LTGR Ep. #15 - A Second Life for Learning
In this episode, Susan shares her experience learning about Second Life, the virtual world receiving a lot of press as an environment with distance education potential. Part of her journey included meeting Sarah Robbins, who is indeed teaching within Second Life.
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In this episode, Susan shares her experience learning about Second Life, the virtual world receiving a lot of press as a future environment for distance education. Part of her journey included meeting Sarah Robbins, who is teaching within Second Life and spent time explaining this to Susan. A portion of that conversation is included. Susan references several articles and sites:
- Larry Johnson’s Spotlight blog post
- NMC Campus Observer (a blog about Second Life hosted by New Media Consortium)
- Listserve for Second Life Educators
- Sarah Robbins from Ball State University
- Review of NMC symposium and links to podcasts (scroll to the bottom for media)
- And Dan throws this in for humor, after the fact.
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Time to hear from you! What is your take on Second Life, and what is its potential for education? An explorer of Second Life yourself? Share your experiences with us. You can respond at http://www.ltgreenroom.org or talk to us in LearningTimes. Or call us at 1-800-609-9006 x8055 (US and Canada) or 678-255-2174 x8055 (outside US and Canada). Join us!
February 6th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
[…] Have a listen HERE. […]
February 7th, 2007 at 11:51 pm
I noted on a podcast a while back that you were considering dispensing with, or at least streamlining, your Show Notes. I really hope you’ll keep them up.
Nearly complete transcripts offer quick and easy access to busy educators, and provide a wonderful scaffold and reference for listeners whose first language is other than English.
Cheers, PaulB
February 8th, 2007 at 11:27 pm
Hi, guys,
I’m part of the Webheads, and some members of our group have been testing the possibilities of second life for language learning and educators have been in SL frequently to get comfy with the environment and discuss the possibilities for the classroom. Graham Stanley and Gavin Dudney are very active in the process. The Webheads have a hut there.
I was way too busy to be there more often, but plan to to it soon.
Carla Arena
February 11th, 2007 at 1:32 am
Hi Carla:
Do you have an address for the SL Webheads hut that we could explore? Given that the Webheads are accessing the Internet from all over the world - I’m very interested to know whether the technical requirements for SL are a significant barrier or not?
Dan
February 18th, 2007 at 3:21 pm
Hi Susan,
I was alerted to this podcast by one of the participants on our ‘Digital Gaming & Language Learning’ session for teachers (part of TESOL’s Electronic Village Online: http://evogaming.wikispaces.com) with 140 teachers enrolled from all over the world. And then I saw Carla’s comment and my name there! You can find out more about what the Webheads have been doing in Second Life by looking through the wiki I mention - I’d also be more than happy to talk to you in SL (look me up: Baldric Commons) - our beach hut is on the Educational island that Gavin’s Consultancy has set up (Edunation)
February 21st, 2007 at 12:52 pm
There are a couple of second life resources over at virtualbridges.org. You can also check out Steve Hargadon’s interview on second life here: http://www.stevehargadon.com/2006/12/second-life-in-education-interview-wow.html. We’ve had a number of listserv conversations at ised-l (http://listserv.syr.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0607c&L=ised-l&P=1665) as well.
Hope this helps.
April 15th, 2007 at 10:59 pm
I had the pleasure of talking about the role and opportunities for museums in Second Life with three leading scholars in the field. I have posted my interview on the Real Time Minute site. Enjoy!
http://www.learninginrealtime.com/minute/37
April 26th, 2007 at 11:36 am
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