James Madison University In-World Conference Coming Soon

I was lucky enough to get in on the last half of JMU's tour and meeting about their upcoming virtual conference this afternoon. They are going to hold their conference during the day, Friday, October 29th. I won't be able to attend, but I'm planning to advertise for them in the VSTE and ISTE groups.
I'm very proud to be an alum of a university that is active in SL. There are very few. Go, Dukes!

Digital Citizenship Discussion

Tuesday September 28, 2010, 5-6PM SLT/8PM Eastern
ISTE Speaker Series Event: About that OSTWG report title: Why a "living Internet"?
On June 4, the Online Safety & Technology Working Group, which Anne Collier co-chaired, sent its 150-page report to Congress. Anne will talk about what the OSTWG was about, how it was formed, what it recommended, and the media sea change that has us forming task forces like this.

This was a very interesting meeting. Anne was enthused, informed, and engaging. I am still impressed that I can get near someone of her caliber through this venue. I need to hear more of her views on digital citizenship and how to help our students with it.

VSTE Celebrates Octoberfest

Alfredo planned this meeting

We started with the polka on VSTE Island

We visited several German sims, beer stein in hand.

We rode rides.

danced

in conga lines

shot ourselves out of a canon

and had a great time!

Mobile Learning and Apps for Education

Thunder was in charge of this meeting.

I was especially happy to see Shamblesguru there.

Kavon, Rurik, and Abacus shared research about post secondary students using mobile apps.

This was an example of one of the apps.

Another of their favs

Quite a few people came. Everyone in the audience was asked for a favorite app.

Shamblesguru wowed us with Talking Tom!

Rocket Ride

Jazmemo and I trying out some activities while planning for a VSTE meeting this month...

Summer Fun

Fun times for the VSTE folks. This was our meeting this week. We had landmarks to surfing sims, a jetski place, and an amusement park. There weren't many of us, but we had fun.

Virtual Pioneers Plans it's Inagural Inworld Conference

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