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School / Work Affiliation: 3DLearn LLC

Website: http://www.3dlearn.com

About Me: Hi everyone! I am the founder of 3DLearn, the world's first fully accredited 3D school in the world. We have been at this now for over 8 years and we have taken VR educational theory into practice with students in grades 5-12. We have tried just about every application out there (SL, Croquet, Active Worlds,) to meet our educational goal which is applying constructivism in 3D to enhance distance learning.We have developed a large 3D campus now for educators and students and students actually create large immersive 3D worlds as part of their course studies. They attend class in 3D inside EduKaydia, (pronounced Ed-U-Kay-Dee-ah) our 3D environment The best news is that now, 3DLearn is ready to start offering educators a chance to bring in their own classes should they care to do their own projects. We have learned a lot of lessons along the way and we continue to evolve. The point being is that this is not just a what if. We have an entire program with "real" students based solely on 3DLearn concept We are developing all the time which is a premise of our educational technology. We evolve and so do the students themselves. I hate to admit it but it feels like I have been working in a bit of a bubble being such a champion to this concept and now the pendulum is swinging back around to where we want to empower teachers to spread the excitement we see in students' eyes. Most of you teachers probably know what I am talking about when I say that new technologies are not always embraced by the educational community. You have to really prove the concept first and show the educational merits, benefits and goals first.