4th Annual Conference in Karlskrona, Sweden

October 9-13, 2007

Tuesday 9.10 at at Restaurant Nivå in central Karlskrona

7 – 9 pm Welcoming reception (drinks + buffé, registration package)

Wednesday 10.10 at Marinmuseum/the Naval Museum

9.30 am Registration and coffee

10.15 am Welcoming address

10.30 am Keynote speaker: John Lester

12 am Lunch at Restaurant Jarramas Brygga.

1.30 – 3 pm Session 1: Jay Bolter, Blair MacIntyre and Celia Pearce, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA: “Augmented Reality and Second Life”

3.30 – 5 pm Virtual coffee at Wayne’s Coffee in central Karlskrona

Thursday 11.10 at Marinmuseum/the Naval Museum

8.30 - 9.30 am Session 2: Malcolm Jolly, Kay Lancefield, Delia Bradshaw, Glenda McPherson, GippsTAFE, Morwell, Australia: ”Exploring role, identity and workplace capacities in vocational education contexts”

9.45 – 10.30 am Session 3: Theoretical Reflections: Exploring Virtual Learning

  • George H. Olson and Amy Cheney, Appalachian State University, Boone, USA: ”Theory-based Evaluation of Virtual Learning Environments”
  • Pirjo Elovaara and Maria Bäcke, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlshamn and Karlskrona, Sweden: ”Second Swedish Net University”

    • 10.45 am – 12 am Session 4: Being Online

  • Roni Linser, Fablusi, Melbourne, Australia: ”Against the Grain: Rules and Boundaries”
  • Talan Memmott, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden: ”Identity to Adentity: Becom[e|ing] What You Are Not”

    • 12 am Lunch at Restaurant Jarramas Brygga.

    1.30- 3 pm Session 5: Collaborative Learning and Collaborative Teaching in Virtual Environments

  • Anders Arpteg, Ole Victor, Ivar Jung, Alexandra Petrakou, and Päivi Jokela, University of Kalmar, Sweden: ”Virtual worlds as potential Collaborative Learning Environments”
  • Robert L. Sanders, Barbara Bonham, Stephen Bronack, Alvin Profitt, Gayle Turner, and Marty Link, Appalachian State University, Boone, USA: ”The Expanding Universe: The Virtual World of LES”

    • 3.15 – 4.45 pm Session 6: New Frontiers, New Identities

  • Owen Kelly, Arcada Polytechnic, Helsinki, Finland: ”Immersion, augmentation, the telephone and semaphore”
  • Robert Sharl & Michael Priddy, Birmingham, UK: ”Identity 3.0: Composite Entities in the Emerging Metaverse”
  • Maria Bäcke, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden: ”Identity to Fit the Environment: The Creation of Avatars in Second Life”

    • 5 – 5.45 pm Session 7: Virtual Portraits: Avatars and Self-Creation

  • Teri Shamp-Bjerede, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden: ”Who I Am vs. Who I Can Be: A Look at the Importance of an Avatar to Its Creator”
  • Roberto Muffoletto, Appalachian State University, Boone, USA: ”Social Presence and the “Un-real””

    • Friday 12.10 at Marinmuseum/the Naval Museum

    8.30 - 10.00 am Session 8: Immersive Learning in Virtual Space

  • Jutta Törnqvist, Arcada Polytechnic, Helsinki, Finland: ”The Marinetta Ombro Project”
  • Lindy McKeown, University of Southern Queensland, Australia: ”Action Learning programs in Second Life”

    • 10.15 am – 11.00 am Poster session and LCDM student demos “Voices of Karlskrona”.

    11.15 am – 12.15 pm Session 9: Graduate Education and Collaborative Learning: Two Case-Studies

  • John Power, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia: ”Real-Time Media as Collaborative
    Space for Post Graduate Project Work in Animation and Interactive Media”
  • Philippe Bonfils, Université du Sud Toulon, Var, France: ”Online Digital World and E-Learning: A New Way of Being Together Distant?”

    • 12.15 Lunch at Restaurant Jarramas Brygga.

    1.30 – 3 pm Session 10: Mobile Technologies and Virtual Spaces

  • Daniel Spikol, Växjö University, Sweden: ”Collaboration, Learning and Mobile Technologies”
  • Lissa Holloway-Attaway, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden: ”Hand-Held History: Mobilizing Culture and Identity”
  • Malin Jogmark, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden: ”Designed Space and Authorship”

    • 3.15 – 4.45 pm Workshop: ”Multiple Agencies of Educators in Virtual Worlds”

    Bryan Carter, University of Central Missouri, USA, Judith Molka-Danielsen, Molde University College, Norway, David Richardson, Kalmar University College, Sweden, Alastair Creelman, Kalmar University College, Sweden, Bjørn Jæger, Molde University College, Norway.

    6.30 pm Conference Dinner at Stadshotellet in central Karlskrona

    Saturday 13.10 at Marinmuseum/the Naval Museum

    9-12 Multimedia event created by students at the LCDM programme and Talan Memmott, followed by discussions and closing Remarks