In a Strange Land: SL Education Faire: Roundtable on Upcoming Conference

Monday, February 2, 2009

SL Education Faire: Roundtable on Upcoming Conference

Location: SL Education Support Faire

We did not crash the four sims for this event, packed with nearly 100 avatars.

The topic, the upcoming "Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Conference," got a lot of interesting discussion going, including (my favorite) "what are some worst practices?".

The conference will be held in-world in May. Proposals for papers and talks are due by month's end.

For more:

Our transcript is here
Conference Web site is here

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About In a Strange Land

I'm Joe Essid, a faculty member at University of Richmond. I began exploring virtual worlds in January, 2007 and taught with Second Life and in OpenSim Grids until Spring, 2013, when I tossed in the towel on a technology I still don't find ready for prime-time, educationally or professionally. These ramblings began as sense-impressions of irreal spaces by a naif in Second Life. I wrote them for our local paper's Web site, and when the "hype era" about SL ended, I moved my musings over here to Blogger. My research and teaching focus on the history of communications technology. I've decided to revive this blog after 8 years of hiatus to consider generative AI and education, plus--who knows!--another splash into the strange land of Second Life.