The seventeenth annual Digital Worlds Greatest Practices in Training Convention, starting on Thursday, March 14, 2024, might be an internet distributed convention occurring in a number of digital areas. This convention focuses on using immersive digital environments for instructional functions together with digital and augmented actuality.
This yr we’re returning to our Earth construct. Every area represents a special terrestrial biome, together with wetlands, desert, badlands, grasslands, and forests. Convention attendees might be among the many first to have the ability to discover!
To one of the best potential attainable, VWBPE gives instructional and networking alternatives which are related to instructional curriculum growth using digital environments and “greatest practices.” These embrace
serving to to construct group by means of extension of studying greatest practices to sensible utility of these concepts and methods;
offering networking alternatives for educators and the communities that assist help training; and
offering entry to present improvements, developments, concepts, case research, and different greatest practices for educators and the communities that assist help training
One of many key challenges confronted by the academic group is how you can make one of the best use of latest immersive applied sciences in a means that’s sustainable and accessible based mostly on restricted budgets out there to each instructors and college students. Platforms which are free or open supply, or that may be shared throughout a broad viewers are showcased, together with strategies and analysis round greatest practices of their use and applicability.
Our theme for this yr is Mythic Origins.
Mythic tales can present a strategy to have interaction college students in essential pondering and evaluation, in addition to creating their creativity and creativeness. Mythic origins can present college students with a deeper understanding of their very own cultural heritage and the way it has advanced over time. It permits us to discover the origins of our socially constructed myths and legends which have impressed educators and their numerous works.
Be part of us as all of us share experiences and successes in how digital applied sciences used within the classroom have helped form training for the higher.
This yr’s keynote audio system are Wagner James Au and Dr. Nellie Deutsch. Invited audio system embrace representatives from Linden Lab, and the 2020 Thinkerer – Renne Emiko Brock.
The VWBPE convention keynote audio system and their respective shows are featured on the convention web site, together with a program of thrilling shows, social actions, and networking occasions that may set extraordinary discussions in movement.
The VWBPE Immersive Experiences showcase distinctive and attention-grabbing work being performed throughout the metaverse. We invite you to affix us as we discover eleven interactive and fascinating areas throughout 5 digital environments. The Immersive Experiences are scheduled from March ninth by means of thirty first (unique of the convention dates). Particulars and entry directions for the experiences are discovered on our program web page.
Moreover, this open and free convention wouldn’t be attainable with out the beneficiant contributions of our VWBPE sponsors.
The Rockcliffe Registration Portal is open for individuals to register new Second Life® avatars and discover out extra in regards to the VWBPE convention in-world. Go to https://www.enroll.onl/secondlife.php . The directions are there to get you and your folks began at this educator-friendly newcomers’ area in Second Life.
The total convention program is on-line.
You may as well view shows dwell on YouTube.
The entire convention occasions might be in Second Life this yr, and the areas are included within the listings. Once you click on on a convention occasion and click on Add to Calendar, you may add the occasion to your individual calendar.
Direct SLURL hyperlinks to VWBPE areas:
You may as well comply with VWBPE on social media: Second Life group, Fb, Flickr, LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube.
Keynote: “Mythic Origins of Metaverse Myths”
Speaker: Wagner James Au, often known as Hamlet, Creator
Time and Location: 4 p.m. SLT on Thursday, March 14 within the VWBPE Auditorium.
Keynote: “The Hero’s Journey of Studying Transformation within the Digital Age”
Speaker: Nellie Deutsch, often known as Nellie Homewood, Co-Chair of TESOL CALL-IS and teacher on the Worldwide Hellenic College
Time and Location: 9 a.m. SLT on Friday, March 15 within the VWBPE Auditorium.
The total record of audio system is right here.
The main sponsors of this week’s VWBPE occasion are Linden Lab, Rockcliffe College Consortium, Rent A Helper, Porch.com, Knomaze Company, Digital Skill, Agile Dimensions, Journal of Digital Research, and Entire Mind Well being.
Beth Ghostraven is the communications chair at Digital Worlds Greatest Practices in Training, a retired librarian, and the proprietor of the Guide & Tankard Pub in Victorian Steampunk Caledon in Second Life.
