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//**1. Two Professional Organization that workshops in the MUVEs:**// - CITEd Research Center: [] - Visualization & Graphics Community: []

//**2. Personal Learning Network available in the MUVE for information about emerging technology:**// - delicious: []- Slide5hare: []

//**3. One Other Resource:- The River City Project:**// []

//**4. How to Engage Colleagues in Professional Development Workshop:**// Personal Learning Network (PLN) is one of the most successful and effective way to engage colleagues, whether they are in local or remote area. Warlick (2009) suggests that we teachers use social bookmarking services, such as Delicious, for PLN. “As people add new Websites to their online bookmarks and categorize or tag them, that information becomes available to the entire community (p. 14).” In terms of online sharing, Slide5hare site can be another PLN that I found to be efficient during my exploration. This website is an online showcase where teachers can share PowerPoint Slide regarding online educational development with one another. So if you aim to get involved in a professional learning community or professional development workshop, this is the website you might want to engage in. Visualization and Graphics Technical Community web site is the website where visualization practitioners gather together to discuss upcoming events, news items of interest, and the latest research. You can browse the active archives for recent conferences, and keep track of upcoming deadlines by reviewing the CFPs. You can check out the resources page for links to relevant publications, software, and data, visit the job board to find out who’s hiring or learn more about the Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (TC). Whether you are an expert in the field, or a new grad student just beginning your visualization career, exploring the site, sharing your thoughts, and becoming part of his community helps your professional development.

Resouces Warlick, D. (2009). Grow your personal learning network. Learning & Leading With Technology, 36(6), 12–16.

Marcus Johnson

- **CSCSL 2008:** []
 * 1. two professional organizations that have an online presence and offer training or workshops in the MUVE**
 * - EdTech Leaders Online:** []

2. **personal learning network available in the MUVE**
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 * 3. other resource in the MUVE for information about new and emerging technologies**
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**Marcus,** **I wholeheartedly agree with you that teachers do not get enough hands on time to become comfortable with new technology. This sounds like a really good way to ease educators into becoming comfortable with MUVEs.** **Holly**
 * 4. Engaging of colleagues**
 * One commodity teachers never have enough of is time. In my district teacher work days are usually spent outside of the classroom stuck in meetings and professional development sessions. These meetings do very little to improve the teacher understanding of the concepts presented. Also, teachers usually do not receive much hands on instruction/knowledge in the process. More importantly,they take away more of the teacher's time. I feel that the pairing of device management/monitoring systems and webinars could be a more effective way of teaching educators about MUVEs.**
 * This approach would be best for my situation. There are a number of my colleagues that have very little skill with technology. In order for them to get past their apprehensiveness, they must receive hands on experience in a supervised setting. The premise of the webinar is so that everyone focuses more so on the computer than the presenter/trainer. The monitoring software can be used to conduct tutorials in a manner so that everyone's needs can be attended to personally. It would also help communication. Questions could be asked back and forth without halting the process.**

Marcus, after posting my information I saw that you too had tapedin as the resource for the sharing of linformation for teachers. I tried to find other sites similiar to this one, but I did not find one. Tapedin is a great place for collaboration, sharing, and communicating to take place amoung teachers. And anymore that seems to be a big idea/theme within our profession.

-Vince HIll **﻿** 1. 2 professional organizations that offer training and workshops- CBSG Virtual Workshops – A Resource for Organisers []
 * Holly Gramling**

ISTE International Society for Technology in Education [|http://www.iste.org/search-results.aspx?cx=009361572988635565734:m4aecexuj6y&cof=FORID%3A11&ie=UTF-8&q=muve&sa=Search#1650]

2. Personal Learning Network – [] twitter

3. A technology resource within a MUVE to find information about new and emerging technologies - Technology Forum within Second Life []

Using the MUVE to engage both local and remote colleagues for professional development through virtual workshops seems to almost be a futuristic ideal. Right now, we are learning about the new Common Core Standards that are being adopted for the 2012-2013 school year through video and Illuminate sessions. This could be taken a step farther and a MUVE could be used to work with colleagues to become hands on and work together to understand and master the standards that the students will MUVE to create lessons and units.

This would be a good way to expose teachers to the world of MUVE’s. So many colleagues are resitstant to using technology in the classroom because they do not understand the technology or how to use it. If the educators could use the technology personally in order to become comfortable enough to actually use it in the classroom.
 * Holly,**
 * I totally agree with you, Holly. The whole paradigm of learning has changed since the Internet took hold in our daily lives. This immense shift is almost equal to Industrial Revolution, I assume. In the 21st century, digital-native students are emersed in online games such as MUVEs. As next week's discussion promt "Learning Principles in Online Video Games" points out, there are academically-proven principals embedded in online games, from which we teachers can learn. In order to make our class more motivating and entertaining to 21st-century digital natives, we teachers in the first place need to expose ourselves to the world of MUVEs and experience them hands on. This kind of discussion does not take place until what you noted in your posting truly happens.**
 * I totally agree with you, Holly. The whole paradigm of learning has changed since the Internet took hold in our daily lives. This immense shift is almost equal to Industrial Revolution, I assume. In the 21st century, digital-native students are emersed in online games such as MUVEs. As next week's discussion promt "Learning Principles in Online Video Games" points out, there are academically-proven principals embedded in online games, from which we teachers can learn. In order to make our class more motivating and entertaining to 21st-century digital natives, we teachers in the first place need to expose ourselves to the world of MUVEs and experience them hands on. This kind of discussion does not take place until what you noted in your posting truly happens.**


 * Yoshio Kamakura **

Vince Hill


 * Two professional organizations that have an online presence and offer training or workshops in the MUVE.


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 * Personal learning network available in the MUVE
 * I too thought that this site provided a great tool for professional teachers to access and share information: []


 * A technology resource within a MUVE to find information about new and emerging technologies.
 * @http://www.vecolab.org/.


 * How could I use MUVE’s?

To engage my colleagues I feel that I would have to use many different combinations to help them grasp the ideas of MUVE’s and new technologies. To do so, I feel that PLN, online tutorials, and individual professional development time would be needed to help them grasp these ideas. I would initially start by having them use their Google account to get them used to sharing information within docs and sites. In working as a team they can get used to the idea that in sharing ideas can be quite easy and beneficial to all parties invested in them.

Once that step has been mastered I would them transition them into using a MUVE to share resources for the new math curriculum that has blindsided many teachers within our district.. How do’s? and what are you using for this lesson? To help have a place to share, express themselves and their practices, yet also learn about new technologies is a great experience for all teachers new and old.