
Dr. Michael Thomas
Virtual Worlds and Social Justice: An Impact and Civic Engagement Agenda
Friday, March 27
Dr. Thomas has worked extensively with VWBPE partner vLanguages, working a prolific author and researcher.
Dr. Thomas helps us launch Day 2 speaking on Virtual Worlds and Social Justice: An Impact and Civic Engagement Agenda.
Daniel Dyboski-Bryant and Lorelle VanFossen
Lessons Learned from the 2020 Educators in VR Conference
Saturday, March 28
The final Keynote address of the conference brings us the co-founders of Educators in VR: Daniel Dyboski-Bryant and Lorelle VanFossen. This dynamic duo will be reflecting on the lessons learned at their recent and highly successful Educators in VR International Summit — 24 hours a day for 6 days in VR environments.
Daniel Dyboski-Bryant
Daniel is a lifelong educator from a family of educators and speaks 5 languages. He is a trainer, speaker and consultant of VR in Education with clients including schools, colleges, universities, design teams, training companies, councils and private individuals..
Educators in VR:
Lorelle VanFossen.
Educators in VR:It is becoming difficult to predict which way Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver’s divorce will head from week to week. At first, it appeared to be a bitter spilt. Revelations that Arnold had an affair and fathered a child with a housemaid reportedly devastated Maria. She promptly filed for divorce, with Arnold filing papers in response that refused to provide spousal support or payment for her legal fees.
Then, just as the couple’s son suffered a serious injury in a boogie board accident, the couple came together over the tragedy. Arnold revised his initial response, saying he would not contest spousal support for Maria and that he would cover her legal fees.
Arnold now appears to be back on the offensive. Arnold went out biking over the weekend and was apparently wearing a t-shirt that read “I Survived Maria.” He got the t-shirt from her staff at the end of his term as governor as a joke. It originally had the years 2007-2010 on it, but 2007 was now 1977, referring to the year he and Maria first started dating.
Was this an appropriate joke or little too insensitive? Arnold is probably taking the whole situation a bit more light-heartedly given his reputation for joking around. On the other hand, Maria and the couple’s children took Arnold’s infidelity and the couple’s separation a bit more harshly. Maybe it is this sort of behavior from Arnold that prompted Shriver to tell her divorce lawyer to get the divorce over as quickly as possible a few weeks ago.ALBUQUERQUE, NM (KRQE) – An entrepreneur is not only defined as an entrepreneur, but as someone who “takes above-average financial risks for this”. For Linda Alvarado, she not only focused on success and the leap into male-dominated careers – but also as a Latina.
From designer, developer, and owner of a major commercial construction company to the first Hispanic owner of a Major League Baseball franchise, Linda Alvarado has never set herself any limits.
â€œAll my life I’ve been told that I don’t look like this, I don’t look like a commercial prime contractor, I don’t look like the owner of a major league baseball team, and some people say I don’t. I don’t look Spanish, â€said Alvarado.
For the young girl, who was born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico and raised in a family of five brothers, Linda had to prove that there is no such thing as a woman’s job. During her studies, it was the challenge of starting her own construction company that put Linda on the path to her first major success.
What started small in 1976 became one of the largest construction companies in the Southwest. It also made Linda the first female CEO to run a construction company. Alvarado Construction, Inc. is responsible for large, multi-million dollar commercial developments such as Bronco Stadium. Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, the company now has offices in New Mexico, Arizona, and California.
Linda is also a co-owner of the Major League Baseball franchise, the Colorado Rockies. During her time on the team, Linda felt the time was right to set a better example for Hispanics.
“While we’re proud to own, I want to make sure our players are seen as role models on the field and motivate other Hispanics,” said Alvarado.
Although her achievements have been outstanding, Linda says that from an early age she fought sexism and discrimination at every turn. In a life and career that has not only broken glass ceilings and paved the way for others, Linda still believes that she would not be where she is today without taking risks.
“We have to get into the game, have fun, take some risks because we know that if we keep our foot safely on the first base, we can never get to,” said Alvarado.Lauth was contacted by a money lender that had recently absorbed another lending company.
In a nutshell, the absorbed company would still operate under the supervision of the parent organization, and employees of the absorbed company would still be able to receive commissions when they reported loans they had made. The parent organization had recently been made aware that employees from the absorbed company had been falsely reporting loans in interest of receiving unearned commissions.
Lauth private investigators were tasked with fact-finding, observing, and documenting the entire process by which the Subjects got loans approved and moved through the system in order to fraudulently obtain commissions.
Lauth investigators formulated a plan to insert themselves covertly in their daily operations. A Lauth investigator contacted the Subject(s) and created a ruse in which the investigator required their services for a personal loan. Lauth investigators met with the Subject(s) under a professional ruse with recording equipment on their person. The entire meeting was recorded, and the investigator retained copies of vital documents to the investigation.
Lauth compiled a thorough intelligence report regarding the internal operations of the lenders. Once the Client was able to confirm the information they had received was fraudulent, Lauth closed the case.- booted back into Windows, opened the trash and prayed the files would show up... They did!!! I simply clicked'restore all files' and that worked. I wasn't too confident it would work but thought it was worth a go.With less than 2 minutes left in its final regular season match, William and Mary (10-6-2, 3-3-2 Colonial Athletic Association) earned at least one more opportunity to take the field this year. Thanks to a last-minute winner by sophomore midfielder Antonio Bustamante, the Tribe beat Drexel (1-13-2, 0-7 CAA) and locked up a spot in the CAA Championship tournament.
Up until the 88th minute of the game, things looked bleak for the College. Despite a dominant 28 shots, no Tribe forward could beat Drexel goalkeeper Tyler Afflerbach.
“It was one of those nights where the Drexel guys fought and threw themselves in front of a lot of shots, their goalkeeper played well, and you got that feeling that it just might be one of those nights where it’s going to be really, really difficult to score,” head coach Chris Norris told Tribe Athletics after the game.
You got that feeling that it just might be one of those nights where it’s going to be really, really difficult to score,” head coach Chris Norris told Tribe Athletics after the game.
The College beat Virginia Commonwealth (6-8-3, 4-2-1 A10) 4-0 earlier in the week, with goals from redshirt senior midfielder Jeff Bombelles, sophomore forward Ryder Bell, freshman forward Reeves Trott and freshman midfielder Julian Ngoh. After demolishing a solid opponent, the game against Drexel seemed like a formality before heading to the tournament.
However, the Dragons’ defense held strong for the first half, and although several Tribe shots found their way past the wall of defenders, Afflerbach was not easily beaten. Bustamante hit the post in the second half, and despite having seven shots on target, the Tribe still could not break through. With the clock ticking down, the College turned to two players whom Norris credited for their consistency all season: Bustamante and junior forward William Eskay.
With less than 2 minutes to play, Eskay glided by Drexel’s outside defender and dribbled to the end line, sliding an inch-perfect pass into Bustamante’s path.
“I like Antonio in that situation better than anyone we have, probably,” Norris told Tribe Athletics.
Bustamante’s right-footed shot hit the left post on the way in, and the entire Tribe team dog piled in celebration by the corner flag.
Norris was also impressed with the defensive focus of his team in a game where it easily could have slipped up. Redshirt junior Phil Breno notched his sixth shutout of the season, only having to make two saves behind a strong defense.
“It’s a game where you easily can get a little distracted and think that you’re comfortable, and then maybe guys aren’t preparing for a counterattack well,” Norris observed, which bodes well for the stronger competition that the CAA Tournament promises.
The Tribe has locked up the fourth, fifth or sixth seed in the CAA Tournament, depending on results of games played Nov.