Immersive Education's video: iED 2010 SUMMIT : Greenbush Southeast Kansas Education Service Center

iED 2010 SUMMIT : Greenbush - Immersive Education Initiative *** THIS VIDEO, AND ALL VIDEOS ON THE iED CHANNEL, MAY BE EMBEDDED IN YOUR OWN PAGE AND FREELY DISTRIBUTED. SYNDICATION: CONTACT iED TO UPLOAD THE ORIGINAL RAW VIDEO FILE TO YOUR OWN CHANNEL FREE OF CHARGE. *** Immersive Education Initiative: http://ImmersiveEducation.org Summit Session: "VIRTUAL WORLDS AND ADVANCED VISUALIZATION IN THE K-6 CLASSROOM" SPEAKER: Richard L. White Immersive Education Developer, Greenbush Southeast Kansas Education Service Center SESSION SUMMARY: The Greenbush Southeast Kansas Education Service Center provides educational services to over 3,000 learners in the state of Kansas. At the core of every Greenbush program is the unyielding belief that every student, regardless of geographic location, deserves equal educational opportunities. The main Greenbush campus is the site for unique learning facilities such as the Abernathy Science Center and rain forest, Mission Space Station, Astrophysical Observatory, and Greenbush Archaeological Dig. However, learning opportunities for students are by no means limited to the Greenbush campus. The Greenbush Interactive Distance Learning Network, Virtual Prescriptive Learning, Migrant Education, and Virtual Greenbush provide students across the state with curriculum and learning experiences ranging from algebra and history to career/technical education and foreign language instruction. This session will provide a broad overview and practical use case examples of the open source Immersive Education 3D virtual world platforms (as well as hardware platforms) that the Greenbush Education Service Center has been deploying with K-6 students over the past 4 years. At Greenbush we have graduated over 200 students through our "Virtual World Builders" project over the past several years, and in this session I look forward to sharing with you the many tips, tricks, and methods that we have developed that you can use immediately in your own K-6 and K-12 classrooms. This session will discuss Open Simulator (OpenSim), Google Sketchup, CBModelPro, Open Cobat, the classroom interactive whiteboard, and our new Mobile Immersive Learning Lab conceptual design. Immersive Education Initiative: http://ImmersiveEducation.org