Draxtor Despres (AKA Bernhard Drax), of The Drax Files : World Makers fame, is scheduled to speak at Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education on Saturday April 1st at 3.00pm SLT.
Draxtor’s discussion is entitled : “Will VR Matter in Education? Lessons Learned from a Second Life Documentarian’s 10 Year Life“.
Draxtor’s talk is part of the Above The Book sessions at this year’s conference and from that link we can see that Draxtor has a very wide level of experience in media and virtual world creativity.
A snippet from that bio informs us :
A champion of user-created digital content in VR he is well known for the award-winning mixed-reality documentary series “The Drax Files: World Makers” on YouTube.
Bernhard has delivered trans-media concepts for clients such as MIT, the MacArthur Foundation and was lead developer for the Emmy nominated PBS project “Deep Down: The Virtual Mine”.
Therefore it’s good to see Draxtor bringing his experience to an educational discussion.
Above The Book featured Ebbe Altberg earlier in the week, you can view that discussion on YouTube.
There’s plenty more going on at VWBPE today and tomorrow, for an overview of today’s activities go here . There we can see a good choice of activities including teaching and learning, use of virtual worlds and for those who like their entertainment, a ballet performance.
For an overview of tomorrow’s activities, look at the events calendar. There’s a lot more to this conference than educators talking about education. Educators can be fun you know, I know some! I’ve worked with plenty too.