This year to encourage greater participation by conference-goers, Virtual Worlds Best Practices Program Committee sponsored two competitions. We are pleased to announced the winners.

Posters

Best Example of Educational Practices in a Virtual World

1^st Place                NASA eEducation in Second Life by Stephanie Smith

2^nd Place               Dream Realizations by Ute Frenburg, Cooper Macbeth, Maike Tierbal, & Alexsis Kamala

3^rd Place              Senior Project® at P4DL, Inc. by Kathleen Norris

 

Best Interactive Display

1^st Place                Virtual Pioneers by Spiff Whitfield and Serena Offcourse

2^nd Place               NASA eEducation in Second Life by Stephanie Smith

3^rd Place               Rockcliffe University Consortium by Mel Krupinski

 

Best Use of Design Theme (The design theme for VWBPE 2011 was Steampunk)

1^st Place                UnSymposium by Rurik Bellingshausen & Kavon Zenovka

2^nd Place               Virtual Pioneers by Spiff Whitfield

3^rd Place               Working Relationships by Deb Quintessa, Van Hoffnung, Trill Lomu, & Gypsy Paz

 

People’s Choice

1^st Place                Fragility of Spaces:Architectural and Design based Education and Practice by Moira Hunter

2^nd Place               Virtual Pioneers by Spiff Whitfield at

3^rd Place               NASA eEducation in Second Life by Stephanie Smith at

 

Machinima

Best Educational Machinima

1^st Place                SWIFT Virtual Genetics Lab by Paul Rudman & Suzanne Lavelle at

2^nd Place               Kansas to Cairo Project I by Bernhard Drax at

3^rd Place               Muinji’j Becomes a Man Machinima by Marlene Brooks at

 

Best Production

1^st Place                Muinji’j Becomes a Man Machinima by Marlene Brooks at

 

2^nd Place               Click: Immersive & Interactive Virtual Art by Lori Landay at

 

3^rd Place               Kansas to Cairo Project I by Bernhard Drax at

 

Best Story Line / Narrative

1^st Place                Time Travelers – Episode 1 – The Time Machine by Pooky Amsterdam at

 

2^nd Place               Muinji’j Becomes a Man Machinima by Marlene Brooks at

 

3^rd Place               WB Yeats – An Irish Airman Foresees His Death by Russell Boyd at

 

People’s Choice

1^st Place                SWIFT Virtual Genetics Lab by Paul Rudman & Suzanne Lavelle at

 

2^nd Place               Mars Rover1 by Ines Ogura at

 

3^rd Place               Ask the Expert Water Cycle by Ines Ogura at