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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VSTE Meeting August 9

It's been difficult to gather the membership for meetings this summer. Finding ourselves with no plan for the second Monday in August we decided to repeat a version of an idea Alfredo did a while back. We gave members some ideas for touring, provided landmarks to four choices, asked them to tour and take photos for 45 minutes, and return to share their findings.

VSTE met at Exploration Central

VSTE member in the maze

We met at Exploration Central where Cyrus has over 100 landmarks. The four VSTE coordinators had selected one sim each. My group went to the maze at Sculptie Paradise (see previous post). I think I had six follow me, one leaving to join another group because lag was killing her fun. No one accomplished the goal in the time we had but it was fun trying to help each other to the top.

Several of us find each other inside the maze

We used our mini-maps to track each other and friends conference to communicate.

Gathering at the top before returning to EC

Multitasking during ISTE Duty

I still have ISTE docent duty every Saturday morning from 8 to 9 eastern time. The inserted image shows the head quarters building I'm in front of. This is where educational folks often come for help or fellowship.
Today, like so many days, there is no one here but me. In real life I'm reading a book so I posed my avatar doing the same in case someone comes by and I don't notice right away. I put a titler over my head, invisible in this photo, giving the name of the book to encourage discussion.
The green ball is part of my accounting solution. I'm expected to report at the end of my shift how many avatars visited and how many I invited to ISTE. I create balls to keep track. Green for ISTE members, red for non-ISTE members, blue if I invited them. There is no accounting for whether or not they accepted the invitation. I'm not sure you can even tell if they have hidden their groups.
I'd prefer to have a lot of business, people to connect with, newbie educators to help, but today only two came. Oh well. It's a peaceful way to spend an hour on Saturday mornings.

Sculptie Paradise

Cyrus and Thunder explored a maze Cyrus found on the Showcase. You begin at the bottom, inside the pyramid. The walls, floor and ceiling are all the same loud texture and they constantly move, rotating and changing the paths. You wander around until you find a ramp that goes up. You have to run up the ramp to the next level and repeat this process. Each level has a different texture and is smaller than the one below it. At the top you receive a gift and a TP to a store full of sculptie animals. I'll be taking some VSTE members there Monday night. It's a lot of fun!