TJEP++Virtual+Worlds


 * TJEP Virtual Worlds Presentation**

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 * Resources**

//Videos//

Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world: TED Talk Massive Interactive Minecraft interactive choose your own adventure type video using Minecraft

//Books and Articles//

by Marianne Malmstrom Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World by Jane McGonigal What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy by James Gee Women and Gaming: The Sims and 21st Century Learning by James Gee Video Games and Learning: Teaching and Participatory Culture in the Digital Age, by Kurt Squire = =

//Elisabeth Morrow School, Englewood, NJ//

Morrowcraft (Minecraft) The Gnome Project (Open Sim) Saving the Universe (LEGO Universe) Tomorrow Island (Teen Second Life)

@Parents: Why Play a MMOG (Massively Multiplayer Online Game) In School - rationale, link to ISTE standards for learning, digital citizenship, and more @Parents: What Do Games Have to Teach Us?

//Islands of Enchantment, West Seneca, NY//

[] Islands of Enchantment Holocaust Project See especially Assignments Video Starters for the project. [] [] IOE Rules Agreement for Virtual Worlds

//Global Kids' Online Leadership Program//

//USHMM//

Second Life Kristallnacht installation can be found at []. Video testimonies on YouTube - [|http://www.youtube.com/user/ushmm#grid/user/68049C833F2565DD]

//World of Warcraft//

World of Warcraft in School - see especially teacher resources, student work, and A Hero's Call curriculum


 * __Projects and Platforms__**

[|EcoCampus] Quest Atlantis / Atlantis Remixed //Simnik: Educational Virtual Worlds (coming soon)//

JokadiaGrid


 * __Conferences__**

Virtual Pioneers Conference, Jan 20-21, 2012 Virtual Worlds - Best Practice in Education, March 15-17, 2012 Games+Learning+Society (GLS) Conference, June 13-15, 2012 Games for Change, June 18-20, 2012 Games in Education, August 1-2, 2012


 * __Additional Resources__**

[|Global Kids Second Life Curriculum] (wiki version

National Telecommunications and Information Administration: Task Force for Online Safety & Technology Workgroup Safekids.com

Jewish Learning on the MUVE: The 3D Web, A New Frontier in the 21st Century Landscape by Caren Levine, //Jewish Education News, Fall 2007, Vol.28//, No. 3

Caren's bookmarks on virtual worlds

Thanks to David Klevan, Marianne Malmstrom, Sarah Rolle, and Andrew Wheelock for sharing resources.


 * Scenes from Second Life**