Symposium 3- Amsterdam :: Archived event
Overview
On September 23rd, the Eduverse Foundation will be hosting a pre-Picnic event Symposium 3. Looking at the intersections between Serious Gaming, Virtual Education, Web3D Technology and Social Networking, the event looks certain to be worthy successor to June’s Symposium 2 event.
For those of you who are not familiar with Eduverse, it is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting virtual spaces for educational uses. On their blog, they list six over-arching goals of their mission:
1. To promote Virtual Education and detail the Virtual Paradigm
2. To set standards for what should and should not be done in virtual space
3. To create tools and interfaces to help facilitate virtual education
4. To explore and promote technologies which can be leveraged to aid virtual education
5. To create test cases to justify our claims and act as templates for future research
6. To promote Science and Scientific Research in virtual environments
This Symposium, I have the honor of keynoting the event, and I will be discussing the ‘head pins’ that need to be addressed for the industry to grow beyond it’s current size. I will be posting my presentation, annotated this time, on this blog and on slideshare after the 23rd. Other speakers this time around include Chuck Hamilton, Philip Rosedale, and Julian Lombardi.
If you are in Amsterdam on September 23rd, or can attend virtually via Second Life, please make the time to do so.