Teachers Buzz

Teachers world-wide will be conducting another Teachers Buzz this coming Monday 20th August 6pm SLT/PDT. The meeting is being held on the LivingintheUniverse island.

An added benefit to these SL educational happenings is now the use of date and time services at Time and Date.com. Educators here in Australia and around the world now have a quick and easy reference for local times to that of the SL happenings and times.

The Teachers Buzz on Monday is being presented by Cosmo Priestman, Ourania Fizgig and ScubaChris Wollongong, with the planned program being a look at ‘The History of Earth & Life on Earth Exhibit’. This is a scale model installation work on the timeline of Earth, 4.6 billion years ago to the present.

The History of Earth & Life on Earth Exhibit can be found here.

International Virtual Teaching and Learning Research Institute proposed

I stumbled across this message on the SL Research email list today – great to see Macquarie University well and truly joining the virtual world fray:

“Call for Expressions of Interest to contribute to a proposed International Virtual Reality Teaching and Learning Research Institute

This is a general call for academics and practitioners involved or interested in the field of Virtual Reality Teaching and Learning (using environments such as Second Life) to express their interest in contributing to or being associated with an International Virtual Reality Teaching and Learning Research Institute.

The range of research and development that the proposed Institute would support is intentionally left open, but could include projects such as investigating the efficacy of various virtual reality learning designs, researching the sociological and psychological aspects of learning in virtual reality environments, and the success with which tools and
scripts can be applied across different curricula.

Interested parties can nominate roles that they would like to perform, which may include:

– advice on the policies of the Institute and the services it provides
– research and development in conjunction with the Institute (utilising support services that would be provided by the Institute)
– evaluation of Institute performance

If you are interested in becoming involved with the proposed Institute, please provide an Expression of Interest (of no longer than one page) outlining your experience with VREs or related technology based learning applications, any research experience, the reasons for your interest in becoming associated, and the ways in which you would like to be involved.

Please return all Expressions of Interest no later than 9th August 2007.

Prospective contributors would form part of a Carrick Grant Application to establish the Institute.

This initiative is being lead by Professor John Hedberg, Macquarie University Australia.”

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