2011 Awards

2011 marks the first year that the VWBPE Conference introduces award categories to encourage friendly competition showcasing best practices. This year the Virtual Worlds Best Practices Program Committee sponsored two competitions: Machinima and Posters.

We are pleased to announced the winners.

Posters

Best Example of Educational Practices in a Virtual World

Poster Area Creator Region Location
1st Place NASA eEducation in Second Life Stephanie Smith SLURL
2nd Place Dream Realizations Ute Frenburg, Cooper Macbeth, Maike Tierbal,
Alexsis Kamala
SLURL
3rd Place Senior Project® at P4DL, Inc. Kathleen Norris SLURL

Best Interactive Display

Place Poster Area Creator Region Location
1st Place Virtual Pioneers Spiff Whitfield SLURL
2nd Place NASA eEducation in Second Life Stephanie Smith SLURL
3rd Place Rockcliffe University Library Mel Krupinski SLURL

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

Place Poster Area Creator Region Location
1st Place UnSymposium Rurik Bellingshausen, Kavon Zenovka SLURL
2nd Place Virtual Pioneers Spiff Whitfield, Serena Offcourse SLURL
3rd Place Working Relationships Deb Quintessa, Van Hoffnung,Trill Lomu, Gypsy Paz SLURL

People’s Choice

Place Poster Area Creator Region Location
1st Place Fragility of Spaces:Architectural and Design based Education and Practice Moira Hunter (SL: Busy Link) Lesley Scopes (SL: Light Sequent) SLURL
2nd Place Virtual Pioneers Spiff Whitfield, Serena Offcourse SLURL
3rd Place NASA eEducation in Second Life Stephanie Smith SLURL

Machinima

For a complete list of all entries, please go to http://tinyurl.com/4botfpg.

Best Educational Machinima

Place Machinima Creator YouTube Link
1st Place SWIFT Virtual Genetics Lab Paul Rudman, Suzanne Lavelle YouTube
2nd Place Kansas to Cairo Project I Bernhard Drax YouTube
3rd Place Muinji’j Becomes a Man Marlene Brooks YouTube

Best Production

Place Machinima Creator YouTube Link
1st Place Muinji’j Becomes a Man Marlene Brooks YouTube
2nd Place Click: Immersive & Interactive Virtual Art Lori Landay YouTube
3rd Place Kansas to Cairo Project I Bernhard Drax YouTube

Best Story Line / Narrative

Place Machinima Creator YouTube Link
1st Place Time Travelers – Episode 1 – The Time Machine PookyMedia YouTube
2nd Place Muinji’j Becomes a Man Machinima Marlene Brooks YouTube
3rd Place WB Yeats – An Irish Airman Foresees His Death Russell Boyd YouTube

People’s Choice

Place Machinima Creator YouTube Link
1st Place SWIFT Virtual Genetics Lab Paul Rudman, Suzanne Lavelle YouTube
2nd Place Mars Rover1 Ines Ogura YouTube
3rd Place Ask the Expert Water Cycle Ines Ogura YouTube