Name: The Fantastic Voyage of Converting to OpenSim for Biology and Archaeology Education
Start: 2013-09-08T12:30:00-0700
End: 2013-09-08T13:20:00-0700

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The Fantastic Voyage of Converting to OpenSim for Biology and Archaeology Education

The Virtual Islands for Better Education, VIBE, is a collaborative of college and K-12 educators and virtual world builders looking to leverage OpenSim for learning activities. What our panel will cover is our experience moving lessons from Second Life to Opensim, usage by college students for genetics and global health, usage by 4th graders for biodiversity, and construction of massive Creative Commons literature libraries.

Speakers

Max Chatnoir

Professor of Biology Dr. Clark is also director of Genome Island on Second Life Texas Wesleyan University

Eva Comaroski

Stephen Gasior

Sr. Research Associate, DowDuPont

Stephen Gasior is a Biology Instructor at Ball State University, Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Digital Intermedia Arts (at Ball State University), and Administrator/Evangelist for REDgrid (Ball State's OpenSimulator campus -- see http://idialabprojects.org/redgrid/). Stephen... Read More →

Joe Graham

Dragan Lakic

Senior Consultant / Trainer, EdWeWo

Over 19 years of IT, training and business experience, supported by numerous IT and Training qualifications, backed by sound practical knowledge in Planning, Designing, Development, Deployment and Delivery of: • Innovative synchronous and asynchronous eLearning 3D Virtual World... Read More →

Carolyn Lowe

Carolyn is an associate professor of science education at Northern Michigan University when she teaches life science for future teachers, undergraduate and graduate courses in teaching science, and basic biology.She lives in the woods of the beautiful Upper Peninsula of Michigan... Read More →