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VE PLN: Unraveling the Mysteries of Instagram

March 18, 2018

VSTE's Virtual Environments Professional Learning Network (VE PLN) is pleased to welcome Andrew Wheelock, AKA Spiff Whitfield in Second Life, who will help unravel the mysteries of Instagram for us. In discussing digital citizenship recently we discovered that many of us "don't get it." We went to Andy for help. Our discussion is bound to go beyond Instagram as we navigate social media and digital citizenship topics.

Andrew Wheelock is an innovative Technology Integrator at Western New York Regional Information Center currently living in Buffalo, New York.

His blog is http://www.coffeewithageek.org/ where he interviews Edtech leaders from around the world.

He's also Spiff Whitfield, the leader and founder of Virtual Pioneers, a group that meets every other Sunday evening in Second Life to promote and tour simulations about culture, history, and other social studies topics.

In 2016 Andrew Wheelock received The Thinkerer Award which is granted during the Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education conference in the spring, as a lifetime achievement award for consistent selfless service towards the promotion of learning, community, and educational practices using immersive environments.

Andrew created a virtual exhibit in an Open Sim called the Islands of Enlightenment http://islandsoe.weebly.com/ which includes a place designed to help students learn about The Holocaust  Reimagining The Diary of a Young Girl: Anne Frank for the 21st Century.

 

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