NMC Campus Observer

Learning Communities Start Here: Teachers Buzz at Dreams Community Fair

CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) : Apr 13, 2007 12:44am

Coming up Monday, 9:00 am PDT, April 16, the next NMC Campus Teachers Buzz combines two aspects into one meeting — a guest speaker and a field trip. We are taking the meeting location on the road, to the Dreams Community Fair, an event dedicated to teaching and community building, which takes place April 14-28. Our NMC colleague Ravanelle Z is setting up an NMC booth at this event, and has arrange a time and place we can hold our Buzz meeting.

Our meeting place at the Dreams Community Fair

Our guest for this session is Desidira Stockton (Beth Ritter-Guth), an extremely active avatar in the education realmof Second Life. She will lead us through a discussion around forming a global learning community in SL to share our experiences and synergize our strengths, posing questions like:

We have a rich faculty community in SL; do we work together to foster a global learning community, or do we recreate the wheels of learning by duplicating services?

See the wiki she has started to prepare for this meeting.

You can find this location at Dreams (227, 104, 30) or via the map url and plan to be there at 9:00 AM PDT. If you get lost at the fair, look for us across the path from the NMC booth:

The NMC booth at the Dreams Community Fair

And while you are hear, either before or after the Buzz meeting, take some time to see the great exhibits and resources set up at the fair.

Story filed under: Teacher's Buzz, Teaching and Learning, What's Happening

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