Virtual Seminar and SLACTIONS 2009 Second Call

The City University London, Oxford University and King’s College in London organized a virtual seminar Learn, Teach and Play in 3D Virtual Worlds, sponsored by JISC EMERGE
The virtual seminar include teachers, students, educational technologists, researchers and anyone interested in 3D virtual worlds and games.
My presentation Start your Engines! Real - Virtual Worlds Engaging Interactions focused on real - virtual worlds engaging learning interactions by using video games. Several Mash-up and video games concepts developed on game engines and social networks at the Instructional System Technologies Department at H.I.T- Holon Institute of Technology were presented.

As the SLACTIONS 2009 Israeli Chair and the Guest Editor of the coming Journal of Virtual Worlds Research [JWVR] and I've announced the call for papers "The Metaverse Assemble" and H.I.T's participation at SLACTIONS 2009.
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Best papers submitted for the SLACTIONS 2009
will get invitation to submit expanded version.
5 special editions of journals available!
* Computer & Graphics
(ISSN 0097-8493, SCI) * International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning
(ISSN 1753-5255) * Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research
(ISSN 0718–1876) * VIRTual
(ISSN 0873-1837) and
Journal of Virtual Worlds Research Special issue: “The Metaverse Assembled”
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Submission Deadline: March 31, 2009

SLACTIONS 2009 Event: September 24-26, 2009

Publication Date: December 2009/January 2010.
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Feel free to forward the SLACTIONS 2009 SCFP. Thank you.
Dr. Hanan "Vrider" Gazit
SLACTIONS 2009 [Israeli Chair] http://www.vrider.net

Dr. Hanan "VRider" Gazit to present at the Learn, Teach and Play in 3D Virtual Worlds Virtual Seminar in Second Life

City University London, Oxford University and King’s College in London are organizing a virtual seminar entitled: Learn, Teach and Play in 3D Virtual Worlds, sponsored by JISC EMERGE

The virtual seminar is open for teachers, students, educational technologists, researchers, and anyone interested in 3D virtual worlds and games.

Dr. Elhanan Gazit Ph.D. (aka @VRider) presentation entitled:

Start your Engines! Real - Virtual Worlds Engaging Interactions

Massively Multiplayer On-line Games (MMOGs), social networked, and three-dimensional virtual worlds (3D), are merging to form the Web3D, known as the Metaverse. This presentation will focus on real - virtual worlds engaging learning interactions by using video games. Several Mash-up and video games concepts developed based on game engines and social networks such as facebook, at the Instructional System Technologies Department at H.I.T-Holon Institute of Technology will be presented together with H.I.T-Holon Institute of Technology second life's presence plans and coming SLACTIONS 2009 conference call.

Speaker Bio sketch

Dr. Elhanan Gazit is a faculty member of the instructional Systems Technologies department, at H.I.T-Holon Institute of Technology were he teaches on games and virtual worlds, interactive environments and knowledge representations. Hanan is the CEO of MetaverSense Ltd., an Israeli based company leading the use of virtual worlds, digital Games and social networks for instruction and business. Hanan holds a Ph.D. degree in the Learning Sciences and a Magna Cum Laude M.A. degree in Science Education, both from Tel-Aviv University. Hanan is a former post doctorate fellow researcher at LIRT Lab, Caesarea Edmond Benjamin de Rothschild Foundation Institute for Interdisciplinary Applications of Computer Science, University of Haifa. Hanan serves on the Association of Virtual Worlds' Advisory Board, on the Editorial Review Board of the International Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated Simulations. He founded the Digital Games Research Association [DiGRA] ISRAEL Chapter.

Time and place

The virtual seminar (7am SL time; 2pm UK time, Tuesday 17 March 2009) will take place at the Open Habitat Island http://slurl.com/secondlife/Open%20Habitat/31/162/23

In addition, a physical seminar (at City University) will take place a day before the face to face event and everyone is welcome. Further information of the physical event can be found here: http://learnteachandplay.eventbrite.com/

If you have further enquiries please do not hesitate to contact Ulrike Pfeil (U.Pfeil-1@city.ac.uk)

The organizing team:

Jim Ang, City University London

Panayiotis Zapihris, City University London

David White, Oxford University

Steven Warburton, King’s College

Palitha Edirisingha, University of Leicester

Leadership in Serious Gaming symposium @ Second Life IBM Business Center

Serious Games is a very serious business

The Utrecht University and IBM organize a symposium, hosted by Eduverse, on ‘The Play Element of Learning Leadership’ today in De Balie in Amsterdam, 24, June.

The results of research on 'The Play Element of Learning Leadership', apartnership between Utrecht University and IBM, will be presented andseveral international guest speakers add to the discussion. Guest speakers, live and virtual, will add their views to the discussion. Besides in person, the event can be attended inworld, as it will be broadcast live in Second Life.

Students from the MA programs New Media & Digital Culture and Game & Media Technology (Utrecht University) present their findings on leadership in online games such as EVE Online and World of Warcraft. The startingpoint for their research are studies done by Seriosity and IBM, which can be found here.

When: 19:00-23:00 Central European Time.

Were in Second Life (SL):

The whole symposium can be followed live in:
Second Life @ the IBM Business Center

http://slurl.com/secondlife/IBM%20Business%20Center/27/235/28/

Virtual Holland

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Virtual%20Holland%20Business/70/107/23.

The symposium is open for all to attend.

I wish to thank Dr. Benjamin Cohen @ IBM Haifa Research Lab & David van Gent (aka Davidovic Dean) @ IBM Netherlands for the info & invitation.