Tag Archives: FCVW
Catching up after the Whirlwind
I’ve been really lax in posting of late. The Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education conference was AMAZING. As exploration stream lead, I used the conference to fulfill my internship hours for the IDD program here at South. In preparing for the tours and exploration, I signed up for, played around in, and created orientation [...]
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Posted in Conferences/Meetings, Cool Places/Tours, Other Virtual Worlds, Personal Experiences, Projects, Second Life
Tagged Aether, Aevalle, conference, FCVW, Inworldz, JokaydiaGrid, Moses, networking, tours, visiting, worlds
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Day 2 FCVW 2011 conference wrapup
Today got off to a bit of a rough start for me. I was thrilled to get to see Chris Dede’s keynote address, “How Immersion in Virtual Worlds Helps Learners in the Real World.” He demo’d some ecology virtual projects in EcoMUVE, pointing out that virtual worlds are useless for education if the contents aren’t [...]
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Posted in 3dxplorer, Conferences/Meetings, Other Virtual Worlds, Second Life
Tagged conference, education, FCVW, research, tools, training, virtual
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First day wrapup at FCVW 2011
Even with the snagginess of my cable connection, I have to say I enjoyed the first day presentations at the Federal Consortium of Virtual Worlds. I did learn that I have a lot more to learn. But that’s a good thing! I’ve already written about the first keynote address, so I won’t go over [...]
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Tagged conference, education, FCVW, Moses, research, virtual, worlds
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David A. Smith’s Keynote at FCVW 2011
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” Alan Kay This is how David A. Smith began his “Augmented Human” keynote address at this year’s Federal Consortium of Virtual Worlds conference. Smith, a researcher and developer for Lockheed Martin, showed in his overview of past, present and future technologies how far tech [...]
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Tagged conference, education, FCVW, virtual
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Federal Consortium of Virtual Worlds (FCVW) Conference coming up in May!
http://vimeo.com/20448330
One of my favorite things about the SL grid is the ability to go to meetings and conferences inworld and participate in activities with folks from universities and institutions that I’d never have the opportunity otherwise. In a few weeks, there will be one more opportunity to mingle and glean information about how others are [...]
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Tagged conference, education, FCVW, research
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