SLedupotential at NECC!

In one week and a half hour from this very minute I'll be saying goodbye to my 8 co-presenters, our several helpers, and our 30 registered attendees at "SLedupotential: Educational Potential of Second Life and Virtual Worlds," our 3 hours together in what friend Gia calls "meatspace" and concurrently in Second Life over and done with. That will be a moment of heavy sigh, friends, whether the experience has gone without a glitch or had more the aspect of a nasty train wreck.

I can't imagine the latter. We have on hand 9 remarkably fluent pioneers in the use of Second Life to help ourselves and our students learn. The workshop design (still not set in stone as I type this) has been created to allow the middle hour a rotating (or not) set of 20 minute hands-on inworld experiences for all. And the workshop attendees, 18 of whom have submitted fairly detailed sets of expectations in the form of a pre-conference Google Survey, are varied and interesting in their own right.

If you wish to attend, space will be available inworld via a SLurl posted at the main Headquarters of ISTE Island, at my own Blogger's Hut and Podcasters' Place, and at the NECC2008 outbuilding off beside the HQ. We'll have streaming audio from the conference room, and with any luck there'll be a running set of online accessible resources during the event.

SLedupotential is June 30, 8:30 Central time, 6:30 SL (Pacific) time, and runs for three hours. See the development/resource wiki at http://sledupotential.wikispaces.com for more info, and hey, think good thoughts!