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ISTE Events in Second LifeISTE typically hosts in world events twice weekly: every Thursday at 6 PM SLT (that's US pacific time), we host a social event for educators to meet and network. We also host a weekly speaker series, and additional chats and discussions, on Tuesday evenings at 5 PM SLT. ISTE is pleased to introduce the ISTE Eduverse Talks series, a Second Life talk show highlighting the work of innovative K-20 educators and thought leaders worldwide. Presented with the generous support of Hewlett-Packard, this twice-monthly show is filmed and broadcast by the Second Life Community Network Television Station (SLCN.tv) and will feature innovations in educational technology, in both real life and Second Life. Episodes will be taped before a live studio audience, will be broadcast live via the web and SLCN.tv in world viewers, and will be archived online. Read below for details about our first episode, taping tonight at the new ISTE Broadcast Studio. ISTE Eduverse Talks is presented with the generous support of our sponsor: June 2009Saturday, June 20th, 4 - 6 PM SLT (revised date!) ISTE Explore Workshop: Griefing and Harrassment Protection Facilitator: Zotarah Shepherd Maximum places: 15 Registration: To register, please fill in this application form. Are you unsure what to do when a griefer gate-crashes your class or event? Maybe you haven't experienced griefing or harrassment at all in Second Life and wonder what it's about? This workshop is partly presentation, partly hands-on. You will learn about: - Types of griefing - Land settings for protection - Anti-griefing tools - Getting help - Reporting abuse Pre-requisite skills: - ability to navigate around and look at specific things - ability to communicate in text, and preferably voice Further information: For further information about the workshop, IM Zotarah Shepherd (content) or Tuxedo Ninetails (organisation) or email mex.butler@bigpond.com Thursday, June 4, 6 PM SLTISTE Educator Social Holodecks Curious about holodecks? Come and explore holodecks with, Shield Markus, the creator of Reich & Rexen - The Ultimate Holodeck. Come and "experience" incredible real life views. Meet at ISTE HQ at 6:00 PM and we will teleport over to the sim. Saturday, June 6, 2009 9 AM - 11AM SLT ISTE Basic Skills Workshop: Appearance Get help for all your avatar appearance questions! Experienced ISTE members will be here to help you solve problems with shapes, skins, clothes, hair, and accessories. Lots of How-to graphics and notecard tips. We will meet at ISTE and break into small groups to work on appearance topics. There's a quick shopping trip planned, so you can get some free/inexpensive clothes and then return to ISTE to put them on. Activities will be in English text.The text chat log may be collected to help us plan and improve future workshops. Sign-up: This is a walk-in workshop - no registration is needed. Contacts: Send Instant Message (IM in SL) to Blu Heron if you have questions about this workshop. Location: SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island/128/132/350/ Tuesday June 9, 2009 5PM SLT ISTE Eduverse Talks Living in the (Virtual) Moment: A Case Study of Association Member Engagement in Second Life Learn how the International Society for Technology in Education expanded into Second Life and used this virtual world to support member professional development, networking, and leadership in this episode featuring some of ISTE's most active volunteers and members! Moderated by host Kevin Jarrett (SL: KJ Hax), guests Christie Thomas(SL: Corinne Fleury), Scott Merrick (SL: Scott Merrick Oh), Marianne Malmstrom (SL: Knowclue Kidd), and Andrew Wheelock (SL: Spiff Whitfield), will discuss the evolution of ISTE Island from a member perspective. Attend to get the inside scoop on lessons learned, advice for new members, and exciting ideas for the future. This will be a voice presentation; please be sure that you have a working voice setup (including a headset) prior to the event! Visit http://www.iste-eduverse.org to get the archive, which will be available about a week after the event. Location: ISTE Broadcast Studio: http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island%203/197/238/23 Thursday, June 11, 2009, 6:00 SLT EVENT: STEM Poster Gallery and Presentations! LOCATION: ISTE Island, Second Life: http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island/56/174/23 DATE: June 11 TIME: 6:00pm-7pm SLT (6:00-7pm Pacific Daylight Time) This Virtual Poster Session will feature three STEM related projects from the HP Technology for Teaching Grant Program. From 6:00-6:30 pm, the 3 presenters will each give a brief overview of their project from a central "stage." From 6:30-7:00 pm, the presenters will move to their poster stations where attendees will be able to visit and chat with the presenters and each other via text chat. Thursday, June 18, 2009, 6:00 SLT EVENT: NECC Tips LOCATION: Capitol Hill South (Meet at ISTE HQ) TIME: 5:00pm-6pm SLT/PDT (click here for your local time) Are you a veteran of NECC and willing to share? Are you a newbie to NECC? Do you have questions? Do you want hints and tips from the vets of NECC? If the answer is YES to any of these questions please join us at Capitol Hill South on Thursday June 18th from 5-6 SLT for an informal chat. We will be joined by special guest, NECC Program Chair, Anita McAnear (RL), Ilse Markova (SL). Let's get pumped up and ready for NECC! May 2009Tuesday, May 5, 5 PM SLT ISTE Eduverse Talks - Episode #6: Revolutionizing Instruction With Tablet PC's Are you ready to learn how to use web-based tools in your classroom to improve the sharing of ideas, problems, questions and solutions among students? Join host Kevin Jarrett (SL: KJ Hax) for a discussion with cross-disciplinary team of educators from Clemson University who successfully integrated Tablet PC’s into their curriculum as part of the HP Technology for Teaching Grant program. Hear classroom success stories and lessons learned from this diverse group of educators—Marilyn Reba (SL: Zahlen Zimmer), Department of Mathematical Sciences, Lisa Benson (SL: Poco Orsini), Department of General Engineering, and Barbara Weaver (SL: Beby Writer), Department of English and IT.This will be a voice presentation; please be sure that you have a working voice setup (including a headset) prior to the event! Visit http://www.iste-eduverse.org to get the archive, which will be available about a week after the event. Location: ISTE Broadcast Studio: http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island%203/197/238/23 Thursday, May 7, 2009, 6 PM SLT Educator Social, ISTE Campfire Circles Newcomers to SL Social Are you new to SL? Join us for an informal gathering to meet other newcomers to SL and to ask questions that you may have about SL. Hosted by Blu Heron Location: ISTE Campfire Circles: http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island/228/131/23 Tuesday, May 12, 5 PM SLT ISTE Speaker Series Event: Machinima: More than just a "Cool Tool" A presentation by Knowclue Kidd (RL: Marianne Malmstrom) Although there may be many ideas as to what constitutes 21st century skills, most people agree that creativity, communication, and collaboration top that list. Machinima encompasses all of these vital objectives as well as provides an engaging new vehicle to help students develop media literacy skills. Knowclue will share her journey and observations about creating machinima with both students and colleagues. Learn why she considers this mashup of video and 3D virtual worlds a transformative tool for creating the change we want to see in education. Marianne Malmstrom (SL: Knowclue Kidd) has been an educator for over 25 years. Her fascination with using emerging technologies in the classroom led to her current position as a middle school technology teacher at The Elisabeth Morrow School in Englewood, NJ. With her colleague, Sarah Rolle (SL: Sholi Oh), she has developed a program rich in the use of multimedia. Her school has received two JPMorgan Chase awards for “Excellence in the Use of Multimedia” as part of WLIW’s Teaching & Learning Celebration. Marianne has volunteered as an ISTE docent since May 2007 and has been responsible for organizing several collaborative projects with colleagues from around the world. As an early adopter of machinima (video created using 3D virtual worlds), Marianne has been keenly interested in how this new medium can be used for education. She has created several short machinimas including “ISTE in Second Life” and collaborated with Peggy Sheehy on "No Future Left Behind". Working with her tech club, she is currently exploring the use of machinima in the classroom. http://www.knowclue.com/ This will be a voice event; please be sure that you have a working voice setup [ideally including a headset microphone] prior to arrival! Location: ISTE Island Auditorium http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island/204/46/23 Thursday, May 14, 2009 ISTE Educator Social Join Esme and Louise as we tour the Smithsonian Latino Museum. Meet at ISTE HQ 6-7PM SLT Saturday May 16 and 22, 2 pm - 4 pm SLT ISTE Explore workshops Presentation tools Part 1 and 2 Facilitator: Tuxedo Ninetails Maximum places: 15 - bookings essential Enrolment: Complete this **online form** . You've seen billboards, slideshows and other ways of presenting information in SL, but you aren't quite sure how to go about it. Come along to this two part hands-on workshop and learn some useful, practical skills to make interesting and effective visual presentations. You'll pick up some great freebie tools and resources that will help get you started. Part 1 covers basic skills required to put together a presentation. You can play with some different presentation tools. Time permitting, there will be a field trip to locations showing a range of presentation tools. Part 2 you get to do a short presentation to the rest of the group, get some feedback, help and peer review. Prerequisites:
~ Contact Tuxedo Ninetails in SL for more information ~ Thursday, May 21, 2009 ISTE Educator Social 6:00 - 7:30 PM SLT with Shamblesguru Voom Best Web 2.0 Tools for Educators This workshop is designed for K-20 teachers from all curriculum areas. In this session we will initially meet as a large group in the ISTE beach area and then break out into smaller discussion groups. In the small groups you will be asked a) to share your own personal favourite web 2.0 tool .. and say 'why' b) come to a group 'consensus' on which web 2.0 tool should be the first for a teacher (with no previous Web 2.0 experience) to try. We will then reconvene as a large group for feedback from the individual groups ... and prize giving ;-) For more information please visit: **http://tr.im/lv5L**Tuesday May 26, 2009 ISTE Speaker Series Event- Frontline: Digital Nation The International Society for Technology in Education and PBS Teachers in Second Life invite you to attend a Speaker Series event for Frontline: Digital Nation, on ISTE Island in Second Life on May 26 at 5 p.m. SLT (8 p.m.EST). This speaker event will feature Rachel Dretzin, the producer of Digital Nation, promoting her latest effort that goes “real-time” with the website http://pbs.org/frontline/digitalnation designed to let you participate in the production of this documentary. By attending the Second Life event, educators will be invited to share their stories and describe their uses of web 2.0 in and out of the classroom. If you would like to attend but do not have a Second Life account, ISTE features an educator portal into Second Life with step-by-step instructions to get you started. You can start your account in SL here: http://www.iste.org/secondlife This will be a voice event; please be sure that you have a working voice setup [ideally including a headset microphone] prior to arrival!Location: ISTE Island Auditorium: http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island/204/46/23 Time: 5PM SLT/ 8PM EDT Thursday, May 28, 2009 ISTE Educator Social 6:00 - 7:00 PM SLT with Randal Hudson Open Source. Randal Hudson (RL: Randy Orwin) will lead a discussion on Open Source. He will begin by defining Open Source, talk about why school districts should consider using it, and success stories. Location: ISTE Island Campfire Circles: http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island/218/168/23 April 2009Thursday, April 2, 6 PM - 7: 30 PM SLT Educator Social, ISTE Campfire Field Getting Started with WoW Virtual Worlds extend beyond the boundaries of Second Life and include MMORPGs (Massive Multiplayer OnLine Role Playing Games) such as World of Warcraft (WoW). Many educators are exploring MMORPGs and their value in education, but launching off into Azeroth (the world of WoW) can be intimidating to some. Join us for a two part ISTE social experience where we present an overview of how to get started in WoW and follow up with a question and answer session one week later. This social will be moderated by the officers of the WoW Guild Cognitive Dissonance (Victoria Gloucester = Vyktorea, Teacher Spitteler = Syzyrgy): http://cognitivedissonance.guildportal.com. Tuesday, April 7, 5 PM SLT ISTE Speaker Series event: Teaching in Virtual Worlds: Identity and Culture a trivia game presentation by Lyr Lobo (RL: Cynthia Calongne). What makes virtual worlds different from other virtual communities? Join us as we use a trivia game to present a paper on identity, culture and avatar development.Virtual world classes require more than course content and great delivery. Establishing a strong sense of presence benefits from avatar development and interaction skills. The paper introduces the benefits and challenges of avatars and culture in the virtual world classroom. A brief overview of the research on situated learning, communities of practice and social behavior suggests that educators may find it advisable to devote time to avatar development and self expression to foster better virtual world learning experiences. This will be a voice event; please be sure that you have a working voice setup [ideally including a headset microphone] prior to arrival! Location: ISTE Island Auditorium http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island/204/46/23 Thursday, April 9, 6 PM SLT Educator Social, ISTE Campfire Field Getting Started with Wow Question and Answer Session. This social will be moderated by the officers of the WoW Guild Cognitive Dissonance (Victoria Gloucester = Vyktorea, Teacher Spitteler = Syzyrgy): http://cognitivedissonance.guildportal.com. Tuesday, April 14, 5 PM SLT ISTE Speaker Series event: Full Circle - Connecting Back to the Right Brain by Kestral Karas and Obisam1 Canetti This presentation is a case for virtual worlds as a learning / teaching tool that has the capacity to provide not only information, but to package experience as a persistent site. It will illustrate how education professionals have been moving toward this capacity for some time by the options they have adopted in media starting with the first illustrated texts, then photographs, films, video, interactive media and so on. Virtual worlds used as a broad spectrum educational tool rededicate the immersible possibilities and power presented by serious games combined with open social networking, VOIP, video, audio and more to come. Professor Stead's interest in 3-D media stems from 1996 when he started the first 3-D computer graphics labs at Shawnee State University, and subsequently one of the first liberal arts based BFA degrees in Game & Simulation Development Arts in 2002. This degree was joined by an intertwined sister programming degree in Simulation and Game Engineering Technology in 2004. The 100+ students in these programs as a group have the highest ACT averages in the University (including a highly successful Pre-Med program). Prof. Stead joined the WIRED Grant in 2007 and built WIRED Island #1 as a proof-of-concept space. The island is like a "candy box" of project modules showing what can be done in virtual world spaces (http://slurl.com/secondlife/WIRED%201/226/45/29). This will be a voice event; please be sure that you have a working voice setup [ideally including a headset microphone] prior to arrival! Location: ISTE Island Auditorium http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island/204/46/23 The entire presentation will also be available as a pdf file. Thursday, April 16, 6 PM SLT Educator Social, ISTE Campfire Field Team Building with Shamblesguru Voom This session will be another opportunity to not only try some new tools but also some teaching and learning strategies .... these workshops are offered in the spirit of 'suck it and see' ... lets experiment in S.L. and see what works well and not so well for your own individual needs or learning style. After an initial whole-group introduction we will be working in small groups with a pre-selected group facilitator ..... and be set a group task to complete in 30 minutes ... we will then all come back together to evaluate the strategies and tools that were used. Communication Shamblesguru will be mainly using voice to communicate (technology willing) ... while keeping a watchful eye on public and private chat. To attend this workshop it is therefore a prerequesite to have voice enabled to be able to hear what is going on ..... and preferrable to have a microphone if possible and if your location and situation allows. Text IM will also be available for you to communicate as well ... (of course) Facilitator Shamblesguru Voom (RL Chris Smith) is the founder and developer of International Schools Island in Second Life .... Blog : http://internationalschoolsisland.info He is based in Thailand, details at http://www.shambles.net .... follow him on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/shamblesguru Tuesday, April 21, 5 PM SLT ISTE Eduverse Talks - Episode #5: Flat Classrooms: Using Web 2.0 Tools to Level the Playing Field between Students and Teachers Want the inside scoop on The Flat Classroom Project—a collaborative effort that utilizes Web 2.0 tools to foster communication, collaboration, and creativity between educators and students across the globe? Join host Kevin Jarrett (SL: KJ Hax) and project co-founders Vicki Davis (SL: CoolCat Whitman), the IT Director of Westwood Schools in Camilla, Georgia, and Julie Lindsay (SL: Charlotte Ozigard), the head of IT and E-Learning at Qatar Academy in Doha, Qatar, for an exciting discussion about the evolution of this project as well as tips for flattening your own classroom. This will be a voice presentation; please be sure that you have a working voice setup (including a headset) prior to the event! Visit http://www.iste.org/secondlife to get the archive, which will be available about a week after the event. Location: ISTE Broadcast Studio: http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island%203/197/238/23 Thursday, April 23, 2009, 5:30 SLT EVENT: Celebrating Environmental Education! LOCATION: ISTE Island, Second Life: http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island/94/84/31 DATE: April 23rd (the day after Earth Day) TIME: 5:30pm-7pm SLT (5:30-7pm Pacific Daylight Time) ISTE and HP are collaborating on a special celebration of Earth Week on April 23rd. We’re putting together a social event and poster gallery that highlights projects relating to environmental education, environmental science, or environmental studies in general. Please join us in this celebration! Tuesday, April 28, 5 PM SLT ISTE Speaker Series event: Early exploration of the 3D environment Exit Reality and the roles it may play in education by Decka Mah (Lindy McKeown, Project Officer - Collaboration and Virtual Worlds, Australian Digital Futures Institute, University of Southern Queensland, Australia). Exit Reality creates a 3D space for every web page in the world. It then allows you to "decorate" that space. Lindy has been experimenting with environments built in Exit Reality for the university and with a local high school. This has included:
Lindy will share the lessons learned, the features that look promising, the shortcomings identified so far. For more information about Exit Reality, visit:
This will be a voice event; please be sure that you have a working voice setup [ideally including a headset microphone] prior to arrival! Location: ISTE Island Auditorium http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island/204/46/23 Thursday, April 30, 2009 padlurowncanoe Dibou and Rose Springvale present "He Who Rezzes the Prim, Owns the Prim" -- the ins and outs of partnerships, ownership, inventory managment, and the SL TOS. This is a must for educators that are collaborating with others in SL. padlurowncanoe, is an ISTE Docent, former chair of the SL Hillary Cinton campaign, and co-founder/project mgr for MUVErs, LLC that creates medical simulations and provides consultation/training for college faculties in SL. In Rl, she is Cathy Walker, a Tech Director and Network Admin and serves on a committee that sets state technology standards and provides guidance to diocesan schools. Rose is an active participant in the Confederation of Democratic sims project, curently serving as Deputy Chancellor. She also serves as Estate Owner for the non-profit/education Al Andalus Sim Project, and is a priciple in the commercial Isle of Ischia sims. In RL, Rose has practiced law since carbon paper was state of the art, and has spent most of her career counseling small business and non profit clients. She currently practices law in Houston, Texas, and is licensed to practice in Michigan, Illinois and Iowa. This will be a voice event; please be sure that you have a working voice setup prior to arrival. Location: ISTE Island Campfire Circles: http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island/226/141/23 March 2009Thursday, March 5, 6 PM SLT Educator Social, Location TBA Basic Skills Workshop Review The ISTE Social this week kicks off three days (March 5 - March 8) of basic skills workshops with a sampling of the navigating, communicating, and avatar appearance skills tutorials. The workshops are designed for educators new to SL, but everyone is welcome. Come and take a look at some of the workshop offerings...grab some friends and try out the activities together, and then let us know what you think! Meet at the campfires to get a notecard with details. http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island/203/107/23/ Contacts: Send Instant Message (IM) to Blu Heron or e-mail bluh@pacbell.net if you have questions about this weekend-long event. Thursday, March 5 through March 8 (continuous) Basic Skills Workshop Review Continuous self-guided activities (no registration for these) AND scheduled mentors. NAVIGATING IN SL - Structures similar to playground structures are used in directed learning actvities for Walking, Running, Flying, Landmarks (LMs), using the in-world Maps, and Teleporting (TP). Participants interact with prim objects to learn about, practice, and perfect these basic skills. Mentors will be available Thursday, 6-7 PM SLT and Saturday 2-4 PM SLT. http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island%204/86/44/30/ COMMUNICATING IN SL - This workshop format is less structured than other ISTE workshops.The intent is to provide a self-exploratory environment for the particiapants, rather than preplanned activites: Using your SL chat bar, chat bubbles and public chatting (including say, shout ); Contacts, 'friending' and private communication (IMs); Using preset gestures; Accessing your SL chat history and logs. Mentors will be available Thursday, 6-7 PM SLT, Saturday 9-11 AM SLT, and Saturday 4-6 PM SLT.http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island%204/93/126/626/ AVATAR APPEARANCE - This workshop provides information at different learning stations. Changing Avatar Appearance and Changing Clothes activities will be featured. Mentors will be available Thursday, 6-7 PM SLT and Saturday 9-11 AM SLT. http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island/128/129/349/ Contacts: Send Instant Message (IM) to Blu Heron or e-mail bluh@pacbell.net if you have questions about this weekend-long event. Thursday, March 10, 5 PM SLT ISTE Speaker Series event: The Second Life of Education. Wagner James Au (Hamlet Au in SL) , the author of "The Making of Second Life" and the blog New World Notes (http://nwn.blogs.com), discusses the rising popularity of virtual worlds among the young, and the evolution of SL from his vantage of Linden Lab's "embedded journalist" from 2003-2006 and as an independent writer/blogger from 2006-present. Hamlet will discuss the future of SL in relation to virtual worlds and the Internet, and discuss its potential as a mainstream education platform. This will be a voice presentation of approximately 20 minutes followed by lively audience Q&A; please be sure that you have a working voice setup [ideally including a headset microphone] prior to the event! Location: ISTE Island Auditorium http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island/204/46/23 Thursday, March 12, 6 PM SLT Educator Social, Chicago Public Schools Department of Libraries (http://slurl.com/secondlife/Chicago%20Public%20Schools/89/42/23) St. Patrick's Day Celebration The Chicago Public Schools is dyeing the Chicago River green in celebration of St. Patrick's Day. Join us at the Sepia's Blues Club on the CPS sim for a night of networking and dancing (with a DJ from 6 PM SLT - 8 PM SLT). Don't forget to take this chance to tour the sim and check out the professional development resources available for preK-12 educators from local Universities and education organizations. Tuesday, March 17, 5 PM SLT ISTE Eduverse Talks - Episode #3: Smells Like Teen Innovation: Leveraging Second Life Across the Curriculum and the Globe Guests:
Did you know that Second Life has a dedicated grid specifically for teens? Interested in learning how you can bring a tool like Second Life into your classroom? In this episode, host Kevin Jarrett (SL: KJ Hax) explores two of the Teen Grid's oldest and most successful projects—Ramapo Islands, a middle school cross-curricular project in Suffern, NY and Skoolaborate's Pacific Rim Exchange, a real-life foreign exchange project with Modesto City Schools (US) and Kyoto Gakuen High School (Japan). As two pioneering projects that helped 'start it all,' Ramapo and PacRimX are both now in their third year of operations. Guests Peggy Sheehy (SL: Maggie Marat) and Chris Flesuras III (SL: Walt Cryotank) will share the insights they’ve gained over the past three years, tips for getting started, and real-life examples of classroom transformations. This will be a voice presentation; please be sure that you have a working voice setup (including a headset) prior to the event! Visit http://www.iste.org/secondlife to get the archive, which will be available about a week after the event. Location: ISTE Broadcast Studio: http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island%203/197/238/23 Thursday, March 19, 6 PM SLT Educator Social, ISTE HQ Role Playing in SL with Zotarah Shepherd Tuesday, March 24, 5 PM SLT ISTE Speaker Series event: "Monolith: Rapid Molecular Visualization for Second Life" with Erich Bremer (SL: Erich Bremer), Associate Director for the Department of Medical Informatics, School of Medicine, Stony Brook University. Erich has developed a rapid molecular visualization system for Second Life called "Monolith". Monolith has the ability to pull structural information directly from the protein data bank and rez them as interactive models In-world without the need for preprocessing any of the data files or other manual uploading of any data into Second Life. Rezzed structures can be interactively colored or highlighted based on atom type, residue name, residue number, or proximal distance. Other visual parameters can be altered as well. The framework for Monolith will serve as a platform for other projects planned in Second Life. For more information about htis project, visit: http://secondlife.som.stonybrook.edu/monolith. This presentation that will begin on ISTE Island and continue on Stony Brook University land (for the demonstration). Voice will be used. Please be sure that you have a working voice setup [ideally including a headset microphone] prior to the event! Location: ISTE Island Auditorium http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island/204/46/23 Thursday, March 26, 6 PM SLT Educator Social, Virtual State Fair with Julie Sugarplum- Join us a we explore the State Fair with Julie Location: ISTE Island Headquarters http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island/104/69/30 Tuesday, March 31, 5 PM SLT ISTE Eduverse Talks - Episode #4: Personal Learning Networks Web 2.0 Style: Virtual World Networks = Real World Communities Are you ready integrate virtual worlds into your personal learning network and connect with fellow educators on a whole new level? Join host Kevin Jarrett (SL: KJ Hax) as we explore taxonomies, folksonomies and pedagogies used by David Warlick (SL: Suriawang Dapto), founder of the Landmark Project, and Steve Dembo (SL: Demb Oh), the Online Community Manager for Discovery Educator Network. David and Steve will share their experiences with Web 2.0 tools as well as how they have used virtual environments such as Second Life to change the way they and the people in their learning networks interact with each other and grow professionally. This will be a voice presentation; please be sure that you have a working voice setup (including a headset) prior to the event! Visit http://www.iste.org/secondlife to get the archive, which will be available about a week after the event. Time: 5PM SLT/8PM EST Location: ISTE Broadcast Studio: http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island%203/197/238/23 February 2009ISTE is pleased to introduce the ISTE Eduverse Talks series, a Second Life talk show highlighting the work of innovative K-20 educators and thought leaders worldwide. Presented with the generous support of Hewlett-Packard, this twice-monthly show is filmed and broadcast by the Second Life Community Network Television Station (SLCN.tv) and will feature innovations in educational technology, in both real life and Second Life. Episodes will be taped before a live studio audience, will be broadcast live via the web and SLCN.tv in world viewers, and will be archived online. Read below for details about our first episode, taping tonight at the new ISTE Broadcast Studio. Tuesday, February 3, 5 PM SLT ISTE Eduverse Talks - Episode #1: See you in the Quad: Connecting Real and Virtual Campuses Guests:
In our first show, Host Kevin Jarrett (SL KJ Hax), leads an hour-long discussion with Sarah, AJ, and Brock, reflecting on their experiences working in Second Life and leading Second Life initiatives for their universities. In the first segment, "The Golden Age of Education in Second Life," our guests will reflect on their paths through the metaverse, share lessons learned, and offer advice for institutions interested in establishing or growing their inworld presence. In the second segment, "A Look Ahead," they will describe how those experiences have shaped their plans for the future. This will be a voice presentation; please be sure that you have a working voice setup (including a headset) prior to the event! Visit http://www.iste.org/secondlife to get the archive, which will be available about a week after the event. Location: ISTE Broadcast Studio: http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island%203/197/238/23 Thursday, February 5, 6 PM SLT Educator Social, Kennesaw State University Our hosts for the evening, Kennesaw State University, invite you to their Second Life campus for an art exhibit, tour of the campus, and networking. Be sure to check out the human cannon atop historic Kennesaw Mountain, the site of many battles of the Atlanta Campaign from June 19, 1864 through July 2, 1864. Sunday, February 8, 9 AM SLT - Ann Myers Medical Center - REGISTRATION REQUIRED ISTE - SL twice monthly tour. This week we have an exciting tour planned for you. Tessa Finesmith, a nursing instructor who works with the Ann Myers Medical Center will give us a tour of this Teaching Hospital. Though we typically visit 3 or 4 sims, we will spend most, if not all, of our time at the AMMC, to provide a chance to see these amazing facilities, learn about its programs and ask questions. We use the ISTE-SL Tour Group channel so that participants can communicate regardless of where they are in the sim. Please be prepared to join the group (we'll help you if you don't know how, but you will need to temporarily drop one group if you are at the 25 group limit). We are limiting participation to 20 so please register. IM Esme Qunhua in world or email Esme at esmequnhua@gmail.com Be prepared to arrive early so that you are able to collect materials, set up voice and be ready to take off at 9. Esme will give you our start up LM when she confirms your registration. More information about AMMC can be found at Wet Paint. Tuesday, Feburary 10, 5 PM SLT ISTE Speaker Series event: Immersive Education: One University's Trek into the Virtual World with AJ Brooks (RL: AJ Kelton) In April of 2007, the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS) at Montclair State University (MSU) became the first educational institution to have a publicly available island in Second Life. Since that time the land mass has grown two three islands, two for the CHSS and one for the College of Education and Human Services (CEHS). Although all three islands are contiguious, each has its own theme and purpose. This presentation will look at the efforts of Montclair State University faculty and other projects as well as identifying a few other important immersive learning enviornments around the grid. AJ is the CHSS Director of Emerging Instructional Technology for the CHSS and the Project Coordinator for the CEHS Second LIfe Project. Mr. Kelton has presented internationally on the use of emerging technology in education and is the author of the August 2007 ECAR Research Bulletin "Second LIfe: Reaching into the Virtual World for Real World Learning" as well as the September 2008 EDUCAUSE Review article "Virtual Worlds? 'Outlook Good'" (http://connect.educause.edu/Library/EDUCAUSE+Review/VirtualWorldsOutlookGood/47219). This will be a voice presentation; please be sure that you have a working voice setup [ideally including a headset microphone] prior to the event! Location: ISTE Island Auditorium http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island/204/46/23 Thursday, February 12, 6 PM SLT Educator Social, Valentine's Dance Saturday, February 14, 12-2 PM SLT ISTE Basic Skills Workshop: Friends in SL Workshop Facilitator: Esme Qunhua (SL) This will be a hands-on workshop on SL friends. You will leave this session understanding how to friend, IM (instant message) friends, read profiles, and you will have a cohort of educators as friends to help you with your Second Life. Open the attachment for complete details. Class will be taught in English text. ISTE staff may take snapshots of the workshop actvities, and text chat logs may be collected to help us plan and improve future workshops. Sign-up: Walk-ins are welcome on Feb 14, but it helps us plan for the workshop if you pre-register at http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pUdPBSAyfcDiD7ehhN18KHA Contact: Send Instant Message (IM), or e-mail to Blu Heron bluh@pacbell.net if you have questions about registering for this workshop. Location: http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island/129/130/349/. Hope to see you there! Tuesday, February 17, 5 PM SLT ISTE Eduverse Talks - Episode #2: Beyond The Dewey Decimal System: Librarians Leveraging Social Media To Build Professional Learning Communities Guests:
In this episode, Host Kevin Jarrett (SL: KJ Hax), leads an hour-long discussion about the growth of library/media learning networks and communities of practice powered by Web 2.0 tools and Second Life. Joining him will be: Lisa Perez (SL: Elaine Tulip), Chicago Public Schools; Joyce Valenza (SL: Joyce Story), Librarian, Springfield Township (PA) High School; and Rhonda Trueman (SL: Abbey Zenith), Head of Reference and Business Librarian for Johnson & Wales University, Charlotte, NC. This will be a voice presentation; please be sure that you have a working voice setup (including a headset) prior to the event! Visit http://www.iste.org/secondlife to get the archive, which will be available about a week after the event. Location: ISTE Broadcast Studio: http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island%203/197/238/23 Thursday, February 19, 6 PM SLT Educator Social, ISTE Campfire Field Show and Tell with Shamblesguru Voom From our host, Shamblesguru Voom: I've been invited back to share some more resources that are available free on International Schools Island. This session (at ISTE Island beach front) is designed to be of interest to teachers in any curriculum area and with students of any age group. I'm going to showcase and share a concept and object from JJ Drinkwater, Director (The Libraries of Caledon) .... "The Library on a Stick" (LoaS) ... personally I think this is a brillant name. After an initial introduction to the concept there will be a 'hands-on' session in 3 groups to explore what the LoaS does ... and group discussion on how it might be modified to suit different curriculum areas or teaching and learning needs. We will then reconvene as a whole group, I'll be asking for a volunteer from each of the three groups to report back (voice) .... on the functionality of the LoaS, how it might be used in different teaching and learning situations and how we might modify or improve this tool. At the end of the session all participates are able to collect open source versions of the tools shown .. and take them home ... wherever home is ;-). It is hoped that JJ Drinkwater himself will be able to attend. Although I'm designing this time together to raise our awareness of some of the tools in S.L. there is a second aspect to the session .... which is the classroom management and organisation of the workshop. I do try and model different strategies to run professional development sessions when in S.L. ... some work better than others (I'm experimenting myself) ..... so I will allocate some time at the end of the hour to reflect on the process rather than the content ..... and this is where your feedback is really appreciated to help us move forward in the journey through this new medium ... what worked well and what not so well? p.s. .... we might also have some fun ;-) Shamblesguru Voom February 2009 I'll be using mainly voice .... so it's adviseable to have a headset or speakers .... microphones optional (but would be nice). Tuesday, Feburary 24, 5 PM SLT ISTE Speaker Series event: Current practice in multimedia, virtual worlds and live event technologies for education: a demonstration by Johnny99 Gumshoe (RL: Joe Tojek). Participants in this session learn about a new digital media design process that employs the latest software tools to quickly brainstorm, visualize, storyboard and produce high-quality imagery. Powerful software from functional categories such as globe viewers, virtual worlds, visual search, machinima, and storyboard development are applied in a unique process to expedite creative collaboration and digital media production. This will be a voice presentation; please be sure that you have a working voice setup [ideally including a headset microphone] prior to the event! Location: ISTE Island Auditorium http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island/204/46/23 Thursday, February 26, 6 PM SLT Educator Social, NETS*A Refresh Ferdi Serim will lead a discussion about how administrators are/could use Second Life in their professional life and/or in schools. Participants will be asked to submit a 2 or 3 paragraph description or persuasive piece that may be included in the NETS*A booklet (to be released at NECC) or in an upcoming issue of L&L. Other questions being asked will be: *How has SL been a professional development tool for you? *What do you see as SL's potential for professional development? *What role would SL play for students? *How would an administrator use SL for professional development? *What are some of the objections administrators may pose to using SL and how can we overcome them? *What would you say to administrators to persuade them to create an avatar and join SL? *What do you think the role of SL will be in the future? Location: ISTE Island Auditorium http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island/204/46/23 January 2009Thursday, January 8, 6 PM SLT Educator Social, Chateau Avalon, Avalon Park http://slurl.com/secondlife/Avalon%20Park/115/206/24 Happy New Year! ISTE and Louise Borgnine, our hostess for the evening, request your presence at Masquerade Ball. Celebrate the new year at the Medieval castle at Avalon Park with other ISTE SL educators. Period costume and masks are encouraged but not required. I hope to see you at this first social of the new year. Sunday, January 11, 9 AM SLT - Potpourri ISTE - SL twice monthly tour. This week we will visit sites chosen by tour members. (Thanks to TR and Snowflake for some of today's recommendations.) We typically visit 3 or 4 sims, provide a brief overview of the location's purpose or pose questions to consider, then encourage exploration. We use the ISTE-SL Tour Group channel so that participants can communicate regardless of where they are in the sim. Please be prepared to join the group (we'll help you if you don't know how, but you will need to temporarily drop one group if you are at the 25 group limit). Please arrive early so that you are able to collect materials, set up voice and be ready to take off at 9. For more info contact Esme at esmequnhua@gmail.com Thursday, January 15, 6 PM SLT Educator Social, ISTE HQ Join us for a tour of the University of Michigan's Wolverine Island with our hostess Perplexity Peccable. Games and prizes abound across the island, but you have to find them first! Wolverine Island is private estate, so revelers will need to join a group temporarily. Please IM Corinne Fleury with your avatar name if you will be attending the social. Meet at ISTE HQ for a teleport to the fun and games. Saturday, January 17, 4-6 PM SLT Basic Skills Workshop: Communicating in SL This is a basic skills workshop specifically designed for educators new to Second Life (SL). You can work in small groups, or on your own if you prefer, with mentors to help you explore basic communication features in Second Life. Topics to be covered: Using your SL chat bar, chat bubbles and public chatting (including say, shout and whisper); Contacts, 'friending' and private communication (IMs); Using preset gestures; Accessing your SL chat history and logs; Managing your SL communications tools and settings.Activities will be in English text (small groups may explore Voice chat if time permits). The text chat log may be collected to help us plan and improve future workshops. Class size is limited to keep the participant-mentor ratio low. PLEASE register online at http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pUdPBSAyfcDiL7Jxb0sPpRw I will hold a place for pre-registrants until 4:00 PM SLT...then unclaimed places will be made available to walk-ins. IMPORTANT: if you did not get a notecard in SL, contact Tux or Blu for workshop location. For questions about the workshop itself, send IM to the workshop facilitator, Tuxedo Ninetails or e-mail to mex.butler@bigpond.com Questions about registration should be directed to Blu Heron, send IM inworld or e-mail to bluh@pacbell.net. Tuesday, January 20, 5 PM SLT *NOTE START TIME - ONE HOUR EARLIER THAN USUAL!* ISTE Speaker Series event: Second Life Astronomy Outreach Projects by Undergraduate Non-majors with Chaac Amarula (RL: Anthony Crider) Anthony Crider is Associate Professor of Physics at Elon University in North Carolina and is also one of the co-founders of the Second Life science education continent, the SciLands. For three years, he has been using Second Life in his "Introduction to Astronomy" course. Business, theater, and communications majors spend the last few weeks of class learning about Second Life and creating outreach projects centered on an astronomical theme. This fall, students wrote planetarium shows, held debates, and created museum exhibits based on chapters from Phil Plait's book, "Bad Astronomy." Dr. Crider will see and discuss examples of these projects and the hurdles that undergraduates face entering the virtual world of Second Life. Participants will teleport to Elon University's virtual campus for a personal tour of actual student projects! This will be a voice presentation; please be sure that you have a working voice setup [ideally including a headset microphone] prior to the event! Location: ISTE Island Bandshell: http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island/128/128/25 Thursday, January 22, 6 PM SLT Educator Social Join us at the ISTE Inaugural Ball to celebrate the inauguration of US President Barack Obama on Thursday, January 22nd, at 6 PM SLT in the castle gardens at Belial. Should the sim fill, there will be an overflow location available. SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Belial/49/130/44 Sunday, January 25, 9 AM SLT ISTE - SL twice monthly tour. Tour guides Janita Collins and Esme Qunhua will lead participants to on a tour of the new Sloodle Island. We will be met their by Sloodler Gia Rossini. Then we will head to the fair! the Educational Supporte Faire that is. With maps in hand we will be among the first to explore the displays and find our ways around. We use the ISTE-SL Tour Group channel so that participants can communicate regardless of where they are in the sim. Please be prepared to join the group (we'll help you if you don't know how, but you will need to temporarily drop one group if you are at the 25 group limit). Please arrive early so that you are able to collect materials, set up voice and be ready to take off at 9. For more info contact Esme at esmequnhua@gmail.com Tuesday, January 27, 5 PM SLT *NOTE NEW SERIES START TIME - ONE HOUR EARLIER THAN USUAL; ALSO, THIS EVENT WILL BE HELD AT A DIFFERENT LOCATION! * ISTE Speaker Series event: Virtual Renaissance & Education: Virtual Harlem's role as a modern educational community with Bryan Mnemonic (RL: Bryan Carter) Bryan Carter is an Associate Professor of literature at the University of Central Missouri. He specializes in African American literature of the 20th Century with a primary focus on the Harlem Renaissance and has a secondary emphasis on visual culture. He has published numerous articles on his doctoral project, Virtual Harlem and has presented it at locations around the world. Dr. Carter's experience with virtual environments began with his dissertation project in 1997; a recreation of a portion of Harlem, NY as it existed during the 1920s. The project, Virtual Harlem, was one of the earliest full virtual reality environments created for use in the humanities and certainly one of the first for use in an African American literature course. Virtual Harlem has been presented at venues in Paris, The Netherlands, Sweden, Hungary, and multiple sites in the US. In 2004, the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne, funded the development of Virtual Montmartre and Dr. Carter was asked to be the project leader and was awarded the prestigious "Professeur Invite" from the Sorbonne to spend 6 months in Paris. This project realized itself in the development of an interactive Web Site and a small 3D recreation of the Lapin Agile, the oldest surviving cabaret in Montmartre which is still in operation. The evolution of Virtual Harlem was funded in 2006 by the National Black Programming Consortium and the Government of Norway with the development of Virtual Harlem and Virtual Montmartre in Second Life. These sites were two of the most important locations during the Jazz Age/Harlem Renaissance. Dr. Carter has been teaching classes which meet totally in Second Life for the last two years in his virtual classroom called "Virtual Harlem Books", which is located on the island of Virtual Harlem. The sim contains interactive activities created by students in former classes and those who have been part of collaborative groups' environment in the landmark novel Neuromancer by William Gibson. Most recently on Virtual Harlem and Virtual Montmartre, students are developing interesting, interactive content.Come to this presentation to learn more about Virtual Harlem's role as a modern educational community. This will be a voice presentation; please be sure that you have a working voice setup [ideally including a headset microphone] prior to the event! Location (for this event only) - ISTE's parcel at the Linden Lab Second Life Education Support Faire: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Faire/14/234/41 Thursday, January 29, 6 PM SLT Educator Social, ISTE Campfire Field Show and Tell with Shamblesguru Voom (Chris Smith). Shamblesguru plans to "show and tell (about)" a tool he built a few months ago to make it easier for avatars to build 3D graphs in S.L., the tool(s) are available free on International Schools Island in a "Data Visualisation" display area at (SLURL) http://slurl.com/secondlife/ International%20Schools/26/84/ 25. (NB: This is NOT the SLURL for the social.) Chris Smith is a k-12 educator based in Thailand and working across S.E.Asia. Teacher professional development and web 2.0 are two of his main passions and, of course, virtual worlds. He established International Schools Island in Second Life (SL) in the summer of 2007, it opened to the public in February 2008. One of the aims of Chris's work on the island is to index S.L. locations for educators in S.L. itself and also to establish a repository of teaching and learning tools most of which are open source. This is being achieved in three towers Technology Tower, Curriculum Tower, Information Tower ... and a Medical Centre. http://slurl.com/secondlife/ International%20Schools/64/90/ 24. (NB: This is NOT the SLURL for the social.) Saturday, January 31, 9 am - 11 am SLT ISTE Basic Skills Workshop: Changing your Avatar Appearance Workshop Facilitator: Elaine Tulip (SL) Would you like to learn how to customize your avatar appearance to make it your own? Attend this interactive workshop to learn how to alter your avatar body, change clothing, upgrade skin and hair, add animations, and make other customizations that express the “real you”. This is a basic skills workshop specifically designed for educators new to Second Life (SL), but anyone needing help is welcome. Please register at http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pUdPBSAyfcDhybt1GkrPyQA. Questions about registration should be directed to Blu Heron, send IM inworld or e-mail to bluh@pacbell.net Workshop location: ISTE Islands, http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island%203/117/219/29 Note that the content you create on http://secondlife.iste.wikispaces.net is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 2.5 License. Please only submit content that you write yourself or that is in the public domain. |
