Avatar-based E-Learning course "Supervision Internship", created by Prof. Marcus Birkenkrahe for the Berlin School of Law and Economics | HWR Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht in 2010. Held on the HWR Virtual 3D Campus in Second Life; guest lecturer SS 2013: Hanno Tietgens, BÜRO X Media Lab.
1. Supervision Internship
IBMan Programme 401591
Introduction to „Supervision Internship“
Hanno Tietgens & Sophia Karge
Original course and slides created by Prof. Marcus Birkenkrahe, HWR
3. Welcome & Overview
— 6th term of this 100% virtual supervision course
— Designed to support you wherever you are
— 5 credit points / 4 SWS / 54 + 96 = 150 hrs course load
— In practice: ca. 180 minutes per week including session
— Lushly supported by two supervisors (Sophia & me)
— Relies on your cooperation and spirit of adventure!
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4. Introductions
— Your supervisor: Hanno Tietgens (the 1-prim-avatar)
— Your technical tutor: Sophia Karge
— Please introduce yourself:
— What's your real name and where do you hail from?
– Where do you do your internship? (place & firm)
– What are your expectations for this course?
– What are your questions at this point (if any)?
— Put a version of your answer into your moodle profile
together with your photo, please. Update your avatar
profile before you leave. Get the T-Shirt & wear it.
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5. Course Objectives & Content
— Evaluate your own experiences in a peer group
— Learn to communicate professionally in the work place
— Present & role play what you've learnt in a group setting
— Feedback check and techniques
— Communication training & role plays
— Presenting your case and coaching others
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6. Plus, one more thing.
— Explore new media technology and experience
the avatar as an interaction interface
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7. Your Online Tasks (Second Life)
— Show up every week at 12.15 pm or 7.45 pm CET (Berlin);
if you're able to make the mid-day session: please do!
— Be present when your avatar is online: get up and stretch
when you're in danger of falling asleep (I may nudge you)
— Participate in the discussion both via voice and chat
— Present your internship and participate in our role-plays:
you'll get instructions on how to prepare that via Moodle
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8. Your Offline Tasks (Moodle)
— Write answer to weekly questions in your Gdocs file
— Post vour answer to the weekly questions on the forum
— Engage in discussions by responding (well) on the forum
— End-of-term submission of your posts w/short review
— Submit printout of your contributions; deadline tba
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9. Storytelling
— Which elements comprise a story?
— How do you know if someone's telling a story
(not just giving facts)?
— Have I told a story today (so far)?
Further interesting reading on storytelling in a professional
(corporate) context: Steve Denning http://bit.ly/IOQk5C
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10. Forum Posts
Good forum posts are like good blog posts:
— Engaged, always focused on story, with emotional content
— Considered, responding to something (not preaching)
— Qualified, drawing on information outside of your head
Q: Would you recognize these qualities in your work world?
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11. In-World Presentation
Good presentations tell a STORY, too:
—Engaged, always focused on story, with emotional content
—Considered, showing you've thought about your material
—Qualified, building on accurate objective information
Good presentations don't just recount facts (no matter how
attractively told: beware, self/marketing experts).
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12. Important: Confidentiality
Good stories are authentic, too.
There can be no authenticity without openness.
There can be no openness without confidentiality and trust.
— All information shared either in-world (Second Life)
or via Moodle (password-protected) will remain confidential
to course participants only. What you say here, stays here!
At the same time: always exercise caution with real
information — as a rule, don't use anybody‘s real names
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13. The Tail End: Technology
A FEW WORDS
ON OUR TOOLS:
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14. Teaching Tools - Spaces
The Virtual HWR in Second Life® is divided in different
learning spaces —watch http://bit.ly/HWRvideoE for details
Orientation
Groupwork
Auditorium
Feedback
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15. Teaching Tools – Groupwork
Group work: tables; SL group for voice/chat; shared media
walls for collaboration (GDocs, Etherpad).
We'll try to keep it
simple throughout.
Shared media Don't hesitate to
collaboration
ask questions. And
Group don't be alarmed:
tables
after a couple of
Viewer: sessions, you'll feel
instructions really at home in
Media: YouTube your new avatar.
& Twitter wall
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16. Teaching Tools - Auditorium
Auditorium: media wall, viewers for lectures; a stage for role
playing; a Google Calendar for in-world events.
The in-world sessions
will sometimes begin
Shared online
with a short lecture.
Calendar Please be on time &
save your chats locally.
In this space, we will
perform role-plays and
Stage for
Role playing you will present on your
internship experiences
to the whole group.
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17. Teaching Tools - Feedback
Feedback offline and online via the Opinionator using
prepared and improvised questions & discussion topics
Whenever there's time we'll close the session with a short
survey where your avatars can vote with their feet.
You simply walk into the
Opinionator and the distribution
of votes is shown in the center
of the object.
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18. Don't miss the movie!
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19. Rules of Engagement
1. Please choose a topic, set a date and time for your in-world talk
and put your name in the Moodle-Wiki table schedule. Do not remove
any data. Putting your name here counts as a commitment. If you
can attend (or present) during the lunchtime session, do it.
2. Once you've got a date, get to work: create a presentation, upload it
on GoogleDrive or Slideshare. Send me the link (htietgens@gmail) at
least one week before. If you're unsure about technology (uploading,
presenting etc) contact Sophia (Sophia_Karge@gmx.de).
3. After the session, put a copy of your presentation and any other
observations from the session and your role-play into Moodle and
add a copy of the presentation, too.
4. At the end of term, print presentation & GDrive file, add a signed
cover sheet (we‘ll provide that) and send it all to me at HWR.
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20. Good Presentations
A good presentation tells a STORY:
! it is engaged and contains emotional content,
! it shows that you've thought about your material
! it tells about events and doesn't just recount facts
Get the facts out of the way quickly. Slides should include:
! Where is your internship (company, country) and what do you do
! Briefly describe a situation either past or future for a role-play.
You've got max. 15 minutes for the presentation (afterwards: roleplay).
Please rehearse your presentation.
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21. Preparing a Role-Play
Your ROLE-PLAY will build on:
— a situation or scene (sketched by you in your presentation)
which involves you as one of the participants (as well as any
number of other people)
— a goal (something you want/ed to achieve in this scene)
We will ask volunteers in the session to play the parts indicated by
you; we will set the situation up as a role-play of at most 10 minutes,
and then we'll briefly discuss the results using this process:
! What did the audience think or feel or observe during the role-play?
! What did the actors think or feel or observe during the role-play?
! What did the client think or feel or observe during the role-play?
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22. Next steps
— Post your first answers to our weekly question!
— Schedule your presentation and role play session!
— We need a few volunteers to kick us off next week!
— Consider to switch to the lunch-time course (12:15 pm)
Let's go to the Opinionator
and vote on the following
question: „This is the course
that I expected it would be!“
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