“According to a research report from Forrester, by 2012, “3-D Virtual Platforms will be as important for work as the Web is today.”
Are you prepared for this? Are you prepared to prepare your students for this? How about to prepare your students with disabilities for this?
- National Presenter: David Davis on, “Virtual Instruction and Assessment Environments: Addressing 21st Century Skills for Students with Disabilities“
- March 4, 2010
- 3:30pm EST (after school hours for most)
- PATINS-Project Second Life Island:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/PATINS%20Project%20Island/150/28/32
This is a great, free opportunity for you to experience a training from a wonderful national presenter on the PATINS-Project Island. The PATINS Staff will be there to assist and there will be discussion to follow. David Davis is typically presenting at such conferences as Closing The Gap, FETC, ATIA, and many other national gatherings. This is an opportunity for you to see him for free, requiring no flight, no hotel room, no mileage, no parking fees and no meal reimbursements!
Some Ideas:
- Have many people in one room, with only one person actually controlling an avatar, but displaying the presentation from that one avatar’s perspective on a big screen with a projector. This is a great option, I think, for anyone who may feel intimidated at this point to create and attend with their own avatar. This also means that Second Life will only need to be opened up for one computer and bandwidth won’t be an issue either.
- Access this Second Life Presentation at home, at the local coffee shop or other location with wifi.
- Contact me in the next couple of weeks for help creating and setting up your own avatar in order to attend this event. dmcnulty@r8esc.k12.in.us
- Use the free & quick video tutorial guides to Getting Started in Second Life posted on the PATINS Website: www.patinsproject.com/videos.html
- PATINS Main Auditorium Second Life image
Click The Image For a Teleport Right Into Our Main Auditorium
“normal” Friday Blog Posting coming tomorrow morning still !
under: 21st Century Skills, AT Conferences, General Info, Online Resources, Web 3.0 Tools
Tags: 2010, David Davis, Davis, Free, Immersive, in-world, island, March, march 4, PATINS, presentation, Professional development, Second Life, SL
Tags: 2010, David Davis, Davis, Free, Immersive, in-world, island, March, march 4, PATINS, presentation, Professional development, Second Life, SL
By: Laurel Blough on February 18, 2010 at 7:03 pm
Hi, Daniel,
I think this would be a valuable presentation to attend. Unfortunately, I work from 8 to 5, and so can’t attend “live” in Second Life. Will it be recorded so that others could see it later as a webcast or as a recording in Second Life?
I do have an avatar.
Warmly,
Laurel Blough
By: danielgmcnulty on February 18, 2010 at 7:07 pm
Hi Laurel, I can tell you that our plans are to record, but it will be our first attempt at recording an entire session. By making it after school hours, we were hoping that most people wouldn’t have to take professional development time to attend, but I can see the problem with you working till 5pm. Are you working in a school district?
By: Laurel Blough on February 18, 2010 at 7:11 pm
Daniel,
No, I work at the Fort Wayne Center for Learning. It’s a nonprofit business that works with special ed (and some non-special ed) students.
By: danielgmcnulty on February 18, 2010 at 7:21 pm
Oh ok… well I promise we will try to record the session. Is there any way you could get away to a computer to attend even part of the presentation at 3:30?
By: Laurel Blough on February 18, 2010 at 10:14 pm
No, I’m with a student at that time.
Thanks for responding so promptly, though.