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= = =//**October 27 and 28 at a secret Second Life location!**//=

=**Let us know about you ...**=


 * It would be a good idea for us all to get a feel about who we'll be working with and where the obvious synergies are. Please tell a little about yourself in the space below. Click on 'Edit' to add your details to the page.**


 * Here are some suggestions as to what you might include:**


 * CONTACT DETAILS:** Real Name, Position, contact email and phone, SL name
 * BACKGROUND:** Just paragraph or two with details relevant to the Collaboration
 * EXPECTATIONS:** For the Collaboration (for the 2 days and the followup months)
 * AVATAR PHOTO:** So we can recognise each other in-world at the Collaboration in October

SL name: Debzee Miklos
 * CONTACT DETAILS:** Debbie Corder, Assoc. Head Learning and Teaching, School of Languages, Auckland University of Technology, NZ. debbie.corder@aut.ac.nz, +64 (0)9 921 9999  begin_of_the_skype_highlighting +64 (0)9 921 9999  end_of_the_skype_highlighting.
 * BACKGROUND:** Been in SL since 2007 but have not developed skills beyond basics for interacting with others. Use it for teaching intercultural competence and looking for opportunities for language teaching.
 * EXPECTATIONS:** To learn new skills and opportunities for using SL, and to develop opportunities for collaboration.




 * Contact Details:** Leah Irving, Instructional Designer, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, W.A. L.Irving@curtin.edu.au riv Rhea, Skype: leah.irving
 * Background:** Joined SL in 2007 but haven't done a lot. Was part of a team from Nursing and Midwifery who developed a wound clinic on Bentley South (one of Curtin's islands) and ran a pilot project on wound management and care - utilised SLOODLE mashup for assessment. Background is in visual arts and became interested in e-learning around 2000 and developed some projects for secondary schooling (Rochester Castle MOO) and TAFE using MOOs which was my first foray into multi-user virtual environments. Much of my work now is developing learning scenarios for interprofessional health care student teams.
 * Expectations:** Want to develop a range of skills. At the moment we have a "neighbourhood" of online case studies which are used in a range of collaborative learning contexts and I would like extend this into SL so we can include more engaging social and cultural scenarios in a "real" community/neighbourhood setting. Also interested in collaborations and networks.



**Contact Details:** Natasha Reedy, Nursing Lecturer, USQ, Toowoomba. natasha.reedy@usq.edu.au SL Name: Thelma Threebears **Background:** In 2010 I completed my Masters of Education (Learning Innovations and Futures) at QUT. During this study period (2009-2010) I was working as a Health Teacher for Tafe and begun blending my face to face pedagogy with digital pedagogy. In particular I liked the social learning aspect of the online learning environment using web 2 applications such as discussion forums, live chats and blogs. During this time I also introduced my students to a virtual hospital to further expand and support their learning.

Since graduating at the end of 2010, I have become employed for USQ as a Nursing Lecturer. My interest in digital pedagogy to support students learning remains a high priority and I see wonderful opportunities for developing immersive educational environment for deep learning.

**Expectations:** I would like to extend on my virtual hospital experience with Tafe and build an educational space that incorporates a virtual hospital using SL, along with connected communities such as the USQ, Department of Nursing and Midwifery and other Faculties, along with Industry. For example the Toowoomba General Hospital, Aged Care Facilities, Medical Centers, Town Library and Schools, and associated Nursing bodies, etc. Essentially the USQ Department of Nursing and Midwifery becomes the hub for education, community, innovation and future building. I would like to be active in creating the future of nursing education.



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 * CONTACT DETAILS:** Dean A. F. Gui; Language Instructor, English Language Centre, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University; ecdafgui@inet.polyu.edu.hk, SL name: Hartwig Valerian.


 * BACKGROUND:** Language project coordinator and mentor for the HK PolyU's SL virtual campus helping both the English Language Centre and the Dept of English develop spaces for students to engage in language learning.


 * EXPECTATIONS:** Learning how to build educational artefacts in SL, create collaborative projects, and make new professional contacts.




 * CONTACT DETAILS:** Helen Farley, Senior Lecturer and Mission Leader (Mobility), Australian Digital Futures Institute, University of Southern Queensland, helen.farley@usq.edu.au, <span class="skype_pnh_print_container_1319584898"><span class="skype_pnh_print_container_1320015659">+617 4631 1738 <span class="skype_pnh_container"><span class="skype_pnh_mark"> begin_of_the_skype_highlighting <span class="skype_pnh_highlighting_inactive_common"><span class="skype_pnh_textarea_span"><span class="skype_pnh_text_span">+617 4631 1738  <span class="skype_pnh_mark">end_of_the_skype_highlighting   <span class="skype_pnh_container"><span class="skype_pnh_mark"> begin_of_the_skype_highlighting <span class="skype_pnh_highlighting_inactive_common"><span class="skype_pnh_textarea_span"><span class="skype_pnh_text_span">+617 4631 1738   <span class="skype_pnh_mark">end_of_the_skype_highlighting   <span class="skype_pnh_container"><span class="skype_pnh_mark"> begin_of_the_skype_highlighting <span class="skype_pnh_highlighting_inactive_common"><span class="skype_pnh_textarea_span"><span class="skype_pnh_text_span">+617 4631 1738   <span class="skype_pnh_mark">end_of_the_skype_highlighting   <span class="skype_pnh_container"><span class="skype_pnh_mark"> begin_of_the_skype_highlighting <span class="skype_pnh_highlighting_inactive_common"><span class="skype_pnh_textarea_span"><span class="skype_pnh_text_span">+617 4631 1738   <span class="skype_pnh_mark">end_of_the_skype_highlighting   <span class="skype_pnh_container"><span class="skype_pnh_mark"> begin_of_the_skype_highlighting <span class="skype_pnh_highlighting_inactive_common"><span class="skype_pnh_textarea_span"><span class="skype_pnh_text_span">+617 4631 1738   <span class="skype_pnh_mark">end_of_the_skype_highlighting , Helen Frak


 * BACKGROUND:**It was in 2007, as a lecturer in studies in religion that I first encountered and thought about virtual worlds. I was struggling with how I could give my students direct experience of many religious traditions, when I lived in a city with few mosques, synagogues, Buddhist, Taoist or Hindu temples. I realised that in Second LIfe I could recreate these environments and have my students experience them first hand: thus the UQ Religion Bazaar project was born (SLurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/UQ%20Religion%20Bazaar/132/155/28).

Subsequently,I left the discipline of studies in religion to concentrate on researching educational technology, and particularly virtual worlds. At the University of Southern Queensland we are helping law students take the role of a barrister and have their day in our virtual court. On another USQ island we are evaluating the restorative experiences that students have while wandering a lush virtual landscape populated with emus, turtles and kangaroos. Bots direct education students to the information they need. Budding counsellors chat to clients located far away and Australian literature students meet with their lecturer for some realtime one on one. = =
 * EXPECTATIONS:** The sum of the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. I believe we all have something unique to bring to this virtual collaboration. Not one of us possesses all of the answers, instead our knowledge is distributed, shifting, We'll see old problems solved in new ways, friendships and collaborations forming, and best of all we'll see some great builds, lots of innovative ideas and a solid evaluation of those.


 * Here are my details:**

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 * CONTACT DETAILS:** Allan Ellis, Adjunct Assoc. Prof. Southern Cross Business School, Southern Cross University, allan.ellis@scu.edu.au, <span class="skype_pnh_print_container"><span class="skype_pnh_print_container_1316559783"><span class="skype_pnh_print_container_1318979219"><span class="skype_pnh_print_container_1319584898"><span class="skype_pnh_print_container_1320015659">+61 407 205 131 <span class="skype_pnh_container"><span class="skype_pnh_mark"> begin_of_the_skype_highlighting <span class="skype_pnh_highlighting_inactive_common"><span class="skype_pnh_textarea_span"><span class="skype_pnh_text_span">+61 407 205 131  <span class="skype_pnh_mark">end_of_the_skype_highlighting   <span class="skype_pnh_container"><span class="skype_pnh_mark"> begin_of_the_skype_highlighting <span class="skype_pnh_highlighting_inactive_common"><span class="skype_pnh_textarea_span"><span class="skype_pnh_text_span">+61 407 205 131   <span class="skype_pnh_mark">end_of_the_skype_highlighting   <span class="skype_pnh_container"><span class="skype_pnh_mark"> begin_of_the_skype_highlighting <span class="skype_pnh_highlighting_inactive_common"><span class="skype_pnh_textarea_span"><span class="skype_pnh_text_span">+61 407 205 131   <span class="skype_pnh_mark">end_of_the_skype_highlighting   <span class="skype_pnh_container"><span class="skype_pnh_mark"> begin_of_the_skype_highlighting <span class="skype_pnh_highlighting_inactive_common"><span class="skype_pnh_textarea_span"><span class="skype_pnh_text_span">+61 407 205 131   <span class="skype_pnh_mark">end_of_the_skype_highlighting   <span class="skype_pnh_container"><span class="skype_pnh_mark"> begin_of_the_skype_highlighting <span class="skype_pnh_highlighting_inactive_common"><span class="skype_pnh_textarea_span"><span class="skype_pnh_text_span">+61 407 205 131   <span class="skype_pnh_mark">end_of_the_skype_highlighting , Alun Hastings


 * BACKGROUND:** I've had a long history of involvement with educational technologies in various educational sectors. In particular I've followed the development of the Web since its earliest days and for 14 years organised the AusWeb conference series and promoted Web-based teaching at SCU. I've watched the development of SL since it's early days (when you had to enter and fly out from the single teleport entry point) but only regarded it as potentially useful in the university sector when VoIP was added. Since then I've initiated the design, building and management for three SL islands for Southern Cross University: a general campus island, a business island and a conference centre island for our DBA program. I've enjoyed working with two very skilled and professional SL builders Amanda Hassett and Noel Jacobson and demonstrating the potential of SL as an educational technology to SCU staff. We have a regular Friday afternoon SL user group meeting. The islands currently are being used by some staff to teach sections of accredited courses and other staff are planning some SL teaching or for now just exploring the potential of SL.


 * EXPECTATIONS:** My hope is that this collaborative event will offer valuable experiences to both experienced and new SL users. We are planning an innovative format that will see both a period of intensive discussion and design (the two days in October) plus an extended period of building (with some professional support) and in-world use and trials. We just don't want to talk about SL applications in education and training we want to try out ideas and evaluate the outcomes. As well as using SL as the main platform for this collaboration we plan to provide additional support via a range of Web and social media tools (such as this Wiki). If this event is as successful as we hope then ENCKE2 will run early next year so that good ideas and builds can be extended and new ones added. The aim is for ENCKE to become a conference series.

(enthusiastic participant) ICT Education Lecturer/Research Fellow (School of Education/DEHub) University of New England, Armidale NSW sue.gregory@une.edu.au = = = = I am a long-term ICT adult educator with over 20 years experience. I currently manage several virtual world spaces including classrooms and playground for my students. I have been teaching in Second Life since 2008 and am focused on adult learning, engagement, immersion and the efficacy of role-play in virtual worlds. In particular, I am exploring student perceptions of their learning in a virtual world. I am the Chair of the Australian and New Zealand Virtual Worlds Working Group (VWWG) and Principal Researcher and Grant Holder of the ALTC funded project VirtualPREX which investigates the feasibility and efficacy of pre-service teacher training virtual professional experience. I write papers with many members of the VWWG.
 * CONTACT DETAILS:**
 * Sue Gregory**
 * SL Name**: Sue Gregory (viewer2), Jass Easterman (Phoenix and older viewers)
 * BACKGROUND:**

= = I am very open and look forward to participating and learning lots.
 * EXPECTATIONS:**

(although we meet at a private space called Education Online Headquarters for conversations)
 * AVATAR PHOTO:**This is Jass on the left! Her main home is Australis 4 Learning <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 13px;">__[]__

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Keith Kirkwood Lecturer, School of Language and Learning Victoria University, Melbourne, Victoria Australia keith.kirkwood@vu.edu.au mob. <span class="skype_pnh_print_container_1319584898"><span class="skype_pnh_print_container_1320015659">+614 3858 0503 <span class="skype_pnh_container"><span class="skype_pnh_mark"> begin_of_the_skype_highlighting <span class="skype_pnh_highlighting_inactive_common"><span class="skype_pnh_textarea_span"><span class="skype_pnh_text_span">+614 3858 0503  <span class="skype_pnh_mark">end_of_the_skype_highlighting   <span class="skype_pnh_container"><span class="skype_pnh_mark"> begin_of_the_skype_highlighting <span class="skype_pnh_highlighting_inactive_common"><span class="skype_pnh_textarea_span"><span class="skype_pnh_text_span">+614 3858 0503   <span class="skype_pnh_mark">end_of_the_skype_highlighting LinkedIn: http://au.linkedin.com/in/kkirkwood SL Name: Xantho Muhindra
 * CONTACT DETAILS**

I have been involved in online education since doing a postgraduate degree in Computer-assisted Language Learning (MCALL) in 2001-2. From then I became involved in designing e-learning activities and platforms – including a language learning virtual world environment called Virtual Babel in the beta and now defunct Adobe Atmosphere.
 * BACKGROUND:**

In the last eight years I have been teaching and researching at universities in Melbourne, Australia as a language and learning lecturer and as an e-learning designer. My research and publications have revolved around participatory online learning communities. In 2010-11 I studied virtual world design and development and completed the Certificate in Virtual Worlds from the University of Washington, Seattle. During this course the class developed my project proposal for a virtual Maya civilization island, for which my personal focus was the 3D representation of Maya creation mythology. This island has attracted much attention from a variety of educational groups who have subsequently visited the island, and we continue to hold events and give tours of the island. I have also designed and programmed virtual traditional music and instruments as an educational tool.

Part of what I do in my current position is coordinate the university's peer writing centre. I am interested in developing a virtual peer writing centre 'collaboratory' as a virtual space for developing cross-university shared professional practice and role-play for peer writing mentors, as well as an active virtual peer writing centre where mentors can hold writing consultations with students. This would involve the fusion of synchronous collaborative tools with the 3D environment that would support the live peer review and consultation process.
 * EXPECTATIONS:**

I am also looking forward to the cross-pollination of ideas with other colleagues working in the virtual world space, and the possibility of opening up new horizons and projects.

Scott Grant Assistant Lecturer, School of Language, Culture and Linguistics Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria Australia scott.grant@monash.edu mob. +614 2053007 LinkedIn: http://au.linkedin.com/pub/scott-grant/a/805/421 SL Name: Xilin Yifu = =
 * CONTACT DETAILS**
 * BACKGROUND:**

Since 1997 I have been teaching Mandarin Chinese at tertiary and TAFE level at both Monash University and RMIT. I also taught English/Chinese/English translation and translation theory at tertiary (post-graduate and TAFE) level for a number of years.

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I first investigated the possibility of utilising virtual worlds for Chinese language and culture learning in 2005. After initially putting the idea aside for a couple of years, in 2007 I revisited the idea and began developing a virtual learning environment and the associated curriculum and pedagogy in the virtual world of Second Life. In 2008 I established a Chinese-themed virtual city in Second Life dedicated to the learning of Chinese language and culture and have been using this environment in our formal undergraduate curricilum since then. Over 500 students have undertaken lessons in our virtual city which is called Chinese Island. In addition to the actual virtual environment and infrastructure itself, a system of sophisticated non-character players (NPCs) tailor-made for interactive engagement with Chinese language learners as part of set piece task-based lessons and in a less formal asynchronous mode have been developed and used extensively in our lessons. The NPCs also play other important roles in the lessons on Chinese Island including facilitating the management of large numbers of students in each lesson and acting as gatekeepers for different stages of the set tasks. The environment, the interactive artifacts and content within the environment and the associated pedagogy, curriculum and lesson design are under ongoing and constant development based on experience gained and new lessons learned every time a class is held on the island, feedback from learners and analysis of the logs of learner interaction with the non-player characters that inhabit the environment.=====

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At the same time as developing Chinese Island I have also worked on a number of ways of integrating the Web 2.0 learning management system Moodle with our learning activities in Second Life. In addition to providing a important portal for classroom management, the transmission of key information about the lessons on Chinese Island and the implementation of more conventional assessment such as online quizzes, a certain amount of experimentation has been undertaken using a mashup called Sloodle, which is an interface between Second Life and Moodle developed by a group of open source programmers from around the world that enables assessment done in Second Life to be recorded directly on Moodle, among other things. Further development of viable and valid assessment models for the environment, both formative and summative, is ongoing.===== = =


 * EXPECTATIONS:**

Looking forward to exchanging ideas with and learning from other educators working in or interested in working in virtual worlds, particularly, but not exclusively, in the field of language and culture. I have a strong interest in teaching and pedagogy in blended environments and will be keen to learn from others with similar interests. I am also very keen to be involved in the ongoing development of virtual world environments in general from the perspective of making them increasingly accessible and easy to use, but also increasingly rich in terms of the user's ability to interact with the environments and other users (i.e. through enhanced gestures, body language, facial expressions, haptic capabilities, soundscapes, etc.)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">CONTACT DETAILS: ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Shane Garrett <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Learning and Development Officer (Part-time) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Simulation Australia <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">See [|www.simulationaustralia.org.au] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">**Email:** sgld@bigpond.net.au <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">**Mobile:** <span class="skype_pnh_print_container_1319584898"><span class="skype_pnh_print_container_1320015659">+61 419 339 548 <span class="skype_pnh_container"><span class="skype_pnh_mark"> begin_of_the_skype_highlighting <span class="skype_pnh_highlighting_inactive_common"><span class="skype_pnh_textarea_span"><span class="skype_pnh_text_span">+61 419 339 548  <span class="skype_pnh_mark">end_of_the_skype_highlighting   <span class="skype_pnh_container"><span class="skype_pnh_mark"> begin_of_the_skype_highlighting <span class="skype_pnh_highlighting_inactive_common"><span class="skype_pnh_textarea_span"><span class="skype_pnh_text_span">+61 419 339 548   <span class="skype_pnh_mark">end_of_the_skype_highlighting <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">**Skype:** srgarrett <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">**SL Name**: Terag (Terag Ershtan – an anagram of my RL name)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">**BACKGROUND:** When a colleague who works at the University of Technology, Sydney highlighted to me that the ENCKE Virtual University Collaboration had been opened up to participants other than University staff members I was thrilled. I have only been in SL since February of this year but have used the recent months to obtain a reasonable understanding of the myriad possibilities offered there for education and training. Through a chance meeting, I was very fortunate to befriend Blackstone Skytower from the University of Adelaide in SL soon after joining. Due to her generous mentoring I have learnt a great deal from Blackstone about editing/building, how innovatively SL can be used for effective learning and just how much fun you can have doing all of that!

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">For the past 7 years I have been the Learning and Development Officer for Simulation Australia. My interest in SL goes back to a “Simulation Career Promotion Project” I completed in 2008 where we were investigating an assortment of options such as virtual worlds for connecting with people (mostly undergraduates) to raise awareness of careers in the dynamic and growing simulation industry. Simulation Australia is sponsoring my participation in this event with a view to us potentially using SL to deliver learning programs such as our “Introduction to Simulation in Australia” seminar and a range of new programs we may develop following a Skills Summit planned for December. I am interested in extending my appreciation of options for flexibly deliv ering either the whole or components of future programs in SL. We might also look at how elements of our annual Simulation Technology and Training (SimTecT) conference – see [|www.simtect.com] - might be conducted ‘inworld’.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Other than my work with Simulation Australia, I’m also a learning and development professional with 18 years experience. Prior roles include approximately 9 years as an Education Officer in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) and the RAAF Reserve as well as corporate training roles. When I’m not working for Simulation Australia; I also work as an independent consultant on various training needs analysis, instructional design and training delivery projects. My LinkedIn profile has more detail: []

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">**EXPECTATIONS:** Planning to be an enthusiastic ‘sponge’. Simulation Australia are in the early days of investigating how SL might be used for learning and development and/or other purposes so I’m going to be seeking responses to lots of questions. Looking forward to sharing experiences and ideas throughout the event.

= = <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Lisa Jacka <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">PhD Candidate <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Lecturer <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">School of Education <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Southern Cross University
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">[[image:encke/SL_mepic.png width="190" height="316" align="left"]]CONTACT DETAILS **
 * Email**: lisa.jacka@scu.edu.au
 * Skype**: lisa.jacka
 * SL**: lis Ruby


 * Background:** I am currently employed casually and studying full-time at SCU in Lismore, Nthn NSW. Allan Ellis (one of the co-convenor's of ENCKE) is my supervisor. I have a background in Visual Arts that started when I went to Art school in the mid 80s to study painting and ended up doing photography. After art school I worked as a photojournalist at the Adelaide Advertiser. I was part of the team at the Advertiser that first used Photoshop and transmitted photos digitally across the globe (very slowly). So began my fascination with being able to do things myself (video making, photomanipulation etc etc) using a computer. After a number of years working in the media I took a job at a High School in Melbourne as an art technician and discovered I enjoyed working with students. A Dip Ed followed and hence my current fascination with learning and learners.


 * Expectations:** I hope to spend the time imagining and building a VW University. I'm excited that a group of us with varied interests and skills will come together and create.

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">and the STEM based Hypatia World for girls 11 to 16 years of age for the Edlab Group in the USA.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">CONTACT DETAILS: **<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Lindy (McKeown) Orwin, Project Manager - Currently SPICE Project, University of New England

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">**Em** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**ail:** lindyaustralia AT gmail.com

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">**SL name**= Dec <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">ka Mah

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">BACKGROUN ****<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">D: ** Vi <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">rtual Worlds project manager, researcher and educator since 2005. Experience in ActiveWorlds, Second Life, OpenSim, Unity 3D and Exit Reality. PhD research on Action Learning in virtual worlds used Second Life. Based in the USA but working on projects in Australia, the UK and the USA at the moment. PhD recently examined and passed on using virtual worlds for Action Learning.

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">EXPECTATIONS: ** Collaboratively develop some new learning environments or tools that support rapid orientation of new staff and students especially for work-oriented roleplay that are not associated with any one institution to allow shared use for a variety of projects.




 * CONTACT DETAILS:** Real Name: Dr Amy Antonio, Mission Achiever and Lecturer, Australian Digital Futures Institute, email: amy.antonio@usq.edu.au, Ph: <span class="skype_pnh_print_container_1320015659">07 4631 5339 <span class="skype_pnh_container"><span class="skype_pnh_mark"> begin_of_the_skype_highlighting <span class="skype_pnh_highlighting_inactive_common"><span class="skype_pnh_textarea_span"><span class="skype_pnh_text_span">07 4631 5339  <span class="skype_pnh_mark">end_of_the_skype_highlighting  ; Second Life: Katerina Sylvester


 * BACKGROUND:** I recently completed my PhD in Renaissnace Literature at Deakin University in Geelong. I commenced work with ADFI at USQ a month ago as a mission achiever.
 * EXPECTATIONS:** I look foward to learning a n lot from the experience and familiarising myself with Second Life.


 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">CONTACT DETAILS: **[[image:encke/briar.jpg width="351" height="367" align="right"]]

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Merle Hearns (was Merle Lemon), Senior Lecturer at Manukau Institute of Technology, Auckland, NZ <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">merle.hearns@manukau.ac.nz <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> or <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">maksmom13@gmail.com <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Ph (09)9688000 x8354 or mobile 0274210745

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">BACKGROUND: **

I was the Lead Educator for the SLENZ (Second Life Education NZ) Foundation Project. I have been using Second Life since 2009 with Foundation (bridging or enabling students). Our initial project involved training students in interviewing skills and techniques. Recently I have been involved in literacy development using virtual worlds. I am currently starting on a PhD looking at the transferability of skills learned in a virtual world to the real world.

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">I am currently on the executive committee for VLENZ (Virtual Life Education NZ) and a member of the VWWG (Virtual Worlds Working Group).


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">EXPECTATIONS: **

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">I am hoping to learn, make some valuable connections, and pool ideas on various projects connected to my proposed PhD.

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">AVATAR PHOTO: ** <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Briarmelle Quintessa


 * [[image:encke/rusty_square2.jpg align="left"]]CONTACT DETAILS:** Real Name: Roger Stack, Position: Manager Flexible Learning, Tasmanian Polytechnic. Email: Roger.Stack 'at' polytechnic.tas.edu.au, SL name: Rusty Kembla


 * BACKGROUND:** Born inworld in 2006 Rusty has lives in SL, Reaction Grid Jokaydia Grid and other metaverse outposts. Recent project work.


 * EXPECTATIONS:** Interested in exploring the notion of a 'full service' virtual campus that blends online and offline learning environments and experiences.

Email: janette.grenfell@deakin.edu.au
 * CO[[image:encke/belle.png width="241" height="324" align="left"]]NTACT DETAILS:** Real Name : Jenny Grenfell, Second Life: Belle Shan, Teaching Scholar. School of Education ,Faculty of Arts and Education Deakin University Geelong.

Deakin Arts Education Centre on Deakin Island in Second Life http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Deakin%20University%20/128/186/70
 * BACKGROUND:** Passionate Art Educator, Foundation member and developer of the Deakin Arts education Centre on Deakin island in Second Life.


 * Research focus :** Collaborative communities of practice in augmented Elearning environments


 * EXPECTATIONS:** Exploring the possibilities of across institution collaboration to develop integrated augmented reality art education courses/units with colleagues from other institutions.



email: k.booth.11@scu.edu.au
 * Contact Details:** RL: Kate Booth: Avatar: captainflint006, Primary Education Student, Southern Cross University-Coffs Harbour, NSW, Australia


 * Background:** Pre-school teacher 12 years changing to primary qualifications with a healthy interest in virtual worlds and their applications within educational settings. I was introduced to SL, and have been mentored this year by Lisa Jacka.


 * Expectations:** To learn as much as possible and contribute my (albeit limited) knowledge and skills in the creation of a virtual shared learning space...and to have a great time exploring and discovering :)