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Virginia Society for Technology in Education

VEPLN Summer of Survival

The Virtual Environments Professional Learning Network (VEPLN) will be sponsoring the second annual Survive the Summer event at VSTE Place in Minecraft. WHAT Yes! We are doing this again! Shorter and sweeter, this summer, July 2 through July 31, VSTE Place will hold its second Summer of Survival! Participants will be able to warp to survival mode for a completely different … [Read more...]

Building In Second Life: An Introduction to Rokuro

While many people experience Second Life as a consumer, one of the powers of virtual environments is the ability to learn to build in three dimensions. On Monday, May 21, at 8 PM, the VE PLN will host Norma Underwood who will teach participants how to create sculpted prims, or complex shapes that are difficult to produce with the standard building tools in Second Life. Creating … [Read more...]

Help Plan Minecraft Survival Summer II: May 7 at 8 PM

The VSTE VE PLN will once again "Survive the Summer" in Minecraft! This year, the organizer, Kim Harrison, is asking for community input when planning this experience. Anyone interested being part of this now-annual event should meet with the team on Monday, May 7, at 8 PM Eastern time, in Minecraft ( IP address 69.175.17.26:25565) and on Discord (https://discord.gg/ZHbjsv) to … [Read more...]

VE PLN Sponsors Literary Studies Group

VSTE's Virtual Environments Professional Learning Network (VE PLN) is pleased to announce the formation of the Second Life Literary Studies Group. The purpose of the group will be to discuss literary works, usually short stories, and share better ways to teach literature and English, in general. The next meeting will be on Thursday, May 10, 2018, at 8 PM, and the group will be … [Read more...]

VE PLN Builds Birdhouses in Second Life

Let's build a bird house! Norma Underwood is going to lead us through the steps to make this cute little birdhouse Monday, April 23 at 5 PM SLT (8 PM EDT). You will get to practice many building skills that can help you with projects of your own! Please join us! If you don't have a Second Life account get one, it's free. We recommend setting one up at the Rockcliffe … [Read more...]

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