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Virtual Education Journal (VEJ) looking for submissions by Aug 20th

By: Kae Novak , 5 days ago

The Virtual Education Journal (VEJ) invites Games & Sims to contribute each issue. While the focus generally is on virtual worlds, video games, AR and VR they have always been very open to anything game related we have submitted. We have also put in articles about coding. This is a practitioner journal. It is not peer reviewed. It is also open to anything that your students may have written also. I have had undergrads submit write-ups of their projects. I know some other people have had their k-12 students write about Minecraft. It’s a place for you to highlight projects, professional development and even book reviews. They also love screenshots and pictures.

If you want to submit anything, email as a word doc or docx single spaced to Roxie Vojtek rvojtek@edovation.com Include pictures as .png or .jpg in the highest resolution possible.

Here’s last year’s issue that came out before last year’s ISTE conference

Summer 2016 https://issuu.com/edovation/docs/vej_summer_2016_denver

More Info on Submitting
ISTE First Online Meetup for people in Ed, Ed Leadership or other Ed Doctoral Programs

By: Kae Novak , 12 days ago

Monday August 7 at 8 pm ET/6 pm MT.
We'll do a Zoom meeting - Join URL: https://ucdenver.zoom.us/j/227358111.
Yes, it will be short since I'm using my student account for it. The agenda is short also - What events or online networking do we want to do?

Zoom Meeting Room
GooseChaseEDU – mobile scavenger app

By: Kae Novak , 17 days ago

Today GooseChase just launched GooseChase EDU. Read more on their website. https://medium.com/goosechase-edu/introducing-goosechase-edu-6ecab6f1dfce

There’s even new features – such as game library, free educator accounts and submission feedback.

GooseChaseEdu info

Community Blogs

Virtual Education Journal (VEJ) Looking for Additional Articles

By: Kae Novak 5 days ago

Hello Everyone, If there is something Games & Sims related that you would like us to get out into the wider world, VEJ would like to know.. If you can write something about the ISTE conference or NotatISTE even better! The Virtual Education Journal ...
EdChange Global Friday and Saturday - List of some VR, Games & Simulations

By: Kae Novak 22 days ago

Friday July 28 and Saturday July 29 EdChange Global, a free online conference goes live at 730 pm CT http://edcampglobal.wixsite.com/edcamp edCamp Global is 24 hours in Hangouts, twitter, voxer and flipgrid. Follow it on twitter using hashtag ...
Virtual Connected Educator for the Week of July 24

By: Kae Novak 26 days ago

Hello Everyone, Here’s the Virtual Connected Educator for the Week of July 24! TODAY! VSTE Virginia Society of Technology in Education July 24 at 8 pm ET/5pm SLT Join the VSTE VE PLN on VSTE Island in Second LifeArt Sim ...
Old Games? New Game?... Gamification Wins Student Attention and How!

By: Bonnie Bracey-Sutton one month ago

Games and Education No one minds when you as a teacher are wandering around during a rainy day, with games most of the pieces lost. Few people object to certain games in the classroom. Teaching chess to sixth graders is fun because as they ...
Escape the Ordinary Playground

By: Kae Novak one month ago

Escape the Ordinary playground Tuesday, June 27th 2 to 5:30pm Playground C (across from Room 214) This playground is a place where games and virtual environments meet Escape Rooms, AR augmented reality, VR virtual reality, ...