Alex Harpoon (Susan) and Scorp Rau (Jacqui) and I met on Riverina Island on Friday. Scorp was kind enough to take us on a tour of Riverina Island.
Scorp introduced us to a whiteboard that allows the user to present slides to other Avatars. We could see the use of such a tool for teachers and immediately started to think about a toolkit for teachers. What would it contain? Are there any other groovy little tools?
Scorp mentioned that we could teach the teachers how to find tools. To paraphrase a well known proverb "Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime." This sounded like a great idea so we have added it to the list of things to teach teachers in Second Life. We've created a page for our Crash course in Second Life course http://tlie.wikispaces.com/Crash+course+in+Second+Life
Both Alex and I thought that at first the environment for teachers should be familiar, as weird and wonderful is great but might be too distracting whilst teachers are familiarising themselves with SL.
Scorp showed as a holodeck, which allows the user to change the setting from a table and chairs, to a dance floor. Apparently it is a very quick way to change the environment and could potentially be useful to teachers with students.
We agreed to meet next week at the same time.
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I really like the idea of the holodeck to change environments especially if we developed some effective teaching and learning strategies that required them. I am trying to think of an example! Hmm - different types of garden layouts for horticulture, but why not just fly in between or teleport there. I can see that one thing about holodecks may be an efficient use of SL land and space.
I am interested to see if we need complex built environments or if we can achieve outcomes just with the avatars and simple props e.g balls to sit on. I suspect that in some areas,particularly in the area of communication or language that it need not be a constructed environment.
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