Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Conference 2010
This is a completely in-world conference on … virtual worlds, best practices and how they are used in education. It is not uniquely focused on Second Life however obviously there is a very strong Second Life bent to the conference owing to where it is being held.
The conference is going to be 48 hrs from 12:01a on March 12 to 23:59p on March 13. It is going international with active representation on the proposal committee from around the world.
Through generous support by a number of organizations we’ve managed to obtain 20 sims to accomodate the conference. We are hoping to have transcription services available for those with hearing imparements, and we are hoping to be able to broadcast at least 40 hours of live video (flash based) to the web along with another 8-10 hours of HD video (QT).
If you want to see video from last year the new link is http://business.treet.tv/shows/bpeducation/episodes.
The Call for Proposals has been out for awhile but the February 15th deadline is quickly approaching for submissions: http://bit.ly/2010_Proposals
For those that want to pre-register for the conference (registration is not a requirement btw) you can use this link here http://vwbpe10.eventbrite.com/ (if you had visited this link before today the donation piece has been removed as it required at least a $1 minimum – that has been removed) pre-registrations gives us an opportunity to get an idea of numbers plus it provides a receipt for your organization to show that you are attending a registered event if you need it for attending the Friday.
Information sessions will be starting next weekend. If you would like one of the organizing committee to attend your function to explain more about it please drop me a line directly at phelan.corrimal@gmail.com or info@vwbpe.org and we can get something set-up. In the meantime, sessions will be twice weekly starting next weekend leading up to the conference.
Thanks,
Kevin Feenan
SL: Phelan Corrimal
Executive Committee, VWBPE
