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During the VWBPE22, Pio had the chance to visit a Space Menagerie. There were four different biomes to explore. Tropical Forest Each Biome had many animals that live in that habitat. Visitors had the chance to visit and get a prize at the end of their journey. They were supposed to make a list of three animals they saw in each biome. After visiting all 4 biomes, they returned their completed notecards and got a cute furry prize. :)  Southwestern Desert This is a great example of the kind of activities that could be fun to have with language students. They could visit the different biomes, explore, and talk about the plants, animals, and also the climate. They could imagine they are explorers and even create stories of a visit to those places. Arctic Tundra Grassland Savanna  

  Kick-Off Event of VWBPE 2022 The Conference Planning Committees will share upcoming conference highlights. Executive Director, Phelan Corrimal, will officially declare the beginning of VWBPE 2022. WHEN: March 31, 2022 @ 08:00 AM – 08:50 AM America/Los Angeles Timezone WHERE: VWBPE Gateway http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/VWBPE%20Gateway%20Pyxis/100/128/24 #VWBPE #vwbpe2022 #SecondLife #metaverse

 VWBPE 2022 : IE. EngageXR for Teaching a Language @ EngageXR VR is certainly a hot place to be at the moment. For this reason, we attended The VWBPE 2022 session on EngageXR h osted by Amany Alkyahat, from Columbia University, and Heike Philp / Gwen Gwasi, let’s talk online sprl. After attending, I can say that Engage is really a great immersive experience. I enjoyed every moment of it. According to its website, Engage is  a spatial network solution for enterprise clients to build their own unique virtual world “MetaWorld” which can be used for employee onboarding, training, product demos, wellbeing, customer outreach, and professional events.  There you can have a  Free  guest account  for exploring & attending events. This allows you to:  Attend Free Events & Meetings.  Explore Public MetaWorlds.  Access Free Locations & Models  Creation Tools Demo Access. Also,  host a Room (4 Guests Maximum). I n order to do so, you...

Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education as described in their site, is a global grass-roots community event which focuses on education in immersive virtual environments. What qualifies as a virtual world? A virtual world is an online community that takes the form of a unique environment through which users can interact with one another and use and create ideas irrespective of time and space. Virtual worlds can be either 2D or 3d. They may be co-located or distributed. The core aspect that defines a virtual space is that a virtual environment provides a uniquely shared space for emerging relationships and serves as a foundation for the development of knowledge creation and sharing. Examples include Second Life, OpenSim, Unity, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Pinterest, World of Warcraft, Eve Online and many others. These virtual environments are characterized by an open social presence and where the direction of the platform’s evolution is manifest in the community. This is u...

The conference took place last Friday and Saturday..I have planned to be there..I told my students on Friday morning.. I will be attending this wonderful conference and was really enthusiastic about it but when I got home that day... Surprise!!!!... My Internet service wasn't working.. Spent the rest of the day trying to fix it.. but...It was a terrible disappointment. I could fix it last Sunday afternoon... too late for the fun.. But..there's always a but... smiles.. Thanks to my friend Jokay Wollongong .. I found this great site Tree TV, where you can find some of the best presentations... http://business.treet.tv/shows/bpeducation/episodes . Of course the first thing I did was to watch this one: Presented By Lindy McKeown (Decka Mah in SL) who explains How Action Learning works for staff professional development across organizations , how it narrows the 'Knowing - Doing Gap', and how it relates to Heutagogy , the management of self-managed learners.

Last year we participated in the 2nd Vitual Worlds Best Practices in Education Conference..it was really good... this year, Pionia just got this invitation....... Greetings! The Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education (VWBPE) conference is about to get underway, and you're invited!  The events will run for 48 hours straight  and will include everything from keynotes by top educators like Karl Kapp and Tony O'Driscoll, and tours of some of Second Life's most innovative and inspiring sims, to fun social events like a 1950's rock 'n roll party, a fashion show, and skydiving. More than 5,000 avatars are expected to attend, making VWBPE 2010 something you won't want to miss. VWBPE 2010 Conference Schedule This is the landmark to the social Hud where you an get started... http://slurl.com/secondlife/VWBPE%20Central%204/5/250/38/ The Virtual Worlds Story Project will be hosting a panel discussion about Story Quests followed by a tour of The Uncle D Story...