Organizing the UnSymposium
Zombies…..
Ninjas….
And Pirates….
No it’s not the Apocalypse
But, it will be disruptive
There will be rogue teachers
Games, Virtual vorlds
MMORPGs and Machinima
MOOCs, OOCs, Badges & Gamification
Think of this disruption ….Play as Professional Development
So come join for the Third Annual UnSymposium
Friday November 2 & Saturday 3, 2012
The Virtual Worlds and Games UnSymposium in its third year is a grassroot community organized yearly event. The theme this year is disruption and we couldn’t think of a better way to pull that theme off than ninjas, zombies and pirates. Disruption in education in whatever shape or form has been a daily topic of discussion in the popular press.
To further show how things including professional development are changing, we will have a discussion with Andrew Wheelock (SL Spiff Whitfield) on the Anne Frank MOOC.
The EduMachinima Fest is organizing the Fiero Film Festival on Friday Evening. The Fiero Film Festival is a viewing of educator, student and community made Machinima. Special emphasis will be on epic successes and epic failures.
We’ll also be exploring badges and discussing the Mozilla Open Badge Initiative. We are in the process of developing the “Marauder” or Pirate badge for those educators demonstrating mastery in edupunk, fiero and epic educational delivery.
The UnSymposium closes with a Pirates’ Ball – you’ve seen the movies, we all know how those end!
We’re still in the process of planning it – if you would like to help out please contact Kae at que.jinn@gmail.com
The Virtual Worlds and Games UnSymposium is a free online discussion driven symposium!
If you’d like to register go to