{"id":6270,"date":"2019-03-26T20:32:16","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T20:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=6270"},"modified":"2019-03-26T20:32:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T20:32:24","slug":"vwbpe-keynotes-and-immersive-experiences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=6270","title":{"rendered":"VWBPE Keynotes and Immersive Experiences"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Conference is scheduled to run from April 4th &#8211; 6th, but as well as the main conference there are events happening outside those dates for people to explore and enjoy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scheduled keynote speakers are :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Dr. Tom Boellstorff, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine.<\/li><li>Dr. Tuncer Can, Assistant Professor, English Language Teaching Department, Istanbul University.<\/li><li>Dr. Jonathon Richter, Chair of Digital Design Technologies at Salish Kootenai College on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana and co-founder and Executive Director of the Immersive Learning Research Network.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>You can read more about the keynote speakers on the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"VWBPE official page about keynotes (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/vwbpe.org\/conference\/keynotes-and-speakers-2019\" target=\"_blank\">VWBPE official page about keynotes<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whereas the conference officially starts on April 4th, you don&#8217;t have to wait until April 4th to get into the VWBPE spirit because immersive experiences will be available before and after the main conference, indeed some have already opened up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>The immersive experiences will take place across five virtual environments including VRchat, Second Life and Kitely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Details of the experiences can be found on the<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" VWBPE Immersive Experiences page (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/vwbpe.org\/vwbpe-news\/get-into-the-spirit-of-it-immersive-experiences\" target=\"_blank\"> VWBPE Immersive Experiences page<\/a>, but please ensure you pay close attention to the <a href=\"https:\/\/vwbpe.org\/conference\/vwbpe-calendar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"VWBPE Calendar (opens in a new tab)\">VWBPE Calendar<\/a> for information on how to attend the experiences and the latest details on when the experiences will be held.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Conference is scheduled to run from April 4th &#8211; 6th, but as well as the main conference there are events happening outside those dates for people to explore and enjoy. Scheduled keynote speakers are : Dr. Tom Boellstorff, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine. Dr. Tuncer Can, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=6270\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;VWBPE Keynotes and Immersive Experiences&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[145,3,14],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6rJUK-1D8","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6271,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6270\/revisions\/6271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}