VWBPE 2023: Uncommon Realities

An additional consideration to keep in mind is the manner in which you will make your presentation accessible in text and voice for our diverse audience. We suggest one of the following or you may indicate a different method in your proposal submission.

• SpeakEasy HUD Tool
• Provide your own transcriptionist
• Provide a written script during the presentation
• Other: (please specify)

Consider the type of community you represent:

• Educators and Trainers
• vLanguage Members
• Artists, Designers and Builders
• Advocacy and NonProfit
• Support and Help Communities
• Entertainers and Performers
• Coders, Scripters, and System/IT Analysts
• Business and Entrepreneurs
• Students
• Other (please specify)

Presentations for VWBPE: Uncommon Realities should fit one of the seven Digital/Virtual Tracks listed below.

1. Analytic Thinking and Complex Problem Solving
   Proposals to this track should engage participants with innovative examples, projects, or best practices on how analytic thinking is applied and used for solving meaningful, real life problems with applications to society, practice, creation, and learning, including the development of proof of concept or experimentation.
2. Creativity and Innovation in Design, Practice, and Learning
   Proposals to this track should engage participants with innovative examples, projects, or best practices of creative and innovative work, by featuring ways to demonstrate originality, artistic and practical expression in practice, creation, or learning.
3. Essential Accessibility in Digital and Virtual Spaces
   Proposals to this track should engage participants with innovative examples, projects, or best practices on using technology to make practice, creation, or learning accessible to multiple populations with varied abilities and engagement styles.
4. Collaboration and Distance Connections
   Proposals to this track should engage participants with innovative examples, projects, or best practices on how virtual and digital technologies make connections and collaborations possible across distances in unexpected ways in practice, creation, or learning.
5. Multimedia Communication and Multifaceted Interactions
   Proposals to this track should engage participants with innovative examples, projects, or best practices on the use of multimedia communications made possible through multiple technologies, insofar as interactions are redefined and go beyond text and spoken word in practice, creation, or learning.
6. Ethics, Responsibility, and Tolerance
   Proposals to this track should engage participants with innovative examples, projects, or best practices on how to engage digitally in responsible ways, demonstrate tolerance of differences and multiple viewpoints, and/or models ethical behavior in practice, creation, or learning.
7. VWBPE Redux
   Proposals to this track should engage participants with previously presented subjects from past VWBPE conferences with updated content. Redux sessions will be generally be 30 minutes long, unless submitted as a Micro Burst Cluster format presentation (15 minutes).

The main VWBPE conference program will include six formats scheduled during any of the conference dates. Please review the descriptions before you make your choice. Presentation submissions undergo a double-blind peer review process for inclusion in the program.

PLEASE NOTE: If you would like to share your work with a wider audience in addition to your presentation, consider submitting a paper or video directly to the Journal of Virtual Studies (JoVS). (If you submit a paper, you may also qualify for a best paper award. See the JoVS website for details.) Add a comment that this work will be presented at VWBPE 2023.

Presenters accepted for inclusion in the program will be issued venue presentation tools and trained on their use, including a SpeakEasy HUD for making content accessible.

1. Spotlight Presentations (50 minutes)
   Proposals using this format are like traditional lectures with slides of information on ideas, projects or research in any of the tracks listed previously. Consider submitting a paper or video for inclusion in the conference proceedings – encouraged but not required.
2. Hands on Technology Workshops (80 minutes)
   Workshops should be hands on and allow participants to interact with the environment or the technology featured through multiple digital skills. Participants should not be passive listeners but be able to do what is demonstrated in the environment. Those who propose workshops will be able to build and/or set up their interactive area five hours before the session is to be scheduled. Prim counts are limited.
3. Compass Points Roundtable Discussions (50 minutes)
   Roundtable discussions are not lecture presentations, nor are they hands on engagement. Presentation materials are kept to a minimum, and the focus is on the topic under discussion, which will be addressed from four compass point questions: What is exciting? What is worrisome? What is the current stance or opinion? What else do we need to know? A roundtable discussion should include at least 3, and no more than 5, discussants, with some audience discussion possible, as appropriate.
4. Micro Burst Clusters Presentations (15 minutes)
   Proposals using this format will be ‘clustered’ together by topic / track. Presentations are to be 15 minutes, with 5 minutes for questions / discussion. A session moderator will guide the discussion between presentations. Topic Clusters may be 60 – 80 minutes in total, depending upon the number of topic submissions. Accept the challenge of sharing a quick burst of ideas.

   Conference Sponsors are encouraged to submit a Micro Burst presentation for a Sponsors Cluster. Refer to the Sponsorship information for more details.

5. Tool Talk Demonstrations (20 minutes)
   There are many ‘tricks of the trade’ in education. The big ideas are shared frequently at conferences, but what about those little things we do that might slip under the radar. Is there a tool, technique, or technology that you cannot do without? Have you developed or found a practice or tool that supports learning? Now is your chance to share with your colleagues across the metaverse. Prepare a short demonstration presentation that engages the audience showing why this idea is not to be missed. Rezzed examples and handouts are encouraged.
6. Poster Presentations
   Let’s share a Poster! This will be similar to more traditional physical conference Posters, allowing time for both asynchronous exploration and synchronous scheduled presentation times during the conference. In addition to their poster, presenters are encouraged to provide a short video overview of their work to be shown at their poster booth venue. Handouts are encouraged.

   Students are strongly encouraged to share their current work with a poster presentation.

   Information about poster formats, video requirements, and poster booth limitations will be provided upon acceptance, along with submission details for posters and videos.

Presentation Proposal Submission Guidelines

To share your work with a wider audience, we encourage you to submit your paper or video presentations for the VWBPE conference proceedings to the Journal of Virtual Studies (JoVS). If you submit a paper, you may also qualify for a best paper award. See the JoVS website for details.

When preparing your exhibit proposal, consider the eight tracks below.

• K-12 Best Practices
• Higher Education/College Best Practices
• Field Practices
• Games and Simulations
• Tools and Products
• Advocacy
• Support and Help Communities
• Artists, Designers and Builders