Dr. Joe Sanchez is a professor at the School of Information and Communication at Rutgers University in New Brunswick with research in the areas of social media, virtual worlds, knowledge management, and collaboration. Sanchez Social Media has worked in the past to develop continuing education curriculum for teachers in virtual worlds including: 3D building, virtual navigation, computer programming, and communicating using social media.  This cutting edge technology curriculum has been utilized in the classrooms to inspire future technologist and scientist.

With the Division of Instructional Innovation and Assessment at The University of Texas at Austin, Dr. Sanchez developed professional development trainings and designed instructional technology trainings. Following this work, he co-founded the Educators Coop, which builds and supports a collaborative community for educators and researchers in the 3-D virtual world community of university faculty, librarians, and K-12 teachers actively teaching or researching in virtual worlds. The Educators Coop provides services for educators from different educational institutions who regularly meet to share virtual world teaching strategies, design virtual world research projects, collaborate on interdisciplinary conference sessions, and most importantly, create a support system for geospatially separated education practitioners interested in teaching and research in virtual worlds.

For more information about his work please see the well reviewed Implementing Second Life: Ideas, Challenges and Innovations by Joe Sanchez

For more information, contact joe@sanchezsocialmedia.com