Cornell Theory Center

Virtual Worlds in Formal and Informal Education
Program

May 20 - 21, 1999

471 Rhodes Hall

We will do all that we can to schedule the programs to accommodate the needs and schedules of the entire community of workshop participants. Times noted on the schedule are Eastern Daylight Time.

Day 1

• Registration: 4th Floor Lounge, Rhodes Hall 8:30-9:00 am
• Introductions and Hands-on Orientation 9:00 am
  Direct Teleport
• Survey 1
• Early Break Room 519 Rhodes Hall 10:30 am
• Overlapping Sessions
  • Hands-on Session: 11:00 am
    Beginning Building (in world instruction)
    Direct Teleport
  • Joint Birds-of-a-Feather Discussion Session with the 15th Twente Workshop on Language Technology, University of Twente, Netherlands
    Interactions in Virtual Worlds
    Direct Teleport

Contact Zones: The Art of CD-Rom, an international exhibition of 55 CD-Roms from 18 countries, is curated by Timothy Murray, ran at Cornell University from March 9-April 16, at Hobart and William Smith Colleges from May 7-May 21 and will tour nationally next year. 519 Rhodes Hall Morning Break and Lunch Hour Joint Sessions Open to Remote Participants

• Welcome 1:30 pm
  Direct Teleport
• Keynote: Bringing Virtual Worlds to Life Bruce Damer 1:45 pm
  Direct Teleport
• Panels and Talks: Conceptual Context of Virtual Worlds 2:30 pm
  All presentations will be given inworld.
  • Research panel discussion from the Human/Computer Interaction Group at Cornell
    Direct Teleport
  • Electric Delivery Systems: Virtual Identity and New World Orders: Tim Murray, Director, Cornell Society for the Humanities
    Direct Teleport
• Stuart Gold's talk (see Day 2) has been moved to today

Day 2

Morning Activities for Onsite Participants

• Virtual Worlds for Education 9:00 am
  Brainstorming Session in 508 Rhodes Hall
• Morning Break 10:30 am
• Hands-on Session 1: Introductory Building Projects 11:00 am
  Direct Teleport
• Late-Morning Session: "In World" with UCSC
  University of California, Santa Cruz will join us live. Direct Teleport
• Tour the V-UCSC Project: 16 members 12:00 noon
  Virtual Gallery Show for Marine Biology 170
  Direct Teleport
• Tour of SciCentr World at CTC
  Direct Teleport
• Tour of Biolearn - Bioregional Learning Center
• Tour of Virtual NASA-Ames and Discussion
  Direct Teleport

Afternoon Sessions:

• Concurrent Sessions 2:00 pm:
• Open World Tours
  Meet at SciCentr GZ to break up and tour a variety of Active Worlds.
• Hands-on Session 2: Intermediate Building
  Direct Teleport