Fred and Phil are very excited about me teaching parts of IS3317 online. I'm nervous. Tentative. Fearing the work load. Feeling that doing this solo is not wise. But I'm rummaging.
Listening to Fleep Tuque discussing her observational study. She talks about best practice, innovation and experimentation. Best practices included greeting notecards, outside links (embedding 2D content into it), teleports that are systematically signed, having sandboxes. The role of officespaces was similar. Dance clubs was surprising. Media use was sporadic. She couldn't tell if classes were happening or not. Some were soliciting donations. Some are marketing the institution.
I've created a note file called educational resources. I'm using mailing lists to get these. I have:
Education in Second Life: Explore the Possibilities (movie 6:00min)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMGR9q43dag
Educational Uses of Second Life (movie 6:59min)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOFU9oUF2HA&feature=related
101 Uses of Second Life in the College Classroom
http://facstaff.elon.edu/mconklin/pubs/glshandout.pdf (includes monetary and economic issues)
Puritans Guide> http://puritansguidetosecondlife.blogspot.com/index.html (see also on right "Educator Survival Pack" links)
Seven Wonders of Second Life from techLearning
http://www.techlearning.com/blog/2007/07/seven_wonders_of_second_life_1.php
Second Seeker (reviews) http://secondseeker.com/
SL Trip Tips> http://www.sltriptips.com/
SaLamander Wiki http://www.eduisland.net/salamanderwiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
Linda L. Woods, MLS. MA. (Ed Tech)
AT&T Education Advocate
http://www.kn.att.com/
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Eduisland%20II/25/195/21
Fleep Tuque
http://slcn.tv/bpe-fleep-tuque
This so it so far.
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