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What a wonderful event! Thank you to teachers and students who worked hard and achieved so much in 3 short days. Here we all are in the picture with our purple Flat Classroom T-Shirts.

We are…

The Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Conference runs March 15-17 in Second Life. Here's the master schedule: 

http://vwbpe12.vwbpe.org/

My presentation, "Best Practices Showcase: 3D Virtual Worlds in (K-12/International) Schools," will take place in the Main Auditorium March 15 at 8 PM Second Life/Pacific Standard Time. Folks outside the USA should note that Daylight Savings Time took effect last weekend, so check…

Wonderful experience and exciting results. I look forward to seeing some of the projects prototyped...so many good ideas. This was the third time we've brought Stonehill students to the conference and each time the student teams become even more impressive in their ability to quickly bond, brainstorm and build.

I made a short movie of the Mumbai Flat Classroom experience that our 4 students had:…

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 Day 2:

Make the final presentation draft                   I really enjoyed presrnting even though it wa VERY scary :) I want to    Easy things:                                                  thank all my team for being awesome and help me get confident.

1- choosing a topic                                        

2- researching about the topic

Hard things:

1- working with people you don't know

2- making a ONLY 4 minutes…

FEBRUARY 24th (DAY 2) FLAT CLASSROOM REFLECTION

My second day was a little different from what I had expected. The day started by a blog reflection on the previous day, and then we parted with our group members to start our next phase of the project, which was to create a story board…

Yestday was a fun day and we had in the morning workshops, where i entered a 3D world for the first time. The after-noon was quite stressful since we had to start the storyboard for our final project but at the same time make another pitch, which we had to present in front of everboy. 

but all went fine :) 

SO let me make this short and quick before my net gives up on me again, so yersterday was AWESOME. My group was epic, and i actually think we stand a chance to get through. the pressure was really too much sometimes like when we went against the deadlines and stuff. so yes all in all great day , uber amount of pressure and just pure anticipation.!

Let day 3 commence 

The second day of classroom was quite interesting. Splitting up into  three groups was quite entertaining because we got to spend time in smaller groups and explore different ways of communicating a story. But the most interesting part was making the storyboard for our final advertisement. It was challenging yet fun to create a brand new video on paper. Ultimately I was proud of my group for coming together and getting the job done in a couple of hours.

Today is day 3, which is the last day of the conference. I have made a lot of good friends adn met some really good people, and i am going to be sad when we leave each other and go back to our schools.

We made our story board and presented it to the audience by the means of power point which we will be developing it into a movie. 

Yesterday, when we had to bring up a good presentation and make our product clear to the audience in  hours of preparation and prepare a min speech,…

The second day was full of a hell lot of work; real work and also quite some trepidation. In the morning, again meeting my group members, talking more openly to them than I was in the first day was fun, we were more open and friendly with each other, spoke out our ideas more openely and really enjoyed ourselves!

The day started with the blogging of the previous day reflection, then doing two out the three tasks (I did the Technology and the Photography one) was again something that…

After we arrived at hotel, we started to make the another group for field trip. I was in photo group and 3D virtual world group with Kana (ASB friend). For photo, we went to ASB and take some photos that have a interesting story. Finally, Our group got really amazing photo! After this field trip, we started to our group project again. Based on yesterday oral pitch and feedback, we stated to make a story board and a little bit of presentation. Everyone in our group tried to withdraw the good…

Yesterday’s morning session was creative and great as we went to ASB to take some photos and then we had 3D session.

Later on we began to put all our ideas on have the final would be look like after that we presented it to the whole class and it was really fun.

Hello there (: Yesterday was the twenty fourth of February, and we spent the day in various workshops & working on storyboards to present that would be the base idea for our final video. The first workshop I attended was the 'a picture is worth a thousand words' workshop, which was a lot of fun: we went to ASB & I walked around the campus with Aaditya & Kana taking photos that could tell a story. I'll upload one of them a bit later. The second workshop I attended was the…

ASB Unplugged 2012 Day 2 Reflection

After we met up in the Trident Hotel, we talking about how we could improve and catch people's attention using commercials, interesting photos, and formats. After we looked at all those interesting commercial and talked about it, we moved on to actually taking the interesting photos ourselves, and interviewing and stuff. For journalism, we talked about how we cannot include everything that we want, so we have to put several interesting and most…

Today, we made the final pitches to decide weither we were going to the finals or not. There will be only 4 teams to succeed, and 2 will be eliminated. DA DA DAAAAAAAAAAAAAN.

My group finalized our pitch, taking the compliments and advice from the teachers and other students and further improved our presentation. We drew out our storyboard with green markers and lined paper. (Well technically Kana did...Thank you Kana :) Then, we put them into slides, and presented them to a small…

On day 2 of Flat Classroom, we spent the morning learning about different styles of media. I went on the "photos worth a thousand words" and "3D virtual world" workshops. For the photo workshop, we went over to ASB and took photos, keeping in mind the rule of thirds and taking close-up photos. We came back to the Trident for the 3D virtual world workshop, where David Deeds, our instructor, took us through a program called Imprudence and showed us how virtual worlds can be used in education…

today is 2 day in india, all the day speech. we are have group work,made a ppt and speech it. i am very enjoy it.

Yesterday we make a interesting video, I think that is great. And we draw a some picture, and make it in PowerPoint, I think this good for explain our  story and idea. We show to everybody, and we look other people's PowerPoint, we can improve our knowledge.

The second day of Unplugged classroom went mostly working on presentations. Their preparation took most of the afternoon. Then we had to present which turned out to be a tough and stressful at least for me.

Before there were presentations about audio and 3D video games and their impact on education. Both parts of "field trip" in the hotel were interesting and shown different attempt to the topic of education.

Audio is a well known element and I believe that a clear recording…

Yesterday morning, we began with some workshops. there were virtual world, photography and journalism. for the first session, i was put into virtual world. we created our own avatars and downloaded the program called imprudence. Since some student couldn't load the imprudence, we worked together as a group to move around the area and build. For the second session, I was put into photography. We went to the school - ASB - and went around taking photos that could tell a story. I took many…