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2 March (Australian Eastern Summer time) Matt Forbeck will be talking about his work as author and game designer. Check out his website to read about the amazing range of his work and follow him on twitter. You might like to read one of his books (or parts of his books) before coming to his talk.
Note for North American participants this talk will take place Thursday 4.00pm 1 March if you are in the same time zone as Wisconsin.

The talks are held in the Ironforge Library, Saurfang realm of World of Warcraft. The talks last for about 40 minutes, with time for questions and discussion at the end.
The fastest way for new players to reach this location is to start a human toon, and use the Deep Run Tram. Note location may change for this talk.

If you are located outside Australia and need to know when these talks occur in your local time here is a handy time converter. Some of these talks may occur during Daylight Savings Time and the converter will need to be modified accordingly.

About the talks
The talks take place using guild chat. You need an Alliance toon (have a look at the slidehshow for some hints), and you can join the guild Where is the library, just prior to the talk. Whisper Franticread for an invite - this toon will be online an hour before the seminar. For further information about this please contact ellenforsyth@gmail.com

If you are blogging, tweeting, posting to Flickr... please use #rugame (note this tag will be used for all the occasional talks).

Transcripts of the talks are available.

Emotes and moving
If you would like a reminder about emotes you can use during these sessions there are some hints here, plus here are some hints about moving around (for the newer players) and some other hints as well.


2012 talks

4 April (early) Mark Chen, author of Leet Noobs: The Life and Death of an Expert Player Group in World of Warcraft will talk about his research.

109 May Moses Wolfenstein, Associate Director of Research at the Academic ADL Co-Lab. His disertation explored "how leadership in massively multiplayer online games can inform research on and practice of instructional leadership". For more information have a look at his blog. If you are in the USA or Canada, it will take place in the afternoon of 98 May.

June (exact date to be confirmed) John Carter McKnight, quoting from his website "social media and virtual worlds evangelist, blogger and gamer.
His work focuses on using games and virtual worlds to foster democratic management of technological and social change". John comes highly recommended by Liz Danforth. You can find him online in a variety of places.