Second Life Workshop: ‘A Global Perspective on Gifted Education’
On Saturday 26 March at 8.00PM UK time, I will be leading a workshop in Second Life taking ‘A Global Perspective on Gifted Education).
The Workshop is my personal contribution to the inaugural celebration of the European Day of Talent, celebrated on 9 April 2011, which has been organised by the Hungarians as part of their drive to support European gifted education while they hold the EU Presidency.
The corresponding times for other parts of the world are:
- 9.00 PM CEST
- 4.00 PM US Eastern
- 1.00 PM US Pacific
- 7.00 AM Aus (Victoria) (Sun 27 March)
- 9.00 AM NZ (Sun 27 March)
You can find further details about me and about how to join the event on the website of theBavarian Centre for Gifted and Talented Children which has been organising a series of Global Gifted Education meetings in Second Life, this being the sixth in the series.
Roya Klingner, the Head of the Bavarian Centre, has designed specially for the event a Gifted Phoenix avatar, which is literally the embodiment of the ‘headshot’ avatar I use for this Blog, Twitter and Facebook. Doesn’t he look a fine figure!
So you will be interacting with a hybrid personality, combining the body of Gifted Phoenix and the voice of his alter ego Tim Dracup. (My normal gender-shifting SL avatar Tiresius Draconia is resting on this occasion.)
I want to take a slightly different direction to my predecessors in the series by making a serious effort to maximise interaction with you, the participants.
While it’s fine to come along, take a back seat and watch the proceedings, I’m really keen to get some proper discussion going amongst those willing to take part.
To that end, I’ve decided to share my presentation a week in advance, so participants can see broadly what I plan to cover and so prepare their own contributions. You can find it at:
As a lead-in to the discussion I shall be relying on a graphical version of my very first post on this Blog, which I have also reproduced below.
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