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Four week course giving partipants a weekly tour of one topic in virtual worlds, games and emerging technology and their possible uses in education.

This 4 week course gives participants a weekly tour on 1 topic covered at VWBPE 2012 or the Virtual Worlds Unsymposium

Course starts with virtual world field trips to educational sims in Second Life. Week 2 introduces Machinima and its educational uses. Week 3 is an adventure in the MMORPG World of Warcraft with an educators' guild. Week 4 wraps up the tours on the Bleeding Edge with emerging tech and education that includes virtual, blended and augmented realities.

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  • emerging technology
  • game based learning
  • games
  • machinima
  • mmo
  • mmorpg
  • virtual worlds
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  • Runs March 19, 2012 to April 16, 2012
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Kae (organizer) Aevalle Galicia/Stasia Weston (organizer) Abacus (organizer) Roxie Neiro (organizer) Gridjumper (organizer) Cat Flippen (organizer) alysyn (organizer) Bluebarker (organizer) Paul Kurchina (organizer) Cyndyl (participant) Denise Roberts (participant) Sail Wozniak (participant) LV (participant) jokay (participant) Stylianos Mystakidis (participant) Don Elliott (participant) Rina Darwin (participant) Pam Broviak (participant) misplaceddecimal (participant) LucianeCurator (participant) LeeDale (participant) Rurik Nackerud (participant) beth w (participant) Beverly G. McCarter (participant) Esparanza Freese (participant) Vanessa Blaylock (participant) Fabrizia Karillion (participant) Jerry Buchko (participant) iSkye Silverweb (participant) Merlin Moonshadow (participant) Letty (participant) kimmer (participant) gardengirl (participant) Rosavioletta (participant) Cybère (participant) Spiff (participant) Carl Icann (participant) AliceK (participant) Raul Mojica (participant) M Starry (participant) DelightfulDoowangle (participant) pipcleaves (participant) Sharon Collins (participant) Lethy (participant) Emis.G (participant) Wakroach (participant) Exquisite Corpse (participant) LieslD (participant) Lotus Greene (participant) Jack Mosel (Jack Buxbaum in Second Life!) @moseljack (Twitter) (participant) Jens (participant) Mandie (participant) Jura Stanaityte (participant) MrFrans (participant) Joyce (participant) Roland Legrand (participant) Riven Homewood (participant) Nava (participant) Jase (participant) Pinksamurai (participant) Pionia Destiny (participant) Aisle (participant) Neil Ballantyne (participant) Edtech48 (participant)

Tasks


  • Introduction to the Course
  • What's Next.....
  • Week 4 Wrap-up & Post Week 4
  • Week 4: EVE Online Discussion and Tour
  • Week 4 - Thursday MOOC, OOC and Connectivism
  • Week 4: Bleeding Edge Wednesday
  • Week 4: Epic Adventures: Minecraft Tour
  • Week 4 - Bleeding Edge Tuesday Night - Complex, Cooperative & Chaordic
  • Week 4: Overview
  • Week 4: Monday, World of Warcraft Wrap up
  • Networking & Social Media Information
  • Social Bookmarking for VWMOOC - Diigo
  • Synchronous Meetings and Schedule
  • Week 3 - WoW Week Schedule
  • Week 3 -WoW Discussion 2
  • Week 3 - WoW Discussion 1
  • Week 3 - If You Are Getting Into World of Warcraft Early
  • Week 3 - An Overview of World of Warcraft Week
  • Week 3- Gamer Vocabulary
  • Week 2- Machinma Tasks/Roles
  • Week 2- Machinma Field Trip
  • Week 2 - Machinima Edit, Upload, Critique
  • Week 2 - Screen Capture Software
  • Week 2 Machinima - Reflections and Sharing
  • Week 1--Lessons Learned
  • Week 1--Virtual World Tours--Intro and Tools/Techniques
  • Week 1--Prepared Group Tours
  • Week 1--Location Sharing!
  • Week 1--More Opportunities
  • Reflections on the VWBPE Conference
  • Closing the Loop
  • One Last Thing - VW MOOC nominated for....
  • Invitation for Sunday June 10th!

External Links


  • Virtual Worlds, Games and Education Portal
  • Machinima Livebinder
    Jerry Buchko
    Jerry Buchko at A Virtual Worlds, Games and Education Tour
    posted message: As folks are coming together into their groups to collaborate on their Machinima, I'd love to hear how you're going about connecting & working together. Are you deciding to meet & plan inworld in SL and/or outworld? Are you using a mix of separate tools to build your own framework for your group's collaborative activities or are you using an environment where tools are consolidated, like Google Plus or an equivalent that's commonly used in educational circles? I think it would be interesting & useful to learn about the different approaches people taking as they go about the business of forming their groups & accomplishing their Machinima projects.
    27 Mar 2012 via courses.p2pu.org
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    Comments


  • Gridjumper   March 27, 2012, 2:05 p.m.

    What a great idea!  an infographic on methods used would be cool, as well as hearing abut the effectiveness of specific methods/tools.


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