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ADULTS (including parents) can join us at VWBPE (Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education) conference in the virtual world Second Life where the Biome4Kids folks (Clowey Greenwood and Elsie Ocello) will be presenting "If They Build It, They Will Come!" The presentation is about how kids can learn science by creating in a virtual world (i.e., Biome4Kids). For information on how ADULTS (ages 18 and up) can log in to the conference, email me at drclowe@gmail.com or go to http://secondlife.com, create an account, download the program, search for VWBPE Lecture Area A and choose <teleport>.  Be sure to get there a little early because there are a lot of folks there. Warning: Some of them may look really strange like dragons, robots or really crazy women. No problem. They are almost all educators and are all dressed (no adult only type content).

KIDS! I need some guinea pigs (maybe I need to make a guinea pig avatar) to log into Biome4Kids and do some building for the presentation. I will take snapshots of you building your first creations to use on my slide show. How fun is that! But to get you into the Biome4Kids virtual world, you can either follow the directions or I will walk you through step by step in a live presentation using the zoom app on your phone or tablet, or http://zoom.us on your browser. I will post the times and code in the calendar. I will also record it for you to look at later and post it in a blog post here.

On another note, Clowey was part of a virtual world talk show where Biome4Kids is discussed. See it here:

I had really awesome platinum hair updo and a purple pants suit but they wouldn't teleport to the show. I ended up bald with an invisible body. So I had to change at the last minute. I really hate my hair! I'm the one with the short red hair. Vanity, vanity. In Biome4Kids I'm usually a panda.