Eventos

Topics:

• Designing for Emotion
• Xeniversity: Teaching Classes and Students in Virtual Worlds
• The Immersive Virtual Natural History Experience
• Virtual Community Events, Narratives, and Cohesion Across International Date/Time Lines (or, Sleep is for Babies)
• CONTIL: Tunnels/Containers 2: Case Study of Virtual Worlds for Museums

VWLEM provides a gathering place for librarians, information professionals, educators, museologists, and others to learn about and discuss the educational, informational, and cultural opportunities of virtual worlds.

Keynote speakers include:

• Jeremy Kemp, San Jose State University
  Jeremy is best known for SLOODLE his instructional technology project connecting Moodle and Second Life. He is an instructional designer at San José State University and keeps the official wiki for educators using the Second Life immersive environment ? www.simteach.com.
• Anders Gronstedt of the Gronstedt Group
  Anders helps global companies like Dell, Sun Microsystems, Jamba Juice, Volvo Cars, Ericsson and ADT improve workplace performance. He is the host of the weekly ?Train for Success? meetings in Second Life - and his articles have appeared in the Harvard Business Review.
• Bryan Carter, University of Central Missouri
  Bryan has taught in Second Life for several years and has been involved in the design and develop of several islands in Second Life, including Virtual Harlem and Virtual Montmarte.