Opening Ceremony of Virtual Worlds MOOC 2024

#education #professionaldevelopment #secondlife #vwmooc24 #youtube #nelliedeutsch The 10th annual Second Life MOOC (renamed the Virtual World MOOC in 2018) started in 2014. VWMOOC24 will take place from August 1-31, 2024 on Moodle for Teachers https://integrating-technology.org/course/view.php?id=114. The theme of the current MOOC is “Connecting in Virtual Worlds. Communities of Practice” There is a plethora of communities in virtual worlds promoting education and learning through connecting online via web technologies such as Second Life. The MOOC will focus on connecting online for collaborative learning and teaching in virtual worlds like Second Life, Digiworldz, Kitely, Minecraft, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Augmented Reality (VR), Virtual Reality (VR), or OpenSim. The MOOC and the live online classes are organized and coordinated by Dr. Nellie Deutsch, Dr. Doris Molero, Dr. Nancy Zingrone and Dr. Valerie Hill. You may contact the organizers for further information and support. The presentations will be available in virtual worlds and on ZOOM (click on the following ZOOM link to register once for all the sessions) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IsnMU7GBjNFQWwMkCvE0tiWUKFjnMJc28v0uH0yAvT4/edit?usp=sharing Bios of the presenters are available to download, view, and to print out https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1JqouLg0c4GlXeW1eN4mgoP5fiP0VObvDY3FIu4hucZo/edit?usp=sharing VWMOOC24 is for educators, schools, and public and private businesses that wish to provide training in virtual worlds. Weekly badges and a final certificate of completion will be available for free. There will be 3 learning platforms: Integrating Technology and VMMOOC Headquarters http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Chilbo/167/53/97 and ZOOM. We also have an exhibition with different presentations where participants will be able to review the slides and get resources from each one of the presenters. You will get ongoing support from the organizers of the MOOC for each week. Participants will be able to ask questions in advance and throughout the MOOC in Integrating Technology VWMOOC24 MOOC area. The live online classes will be recorded for future reference, so don't worry if you cannot attend or if you'd like to review the content. The workload for the MOOC includes participating or viewing the recordings of the live session and developing a reflective artifact in the form of a book using Book Creator. Course Highlights 1. Experience Life in Virtual Worlds 2. Get Acquainted with Learning communities in SL and other virtual worlds. 3. Professional Development in Virtual Worlds Participants, who reflect on 8 live sessions or the recordings of the sessions (two from each week), will be eligible for a certificate of completion. The due date for the reflections is October 1, 2024. Subscribe to the Youtube playlist for the Second Life MOOC (VWMOOC24) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8JUcjyABKxkk4fCIs1dyR2C947VD7dcX. Past recordings are available at theses playlists from 2014 through 2021 here: SLMOOC14 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8JUcjyABKxkyil1ZrPM4YYGpBCpaOquV SLMOOC15 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8JUcjyABKxnzGo1B7uQzP14qokUJq3h- SLMOOC16 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8JUcjyABKxmmlov_CYLmSvX1XgpMsMAU SLMOOC17 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8JUcjyABKxkl1QRALo5jHYpMCCf7Kh_a VWMOOC18 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8JUcjyABKxlB4TDVSr0sT_cpr44Ju4aE VWMOOC19 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8JUcjyABKxktn2rQ2l3L9njCGDnYHHYk&jct VWMOOC20 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8JUcjyABKxmbwi5hMdBtyIakQ7aDvD2L VWMOOC21 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8JUcjyABKxk08_ezhMOydQO0DryPXiZe VWMOOC22 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SD_K8x089JYv9oFKt7nYPyvNyN3rHcOfLdGHIY6osFY VWMOOC23 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8JUcjyABKxnnyFklqEWoLsyOfRYjyJha Help keep online professional development courses and online conferences free for educators worldwide by becoming a member of this channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsLt8oYvDYGpSHcGhRBBkyw/join