Suffern Middle School

Kelly Czarnecki: Librarian, Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County

It's going to be a fun and thought-provoking event.

Please invite your friends and colleagues interested in the changes going on in the Main Grid and Teen Grid of Second Life, how other virtual worlds and MMORPGs navigate mixed-age and age-segregated spaces, and the impacts upon education and youth development.

Social Presence in Virtual Worlds on RezEd!

A message from Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin to all members of Social Presence in Virtual Worlds on RezEd!

Today, Jan, 19, 2009, 2pm SLT/PST (5pmEST) the Social Presence in Virtual Worlds and the Virtual Worlds Research Discussion group are welcoming Zotarah Shepherd.
Zotarah will provide us with a tour of her Multiple Intelligence Build at Koru 43_219_22.
We meet at the Center for Social Presence at Meadowbrook 60_198_22 at 2pmSLT
Note: I've had some login issues today. If you miss us at 2pm at the Center, join us directly at Koru as soon as you can log in.
Best, Willow

Visit Social Presence in Virtual Worlds at:
http://www.rezed.org/groups/group/show?id=2047896%3AGroup%3A6392

RezEd Best Practice in Education

SLBPE post of Phelan Corrimal on RezEd

Comment by Phelan Corrimal 8 hours ago Hi folks - have been tied up with a pile of RL issues and having gotten most out of the way its time to get back to SL :-). Anyone interested in helping out on the organizing committee please let me know before January 16th. I'm proposing dates of March 27th-March 29th for the conference. If anyone knows of any immediate conflicts that would be good to know as well. Another post on this will go out tomorrow on the SLED list.


Comment by Phelan Corrimal on September 23, 2008 at 11:45am Hi Folks --- Two updates: I'm proposing a first meet on the SLBPE 2009 to be held October 7th at Rockcliffe's Greenhouse on Rockcliffe I for anyone that is interested in helping out.

Second proposal is for the conference dates to be February 20-22, 2009.
The date choice is deliberate for two reasons:
1) is that it is approximately 6 months opposite the SLCC in August.
2) is that it the timing works well for the Journal of Virtual Studies launch which will be on March 1st now. The journal is a peer review publication which will be distributed through EBSCOhost and ProQuest electronically and therefore searchable by Universities around the world.

I will have more details available on the 7th.
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Posted by Phelan Corrimal on August 12, 2008 at 12:56am in SLBPE 2009

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My thought here is not necessarily to goto the same scale as the 2007 conference but rather to keep the format fairly consistent with the last SLBPE and to make two other changes: 1) 3 x 8hr days rather than 1x 24hr day, and 2) do a Fri-Sat-Sun rather than have everything on the Friday.Also, the timing is such that it is almost exactly 6 months after the SLCC which I think would be a good opportunity to run one so as not to interfer with what Jonathan and the other good folks coordinating SLEDcc are doing.Thoughts?(See: http://slbestpractices2007.wikispaces.com/ for a look into how Desi, Fleep and others arranged the SLBPE 2007).
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