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2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.Advantages of the VirtualWorld
9.Some Virtual Worlds
Second Life
Whyville
The Sims
The Palace
Disney ToonTown
10. Some Websites using Avatars
Starfall.com
Second Life
Whyville
The Palace
Maid Marion
Meez
Disney Toontown
Small Worlds
Club Penquin
Star Wars
11. Are Virtual Worlds Games?
12. Do Games Support Learning?
13. How Do Virtual Worlds Support Learning?
14. What is the Teachers Role?
15. What do Teachers Need to Learn?
16. How Will the Teacher Assess Learning?
17. How will the teacher Engage the Student?
18. How will Students Support Each Other?
19. How will Students Engage Each Other?
20. Which Subjects are Best for Virtual Worlds?
21. How will Virtual Worlds Support K-12 Learners
22. Will Virtual Classes support Distance Education?
23. What is Necessary for Virtual Worlds to Support D E?
24. Will Learning Styles Impact the Virtual Classroom?
25. What Supports are there for Using Virtual Worlds?
26. What Barriers are there for using Virtual Worlds?
27.For Which Students will Virtual Classes work Best?
28. Will Virtual Classes work IN Regular Schools?
29. What do Parents Need to Know?
30. Does e-Learning Transfer to Real Life?
31. Are Students Playing or Learning?
32. What About Being off Task?
Or learning differently.
33. Are there Standards for Virtual World Classes?
34. Virtual Worlds Wave of the Future
35. Virtual Schools the Wave of the Future
36. Virtual Worlds Distance Education A Solution
37. Keynote Speaker, Dr. Sasha A.Barab
Advocate for Virtual Worlds
Virtual Classes
New Ways of Teaching and Learning
38. Images from
Starfall.com
Second Life .com
Ks3bitesize
Microsoft clipart
Whyville
4teachers.org
Rubistar.4teachers.org
Tammyworchester.com
39. Acknowledgements
Special thanks to my sister Bethenia Price for her patience and encouragement.
Special thanks to my daughter, Ana, for her admiration and perpetual joy.
Special thanks to my learning community whose work inspired my own.
40. Virtual Worlds
Thankyou, now .
On to the future!