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The Immersive Education Initiative is a non-profit international collaboration of universities, colleges, research institutes, consortia and companies that are working together to define and develop open standards, best practices, platforms, and communities of support for virtual reality and game- based learning and training systems. Over a thousand faculty, researchers, staff, administrators and students are members of the Immersive Education Initiative, which is growing at the rate of approximately 2 new members every day. Membership is FREE and open to the global academic community. Immersive Education Initiative: http://ImmersiveEducation.org :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: THE INSIDE SCOOP :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Follow the Immersive Education Initiative's official TWITTER group for the "inside scoop", sneak previews, and early access to initiative activities: http://twitter.com/immersive Recent Inside Scoop tweets: 1. Jerome: Circulated 1st draft of Library Technology Working Group (LIB.TWG) requirements to Aaron & Nick. http://MediaGrid.org/groups 2 minutes ago from web 2. Aaron: Preparing Immersive Education Mixed Reality (MXR.TWG) demonstrations for Campus Technology conference. http://MediaGrid.org/groups 19 minutes ago from web 3. Jerome, Nick, Aaron: Preparing Library Technology Working Group (LIB.TWG) requirements for July 20 meeting. http://MediaGrid.org/groups 6:10 PM Jul 9th from web 4. Rich and Aaron: Giving tour of Greenbush nodes on Education Grid, starting with Crime Scene Investigation world http://TheEducationGrid.org 1:49 PM Jul 9th from web 5. LAUNCH: Psychology of Immersive Environments Technology Working Group (PIE.TWG) launches July 15 @ 7pm EST. http://MediaGrid.org/groups 1:54 PM Jul 7th from web 6. Kamal: Preparing for Immersive Education Initiative community outreach program, scheduled to start Friday http://ImmersiveEducation.org 9:58 AM Jul 7th from web 7. Antti: Providing high resolution footage of realXtend platform's "Beneath The Waves" world for upcoming Immersive Education Initiative video 7:52 AM Jul 7th from web 8. Aaron: Confirmed Immersive Education & Education Grid presentation @ Relocatable Laboratories in Metaverse http://ImmersiveEducation.org 7:28 AM Jul 7th from web 9. Wes and Ian: Preparing "Immersive Education High School" press release for review by iED Board of Directors http://ImmersiveEducation.org 7:26 PM Jul 6th from web 10. DEADLINE APPROACHING: $10,000 CONTENT CREATION CONTEST FOR IMMERSIVE EDUCATION! CONTEST DETAILS, PRIZES & RULES AT http://colladacontest.com 1:14 PM Jul 6th from web 11. The Education Grid is available to members of the Immersive Education Initiative at http://TheEducationGrid.org 12:16 PM Jul 6th from web 12. Ilja: Succeeded in installing Wonderland instance of Immersive Education High School on the Baltic Grid nodes of Education Grid. 11:54 AM Jul 6th from web 13. Aaron: Giving interview to Campus Technology magazine about Immersive Education (iED) & iED Initiative http://ImmersiveEducation.org 11:53 AM Jul 6th from web 14. Steven, Aaron: Finished planning call for Immersive Education Mixed Reality Technology Working Group (MXR.TWG) http://MediaGrid.org/groups 6:56 AM Jul 2nd from web 15. Chris, Ilja, Aake: Setting up Media High School's Education Grid node (Wonderland and realXtend) on the Baltic Grid. 6:27 PM Jun 29th from web 16. Aaron: In planning meeting for panel at Executive Summit during Campus Technology conference in Boston this July. 5:10 PM Jun 29th from web 17. LAUNCHING: July 15 tentative launch for Psychology of Immersive Environments Technology Working Group (PIE.TWG) http://MediaGrid.org/groups 2:03 PM Jun 29th from web 18. Immersive Education (iED) LONDON SUMMIT presentation videos have been received & are being prepared for members http://MediaGrid.org/summit 1:33 PM Jun 29th from web 19. iED's next Library Technology Working Group (LIB.TWG) meeting has moved to July 20 @ 7:00 p.m. ET. Links at http://MediaGrid.org/groups 1:31 PM Jun 29th from web 20. John: Reporting status of Immersive Education's European/USA space station project to iED Board of Directors: http://ImmersiveEducation.org 12:02 PM Jun 29th from web MORE INSIDE SCOOP AT: http://twitter.com/immersive The Immersive Education Initiative is a non-profit international collaboration of universities, colleges, research institutes, consortia and companies that are working together to define and develop open standards, best practices, platforms, and communities of support for virtual reality and game- based learning and training systems. Over a thousand faculty, researchers, staff, administrators and students are members of the Immersive Education Initiative, which is growing at the rate of approximately 2 new members every day. Membership is FREE and open to the global academic community. Immersive Education Initiative: http://ImmersiveEducation.org +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++ INSIDE SCOOP: Immersive Education Initiative TWITTER - track daily activity +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ http://groups.google.com/group/realxtend http://www.realxtend.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
