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3D Training, Learning and Collaboration - April 20-21, 2009 - Washington, DC
http://www.3dtlc.com
3D technologies present incredible potential for enterprises that need to reinvent themselves at a time where the world is flattening, connectivity is increasing, economic markets are contracting and the need for change is pressing. At this conference we are seeking to move beyond the potential that 3D could bring to the enterprise to the practical solutions that we have already seen added value. Key elements: Analyze, Leverage, Teach, Learn, Design, Explore, Improve, Connect, Extend and Convince.
Tuesday, April 14, 5 PM SLT
ISTE Speaker Series event: Full Circle - Connecting Back to the Right Brain by Kestral Karas and Obisam1 Canetti

This presentation is a case for virtual worlds as a learning / teaching tool that has the capacity to provide not only information, but to package experience as a persistent site. It will illustrate how education professionals have been moving toward this capacity for some time by the options they have adopted in media starting with the first illustrated texts, then photographs, films, video, interactive media and so on. Virtual worlds used as a broad spectrum educational tool rededicate the immersible possibilities and power presented by serious games combined with open social networking, VOIP, video, audio and more to come.

Professor Stead's interest in 3-D media stems from 1996 when he started the first 3-D computer graphics labs at Shawnee State University, and subsequently one of the first liberal arts based BFA degrees in Game & Simulation Development Arts in 2002. This degree was joined by an intertwined sister programming degree in Simulation and Game Engineering Technology in 2004. The 100+ students in these programs as a group have the highest ACT averages in the University (including a highly successful Pre-Med program). Prof. Stead joined the WIRED Grant in 2007 and built WIRED Island #1 as a proof-of-concept space. The island is like a "candy box" of project modules showing what can be done in virtual world spaces (http://slurl.com/secondlife/WIRED%201/226/45/29).

This will be a voice event; please be sure that you have a working voice setup [ideally including a headset microphone] prior to arrival!
Location: ISTE Island Auditorium http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island/204/46/23

The entire presentation will also be available as a pdf file.