Educational Support Faire Event Schedule

Published: 25 January, 2009Posted in: education, events, jokaydia, newsTags:

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I’ve had a few confused messages from people asking about clarification of times for events running as part of Linden Labs Educational Support Faire – so I’ve translated the Google calendar events into a handy list below – including Australian Eastern Standard times (which is where I am) and links to Timeanddate.com. Hope this helps clarify things for everyone! ;)

Remember:

We’ll publish more updates and info about the faire throughout the week! 

Dont forget to come and visit the jokaydia Booth (SLurl)! Seeya at the Faire!

Day 1 – Sunday 25th January 2009, 7am – 6pm (SLT)

  • 07:00 – 08:00 SLT: Official Opening of the Faire by Pathfinder Linden
    • Description: Pathfinder Linden will officially open the Faire with a presentation on the history of education in Second Life, what Linden Lab is doing to support educators, and ideas on future possibilities.
    • AEST TIME: 2am, Monday 26th January (Check your local time here).
  • 08:00 – 09:00 SLT: The NMC Campus Project in Second Life
    • Description:  Launched publicly in June 2006, the NMC Campus Project has always had a simple but clear vision: to comprehensively support colleges and universities who wished to experiment with virtual worlds. Among the very first educational organizations to enter Second Life, the NMC Campus Project now includes 125 institutions and has by any measure had a profound impact on the adoption of virtual worlds by academia.
    • AEST TIME: 3am, Monday 26th January (Check your local time here).
  • 09:00 – 10:00 SLT: Orientation and Education of New SL Users with Disabilities
    • Description: Presented by Virtual Ability (http://virtualability.org)
    • AEST TIME: 4am, Monday 26th January (Check your local time here).
  • 10:00 – 11:00 SLT: Discover Your Second Life Network
    • Description: A presentation on overcoming initial hurdles, how to make personal connections to get you through the learning curve, and events/resources available to you through the Discovery Education Network.
    • AEST TIME: 5am, Monday 26th January (Check your local time here).
  • 11:00 – 12:00 SLT: Virtual Education: Getting ready to teach in Second Life
    • Description:  A presentation by Biancaluce Robbiani for IRC – Italian Resuscitation Council on the basic knowledge and steps required by educators to teach and give presentations in SL, focusing on lesson scaling and student involvement.
    • AEST TIME: 6am, Monday 26th January (Check your local time here).
  • 12:00 – 14:00 SLT: Online Education Gets a Second Life!
    • Description: A workshop with ChrisG Techsan and KevinRB Techsan on the potentials of virtual environments for education using dynamic inworld tools.
    • AEST TIME: 7am, Monday 26th January(Check your local time here).
  • 14:00 – 15:00 A Look At Virtual Education over the next 12-24 months
    • Description: Advances in Technology, Public Acceptance, The desire for Knowledge Presenter: Kitvier Silberberg, The Learning Experience.
    • AEST TIME: 9am, Monday 26th January(Check your local time here).
  • 15:00 – 16:00 SLT: Beyond Bricks & Mortar: The Edu-Cultural Experience
    • Description:  The focus will be on thinking beyond the impulse to simply recreate portions of your campus online. One lecture hall looks pretty much like any other and does little to express a school’s true cultural identity. Kitsune Kyomoon will discuss alternatives which make full advantage of Second Life’s limitless canvas of imagination.
    • AEST TIME: 10am, Monday 26th January (Check your local time here).
  • 16:00 – 16:30 SLT: Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education 2009 SL Conference
    • Description: This short 30 minute presentation provides a brief overview of the Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education 2009 SL Conference including the mandate of the conference, were to find additional information, volunteering for the conference, and call for presentations.
    • AEST TIME: 11am, Monday 26th January (Check your local time here).
  • 17:00 – 18:00 SLT: jokaydia: Supporting Educators in SL
    • Description: The Islands of jokaydia has been part of the education support eco-system in Second Life since 2007. We support a wide range of activities that are designed to assist educators and artists – including our virtual classroom project, our TSL focussed Second Classroom group and a number of diverse projects run by jokaydia residents.
    • AEST TIME: 12pm, Monday 26th January (Check your local time here).
  • 18:00 – 19:00 SLT: The Journal of Virtual Worlds and Education
    • Description: An overview of the Journal and it’s projects inworld.
    • AEST TIME: 1pm, Monday 26th January (Check your local time here).

Day 2 – Monday 26th January 2009, 6am – 6pm (SLT)

  • 06:00 – 07:00 SLT: 3D Architecture in Second Life
    • Description: An overview of a Distance Engineering project undertaken by Engineering students, presented by Marlene Brooke aka Zana Kohime.
    • AEST TIME: 1am, Tuesday 27th January (Check your local time here).
  • 07:00 – 08:00 SLT: Andragogy and the Design of Orientation Facilities
    • Description: Presented by Virtual Ability (http://virtualability.org)
    • AEST TIME: 2am, Tuesday 27th January (Check your local time here).
  • 08:00 – 10:00 SLT: Languagelab.com
  • 09:00 – 13:00 SLT: Linden Meet-n-Greet
    • Description: Meet up with the Education Support team from Linden Labs
    • AEST TIME: 4am, Tuesday 27th January (Check your local time here).
  • 10:00 – 11:00 SLT: Languagelab: A Multi-Cultural Welcome Area
    • Description: A presentation on helping those who do not speak the same language as you with Ami Champion
    • AEST TIME: 5am, Tuesday 27th January (Check your local time here).
  • 11:00 – 12:00 SLT: Languagelab.com
  • 12:00 – 13:00 SLT: Languagelab.com – New Spanish Program
    • Description: Languagelab’s NEW Spanish Program – the other white meat with Daf Smirnov
    • AEST TIME: 7am, Tuesday 27th January (Check your local time here).
  • 13:00 – 14:00 SLT: Global Kids Educational Services
    • Description: The Online Leadership Program at Global Kids has several years of experience implementing cutting edge educational projects using virtual worlds, from immersive games to award-winning machinima. Global Kids offers a number of services to other educational institutions, including curriculum development, event simucasting, staff trainings, and virtual youth summer camps. Also come to find out about RezEd, a community of nearly 1,500 educators from around the world using a variety of virtual worlds for various kinds of educational applications.
    • AEST TIME: 8am, Tuesday 27th January (Check your local time here).
  • 14:00 – 15:00 SLT: New Resident Q&A Event
    • Description: New Resident Q&A Event with Bob Bunderfeld, New Resident Educator.
    • AEST TIME: 9am, Tuesday 27th January (Check your local time here).
  • 17:00 – 18:00 SLT: Insight Virtual College – A Bridge between Worlds
    • Description: Insight Virtual College is a “bridge between worlds” offering first life teachers the  opportunity to teach to Second Life residents in addition to offering and array of Second Life skills classes, including building, scripting, role play, business, and new resident classes. We teach about groups, the LindeX, and have a full array of classes about land.
    • AEST TIME: 12pm, Tuesday 27th January (Check your local time here).

Day 3 – Tuesday 27th January 2009, 6am – 6:30pm (SLT)

  • 06:00 – 07:00 SLT: Educational Supports for Students with Disabilities
    • Description: Presented by Virtual Ability (http://virtualability.org)
    • AEST TIME: 1am, Wednesday 28th January (Check your local time here).
  • 07:00 – 08:00 SLT: Round Table: Exploring the benefits of Moodle integration
    • Description: Come and meet members of the SLOODLE community in a discussion of the potential benefits of integrating Second Life and institutional learning management systems. http://www.sloodle.org
    • AEST TIME: 2am, Wednesday 28th January (Check your local time here).
  • 08:00 – 09:00 SLT: Libraries as Support for Education in Second Life
    • Description: This talk will provide an overview of the educational and support services by libraries and Info Island in Second Life.
    • AEST TIME: 3am, Wednesday 28th January (Check your local time here).
  • 09:00 – 10:00 SLT: Languagelab.com Helpers
  • 10:00 – 11:00 SLT: 3D Architecture in Second Life
    • Description: An overview of a Distance Engineering project undertaken by Engineering students, presented by Marlene Brooke aka Zana Kohime.
    • AEST TIME: 5am, Wednesday 28th January (Check your local time here).
  • 11:00 – 11:30 SLT: Virtual Education: Getting ready to teach in Second Life
    • Description:  A presentation by Biancaluce Robbiani for IRC – Italian Resuscitation Council on the basic knowledge and steps required by educators to teach and give presentations in SL, focusing on lesson scaling and student involvement.
    • AEST TIME: 6am, Wednesday 28th January (Check your local time here).
  • 11:30 – 12:30 SLT: SL & Facebook – Social & Viral Networks
    • Description: The Differences between the two systems and the special challenges of SL to providing Real Educational Agendas with Kitviel Silberberg, The Learning Experience
    • AEST TIME: 6:30am, Wednesday 28th January (Check your local time here).
  • 12:30 – 13:00 SLT: Q and A with The Tech Virtual
    • Description: The Tech Virtual, a project of The Tech Museum of Innovation in Silicon Valley, provides a platform for collaborative design of educational exhibits, galleries, and exercises. Learn how educators, scientists, designers and teens can create content for science and technology centers worldwide using Learn how your group, class, or teen population has an opportunity to engage in designing the next generation of museum experiences on an expanding topic base ranging from science to digital arts. Connect, and partner with this project in the coming year to design exhibits using the newest interfaces and graphics technologies available. With a new presence on the Teen Grid, and new partnerships with universities and museums, The Tech Virtual is a resource and opportunity every educator should be aware of. Get an in-depth look at the program and see how universities and museum can leverage these abilities within their own programs.
    • AEST TIME: 7:30am, Wednesday 28th January (Check your local time here).
  • 13:00 – 14:00 SLT: Beatenetworks – Pictured Tutorials
    • Description: A presentation and discussion of Pictured Tutorials, a scripted slide show system that allows students to learn at their own pace in Second Life.
    • AEST TIME: 8am, Wednesday 28th January (Check your local time here).
  • 14:30 – 15:30 SLT: SL Education Roundtable
    • Description: SL Education Roundtable session focussing on  the upcoming Best Practices Conference. Special Guest will be Phelan Corrimal.
    • AEST TIME: 9:30am, Wednesday 28th January (Check your local time here).
  • 16:00 – 17:00 SLT: Presenting in Second Life, Best Practices
    • Description: Discussing PD opportunities that various groups offer, and how to take your RL presentations and adapt them for use in SL. Tips and tricks from the Discovery Educator Network  – people who are walking the walk.
    • AEST TIME: 11am, Wednesday 28th January (Check your local time here).
  • 17:00 – 18:30 SLT: Virtual Renaissance & Education: Virtual Harlem’s role as a modern educational community with Bryan Mnemonic (RL: Bryan Carter)
    • Description: Virtual Renaissance & Education: Virtual Harlem’s role as a modern educational community with Bryan Mnemonic (RL: Bryan Carter) Presented on behalf of ISTE. Bryan Carter is an Associate Professor of literature at the University of Central Missouri. He specializes in African American literature of the 20th Century with a primary focus on the Harlem Renaissance and has a secondary emphasis on visual culture. He has published numerous articles on his doctoral project, Virtual Harlem and has presented it at locations around the world. Dr. Carter has been teaching classes which meet totally in Second Life for the last two years in his virtual classroom called “Virtual Harlem Books”, which is located on the island of Virtual Harlem. The sim contains interactive activities created by students in former classes and those who have been part of collaborative groups ironment in the landmark novel by William Gibson, Neuromancer, and most recently on Virtual Harlem and Virtual Montmartre where students are developing interesting, interactive content.
    • AEST TIME: 12pm, Wednesday 28th January (Check your local time here).

Day 4 – Wednesday 28th January 2009, 7am – 6:30pm (SLT)

  • 07:00 – 08:00 SLT: Teaching & Learning in SL: Figuring Out Some Variables
    • Description: This presentation describes some fo the achievements obtained from an exploratory and qualitative study whic is being carried out at Academia Portucalis and represents the first step of a larger educational research proejct. the principal aims of that project are to get a deeper undertanding of how social interactions occur within virtual learning environments in order to provide insights to all educators and researchers interested in using those environments as a teaching medium in real life. Presented by Cleo Bekkers from the University of Aveiro, Portugal.
    • AEST TIME: 2am, Thursday 29th January (Check your local time here).
  • 08:00 – 09:00 SLT: Using Automated Avatars for Education in Second Life
    • Description: This session will discuss the potential uses of, and technologies for, creating and deploying automated avatars in Second Life (i.e. normal SL avatars but driven by chatbot conversation programmes using libsecondlife/libopenmv). Examples of current use by educational institutions will be given, and a practical demo of Daden’s Halo automated avatar will also be attempted!
    • AEST TIME: 3am, Thursday 29th January (Check your local time here).
  • 09:00 – 10:00 SLT: Languagelab.com Affiliate Program
    • Description: Learn more about Languagelab.com’s Affiliate Program and how you can earn money in the process. Presenter: Ami Champion
    • AEST TIME: 4am, Thursday 29th January (Check your local time here).
  • 10:00 – 11:00 SLT: Providing Pedagogical and Instructional Support in Second Life: Five Points Sim
    • Description: For the most part, instructors receive little or no support for their Second Life endeavors. This new medium requires not only technological support but also pedagogical help in discovering new ways to present learning materials. Over-worked instructors who decide to use SL for teaching must do so on their own without help from their administration. Georgia State University recognized the potential for Second Life early on and decided to create this support before the demand on campus peaked. To that end, the Five Points sim was created. This area was created specifically for those instructors wanting to teach in SL. It is designed to give instructors some of the tools and ideas they need to get them started.
    • AEST TIME: 5am, Thursday 29th January (Check your local time here).
  • 11:00 – 12:00 SLT: Virtual Education: Getting ready to teach in Second Life
    • Description: Presenter: Biancaluce Robbiani for IRC – Italian Resuscitation Council A presentation on the basic knowledge and steps required by educators to teach and give presentations in SL, focusing on lesson scaling and student involvement. Biancaluce will discuss medical and general case studies based on her experience with The Italian Resuscitation Council.
    • AEST TIME: 6am, Thursday 29th January (Check your local time here).
  • 12:00 – 13:00 SLT: Using Automated Avatars for Education in Second Life
    • Description: This session will discuss the potential uses of, and technologies for, creating and deploying automated avatars in Second Life (i.e. normal SL avatars but driven by chatbot conversation programmes using libsecondlife/libopenmv). Examples of current use by educational institutions will be given, and a practical demo of Daden’s Halo automated avatar will also be attempted!
    • AEST TIME: 7am, Thursday 29th January (Check your local time here).
  • 13:00 – 14:00 SLT: Languagelab.com
    • Description: The Benefits of Using Actors and Improvisation to Create Real Life Learning Experiences in SL with Presenter: Lowri Mills
    • AEST TIME: 8am, Thursday 29th January (Check your local time here).
  • 14:00 – 15:00 SLT: 3D Architecture in Second Life
    • Description: An overview of a Distance Engineering project undertaken by Engineering students, presented by Marlene Brooke aka Zana Kohime.
    • AEST TIME: 9am, Thursday 29th January (Check your local time here).
  • 15:00 – 16:00 SLT: New Resident Q&A Event
    • Description: New Resident Q&A Event with Bob Bunderfeld, New Resident Educator.
    • AEST TIME: 10am, Thursday 29th January (Check your local time here).
  • 16:00 – 17:00 SLT: SL Education Council Roundtable
    • Description: SL Education Council Roundtable Education in virtual worlds is a vast unknown space which is being pioneered by a variety of people not the least of which are those ‘amature’ educators whose affiliation lies within a student body that responds more towards socially developed knowledge rather than formal ‘real life’ academic institutions. Informal education organizations such as New Citizens Incorporated, Insight Virtual Colleged, Rockcliffe University, Fermi, Cupids, GIMPsters and many others provide a valuable service in the promotion of shared community educational programs. The challenges however in providing such services are not trivial. This roundtable is an opportunity for SL Educators and RL Educators to come together to share their experiences and hopefully identify areas were informal and formal education providers can compliment each other. Presenter: Kianeira MacDiarmid
    • AEST TIME: 11am, Thursday 29th January (Check your local time here).
  • 18:00 – 18:30 SLT: CAMPUSin3D
    • Description: The agency YOUin3D.com – constructor and operator of the virtual capital Berlin in Second Life  is developing a virtual international location for education, science and research. By setting up a virtual campus for educational institutions such as universities, scientific institutions as well as vocational and language schools a site comes up which offers manifold possibilities to realize information and communication as well as interactive concepts of studying and teaching.
    • AEST TIME: 1pm, Thursday 29th January (Check your local time here).

Day 5 – Thursday 29th January 2009, 7am – 7pm (SLT)

  • 07:00 – 11:00 SLT: Language.lab.com
  • 11:00 – 12:00 SLT: Virtual Education: Getting ready to teach in Second Life
    • Description: Biancaluce Robbiani for IRC – Italian Resuscitation Council A presentation on the basic knowledge and steps required by educators to teach and give presentations in SL, focusing on lesson scaling and student involvement. Biancaluce will discuss medical and general case studies based on her experience with The Italian Resuscitation Council.
    • AEST TIME: 6am, Friday 30th January (Check your local time here).
  • 12:00 – 13:00 SLT: FireSabre
    • Description: An overview of FireSabre’s proejcts in Second life
    • AEST TIME: 7am, Friday 30th January (Check your local time here).
  • 13:00 – 14:00 SLT: Languagelab.com: A Multi-Cultural Welcome Area
    • Description: A presentation on how to best help individuals who do not speak the same language as you. Presenter: Ami Champion
    • AEST TIME: 8am, Friday 30th January (Check your local time here).
  • 14:00 – 15:00 SLT: Staffing & Running a Virtual University
    • Description: The Challenges of hiring and keeping the correct Educators and Support Staff Within A Virtual Environment Covering the Economics of such a venture as well Presenter: Kitviel Silberberg, The Learning Experience
    • AEST TIME: 9am, Friday 30th January (Check your local time here).
  • 15:00 – 16:00 SLT: Rockcliffe Library Project
    • Description: This presentation will introduce the education community to Rockcliffe Library Project – an experiment in the use of 3d representations of knowledge and its interconnections. One of the challenges to research of peer review information is that initial searches based on abstract information is often not 100% representative of the knowledge themes contained within main body of the research. The purpose behind this project is to develop an academic research facility which visually shows the cross reference of themes within peer review research papers and to more effectively content tag the metadata so that researchers can more closely narrow in on literature which is relevant to their studies. The objective is attract interest in this project such that we can develop a working prototype by the end of 2009.
    • AEST TIME: 10am, Friday 30th January (Check your local time here).
  • 16:30 – 17:30 SLT: World Music: Teaching and Learning
    • Description: Exploring and discovering the music culture of second Life. Setting up and bringing students into Second Life through online multicultural course. Presented by Sheri E. Jaffurs PHD, Michigan State University)
    • AEST TIME: 11:30am, Friday 30th January (Check your local time here).
  • 18:00 – 19:00 SLT: 3D Architecture in Second Life
    • Description: An overview of a Distance Engineering project undertaken by Engineering students, presented by Marlene Brooke aka Zana Kohime.
    • AEST TIME: 1pm, Friday 30th January (Check your local time here).

Day 6 – Friday 30th January 2009, 6am – 4:30pm (SLT)

  • 06:00 – 07:00 PIVOTE – An Authoring System for Virtual World Training and Education
    • Description: Developed as part of the UK JISC funded PREVIEW project PIVOTE allows you to create the structure and content of a virtual world training or education exercise on the web and then run it from within a virtual world. This allows tutors to focus on content rather than the vagaries of SL notecards and objects, and enables you to run the same exercise on Main Grid, Teen Grid and later in OpenSim without having to rebuild the structure or informational content of the exercise. PIVOTE is being released as an Open Source project in the next month or so and is already in beta test with several UK universities.
    • AEST TIME: 1am, Saturday 31st January (Check your local time here).
  • 10:00 – 11:00 New Resident Q&A Event
    • Description: New Resident Q&A Event with Bob Bunderfeld, New Resident Educator.
    • AEST TIME: 5am, Saturday 31st January (Check your local time here).
  • 11:00 – 12:00 Virtual Education: Getting ready to teach in Second Life
    • Description: A presentation on the basic knowledge and steps required by educators to teach and give presentations in SL, focusing on lesson scaling and student involvement. Biancaluce will discuss medical and general case studies based on her experience with The Italian Resuscitation Council.
    • AEST TIME: 6am, Saturday 31st January (Check your local time here).
  • 12:00 – 13:00 PIVOTE – An Authoring System for Virtual World Training and Education
    • Description: Developed as part of the UK JISC funded PREVIEW project PIVOTE allows you to create the structure and content of a virtual world training or education exercise on the web and then run it from within a virtual world. This allows tutors to focus on content rather than the vagaries of SL notecards and objects, and enables you to run the same exercise on Main Grid, Teen Grid and later in OpenSim without having to rebuild the structure or informational content of the exercise. PIVOTE is being released as an Open Source project in the next month or so and is already in beta test with several UK universities.
    • AEST TIME: 7am, Saturday 31st January (Check your local time here).
  • 15:00 – 16:00 Languagelab.com Affiliate Program
    • Description: Learn more about Languagelab.com’s Affiliate Program and how you can earn money in the process. Presenter: Ami Champion
    • AEST TIME: 10am, Saturday 31st January (Check your local time here).
  • 16:00 – 16:30 Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education 2009 SL Conference
    • Description: This short 30 minute presentation provides a brief overview of the Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education 2009 SL Conference including the mandate of the conference, were to find additional information, volunteering for the conference, and call for presentations.
    • AEST TIME: 11am, Saturday 31st January (Check your local time here).

About the Author

Jo Kay aka jokay Wollongong is a freelance digital designer and facilitator working in virtual worlds and educational technology. She helps educators and organisations to use new and innovative technologies for learning. Jo is the owner and facilitator of the Islands of jokaydia Project – a space for a vibrant community of educators to explore the use of virtual worlds in education.