Progress of the Critical engagement of teachers in Second Life: Jonathon Richter, Ed.D. Center for Advanced Technology in Education Second Life Community Conference Chicago, IL: August 26th, 2007

Teaching and learning in Second Life Use the SL Interface to manage by wandering around... SLED listserve SimTeach New Media Consortium International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) SL Campuses, Groups, blogs, collections, and libraries

Use the SL Interface to manage by wandering around...

SLED listserve

SimTeach

New Media Consortium

International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)

SL Campuses, Groups, blogs, collections, and libraries

http://www.simteach.com

The Salamander Project $10,000 from the NorthWest Academic Computing Consortium (“proof of concept”) UofO’s CATE partnered with MERLOT, Sloog, Eloise Pasteur, and YOU! To create a searchable database and typology of Learning Materials in Second Life to enhance teaching and learning.

$10,000 from the NorthWest Academic Computing Consortium (“proof of concept”)

UofO’s CATE partnered with MERLOT, Sloog, Eloise Pasteur, and YOU!

To create a searchable database and typology of Learning Materials in Second Life to enhance teaching and learning.

SaLamander Project: a true “mashup” operating at the boundaries... Bridging 3D Immersive World of SL and the 2D WWW A marriage between “fixity and flexibility” Between formal and informal learning Crowd-driven folksonomy + professionally invested typology Personal + public Center for Advanced Technology in Education, University of Oregon (2007).

Bridging 3D Immersive World of SL and the 2D WWW

A marriage between “fixity and flexibility”

Between formal and informal learning

Crowd-driven folksonomy + professionally invested typology

Personal + public

SaLamander Project: three step design goals Identifying things inworld with Sloog and other personally useful tools; (2) Describing and rating SLED items with Media Wiki to enhance the Community of Practice (3) Evolving a Teaching Commons in MERLOT Center for Advanced Technology in Education, University of Oregon (2007).

Identifying things inworld with Sloog and other personally useful tools;

(2) Describing and rating SLED items with Media Wiki to enhance the Community of Practice

(3) Evolving a Teaching Commons in MERLOT

InWorld Tools for tagging Learning Materials Center for Advanced Technology in Education, University of Oregon (2007).

Media Wiki Community of SL Educators to organize, describe, and vote on Learning Materials

MERLOT - http://merlot.org > 17,000 materials 50,000 members 3D + all other types of learning objects! Center for Advanced Technology in Education, University of Oregon (2007).

Creating a Teaching Commons for SL: The Carnegie Foundation's idea of a "teaching commons" in which a community of faculty that are committed to enhancing the scholarship of teaching and learning can exchange ideas, best practices, discuss policy changes, and promote pedagogical innovations for their students. Center for Advanced Technology in Education, University of Oregon (2007).

The Carnegie Foundation's idea of a "teaching commons" in which a community of faculty that are committed to enhancing the scholarship of teaching and learning can exchange ideas, best practices, discuss policy changes, and promote pedagogical innovations for their students.

Community Building tools Ease of nominating sites of interest Creating services of personal value Process for SLED Community to discuss, edit, and develop tags and typology dimensions themselves Ability to tie formal learning situations to typology development practices and findings Center for Advanced Technology in Education, University of Oregon (2007).

Ease of nominating sites of interest

Creating services of personal value

Process for SLED Community to discuss, edit, and develop tags and typology dimensions themselves

Ability to tie formal learning situations to typology development practices and findings

Tags & descriptors Top-rated peer reviewed SL stuff Your fave SL tags page Enhanced SLED Community Peer reviewed stuff

Engagement Types Demonstration Experiential Diagnostic Role Play Constructive Collaborative Center for Advanced Technology in Education, University of Oregon (2007).

Demonstration

Experiential

Diagnostic

Role Play

Constructive

Collaborative

University of Oregon  Center for Advanced Technology in Education SL learners engage with learning objects through observation and demonstration most closely aligned with real-life traditional educational experiences. e.g. Spaceport Alpha, vPortfolios Learner Engagement Type I: Demonstration

University of Oregon  Center for Advanced Technology in Education Differs from a demonstration in the degree to which the student is immersed in the Learning Materials. SL Learner is enveloped or immersed using multiple modes of input (sound, color, texture, etc.). e.g Virtual Hallucinations, NOAA Learner Engagement Type II: Experiential

Learner Engagement Type III: Diagnostic University of Oregon  Center for Advanced Technology in Education SL learners interact with a simulated environment designed to promote inquiry, analysis, and identification. Formative or summative assessment tools are necessary e.g. Heart Murmur Sim, Archetypal Cavern

University of Oregon  Center for Advanced Technology in Education Learner Engagement Type IV: Role Play SL learners on personas enabling them to learn and engage through interaction with a story or narrative aligned with a specific character. critical and or historical inquiry the self personified in situated contexts community / relationships / situations e.g. Caledon, The Pot Healer, The Canterbury Tales, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

critical and or historical inquiry

the self personified in situated contexts

community / relationships / situations

The Pot Healer Image downloaded from: http://slgames.wordpress.com/

University of Oregon  Center for Advanced Technology in Education offers SL learners access to information through hands-on experimentation, discovery, and creative building and problem solving. e.g. Global Kids projects, Primtionary Learner Engagement Type V: Constructive

Please join the SaLamander Project! Log on and register as a member of the Wiki Community Edit entries & the typology: let it reflect how you see things as a teacher and learner Add your favorite SLED spots and creations Vote on entries Engage in discussion on the Wiki pages Watch for new tools, an inworld showcase, and events!

Log on and register as a member of the Wiki Community

Edit entries & the typology: let it reflect how you see things as a teacher and learner

Add your favorite SLED spots and creations

Vote on entries

Engage in discussion on the Wiki pages

Watch for new tools, an inworld showcase, and events!

The Future Sloog Education HUD release: Fall 2007 Improvement of the SaLamander Wiki MERLOT SL Teaching Commons Other news: watch the wiki! Center for Advanced Technology in Education, University of Oregon (2007).

Sloog Education HUD release: Fall 2007

Improvement of the SaLamander Wiki

MERLOT SL Teaching Commons

Other news: watch the wiki!

Center for Advanced Technology in Education, University of Oregon (2007). Thank You!

Center for Advanced Technology in Education, University of Oregon (2007). Thank You! Inworld IM: “Wainbrave Bernal”