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TCC09: Digital Learning Environments: Context Sensitive and Imaginative Classes in Second Life

Experiencing eLearning

Summary: “Ready to teach with Second Life, but not sure how to begin? Come prepared to have fun as we explore how to design learning activities for use in Second Life. Tips on how to streamline your virtual world classes and help your students learn how to use Second Life are featured in this session.&#.

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Questions about Second Life

Kapp Notes

Recently, I received a some really good questions related specifically to Second Life but primarily are about virtual worlds and the use of these worlds for education. I'll answer the questions here since I think they reflect concerns that many educators have related to the social networks and Second Life.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Second Life Backlash and Controversy

Learning Visions

Monday, August 13, 2007 Second Life Backlash and Controversy The Second Life naysayers seems to be gaining ground lately. And Im not implying that Im a Second Life naysayer. A thoughtful post on one educators experience in Second Life (and a nice historical perspective). IT Security Risks 2.

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Liveblogging an Online Conference

Experiencing eLearning

Wendy Wickham asked a good question in the comments on TCC08: Second Life: Teaching Tips from the Virtual Frontier: Christy - are you using 2 computers (one for blogging, one for the conference), or just one? Last year I just did a summary post on ubiquitous learning after this conference.

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TCC09: Wikis that Work: Effective Wiki Practices for Virtual Learning Communities

Experiencing eLearning

Second Life) very low. Used wiki as a place for students to collect summaries of content each week showing connections in content–2 students assigned to do the summaries with connections each week. Started with a study of their students–how students were communicating outside the classroom. 100% used email.

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Daily Bookmarks 04/24/2008

Experiencing eLearning

Summary of a model for creating incompetence–i.e., Calendar of events for educators in Second Life. Databases of images from the US government–most are public domain. tags: images , publicdomain. Dave's Whiteboard » Blog Archive » When you need incompetence fast - Annotated. what NOT to do. Information.

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Top 100 eLearning Items

Tony Karrer

Tools - A Summary PR 2.0: Second Life is not a teaching tool Tool Set 2009 New Design for My Smile Sheet The art of changing the brain Writing Less Objectionable Learning Objectives How to Convert Your PowerPoint Presentation into an Elearning Course Social Media makes this course stand out Should All Learning Professionals Be Blogging?