STARTING, RUNNING AND GROWING YOUR iED CHAPTER
Virtual meeting: "Starting, Running and Growing Your iED Chapter"
Date/Time: Friday April 6th at 06:00 PM USA Eastern Time
Meeting location: Public iED Audio Whiteboard
http://ImmersiveEducation.org/@/?goo.gl/8Jjq3
ABOUT iED CHAPTERS
VII. CHAPTERS CHAPTERS
Immersive Education Chapters constitute the geographically distributed
structure of Immersive Education through which regional and local
members are supported and enriched.
Chapters organize officially sanctioned Summits, workshops,
collaborations, seminars, lectures, forums, meetings, technical
groups, technical work items, research, and related activities.
Every Immersive Education Chapter is organized and run by a Board of
Governors (BoG) that liaise directly with the international Immersive
Education Initiative, other Chapters, and related governing bodies to
support the growth of Immersive Education around the world.
Membership for every Immersive Education Chapter is free and open to
the entire regional or local community that the Chapters are founded
to service.
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Immersive Education Charter
http://ImmersiveEducation.org/Charter.pdf
WEEKLY VIRTUAL TOURS, TUTORIALS, SNEAK-PEEKS
Date : Every Thursday
Time : 07:00 to 08:00 PM USA Eastern Time
AGENDAS, SOFTWARE AND MEETING LOCATIONS:
Weekly virtual tours, tutorials and sneak-peeks aren't just for K-12 educators! These virtual events cover a wide range of Immersive Education technologies that span all education levels and learner ages. As a member of the Immersive Education Initiative you are invited to attend any weekly K-12 group virtual meeting that you are interested in (Thursdays at 7:00 PM Eastern Time Zone USA). For an overview of the K-12 group please read this official announcement. The agenda and information on how to attend these VIRTUAL events will be posted into the K-12 Community Group discussion forum before each event begins. Membership is free and open to the global academic community. For details see "How can I participate?" on the right-hand side of this page, or "Join" at the top of this page.
LIVE WONDERLAND VIRTUAL WORLD BUILDING "SNEAK-PEEKS"
1) Thursday December 15th from 07:00-9:00 PM USA Eastern Time
2) Sunday December 18th from 05:30-7:30 PM USA Eastern Time
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OVERVIEW AND MEETING LOCATION:
Get an exclusive look at two new Immersive Education virtual worlds as they are being designed and built. Join iED Director Aaron E. Walsh, his Boston College students, and Nicole Yankelovich from the Open Wonderland Foundation and WonderBuilders for the very first "live builds" of the following Immersive Education virtual worlds:
1) Interactive 3D gallery exhibit for the preliminary results of the Call For Psychologically Beneficial Immersive Environments made by the Psychology of Immersive Environments Technology Working Group (PIE.TWG)
2) Rocket World Earth, Moon, Mars, Stars (EMMS) [see Rocket World]
These live builds will show iED members how simple it is to construct Wonderland virtual worlds using pre-made 3D content from the Google 3D Warehouse. Join us to watch, and even participate, as we build two new virtual worlds from scratch (we'll start with blank/empty worlds, and build them live, on the spot). For both world building projects we'll demonstrate the following features and capabilities of Wonderland and world-building in general:
+ Subsnapshots, Snapshops, Posters, Images, Google 3D Warehouse objects
MEETING LOCATION: As a member of the Immersive Education Initiative you are invited to attend both days; see dates and times above. Simply enter the public iED Audio Whiteboard [click here and sign in] at any time during the meetings (iED account required), and from there we will enter the virtual world. If you do not already have an iED account see see "How can I participate?" on the right-hand side of this page, or "Join" at the top of this page.
1st European Immersive Education Summit
28th and 29th November 2011
Leganes (Madrid, Spain)
This is the first summit organised by the newly formed European Chapter of the Immersive Education Initiative (http://europe.immersiveeducation.org), and builds on the success of previous iED summits held in Boston and London (http://mediagrid.org/summit/). Universidad Carlos III de Madrid will host the two-day iED Summit from 28th to 29th November 2011.
This summit will address core topics on the use of virtual and mixed-reality environments for online education and training applications. The scope will be fairly broad and will look at a range of innovative uses of virtual reality immersive environments. This could range from using and developing virtual environments through to practitioners with experience of teaching online and developing new approaches and pedagogies, including underpinning theories, human factors, pedagogy and design/evaluation strategies, case studies and more technical/scientific research topics. Submissions that have empirical results derived from virtual or mixed-reality immersive education test-beds are also encouraged.
Details, deadlines and submission instructions are available through the official iED Summit website.
Immersive Education KANSAS Days
Date : July 29-30, 2011 Location : Kansas, USAConvert to your own time zone
AGENDA AND LOCATION:
For details visit the official iED Kansas (Kansas Chapter of Immersive Education) website at http://kansas.ImmersiveEducation.org. For details on how to join Immersive Education see "How can I participate?" on the right-hand side of this page, or "Join" at the top of this page.
K-12 Technology Working Group (K12.TWG) WEEKLY VIRTUAL MEETINGS
Date : Every Thursday Time : 06:00 PM USA Eastern TimeConvert to your own time zone
AGENDA AND LOCATION:
For an overview of the K-12 group please read this official announcement (note that the real-world launch was in February; the virtual launch event is in March). The agenda and information on how to attend this VIRTUAL event will be posted into the K-12 Community Group discussion forum (see above) before this event begins. Membership is free and open to the global academic community. For details see "How can I participate?" on the right-hand side of this page, or "Join" at the top of this page.
K-12 Technology Working Group (K12.TWG) launch event
Date : Thursday February 24, 2011 Time : 08:00:00 (08:00 AM) USA Mountain Standard Time (MST)Convert to your own time zone
AGENDA AND LOCATION:
Please read this official announcement. Additional agenda and information on how to attend this event in Colorado will be posted into the K-12 Community Group discussion forum (see above) before this event begins. Membership is free and open to the global academic community. For details see "How can I participate?" on the right-hand side of this page, or "Join" at the top of this page.
"iED Kansas" launch event : Kansas Chapter of Immersive Education
Date : Thursday February 24, 2011 Time : 09:00:00 (09:00 AM) USA Central Standard Time (CST)Convert to your own time zone
DISCUSSION FORUM: iED Kansas Community Group (KAN.CG) [Login required]
AGENDA AND LOCATION:
Agenda and information on how to attend this event, and how to view the live stream, will be posted into the iED Kansas Community Group discussion forum (see above) before this event begins. Membership is free and open to the global academic community. For details see "How can I participate?" on the right-hand side of this page, or "Join" at the top of this page.
The world's leading experts in virtual worlds, learning games, educational simulations, and mixed/augmented reality convene May 13-15 in Boston for the iED 2011. Attendance is open to the global education community.
iED 2011 will feature The Education Grid (TEG), Rocket World, Open Wonderland, realXtend, Open Cobalt, Open Simulator, immersive CAVES, mixed/augmented reality, and freely available open source alternatives to Second Life. Members of the Initiative's open file format, library, psychology, mixed reality, and K-12 (kindergarten through high school) groups will give special presentations and workshops at the Summit.
Members of the global academic community are invited to submit abstracts for refereed papers, posters, workshops, panels, general presentations, demos, and outliers (novel late-breaking research and technology).
Details, deadlines and submission instructions are available through the official iED Summit website.
"iED Kansas" virtual meeting : Preparing the Kansas Chapter of Immersive Education
Date : Thursday December 16, 2010 Time : 15:00:00 (03:00 PM) USA Eastern Time UTC : 20:00:00 (08:00 PM) global UTC timeConvert to your own time zone
DISCUSSION FORUM: iED Kansas Community Group (KAN.CG) [Login required]
AGENDA AND LOCATION:
Agenda and information on how to attend this event, and how to view the live stream, will be posted into the iED Kansas Community Group discussion forum (see above) before this event begins. Membership is free and open to the global academic community. For details see "How can I participate?" on the right-hand side of this page, or "Join" at the top of this page.
K-12 virtual meeting : Preparing to launch the K-12 Technology Working Group (K12.TWG)
Date : Thursday December 16, 2010 Time : 16:00:00 (04:00 PM) USA Eastern Time UTC : 21:00:00 (09:00 PM) global UTC timeConvert to your own time zone
DISCUSSION FORUM: K-12 Community Group (K12.CG) [Login required]
AGENDA AND LOCATION:
Agenda and information on how to attend this event, and how to view the live stream, will be posted into the K-12 Community Group discussion forum (see above) before this event begins. Membership is free and open to the global academic community. For details see "How can I participate?" on the right-hand side of this page, or "Join" at the top of this page.
SPECIAL EVENT: "Video Game Addiction" panel discussion for parents and educators
Date : Sunday December 12, 2010 Time : 17:00:00 (05:00 PM) USA Eastern Time UTC : 22:00:00 (10:00 PM) global UTC timeConvert to your own time zone
DISCUSSION FORUM: Learning Games Users Community Group (LGU.CG) [Login required]
RELATED MATERIALS:
1. Video: Mother labels computer games a "dangerous tool" - BBC News [Europe]
2. Video: A self-confessed video gaming "addict" - BBC News [Europe]
3. Video: Was BBC investigation into videogame addiction fair? - CNET UK [Europe]
4. Article: Could Gaming Keep Children Safe Online? - FutureGov [Asia]
5. Article: Video game addiction helped with antidepressant - CNN Health [United States]
6. Article: Can video gaming cross from innocent fun to addiction? - BBC News [Europe]
7. Article: World of Warcraft: My Addiction - Boston College student diary [United States]
8. Article: Is video game addiction really so dangerous? - Telegraph [Europe]
9. Article: South Korea Cracks Down on Gaming Addiction - TIME [international edition]
10. Article: Video gaming: Advice for parents and teachers - BBC News [Europe]
AGENDA AND LOCATION:
Agenda and information on how to attend this special in-world event is circulated directly to all members of the Immersive Education Initiative. Membership is free and open to the global academic community. For details see "How can I participate?" on the right-hand side of this page, or "Join" at the top of this page.