Virtual Conferences for Educators & Parents

This group focuses on the professional advancement of educators and the information status of parents, such as e.g. conferences and exhibitions held by associations and universities etc., and sandbox events for members within the theme domain of Classroom 2.0. http://www.vmworld.com/

Join the Parent Teacher Association in Second Life: PTA Global

New IBM Case Study Showcases Value of Meeting Inworld

Master Mindmap for Second Life Educators & Trainers (and Event Providers) <<< New
http://www.mindomo.com/view.htm?m=01408b7adf4a4ed79a28adedcae066ca


Please free to add your live and/or virtual conference and event data to Classroom 2.0

Event Format
- The event logo needs to be captured (Jing, SnagIt) and be prepared from the source website.
- Information about the call-for-paper announcement needs to be published as blog here, then included as link to the event data.
- An independent link offering information about international GMT/UTC Fixed Time must be included to the event data. Please use www.timeanddate.com to generate such a link.
- In reverse, the event link then needs to be added to the call-for-paper blog.
- Please avoid multiple publishing.
- Don't forget to establish an Twitter.com name for the event, then add it to the event data with a hashtag "#". http://twitter.com/vconferences
- Twitterfall.com is a nice service to list Twitter messages from an event using search terms or hashtags.
- If you produce snapshot pictures or screen captures, please post them at Flickr.com AND tag them accordingly with the hashtag or otherwise clear tag names.
- Please post a note to the event data if data changes have occurred within the source website and you intend to update on this. Add a link to the source website if necessary. Notify the author of the event posting to update and validate the event posting via e-mail. Also recommend the source website to use GMT/UTC Fixed Time from timeanddate.com.
- Entry into the Google Calendar (pending)

Event Configuration
http://evovwll.ning.com/forum/topics/event-configuration-windows

Event organizors and administrators that are additionally interested to organize, to implement, and to stream virtual events, please add your contact information to the following database: (pending)

Benchmarks

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