Dr. Hanan Gazit to present at VWBPE'09

I have the pleasure of attending and presenting at the Virtual Worlds Best Practice in Education 2009 Conference (VWBPE). The three days conference is a great opportunity to join, learn and share ideas about the current state and future of education in virtual worlds, the metaverse, and Second Life in particular.

My presentation on Sunday, 09:30AM [SL time] entitled: Start your Engines! Real-Virtual Worlds Engaging Interactions 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 developed at the Instructional System Technologies Department at H.I.T-Holon Institute of Technology will be presented.

Lessons from my Games4Girls Academy Project at H.I.T-Holon Institute of Technology will be shown together with the coming SLACTIONS 2009 conference second call.

Gaza protest in Second Life: Conflict resolution in virtual worlds?

draxtordespres new machinima work and talent re-define the term journalism. Watch Draxtor Despres attending lectures on peace efforts and interviewed researchers in the field of conflict resolution, even went out into the physical realm to find answers about how to engage in more fruitful debates that have real world impact, following Israel's Gaza offensive in December 2008.

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