Project Leaders
Katy Börner, Indiana University
Margaret Corbit, Cornell University
Bonnie DeVarco, Vlearn 3D SIG of Contact Consortium

Students
Chad Rooney, Research Intern, VLearn3D Building Blocks Project
Elijah Wright, Indiana University
David Peth, Cornell University

Other Project Participants:
Patrick McKercher, UC Santa Cruz
Rafael Granados, UC College Prep (UCCP) Initiative
Carol Kerney, Borderlink Project (out of San Diego and Imperial County Boards of Education)
Penny and Craig Twining, Active Art Design
VLearn3D.org and AWEDU community member

Resources
Collaborative Information Universe at Indiana University

Fall Roundtable Series in VLearn World, AWEDU

• Oct. 30, 9:00am -11:00am Pacific, 12:00 - 2:00 Eastern, 4:00pm - 6:00pm GMT: Roundtable 5 on "New Avatars & New AW 3DWeb Page" Demo
• Oct 16th, 9:30 -11:30am Pacific, 12:30-2:30pm EST, 4:30-6:30pm GMT: Roundtable 4 on "Forming Effective Virtual World Communities"
• Oct 9th, 9:30 -11:30am Pacific, 12:30-2:30pm EST, 4:30-6:30pm GMT: Roundtable 3 on "Funding & Multi-Institutional Projects - Challenges & Opportunities "
• Sept 25th, 9:30 -11:30am Pacific, 12:30-2:30pm EST, 4:30-6:30pm GMT: Roundtable 2 on "World Design and the Educational Experience"
• Sept 18th, 9:30 -11:30am Pacific, 12:30-2:30pm EST, 4:30-6:30pm GMT: Roundtable 1 on "Technology Issues in Virtual Worlds"

Other Activities

• April 21-25, 2003 "Design principles for educational virtual environments" at the CILTs design principles interactive poster session at AERA, Chicago, IL.
• Dec 4, 2002 I-Light Applications Workshop, University Place Conference Center, Indianapolis, IN. 
• September 2002 "Questionnaire Session in AWEDU"
• July 2002 "The Global Classroom of Cyberspace" Emerging Technologies Pavilion, "ThinkQuestLIVE - Exploring the Future of Learning" [Bonnie DeVarco, Margaret Corbit]
• June 2002 "QuantumVIZ-  Social Networks, Planetary Visualization & Dynamic InfoScapes - 2D, 3D, N-D" [Bonnie DeVarco, John Graham] 
• December 2001 - "Vlearn3D 2001 - Knowledge Spaces & Information Landscapes - Interactivity and Information Visualization in Virtual Worlds" [Bonnie DeVarco, Margaret Corbit]
• October 2000 "Vlearn3D 2000 - Live 3D, Learn 3D: Building Global Learning Communities through Collaboration, Knowledge Networks &  Play" [Margaret Corbit, Bonnie DeVarco] 
• October 2000 "Tech Innovation 2000- Building Global Learning Communities through E-Learning, Collaboratories and Knowledge Networks", University of California, Santa Cruz [Bonnie DeVarco] 
• September 2000 Online Learning 2000 "Active Worlds and Education" [Bonnie DeVarco, Margaret Corbit] 
• May 2000 "EarthVIZ - Digital Earth, Telescience and Realtime3D"; University of California, Santa Cruz, [Bonnie DeVarco]
• May 1999 "Vlearn3D 1999 - Virtual Worlds in Formal and Informal Education" - Cornell Theory Center and University of California, Santa Cruz [Margaret Corbit, Bonnie DeVarco]
• 1999, 2000, 2001 "Avatars and VLearn3D" CONTACT - Cultures of the Imagination [Bonnie DeVarco]
• April 1999 "Virtual Worlds and their avatar communities on the Internet" Virtual Communities Conference - VirComm '99 [Bruce Damer, Bonnie DeVarco] 
• August 1999 "Bridging people-intelligence via telecommunication and other technologies" 3rd International Cognitive Technology Conference "Networked Minds" Cti'99 [Bonnie DeVarco]
• October 1998 "AVATARS  '98 - VLearn Education Track" [Bonnie DeVarco]

• Katy Börner, Margaret Corbit & Bonnie DeVarco: Building Blocks for Virtual Worlds, Final Project Report, March 2003.
• Katy Börner: Computer-mediated means for sharing knowledge. In Encyclopedia of Community, Sage, 2003 (in press).
• Bonnie DeVarco & Margaret Corbit: 3D Multi-user Virtual Worlds for Education: Knowledge Building in the Vlearn3D.org

Community. Proceedings of CSCL 2002- Computer Support for Collaborative Learning 2002 - Foundations for a CSCL Community.
• Katy Börner, Ying Feng & Tamara McMahon: Collaborative Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries. Second ACM+IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, July 14-18, 2002, Portland, Oregon, USA.
• Katy Börner, Richie Hazlewood & Sy-Miaw Lin (2002) Visualizing the Spatial and Temporal Distribution of User Interaction Data Collected in Three-Dimensional Virtual Worlds. Sixth International Conference on Information Visualization, London, England, July 10-12, 2002.
• Katy Börner: Using Twin Worlds to Research Digital Cities and Their Evolving Communities. The Second Kyoto Meeting on Digital Cities Digital Cities 2001 - International Symposium and Workshop, Kyoto, Japan, October 18-20. To be published by Springer.
• Margaret Corbit & Bonnie DeVarco: SciCentr and Biolearn: Two 3D Implementations of CVE Science Museums, Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVE 2000), September, 2000. 

• The AWEDU International Action Coalition http://knd.k12.mi.us/coach/aweduiac.htm
• Feb 12, 2003 Future of Learning SERC Teleconference on "Challenges of Innovation"
• Oct 10-12, 2002 Grace Hopper Conference of Woman in Computing
• Oct 9, 2002 Future of Learning SERC Teleconference on " Emerging Technologies" 

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