Jacquie Bates, Chris Froissard, Susan Cornish and I had our second project meeting today.
We used Adobe Connect for the first meeting, videoconferencing for the second meeting and we are proposing Second Life for the third.
By the fourth or fifth meeting we should have teachers joining us for orientation and a series of excursions and workshops everyweek after that.
Jacquie discussed the possibility of accessing someone like Gilly Salmon to workshop a professional development model with the teachers. I will find the link and picture and add that here soon.
In one of the workshops Susan Cornish, our resident filmmaker, will also be giving our teachers tips on how to create and record rich visual sequences in Second Life for demonstrating their work.
Also we agreed to create a roster to man Riverina Island in-world at certain times so they can drop in. Actually thats not a bad teaching model to apply to courses as well as professional development!
We need to set up a space, maybe a new wiki, or pages off the existing wiki for teachers to collaborate on the units of competence or assessment evidence they want to help learners achieve in world. They may also want to store some of the resources they create in the project in this space too.
I think it would be good if the four of us co-author this blog through the life of the project, as a point of reflection and for reporting purposes!
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