Thursday, October 20, 2011

8:30am Check-in and Continental Breakfast
9:00am Welcome to the 3rd annual Oregon Immersive Education Days Conference! (Jon Dorbolo)
9:30am Keynote: Lab Sciences Across Alaska Through Virtual Worlds (Don Bickley and Dr. Julie Fronzuto)
11:00am Video Game Creation: An Opportunity for Team-based Interdisciplinary Classroom Learning (Todd Kesterson)
12:00pm Lunch (on your own)
1:00pm Update from The UO Center for Learning in Virtual Environments (Jonathon Richter)
2:00pm The Tale of an sQ: An Update from Dream Realizations (D. Cooper Patterson and Rebecca Reiniger)
3:00pm Game: Oregon. Sector: Columbia Gorge, Level: Geology, Quest: Basalt Flows. (Paula Ascher and Monica Marlo)
4:00pm Navigating Wired and Green Spaces (Jher)

Friday, October 21, 2011

8:30am Check-in and Continental Breakfast
9:00am Immersive Education Taxonomies, Models, and Strategies (Jon Dorbolo)
10:00am* Teaching Game Studies at UO: A Collaborative Pilot Project (David Baker, Carol Stabile, Ann Zeidman-Karpinsk, and Iris Bull)*
11:00am Oregon Community Colleges in Virtual Worlds: Past Lessons Learned on a Future Forward Path (Paula Ascher and Monica Marlo)
12:00pm Lunch (on your own)
1:00pm Establishing learning community in rural Oregon in Second Life with Project DIRECT (Peggy Marconi)
2:00pm Immersive Education for Online Classes (Victor Yee)
3:00pm Using SL for Application Prototyping and Testing (D. Cooper Patterson and Rebecca Reiniger)
4:00pm OpenSim for Classroom Collaboration (Jim Bailey and Ann Steckel)

Saturday, October 22, 2011

8:30am Check-in and Continental Breakfast
9:00am NEXT STEPS: Open Forum and Brainstorming Session (all participants)
10:00am Closing Plenary Session (all participants)

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Live video streaming will be available Thursday and Friday for those unable to attend the conference in person. Please register if you would like to be sent a live link to the conference or drop by the Beaver Island Amphitheatre with your avatar in-world in Second Life and watch from there:
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Oregon%20State%20University/75/163/26.

UPDATE: The live streaming is located at http://live.oregonstate.edu. Post-conference follow up information with links to recorded sessions and any presenter-provided materials will only be sent to those who register (registration will remain open for duration of the conference) or drop a notecard with contact information in-world to Second Life avatar Wrenaria Antiesse.</b>

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*Special Note: The Friday 10:00 am session will be held in Kidder Hall, room 202. Campus map found here.