National Workshop on Teaching in Immersive Worlds 2010

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 SPEAKER

AFFILIATION

TALK TITLE

TIME

 

Welcome & Introduction

 

 Professor Liam Maguire, Head of School, Computing & Intelligent Systems

9.15-9.30

Kerri McCusker

Michael Callaghan

Julio Lopez Losada

Serious Games Virtual Worlds team  ISRC, University of Ulster

CIRCUIT WARZ:A Game based approach to teaching Electronic & Electrical Engineering in Virtual Worlds

9.30-10.00

Dr Anthony McCann

School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Ulster

Emotional and political possibilities of pedagogy in virtual worlds

10.00-10.30

TEA BREAK

TEA BREAK

TEA BREAK

10.30-10.45

Professor Maggi Savin-Baden

Keynote speaker

Director, Learning Innovation Group

Coventry University

Spaces in-between us:

Understanding spatial practice in Second Life

10.45-11.30

Joe Mangru

Danny Roman

Dataworks

Using virtual simulators for learning in Second Life

http://www.dataworkstudios.com/

11.30-12.15

Daniel Livingstone

University  West Scotland

Supporting Learning in Virtual Worlds with Virtual Learning Environments

12.15-1.00

LUNCH BREAK

LUNCH BREAK

LUNCH BREAK

1.00-1.45

Jonathan Himoff

CEO Rezzable

Rezzable http://heritage-key.com/

1.45-2.30

Bernhard Drax

Keynote speaker

 

Bernhard Drax is an award-winning maker of machinima computer animations and will be speaking virtually at IMMERS[ED] 2010.

Conflict resolution in virtual worlds

http://www.bernharddrax.com

2.30-3.30

TEA BREAK

TEA BREAK

TEA BREAK

3.30-3.45

Kerri McCusker,

Michael Callaghan

Julio Lopez Losada

Luke Kelleher,

Dr Martin Melaugh

Professor Gillian Robinson

CAIN, ARK, SGVW ISRC

University of Ulster

Visualising the Conflict: Immersion in the Landscape of Victims and Commemoration in Northern Ireland

3.45-4.30

Susanna Nocchi

Carmela Dell’Aria

Dublin Institute of Technology

University of Palermo

Will Second Life help me survive in Italy?

4.30-5.00