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“Aha!” moments in virtual education: my talk at the VW Best Practices Conference (video)

Posted on March 31, 2009 by

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Last Saturday I had the honor of presenting at the Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Conference about the work of Global Kids and some of the lessons we have been learning about how to best use virtual worlds for education and learning.  The multi-day conference took place in Second Life, appropriately enough given the hundreds of educational projects going on in that platform, but was meant to more broadly cover "educational best practices" from virtual environments writ large. 

The title of my presentation was "'Aha!' Moments from Global Kids and RezEd.org."  In brief, I talked about how Global Kids and our social network for virtual educators RezEd.org have approached the idea of "best practices" in education and then presented five recent lessons that we've learned about virtual education. You can watch video of my presentation from the new Treet.TV website. 

(In related news, apparently SLCN is rebranding themselves as Treet.TV so that they can cover news and events from more virtual worlds. How cool is that!)

Thanks so much to the VWBPE organizers for inviting me to speak and SLCN.tv for broadcasting my talk to the web. Head to Treet.tv to see more great presentations from VWBPE 2009.

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