AJ Kelton

Biography
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Biography

AJ Kelton is the Director of Emerging Instructional Technology for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Montclair State University in New Jersey. He has presented on the topic of Second Life in Education both in the U.S. and Internationally and is the author of the August 07 EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR) Research Bulletin "Second Life: Reaching into the Virtual World for Real World Learning" and the Sep/Oct 08 EDUCAUSE Review Article "Virtual Worlds? 'Outlook Good'"

He is the founder and current leader of the EDUCAUSE Virtual Worlds Constituent Group and each Tuesday he can be found moderating the SL Education Roundtable, a forum within Second Life bringing together educators from all over the globe interested in discussing a wide variety of topics.

He is the owner of AFK Consulting, a company dedicated to providing services in support of virtual worlds, social media and networking, and Web 2.0 initiatives. Mr. Kelton holds a Masters Degree in English, Writing Studies from Montclair State and is currently a Doctoral student in the Educational Communication and Technology program at NYU. He can be reached by email, in Second Life as AJ Brooks, on Twitter at /sorry_afk, and through his website http://www.sorry-afk.com.

Publications

Virtual Worlds? "Outlook Good"

EDUCAUSE Review

September 2008

Second Life: Reaching into the Virtual World for Real-World ...

ECAR

August 2007

Presentations

Recent Presentations

Event	Session	Date
EDUCAUSE 2009 Face-to-Face Conference	Virtual Worlds	11/06/2009
EDUCAUSE 2009 Face-to-Face Conference	Seminar 07P - Web 2.0 and the Changing Face of Education: Hands-On "Prosumer" Education in Practice	11/06/2009
EDUCAUSE 2008	Distributed Technology Support	10/31/2008
EDUCAUSE 2008	Virtual Worlds	10/31/2008
EDUCAUSE 2008	Emerging Learning Spaces	10/31/2008
EDUCAUSE 2008	Virtual Worlds: Fad or Future?	10/31/2008
EDUCAUSE 2008	iTunes U @ MSU: What to Consider Before Going Live	10/31/2008
EDUCAUSE 2008	Seminar 06F - Millennials and Web 2.0: "Prosumer" Education in Practice<br><b>PLEASE NOTE: Separate registration and fee is required to attend this seminar.</b>	10/31/2008
EDUCAUSE 2008	Assessing the Student Experience in Second Life	10/31/2008
ELI 2008 Fall Focus Session	Poof! Now It's a Teaching Lab!	09/18/2008
EDUCAUSE 2007	Distributed Technology Support	10/26/2007
EDUCAUSE 2007	Virtual Worlds	10/26/2007
EDUCAUSE 2006	Distributed Technology Support	10/12/2006
EDUCAUSE 2006	Distributed Technology Support	10/12/2006
EDUCAUSE 2005	Distributed Technology Support	10/21/2005
EDUCAUSE 2005	Distributed Technology Support	10/21/2005
EDUCAUSE 2004	Distributed Technology Support	10/22/2004
EDUCAUSE 2004	Distributed Technology Support	10/22/2004
EDUCAUSE 2003	Distributed Technology Support (First Session)	11/07/2003
EDUCAUSE 2003	Distributed Technology Support (Follow-up Session)	11/07/2003
EDUCAUSE 2003	EDUCAUSE Distributed Technology Support Constituent Group	11/07/2003
EDUCAUSE 2003	Seminar 02P - What Is Distributed Technology Support and How Will It Benefit Me? PLEASE NOTE: Separate registration and fee is required to attend this seminar.	11/07/2003
EDUCAUSE 2002	Distributed Technology Support (First Session)	10/04/2002
EDUCAUSE 2002	Distributed Technology Support (Follow-up Session)	10/04/2002

Blogs

AJ's blog

General Info

General Info

Current Involvement

Committee	Role	Start	End
Constituent Group Leaders	Member	2002
Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2010 Program Committee	Member	2008	2010

Membership Information

Organization	Status
EDUCAUSE	Participating Representative

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