Teaching Classes in Second Life
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Teaching Classes in Second Life
- 1. Teaching Entrepreneurs using Second Life Mark Atkinson Small Business Development Center University of Wyoming
- 2. Agenda UW Entrepreneurship Programs What is a 3-D Virtual World? SBDC Project Theory & Current Research Classes
- 4. Funded in part through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration. All opinions, conclusions or recommendations expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the SBA.
- 6. A Tale of Three Worlds Physical Space Web Conference Video Game
- 8. Second Life is considered “the most attractive proposition for educators” (Warburton, 2009, p. 418).
- 9. Why Virtual Worlds? Investigation, cultivation, and development of interactive learning environments. (Wynn, 2002). Follow social movement.
- 10. UW SBDC Project
- 11. Reality of a Virtual World Program • Support instruction • Needs a champion • Understand scholarly underpinnings • Tied to org’s mission statement
- 12. Reality of a New Idea Entrepreneurship Education Program 1.Business Counseling 2.Classes 3.Web Services (forms, video, account sign in, class registration & payment) 4.Internal Meetings 5.Alliances 6.Branding
- 14. British Journal of Educational Technology “…80% of internet users will have an avatar by end of 2011…”
- 15. Staff Training
- 16. Retreat Photos
- 17. Retreat Photos
- 18. Theory & Current Research
- 19. Social Presence Theory Short, Williams, Christie – University College London 1976
- 20. Social Presence Theory Social Presence is… …a quality of the communications media, as perceived by the user.
- 21. Social Presence Theory Ultimate uses of any technology are frequently much more diverse than envisioned by the original innovators (Short, Williams, & Christie, 1976).
- 22. Social Presence Theory Interparty acting out roles task orientated Interpersonal maintaining relationships relationship oriented
- 23. Social Presence Theory Missing from mediated communication: facial expression, direction of gaze, posture, dress, and physical distance (proximics).
- 24. Social Presence Theory Non-Verbal Communication Information passage & system 1. attention 2. channel control 3. feedback 4. illustrations 5. emblems 6. attitudes
- 26. Teaching Tools
- 27. Second Life Viewer 2 in the Cloud 1. Content Delivery 2. Information Processing/Interaction
- 28. The Classes
- 29. Classes March 2011 Start a Business Sell Online with a Website 1 hour each 18 attendees; 14 registered Q&A Evaluated SBDC Established Curricula Lecture and Demonstration, no activities
- 30. Images
- 31. Images
- 32. Images
- 33. Evaluations I would attend another class taught by this instructor in Second Life? 85% yes 15% not sure 0% no
- 34. Evaluations Excellent Good Average Poor Presentation quality 57% 29% 0% 14% Effective use of technology by instuctor 57% 29% 0% 14% How much I learned 14% 29% 43% 0% How easy it was to access class 29% 29% 14% 29% How Instructor handled problems while teaching 57% 43% 0% 0% Length of class 43% 29% 29% 0%
- 35. Issues • Access: broadband, graphics card, RAM, age of computer • Sound • Class pre-requisites • Conceptual understanding of VW • Griefing & Security
- 36. Why? • 3-D • Proliferation of Virtual Social Spaces • Video Game Generation • Rich Collaboration • Reduction of DL Isolation?
- 37. Mark Atkinson mark.atkinson@uwyo.edu Small Business Development Center
Editor's Notes
- Presentation will alter between slides, Second Life, and websites
- Physical space: a place to actually feel like you are there. To communicate, collaborate, work, be entertained, and learn.And…have fun doing so.
- Purposeful vs. General Purpose Worlds
- Primary purpose of educational technology is to facilitate human interaction while supporting curricular goals and objectives.
- 1% awareness of Second Life in 20099% in 2011
- Two years later we have used the environment.Analysis of staff abilities in SLIdentified necessary skills for successful retreat sessionsDesigned two session training
- Juxtaposition between web conferencing and virtual worlds.
- Earliest literaturecited, communications theory such as social presence.Telephone research…deficit approach of communications media filtering non-verbal communication, mitigating learning potential due to lack of social presence.Predicted 3-D virtual world education in 1970s. Bell laboratories Audio/video conferencing from DC to Philadelphia in 1927.
- Or, ability of the media to produce an environment of social presence.
- interparty – occurs with verbal information onlyinterpersonal – occurs with verbal plus, non-verbal: facial expression, direction of gaze, posture, dress, and physical distance (proximics)
- attention – eye gaze, head nods, gestureschannel control – who shall speak and for how long? Head nods, eye movementsfeedback – facial expressionillustrations – gestures of hands, illustrate objects or point to thememblems – gestures used instead of a word to communicateattitudes – gestures communicate listener’s intentions
- VHIL: http://vhil.stanford.eduFrontLine Virtual Worlds: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/virtual-worlds/second-lives/the-avatar-effect.html?play FrontLine Virtual Worlds: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/waging-war/remote-control-war/taking-out-the-taliban-home-for-dinner.html?play
- Viewer 2, 2010.
- Just before class.
- Website Demonstration: Demonstrate what classified ad is and setup an event in SL.com systemInworld: Show how to find an event
- Literature: gamers do better