Toronto, Ontario, April 6th, 2009 – Don Tapscott, best selling Author and Chairman of nGenera Insight, and Flat Classroom Project teachers, Vicki Davis and Julie Lindsay, today announce the closing ceremonies of their collaborative project, The Net Generation Education Project (NetGen Ed), to be held on April 20, 2009 at 10 am EDT on ReactionGrid, an OpenSim virtual world. This first of its kind awards show will bring together students, teachers, and educators from around the world to recognize the best videos from the project as well as the winner of the Grown Up Digital Net Gen Education Challenge. The event is jointly sponsored by nGenera Corporation, ReactionGrid, and Flat Classroom Projects and will provide an opportunity to showcase Open Source Virtual World Capabilities.
The event, which is invitation only, will be made available to students, teachers, and educators involved in the NetGen Ed, Flat Classroom, and Digiteen projects as well as select members of the press, and educational bloggers. Journalists and Educators wishing to attend the event will have the unique opportunity to be mentored by NetGen Ed students and ReactionGrid volunteers on the setting up of their avatars and movement in OpenSim. This partnership will provide first hand insight into the many talents of the Net Generation and continue to build upon the collaborative theme of the project.
The awards show will be recorded and streamed from a NetGen Ed website hosted by nGenera and will be hosted live within ReactionGrid on the F.L.A.T.S. (Flat Learning Area for Teaching &Sharing.)
For more information on the NetGen Education Project and the Grown Up Digital Net Gen Education Challenge, please visit:
http://netgened.grownupdigital.com or http://netgened.wikispaces.com.Marketing and Communications Manager
The Tapscott Group
Phone: 416-830-1664
email: joanna.m.griffiths@gmail.com
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For us, the kids in the bush, from Australia will certainly be boasting about this event. We are so proud to be invited and hope that many of us can make it, with our best gowns/suits for our avatars and proudly walk the red carpet with all our fantastic netgened colleagues. The hour is late in the ‘land down under’ but we will do our best to have some attend. Thank you, Vicki, Julie and Don.
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