Week+14

This week, we will be visiting sites that deal with the future in education. Tours will take place on Thursday evenings from 6-7 pm central time (4-5 pm slt) and we’ll head out from the Bay Boat Welcome Center ([]). The tours will be repeated on Fridays from 5-6 pm central (3-4 pm slt), leaving from the Caledon Oxbridge Lecture Hall steps ([]) at 3 pm slt (5 pm central).

The first site that we will visit is the Nuclear Power Plant in SL ([]). There are 4 lab experiments, simulating real life experiments about radioactivity, and a nuclear power plant, modeled after a RL plant. This is the first of it’s kind in distance education.

The next site is the theorist project ([]). The Theorist Project is a massive undertaking and there is nothing that we know of quite like it in Second Life. An 8000+ square meter space, there are areas dedicated to: Adler, Frankl, Freud, Gestault, Jung, Maslow, and Rogers. The content for each of these areas is going to be provided by students from a particular class. The first phase of this project is well underway – the Freud Office and Iceberg. This is, and will certainly be in the future, a must see on any tour of Second Life, especially when the conversation is about how to use virtual environments to teach difficult concepts and also engage students in the process."

Thanks for participating in the tours this semester! As we finish this portion of the class, reflect on these questions:

1. How does SL fit into the future of education?

2. What types of sites would you like to see?

3. How can we improve the SL tours?

4. What are your overall opinions of SL, and will you use it in the future?