eXtension Second Life Roundtable 4-09-09 notes

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eXtension Second Life Roundtable
April 9, 2009
LuAnn Phillips, Betsy Buffington, Dwayne Watson, Larry Jackson, Deb Sellers, Celia Hayhoe, Beth Raney, Fred Rodriguez, Jonell

Agenda

Updates:

Deb: group coming to tour the Live-ability house May 27th. Adding some content, links to web-based content about the UD/AT features

DEVELOPING YOUR EDUCATIONAL PROJECT IN SECOND LIFE
(an outline in progress!)

• Challenges for the educator
  • Not enough personal experience to understand the SL environment
  • Lack of expertise to know what questions to ask to make informed decisions
  • Not knowing what skills/knowledge are required
  • Lack of internal personnel with the correct skills
  • Lack of technical requirements/hardware
  • Not really knowing where to begin!

1. develop your own basic SL skills,
   • in world: tutorials, classes, mentors
   • external: books, websites, blogs, email lists, social media groups
2. visit educational sites in SL
   • resource: http://collaborate.extension.org/wiki/Cooperative_Extension_Second_Life_Educators
3. who is your audience?
   • general SL population
   • newbies to SL
   • students in a RL program, group or class
   • colleagues
   • conference attendees
4. How will your learners access SL?
   • will learning be synchronous or asynchronous?
   • are your learners together in FL or distributed?
   • will the learners be viewing or participating?
   • will each learner have an avatar, or will there be one for the group?
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   • What technical needs do you have to reach these learners?
   • Your own computer/internet
   • Learners' computers/internet
   • resource: http://secondlife.com/support/sysreqs.php
5. What is the purpose for using Second Life?
   • innovation?
   • ability to do something impossible in rl?
   • connect distributed group?
   • more reach for your program?
   • research?
   • marketing?
   • immersive qualities?
   • constructivist approach?
   • role play?
   • learner engagement?
6. What are the learning objectives?
   • knowledge/cognitive
   • most likely there will be several
   • Blooms taxonomy is helpful
   • resource: http://www.celt.iastate.edu/teaching/RevisedBlooms1.html
7. What type of immersive experience will match your objectives?
   • realism/fantasy
   • facts/ideas
   • receive knowledge/create knowledge
   • 100% SL or blended with external sources
8. where will it be built? eXtension land, University land, private land, buy/rent/borrow?
9. put into logic model form
   • inputs >activities > outputs > outcomes
10. recruit your team --in house? eXtension? Contracted services?
    • educational design-professor, educator, students (?)
      • storyboarding
      • artistic elements
      • conceptual plan
    • implementation
      • artistic/graphic design
      • terraform
      • build
      • texturing
      • script
      • animation
    • Cost/budgeting
11. How will your team communicate?
    • in world
    • adobe connect
    • conference calls
    • F2F
    • email
    • twitter
    • wiki
12. What is your timeline?
    • allow time for testing, tweaking
13. How will your project be maintained?
    • land or parcel management
    • land/object permissions
    • intellectual property rights
    • security
    • scheduling/management/staffing of events
    • tracking use
14. How will you let people know about your project?
    • groups, blogs, press releases, SL events
15. evaluation, informal/formal
    • research study? (approval for human subjects)
    • data collection methods