The seventeenth annual Digital Worlds Greatest Practices in Training Convention, starting on Thursday, March 14, 2024, can be a web based distributed convention occurring in a number of digital areas. This convention focuses on the usage of immersive digital environments for instructional functions together with digital and augmented actuality.
This 12 months we’re returning to our Earth construct. Every area represents a distinct terrestrial biome, together with wetlands, desert, badlands, grasslands, and forests. Convention attendees can be among the many first to have the ability to discover!
To the perfect potential potential, VWBPE gives instructional and networking alternatives which are related to instructional curriculum growth using digital environments and “finest practices.” These embrace
- serving to to construct neighborhood by way of extension of studying finest practices to sensible software of these concepts and strategies;
- offering networking alternatives for educators and the communities that assist help training; and
- offering entry to present improvements, traits, concepts, case research, and different finest practices for educators and the communities that assist help training
One of many key challenges confronted by the academic neighborhood is find out how to make the perfect use of recent immersive applied sciences in a method that’s sustainable and accessible primarily based on restricted budgets accessible to each instructors and college students. Platforms which are free or open supply, or that may be shared throughout a broad viewers are showcased, together with strategies and analysis round finest practices of their use and applicability.
Our theme for this 12 months is Mythic Origins.
Mythic tales can present a technique to have interaction college students in crucial considering and evaluation, in addition to growing their creativity and creativeness. Mythic origins can present college students with a deeper understanding of their very own cultural heritage and the way it has advanced over time. It permits us to discover the origins of our socially constructed myths and legends which have impressed educators and their varied works.
Be a part of us as all of us share experiences and successes in how digital applied sciences used within the classroom have helped form training for the higher.
This 12 months’s keynote audio system are Wagner James Au and Dr. Nellie Deutsch. Invited audio system embrace representatives from Linden Lab, and the 2020 Thinkerer – Renne Emiko Brock.
The VWBPE convention keynote audio system and their respective shows are featured on the convention web site, together with a program of thrilling shows, social actions, and networking occasions that may set extraordinary discussions in movement.
The VWBPE Immersive Experiences showcase distinctive and attention-grabbing work being performed throughout the metaverse. We invite you to hitch us as we discover eleven interactive and fascinating areas throughout 5 digital environments. The Immersive Experiences are scheduled from March ninth by way of thirty first (unique of the convention dates). Particulars and entry directions for the experiences are discovered on our program web page.
Moreover, this open and free convention wouldn’t be potential with out the beneficiant contributions of our VWBPE sponsors.
The Rockcliffe Registration Portal is open for folks to register new Second Life® avatars and discover out extra concerning the VWBPE convention in-world. Go to https://www.enroll.onl/
The full convention program is on-line.
You can even view shows dwell on YouTube.
All the convention occasions can be in Second Life this 12 months, and the areas are included within the listings. Whenever you click on on a convention occasion and click on Add to Calendar, you’ll be able to add the occasion to your personal calendar.
Direct SLURL hyperlinks to VWBPE areas:
You can even comply with VWBPE on social media: Second Life group, Fb, Flickr, LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube.
Keynote: “Mythic Origins of Metaverse Myths”
Speaker: Wagner James Au, also called Hamlet, Writer
Time and Location: 4 p.m. SLT on Thursday, March 14 within the VWBPE Auditorium.
Keynote: “The Hero’s Journey of Studying Transformation within the Digital Age”
Speaker: Nellie Deutsch, also called Nellie Homewood, Co-Chair of TESOL CALL-IS and teacher on the Worldwide Hellenic College
Time and Location: 9 a.m. SLT on Friday, March 15 within the VWBPE Auditorium.
The full checklist of audio system is right here.
The main sponsors of this week’s VWBPE occasion are Linden Lab, Rockcliffe College Consortium, Rent A Helper, Porch.com, Knomaze Company, Digital Capacity, Agile Dimensions, Journal of Digital Research, and Entire Mind Well being.
