Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education 2010 conference.  That’s the official name.  Dates, 12-13 Mar. 2010.    

Call for Proposals: Paper and Poster Sessions.  Submissions are due by Monday, February 15th 2010

The Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education (VW-BPE) is a community-based conference to let  participants of virtual worlds  share current teaching, learning and research experience and practices in 3D virtual environments.  Conference presentations focus on teaching/learning, scholarly work, projects, events, activities and innovative tools for education in virtual worlds.  Conference presenters’ focus on the identification of ‘best practices in education’ designed for 3D virtual world technology.

The conference will be held in several Second Life estates:

This article is another in our series: The Avatar's Guide to Gatherings  Subtitle: You don't have to be a geek to use Second Life.  You may use it for:

• classes (as teacher or learner), 
• conventions. (The Second Life Community Convention could be in Second Life.), 
• symposia (ADVANCES IN GREEN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY).  

This article gives suggestions on how to help groups of non-geeks get into Second Life.  Without trying to remake them into geeks.

(Disclaimer: I am half geek.  I speak both geek and English.  Here I try to keep everything in English. The instructions here are written for novices so you can copy them out and give them to your supervisor.)

Gathering a flock of people in SL

This job starts with a leader, preferably somebody who has experience managing such a gathering in the physical world.  So we start with advice to the leader.