Week+3



This week, we'll be visiting at least two locations in SL specifically geared towards history and technology. Meetings will occur Thursday evening at 6 p.m. and Friday afternoon at 5 p.m. We'll meet first at the Jaguarland Bay Boat Welcome Center ( [] ) and go from there. (The Friday afternoon tour leaves from Oxbridge University [], not Jaguarland.)

//Please remember, you **MUST** go through a tutorial or orientation session in SL (there are several listed on their website) before participating in the tours. If the guides spend all their time explaining to you how to get around, use text boxes, open notecards, etc., as a group, we go nowhere fast.//

The first stop is the Avnet Technology Museum. Avnet is a fairly small location (only one sim). The museum is inside the front door of the building, to the right. Take a look at their timeline and some of their virtual mockups of pieces of technology. 

Some things to consider:

1) How does the timeline and examples, as shown, fit in with the ID history you've been learning about? 2) Think back on your educational past (elementary/middle school/high school). Were any of these technologies used for instruction in your school(s)? If so, which ones and how were they used? 3) Considering where technology and education have come from, what do you think the future will look like? What technologies will flourish for education and training? What does that mean for instructional designers now?

We'll also take a look at the museum at My Base, the entry point to the US Air Force recruiting and simulation regions.



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Some things to consider: 1) How do the two presentation styles differ? 2) Does the presentation at My Base remind you of anything in this chapter? If so, what?

And finally, just for fun, we'll visit a bit of Second Life history, the beanstalk. This is said to be the first thing built in SL. []