VWBPE 2012
I am not going to get much sleep this weekend as the Virtual World Best Practises in Education 2012, 5th Annual Conference has just started and all the presentations are in Pacific time! I will be hearing the leaders in the field of virtual technology (research and teaching) in educational settings speak and today I was at a presentation by David Deeds. He is the IT Manager/Teacher at Changchun American International School and a world authority on virtual world technology in educational environments. His lecture was at 8pm Pacific time Thursday so 2pm Australian EST time Friday 🙂 The brilliant thing about this conference is that I am attending virtually so still managed to be at home in Coffs Harbour whilst my avatar sat next to someone from Rome and another from Germany…very neat and no jet lag!
Here is a link to David’s ‘slideshare’ presentation for educators and interested parents: David Deeds presentation
Here is the link to the website for those educators/parents who are interested: VWBPE 2012
I will be learning much and it will be great to transfer this learning into the classroom with the students at CHPS 🙂
May you all get more sleep than me this weekend!
Mrs Booth