AECT Webinar - AECT in Second Life

This may be of interest to some...

AECT Webinar - 'AECT in Second Life: Prims, Plans, & Projects'


Date & Time: 11/29/07 5:00 pm (US/Eastern)
Duration: 90 minutes

Explore SecondLife with Dr. Ross Perkins Senor Project Associate at Virginia Tech. This one hour webinar will demonstrate and provide an opportunity to discuss how AECT members can get involved and learn about the educational potential of this new virtual environment. Dr. Perkins(Milosun Czervik in SecondLife) will guide you through the process for navigating this virtual world with all its promise for creating new learning opportunities for both teachers and students.

This is the first of four AECT Webinars planned this year, covering current issues in the profession. Register online at aect.org and watch for announcements regarding future AECT Webinar topics and dates through the spring of 2008.

Send your suggestions for “hot topics” for future Webinars to Phillip Harris at pharris@aect.org.

AECT members may login at aect.org to register.

Register now—join AECT in this new venture! See you on the island

Tags: Second Life, virtual school, cyber school, high school, education

Two K-12 Virtual Learning Live Feeds

A couple of live feeds that deal with K-12 and virtual learning...

From Kevin Jarrett

Reposted from my blog:

http://www.storyofmysecondlife.com/?p=527

CNN ran the IReport I filed on the event, giving ISTE (the International Society for Technology in Education) free national exposure:

http://secondlife.blogs.cnn.com/2007/11/15...y-in-education/

It was a team effort, about a dozen people worked on the logistics, but it went off largely without a hitch. Great fun, and great promotion of distance learning!

-kj-

The second from the same author...

This event was last Wednesday night and was organized by MacArthur:

http://uscpublicdiplomacy.com/index.php/ev...ts_detail/2541/.

Here is the rebroadcast:

http://takeonedigital.blip.tv/file/488039/

If you have about an hour and 15 minutes, and can at least just listen to the audio, it will be well worth your while.

The implications of virtual worlds in education are all here, explained, explored. Really great.

-kj-

Some things to think about in here...

Tags: Second Life, virtual school, cyber school, high school, education