Presenting in Second Life
I have been accepted to present at the Second Life Best Practices in Education Conference to be held in-world on May 25th.
My presentation is entitled "Kathy Dryburgh's Guide to Second Life for K-12 Educators" and will be presented at 7am SLT at Hyperstring's Conference Center. Directly after the presentation, the links to the sites covered will be available on this blog.
The presentation schedule for the entire event may be found here. Please register for the conference if you are planning to attend and hope to see you there!
Kathy
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3 Comments:
Absolutely wonderful presentation. Can't thank you enough! I'm a newbie in SL and your tour made me forget this was a virtual world - seems so very real! I am hoping to get the powers that be in my state to at least give your presentation a chance to see the value of the real future of education! You've been an inspiration, more than you know! Thank you! Vicki Green (Vickster Volare)
I am a graduate student at Illinois State University and a requirement of one of my technology classes is to find educational blogs, post a comment, then summarize in my own blog. I have been listening to podcasts and reading articles about Second Life, so I am intrigued with your information on Second Life. I need to research the middle school Second Life and possibly join. The information for science was awesome. I teach U.S. history, so I need to look aroung Second Life and see what it can do for my classroom. I am going to check out the You tube synopsis you suggested. Thanks for your great ideas. Jody Brooks
I teach online classes at a college level and use Angel. Last fall after my students and I got frustrated with Angel IM we went looking for sites where we could interact. I happened on an article on Second Life and showed it to my students. Some investigated and gave it a resounding thumbs up. This semester I have found that fewer students have either come online, during my scheduled office hours, or even bothered to get an account.
Frankly, I think the best way to teach online would be to have a virtual campus as you do. The students could sign up for a variety of classes and interact with other students. But I have also found that community college students either don't have the resources or the time to explore this rich resource. I am hoping to interest more people in Second Life. I am glad that you are one of the good educators leading the charge into the virtual world.
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