Virtual World Best Practices in Education (VWBPE) 2010 Date/Time: Friday March 12 at 4:00 p.m. PST/SL Location: VWBPE West 1 Panelists: Real life name: Daniel Laughlin, Ph.D. (Chair) Contact: Email address: daniel.d.laughlin@nasa.gov Avatar name: Greyark Hightower Real life name: Mary Anne Clark, Ph.D. Avatar name: Max Chatnoir Real life name: Debbie Denise Reese, Ph.D. Avatar name: Frecka Salsman Real life name: Carolyn Lowe, Ph.D. Avatar name: Clowey Greenwood Panel Title: SciLands Best Practices in Education Panel and Discussion Panel Description: The SciLands is a mini-continent and user community in the virtual world platform Second Life devoted exclusively to science and technology. There are over 20 science and technology related organizations in the SciLands, including government agencies, universities and museums. SciLands members have regular meetings in Second Life where they share ideas, help each other, and plan future projects. Our panel will be composed of representative from SciLands islands that conduct and study education in Second Life. Members of the panel will briefly present on their projects and the best practice lessons learned at Biome, Genome, MoonWorld and NASA eEducation islands. Participants will be better prepared to plan their own educational activities in Second Life and similar virtual worlds based on the combined experience shared by the panelist. Include links to relevant Web sites or electronic copies of the materials you will share Biome Island: http://slurl.com/secondlife/BIOME/42/57/70 Genome Island: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Genome/120/145/54 MoonWorld http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2010/pdf/1439.pdf http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2009/pdf/2229.pdf http://moonworld.cet.edu http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXpTKp35clg http://slurl.com/secondlife/MoonWorld/173/173/319/?title=Welcome%20to%20MoonWorld NASA eEducation Island: http://slurl.com/secondlife/NASA eEducation/128/159/43 http://www.nasa.gov/education/LT SciLands • www.scilands.org Short Bio of Panelist: Real life name: Daniel Laughlin, Ph.D. (Chair) Real life organization: NASA Learning Technologies, University of Maryland Baltimore County Email address: daniel.d.laughlin@nasa.gov Avatar name: Greyark Hightower Real life name: Mary Anne Clark, Ph.D. Real life organization: Texas Wesleyan University Email address: mclark@txwes.edu Avatar name: Max Chatnoir Real life name: Debbie Denise Reese, Ph.D. Real life organization: Wheeling Jesuit University Center for Educational Technologies, NASA-sponsored Classroom of the Future Email address: debbie@cet.edu Avatar name: Frecka Salsman Real life name: Carolyn Lowe, Ph.D. Real life organization: Northern Michigan University Email address: clowe@nmu.edu Avatar name: Clowey Greenwood Published on Slideshare with permission of the participants.