Vwbpe conference 2011

Billboard map of the conference – clicking on the place will ‘teleport’ you there

Billboard Schedule of the conference updated by the hour

Central Auditorium and main speaking place for Key Note Speakers

Avatars gathering before a talk

Project involving preservation of Miawpukek traditions in Canada

Using serious games and VW to solve World Problems Presentation

You can zoom into the whiteboard to view the slideshow better

A talk about Virtual World Learning by Kimberly Winnington

Deep Down Coal MineInteractive world where kids learn about energy and the effects on its small town community

The field trip to the mine was part of the presentation The audience is standing around the billboard. Speaker is in red hat on left - I’m in blue shirt

Watching a teacher dump coal – great idea for student field trips

You got to drive a truck to pick up coal – all the guy avatars grabbed all the trucks first….

You can interact with the downtown residents to see effects of energy and commerce – I fell behind group so I flew in to catch up…

Part of the Conference is getting access to people’s tweets and blogs –here each post tweeter or blogger is represented as icons in a circle

They also had poster sessions created by participants and posted in parts of the conference ‘world’

A laboratory experiment in a virtual world created by Univ. of Nottingham

Seton University Tour or Pirate Island

Clicking on the poster takes you there – this was my greeting – plus a bottle of champagne…

Conference area of Pirate Island

And of course the pirate ship

This is the Conference Café for networking

“I’ll take decaf please…”

View from the Café – I felt relaxed

Ballroom where the end of the conference dance will be