Would SecondLife be a good way to deliver online learning to undergrads?
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Posted by Libraries, May 06, 2008
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Help us learn why SecondLife would be good (or not!) for online instruction!
SecondLife is a virtual world where people go to socialize, and increasingly, to learn and work. Megan Fox (Simmons Library Associate Director for Technology & Special Projects) and Candy Schwartz (GSLIS Professor) have an internal Pottruck Technology Resource Center grant to explore how Simmons might use SecondLife as a place for teaching and learning.
We are offering practice workshops in SecondLife to learn more about how this online environment works for teaching online. In these “beta test” workshops we will be teaching about how to do library research.
We are looking for undergraduate volunteers for a one-hour practice workshop session. Once we have volunteers who are interested in trying this out, we will schedule an exact date and time, but are looking at the end of May and beginning of June. This round we are looking for undergraduate student participants. Stay tuned for more offerings for graduate students.
Participants can either log in remotely (if you already know that your machine is SL-capable), or can gather in a classroom at Simmons, which is also where the SL introduction will be held.
We welcome those who are already in SL. We also welcome those who aren’t but want to be, and we will offer a hands-on SL introduction before the library instruction session (this will add another hour).
We have thank-you bribes (choices of itunes, starbucks and barnes and nobles gift certificates)!
Please email fox@simmons.edu if you are interested.
Space is limited, so first come first serve.
