Those of you interested in Virtual Worlds will definitely want to check out the Federal Consortium For Virtual Worlds (FCVW) conference coming up. The conference will be at the National Defense University, but (of course, given the content) most of it will be available in various online means. They already have Facebook Groups, Twitter Feeds, and various Virtual World links setup and ready to go.
They have a great collection of speakers too:
- Edward Castronova, author of “Exodus to the Virtual World: How Online Fun is Changing Reality“
- Clark Aldrich, author of “Learning Online with Games, Simulations, and Virtual Worlds: Strategies for Online Instruction“
- Eric Hackathorn, popular NOAA & SciLands advocate
- several others..
Hit their website for all the details..