Second Life for the First Time: Learning to Use a Virtual World on a Real Campus
April McKettrick and Teshia Roby talk about using 2nd Life in ther classroom.
She is using 2nd Life for a wide variety of uses.
• She's holding class even while she's here at the conference -- her students are in 2nd life giving PowerPoint presentations.
• She collected PP and then she uploaded them to 2nd life.
• She's holding a digital poster fair for he class for today.
Her tips for using 2nd life:
1. Have a purpose
2. Involve resources early
3. Make sure its available (they have scheduled outages)
4. Scaffold the assignment -- get students to feel like collaborators in an experiment; make sure they know to act within the code of conduct for students.
5. Get student feedback
6. Share your experience
7. Be fearless but not foolish
She sees fits for schools of education, libraries, hospitality, business, hospitality, etc.
They had a graduation in second life, and streamed them live in second live.