Week 2 - Exploring Education and Virtual Worlds
Week 2: Jan 18-24
Coordinator: WÅ‚odzimierz Sobkowiak (Wlodek Barbosa in SL)
Overview
In this week there will be field trips to different educational spaces in Second Life and discussions. The choice of these spaces will be guided by the overall character of this course, as well as participants needs. As the core theme here is teaching languages, we will visit arts & humanities oriented places in Second Life, rather than those relating to sciences. In each case there will be ample time for discussion and feedback, as well as participants' own reflections on the places visited. Participants will be encouraged to visit some places individually, and then provide feedback to the group by blogging about their experiences on the TLVW10 community portal on Ning.
Learning outcomes
By the end of this week, you should:
- know your colleagues on the TLVW10 even better
- have increased your skill and comfort level with the main tools for interaction and communication, both in SL and on Ning
- have learned how to use some of the more advanced functionalities of the SL user interface
- have been on a guided tour of an innovative and creative educational space in Second Life, as a result of which you should...
- have been inspired to think outside the box about using virtual worlds for language learning
- have collaboratively explored and evaluated at least one general educational space in Second Life (not the guided field trip above); see below
SL Skills required
- Locomotion: walking, flying, teleporting
- Communication: public and private text- and voice chat, IMing
- Spatial orientation: map reading & navigation
- Photography: taking snapshots, saving & sending them
- Controlling audio: for voice chatting, streaming audio, ambient audio, object sounds
- Using HUDs
Activities
- Attend a synchronous 1-hour session and work in a group to practice communication, navigation, movement, profile completion and taking snapshots inworld
- Post your reflections on the activity into the TLVW10 on Ning
- Attend one of the scheduled guided tours of an educational sim, take photos while there and post these and your reflections to Ning and/or Flickr (tag your snapshots with tlvw10)
- Explore and evaluate at least one general educational space in Second Life (not the guided field trip above) and post these and your reflections to Ning and/or Flickr (tag your snapshots with tlvw10)
Resources - some educational spaces to visit in SL:
Optional Readings/Viewings
Comments (3)
WÅ‚odzimierz Sobkowiak said
at 5:53 pm on Nov 16, 2009
Hello All,
Do I understand it correctly that I was made responsible for week 2 during Sun discussion?
So I update this page (http://vwll.pbworks.com/Week-2-2010) and integrate it with the other five?
Plus, of course I promised to take care of SL sysreqs and soundreqs :-)
W
WÅ‚odzimierz Sobkowiak said
at 3:37 pm on Nov 17, 2009
I've thoroughly scanned my inventory for educational LMs and have come up with a longlist of places to visit in week 2 of TLVW10, for which I'm responsible. This is, of course, a very personal selection ... I've selected places which:
- are not too large
- have low lag
- are well-organized spacially
- are not glass-n-concrete sims
- offer educational resources
- are built around arts/humanities themes
- are not specifically about languages
Before I do more research in preparation of week 2 resources/programme, I'd like to pick your brains on your opinions of the places below. This is a longlist, so much depends on your feedback as far as cutting it down to manageable proportions is concerned... Your own favs, completely outside this list are also welcome, of course.
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http://slurl.com/secondlife/jokaydia/183/73/24 (EduSquare: LMs of various educational sims)
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Eduserv Island/205/110/26 (Revised Blooms Taxonomy of Teaching Objectives)
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Koru/70/207/31 (3d games and edutainment)
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Minerva/154/157/22 (Ohio State University; SL guides & freebies)
http://slurl.com/secondlife/ANGEL Learning Isle/143/93/23 (Educator's tool gallery, and more)
http://slurl.com/secondlife/US Holocaust Museum1/28/39/26 (interactive experience of Kristallnacht)
http://slurl.com/secondlife/sLiterary/20/13/24 (Shakespeare's Globe Theatre)
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Macbeth/48/52/55 (Virtual Macbeth)
WÅ‚odzimierz Sobkowiak said
at 12:20 pm on Nov 25, 2009
I've asked Angela Thomas to show us around Macbeth, and she agreed, as you know from my cc mail.
Do you think we need more guided tours in this week, or one/two unguided ones would do?
If the former, I suggest Kristallnacht (I have some personal contacts with their staff, so I can ask).
If the latter, Kristallnacht would do OK, too, as there're lots of self-access and self-explanatory materials around there.
We might keep the sims with educational freebies for later, when trainees plan their own lessons.
What do you think?
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