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James OReilly

SLanguages 2008 - 0 views

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    Language Schools using Second Life and other Virtual Worlds
James OReilly

SLEDcc2008 - 0 views

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    As part of the education track of the Second Life Community Convention (SLEDcc 2008), we'd like to showcase great educational machinima. Work will be featured at a Machinima Festival that spans the three-day,
Eloise Pasteur

Using virtual worlds for educating people in the medical field » ... - 0 views

  • Role-playing doctor inside Second Life? Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College London has developed a region in Second Life that aims to design game-based learning activities for delivery of virtual patients that can drive experiential, diagnostic, and role-play learning activities supporting patients’ diagnoses, investigations and treatment. One of my Twitter friends, Andrea Vascellari, thinks this is a “terrific example that demonstrates the value of virtual worlds like Second Life” and is interested in other folk’s thoughts after watching this video:
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    A somewhat negative end, but information about teaching medicine in Second Life with a hard to hear video.
Eloise Pasteur

Clark Aldrich's Style Guide for Serious Games and Simulations: Techniques for grading s... - 0 views

  • Techniques for grading student performance in a simulation In most cases, professors need to grade the performance of a student in a simulation for the experience to be considered official. While ultimately this grading is probably just as arbitrary as grading a paper, at least grading a paper has the benefit of history on its side.
  • Write a paper about the experience in the simulation.
  • Keep a journal during the experience.
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  • Play a simulation well/complete the simulation.
  • Time spent in simulation.
  • Modify the simulation.
  • Different approaches.
  • The importance of doing this wellI am hesitant to call for any standards in this area (and doubt anyone would listen to me if I did). I recognize we are still in a time of deliberate mutation -- we need to try a lot and see what works. However, simulations will not be taken seriously in a formal learning environment until there is consensus on the issue of grading.
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    How do we mark students' work?
Scott Kahler

Tutor.com - Become an Online Tutor - 0 views

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    Tutor.com has been creating on demand homework help and tutoring services since 1998. Our tutors have completed over 2 million one-to-one tutoring sessions with students in grades 4-12. We offer a comprehensive training and certification program and ongoing professional development and support for all of our tutors.
Willow Shenlin

VW Theory/Research - 0 views

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    virtual world wiki of resources and links to VW related research, publications, and blogs. academic grade.
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    great resources for research and publication
Scott Kahler

Where do people find the time? - Room362.com - 0 views

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    recently was Stumbling and happened across the following video. Now, when people use StumbleUpon they are usually bored and aren't really contributing to the world as we know it. It strikes me as ironic that I found and watched a video like this, via StumbleUpon. I promise, it is well worth the fraction of a wikipedia project cycle you will utilize on it.
Cathy Arreguin

Open Content for Educators on Learning « NMC Virtual Worlds - 0 views

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    Reminder of excellent, high quality L$1 resources by NMC to easily set up educational spaces in Second Life. Their Learning Sim also includes collections of professional clothing, avatars, skins, etc.
Eloise Pasteur

Some myths about online teaching - 1 views

  • Videocasting classroom lectures works. No, it does not.
  • osting lecture notes is pretty much good enough. Not really. There is an insane amount of details making up a course, beyond pedagogically correct notes.
  • Online teaching is mostly good for introductory or low-level courses. Actually, online learning requires a lot of maturity from the students. For this reason, it works better with advanced topics or with more mature students.
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  • Online courses are ok for learning Microsoft Word, but you cannot possibly teach real science. Think again. Actually, an online course can be much tougher than a traditional course
  • I do not have time for such nonsense as online teaching as I must focus on my research. Actually, if you have time at all for teaching, online teaching is probably more research-friendly. For one thing, there are fewer unwanted disruptions with online teaching.
  • Online courses will empty the classrooms. That is very unlikely. Universities have been offering bachelor and graduate degrees online for years, how many graduates do you know? Many, many students feel that they need 3 hours of classroom lectures per week to learn.
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    Thoughts about common myths of online learning.
Eloise Pasteur

An educator reports on Google Lively - 0 views

  • “People who work within SL will find it not a lot of fun, to work in an area where you can’t create the content yourself,” Andrews said.  Andrews did state frequently that Lively is a good introduction to a virtual world for someone very new to this experience.More information about ASU's use of Lively is available at http://beta.asu.edu/myworld/
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    A very brief comparison of Lively and SL for education.
Eloise Pasteur

ArtsPlace SL: Barriers to innovation - 0 views

  • He closes with a discussion about the choice of technology for a remote presentation with colleagues from the UK to an audience in Kuala Lumpur. In short, Elluminate was chosen over Second Life:Not only were we going to have to trust the technical robustness of the platform (gulp) but we were also forced to assess the question of added value from using Second Life? Fighting server lag, low bandwidth problems, variable audio quality and the sheer awkwardness of manipulating an in-world slide viewer were just too much to contemplate so we shifted to the Elluminate.
  • here is a vision for SL that would help make it more usable - a whiteboard, an integrated IRC type chat client and a status indicator panel.
  • I agree that the whiteboard is missing and as I've argued elsewhere, this highlights SL's fundamental problem with handling text-like documents in any collaborative sense.
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    Problems using Second Life (although some of them indicate some ignorance of actually using SL
Scott Kahler

FOG :: A Ghost-like Computer Cloning Solution - FOG Overview - 0 views

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    Fog is a Linux-based, free and open source computer imaging solution for Windows XP and Vista that ties together a few open-source tools with a php-based web interface. Fog doesn't use any boot disks, or CDs; everything is done via TFTP and PXE. Also with fog many drivers are built into the kernel, so you don't really need to worry about drivers (unless there isn't a linux kernel module for it). Fog also supports putting an image that came from a computer with a 80GB partition onto a machine with a 40GB hard drive as long as the data is less than 40GB.
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