Conferencing at Decka’s Decks

Posted on August 14, 2007 
Filed Under conferences, secondlife, virtualworlds

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Right now, I’m sitting at Decka’s Decks on the Terra Incognita sim with a small bunch of avatars in Second Life. We are attending the SL version of the University of Southern Queensland’s Faculty of Education Symposium on Online learning using virtual worlds.

The conference is described as follows:

This symposium will bring together a group of international leaders, developers and practitioners in the use and development of 3D technology in university teaching and learning and academic libraries. They will showcase a continuum of 3D applications ranging from 3D learning objects within a web page, through small “rooms” with class avatars accessible from a web page to interfacing 3D worlds with the Learning Management System (using SLoodle – a mash up of Second Life and Moodle) and the use of fully immersive virtual worlds (including Second Life, ActiveWorlds and Croquet).

Check out the Symposium website for more info.

All is going impressively well at the moment… Decka and her team are managing a video stream into SL.. so participants can engage via the live event, via the web or via Second Life. Each and every time I attend an event like this it reminds me what a powerful tool Second Life is for communicating, sharing and networking.

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