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Special Issue of the International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning (IJTEL): Learning in 3D Journal Aims IJTEL fosters multidisciplinary discussion and research on technology enhanced learning (TEL) approaches at the individual, organisational, national and global levels. Its key objective is to be the leading scholarly scientific journal for all those interested in, researching and contributing to the technology enhanced learning episteme. For this reason, IJTEL delivers research articles, position papers, surveys and case studies aiming: To provide a holistic and multidisciplinary discussion on technology enhanced learning research issues

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International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning (IJTEL): Learning in 3D

An event tonight (15th June) in Second Life, as described by Dr GR Barker-Read, Head of Academic Quality and Standards, University of Leeds * * * * * Friendly Greetings! You’re all invited to join me at 8pm UK time (12 noon SLT) today for a guided tour of the Edge of Life artificial life ecosystem on Education UK island.

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Edge of Life artificial life ecosystem event

Children’s and young people’s digital literacies in virtual online spaces Dissemination conference Speakers: Peggy Sheehy; Rebecca Black; Constance Steinkuehler When: Saturday 19 June; 2pm-4.30pm UK time (6am – 8.30 am SL time, for start times in other countries see http://tinyurl.com/39vvq6q ) Where: Infolit iSchool, Second Life: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Infolit%20iSchool/169/173/22 This is the final meeting in a seminar series funded by the Economic and Social Science Research Council (ESRC).

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Children’s and young people’s digital literacies in virtual online spaces

A question in from an academic this lunchtime. It’s a recurring question, so blogging the answer: Can you, from the top of your head, tell me how many universities in the UK were active in virtual worlds when you started the snapshots & how many do so now? 1.

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How many UK universities are active in virtual worlds?

From Cathy Tombs of Coventry University: * * * * * Registration and abstract submission is now open for our third National Workshop on Immersive Worlds event hosted by the Learning Innovation Group at Coventry University.

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Big Issues in Immersive Virtual Worlds: Coventry, November 2010

(From Sheila Webber, Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield) When: Thursday June 3rd    Where; Infolit iSchool (& tour to Tseshkovsky), Second Life. 7 am SL time (= 3pm UK time) presentation “Information Literacy for 21st Century Life” 8 am SL time (= 4pm UK time) reports and discussion on recent conferences Plus at 9am SLT (en Espanol) and 12 noon SLT: repeat event: Pi Illios (Universidad Puerto Rico) Literacia en Salud en Second Life (en Espanol, 9am) / Health Literacy in Second Life (in English, noon SL time = 8pm UK time).

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TODAY Information/health literacy events

The opening act of this report is a meditation on virtual worlds, and the perceptions and fears that some people hold them to. From this, the report moves on to outline the main trends which have emerged during the three years which virtual world watch has been monitoring the use of this technology in UK academia. Following on, Virtual World Watch takes a look at how it has operated in the last three years, including successes and failures, and what it intrinsically means to be a ’service’.

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Zen and the Art of Avatar Maintenance

Reinventing Ourselves: Contemporary Concepts of Identity in Virtual Worlds Provisionally to be published in 2011 in Springer’s Human-Computer Interaction Series Editors: Anna Peachey (Eygus Ltd / The Open University) and Mark Childs (Coventry University) Invitation to Submit We invite abstracts of between 500 and 650 words describing the proposed chapter. Abstracts should be supported further by up to 500 words explaining the theoretical underpinning to the chapter, and a brief summary describing how this chapter will contribute to the book. If the work has been previously published in any format, or is under consideration elsewhere, please indicate details of this with your submission

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Call for chapters: Identity in Virtual Worlds

Virtual world activity in UK universities and colleges (Spring 2010) Summary This snapshot report was put together against a backdrop of political and economic uncertainty. It comes, therefore, as a pleasant contrast to notice many cases of continuity, where academics are building on their uses of virtual worlds in previous academic years.

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Virtual world activity (Spring 2010)

Registration and abstract submission is now open for our third National Workshop on Immersive Worlds event hosted by the Learning Innovation Group at Coventry University. The  Big Issues in Immersive Virtual Worlds workshop is being held on  November 4 2010 at the  Techno Centre, Coventry University Technology Park .

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Big Issues in Immersive Virtual Worlds, November 4th 2010, Coventry

We’re hosting a in-world PIVOTE community meet on Daden Cays in Second Life If you are interested or would like to find out more please visit the following eventbrite link and express your interest. http://www.eventbrite.com/event/672927745 Event date: 11th May 2010 Event time: 15:30 GMT(BST) – 17:30 GMT(BST) / 07:30 PST – 09:30 PST Event location: In Second Life: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Daden%20Cays/98/146/22 —– Editorial Notes Developed by Daden for a JISC funded project to train and assess St George’s University Hospital paramedics. PIVOTE allows you to create the structure and information content of a training exercise on the web – independent of a virtual world.

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PIVOTE meeting, Second Life, 11th May

Kate Boardman from Teesside University invites people to the monthly gathering of UK (and other) academics in Second Life: + + + + + I’d like to invite you to come hang out at our new arts venue, cunningly named ‘The Venue’ at: http://slurl.com/secondlife/TeesLife/79/110/24 (that’ll be Tuesday 11 th at 8pm UK time) and I’d like to propose a moment or two of serious frivolity. We’ve mentioned at previous meetings different tools that we use, and I’d like to show the plethora of pinboards/noticeboards I’ve collected over the years – none of which are quite perfect  –  for comparison and also I’m happy to show off some of the tentative uses we’ve made of the Virtually Human (formerly known as Presomatic) Game Kit for easy logged quizzing

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Second Tuesday event for May 2010

IMMERS[ED] 2010 SECOND NATIONAL WORKSHOP ON TEACHING IN IMMERSIVE WORLDS Friday October 22nd 2010 University of Ulster, Magee Campus, Derry, Northern Ireland. CALL FOR SPEAKERS/WORKSHOPS/DEMONSTRATIONS IMMERS[ED] 2010; the Second National Workshop on Teaching in Immersive Worlds will be hosted by the School of Computing & Intelligent Systems and will take place in the Great Hall of the University of Ulster, Magee Campus, Derry, Northern Ireland on Friday October 22nd 2010. The objective of the event is to raise awareness of the benefits and possible pitfalls of using virtual and immersive worlds in an educational context and will provide practical advice and demonstrations from leading educators and industrial experts in this area

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Teaching in Immersive Worlds: Derry, October 22nd, 2010

The Virtual Printing Press is a project begun by Gabriel Egan (Loughborough) and Ian Gadd (Bath Spa) in October 2008 that aims to create a virtual model of a ‘hand press’ or ‘common press’ for use in teaching and in research. Here’s their contribution about it to snapshot #8.

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Virtual Printing Press Project

This is a completely in-world conference on … virtual worlds, best practices and how they are used in education. It is not uniquely focused on Second Life however obviously there is a very strong Second Life bent to the conference owing to where it is being held

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Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Conference 2010

Social Influence in Second Life: Social Network and Social Psychological Processes in the Diffusion of Belief and Behaviour on the Web The PhD thesis, under a Creative Commons licence, of Dr Aleks Krotoski is available through her website; there’s some interesting wordles on there as well. Go here: http://alekskrotoski.com/post/academic-dissertation—social-influence-in-second-life-social-n (Shortened URL) http://is.gd/75yo9 (It was thanks to Aleks showing me around Second Life several years ago that I had the ‘Aha!’ moment, so without her there may not have been a Virtual World Watch and accompanying snapshots.) Aleks is a media and Internet journalist for The Guardian , and a presenter on what many regard as the best TV programme on video games to date (BITS)

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Second Life PhD thesis of Dr Aleks Krotoski

The University of Nottingham have provided an update of some of their Second Life activities; thanks to Andy Beggan for the update and the screenshots: Nottingham has been in Second Life for just over a year and now has 2 islands: http://slurl.com/secondlife/University20Nottingham/100/122/22 Both teaching and research activities have taken place and this year a research project organised by one of our medical students – focused on placebo in a doctor-patient style consultation – is being supported as well. We are keeping an eye of other virtual worlds and have participated in some conversations between Kings, Brunel and the Open University around next steps. We have a dedicated area on our island to support information skills training called the ‘Library Garden’

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University of Nottingham in Second Life

A message from Tim Johnson (aka Karen aka Bluesky Larkham), Senior Lecturer, IHS, University of Worcester, Just to remind you that Eloise (Pasteur) will be presenting the second of our Educators sessions on Thursday 14th January at 1800hrs GMT. The sessioin will be about Creating Immersive Environments. It will be at the usual spot on University of Worcester Island: http://slurl.com/secondlife/University20Worcester/155/198/26 I’m really looking forward to this session and to seeing many of you for the first time this year.

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Creating Immersive Environments: Thursday 14th January

This report is available in PDF format . Summary From input to this and previous snapshots, plus background research, institutional website searches and anecdotes, it is evident that every UK university except one (the University of the Highlands and Islands) has members of staff who have developed, or are developing, something in a virtual world – though that ‘something’, and the use and educational relevance of it, varies extremely widely. This snapshot includes input from new respondents.

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Activity snapshot #7 (Winter 2009)

A message from Anna Peachey: The Open University Virtual Worlds Project is delighted to announce that the Vice Chancellor of The Open University UK, Martin Bean, will be talking about innovations in learning technology on Open University Island in Second Life at 3:30pm GMT (7:30am SLT) on the 16th of December, in a session chaired by Claudia l’Amoreaux, Education Programs Manager for Linden Lab. If you are a confident avatar driver and would like to be in the inworld audience please send your avatar name to virtualworlds@open.ac.uk with the subject line ‘VC EVENT’

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Invitation to Open University VC Presentation