In the Second Life of Avatars- SPE Presentation
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This document summarizes experiences and perspectives on using Second Life for teaching and education. It shares anecdotes from educators on how students were able to teach each other concepts in Second Life. It also discusses the immediacy and richness of interaction that Second Life allows for conversations and bouncing ideas compared to a one-dimensional text format. However, one educator advises others that learning to use Second Life is time consuming and may not be valued as part of university workload, so to obtain tenure first before investing significant time into it.
In the Second Life of Avatars- SPE Presentation
- 1. In the Second Life of Avatars and Photographic Education Arthur Fields Catherine Dutton, Ph.D. Susan kae Grant Paul Berger
- 4. “My best moments in Second Life have been where I see my students teaching each other. We had an instance where a couple students from another university came in to view our class. They were showing what they were doing and they were comparing. I stood out of the way and I could see that the concepts we had taught were being applied.”
- 5. Student Creative Arts & Research Symposium Students Present Research to an International Audience
- 7. Impromptu Diversity Activity Master’s students drink cocoa after wheelchair races
- 8. “What I find most useful in teaching in Second Life is the immediacy, much like what we’re experiencing here. That we can have a conversation and we are able to bounce ideas of each other so much richer format than we ever could in a flat 1-D text format.”
- 9. MIT Sociable Media interactive scale- charts responses real-time on the web
- 10. “At some point your students are going to want to know why they need to do this. You have to have an answer. You have to actually have something you are doing here that could not be done easier in RL.”
- 11. No Lab in RMB City stark, surreal vision of post-Katrina New Orleans
- 12. Empyreal Dreams visualize famous poems and literature using Second Life as a canvas
- 13. Primtings Museum interactive exploration of famous works of art brought to virtual life via 3D 'prims' and other techniques
- 16. Advice… “Obtain tenure first. Learning SL is time consuming and not taken into university workload.”