{"id":89,"date":"2009-12-07T14:30:09","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T14:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/?p=89"},"modified":"2010-02-08T16:14:48","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T16:14:48","slug":"nomination-for-the-edublogs-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"nomination for edublog award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.studentnewspaper.org\/news\/776-edinburgh-students-graduate-online\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.studentnewspaper.org\/images\/stories\/News\/first_virtual_graduateforweb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>For this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/edublogawards.com\/\">Edublog Awards<\/a>, I want to nominate the University of Edinburgh&#8217;s MSc in E-learning virtual graduation on 26 November 2009. Four of the students from the programme attended a graduation ceremony in Second Life, while two graduated in the University&#8217;s face to face ceremony in McEwan Hall. It was an extremely moving and amazing experience, especially when the principal asked those in McEwan Hall to give a round of applause for the virtual attendees. The whole concept and event (masterminded by my colleague Fiona Littleton) really deserves an Edublog award, I think!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nomination for best educational use of a virtual world:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/flittleton\/sets\/72157622913184972\/\">Virtual Graduation at the University of Edinburgh<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: Virtual Graduation won!! More information here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiki.ed.ac.uk\/display\/VueWiki\/Virtual+Graduation\">https:\/\/www.wiki.ed.ac.uk\/display\/VueWiki\/Virtual+Graduation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/edublogawards.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/edublogawards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/best_vworld_blog1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"173\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this year&#8217;s Edublog Awards, I want to nominate the University of Edinburgh&#8217;s MSc in E-learning virtual graduation on 26 November 2009. Four of the students from the programme attended a graduation ceremony in Second Life, while two graduated in the University&#8217;s face to face ceremony in McEwan Hall. It was an extremely moving and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/?p=89\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">nomination for edublog award<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,66,63,65],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elearning","tag-edublogs-awards","tag-graduation","tag-msc-elearning","tag-second-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97,"href":"http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}