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What is your interest in virtual worlds?
Academic, Corporate, Blogger, Foundation, Practitioner, College
What virtual worlds are you interested in?
Second Life, General
About Me:
Long term Second Life resident, educator and builder and creator of educational settings and tools within SL.

IRL I work mainly in SL, but I have several years teaching experience working mainly with students with learning difficulties and disabilities, and/or with poor basic skills.
Website:
http://educationaldesigns.eloisepasteur.net

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Public perceptions of teaching in Virtual Worlds

As most of you that read this know, I make my living from contracting by building for educators in Second Life™. I'm going to slightly edit (so as to make anonymous) the comment passed to me by one of my contractors from her Director of e-Learning policy about teaching in virtual worlds.



I took a look at Second Life and other virtual worlds a few months ago and reached the conclusion that some people teaching at universities had spent a lot of time constructing sites, but…
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Posted on May 15, 2008 at 6:29am — 5 Comments

Eloise

Teaching in virtual worlds: pluses and minuses

What is good about teaching in a virtual world? What are the drawbacks?

I'll give you a few of mine: immersion is good, collaboration is easier and good.

No visual feedback is bad.

Posted on May 14, 2008 at 10:07am — 1 Comment

Eloise

What do you need in a educational setting?

Apologies for the late posting of this, I have been feeling migranous most of the day, and this duty slipped my mind.



What I'm hoping to get today is a list of "features" in order that you want to see in your educational virtual world.



Let's say, for example, you think access monitoring is the most important thing, then the ability for trusted people to script, then uploading textures, then human only avatars you'd write a list like:

  1. Access…
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Posted on May 13, 2008 at 1:27pm

Eloise

Starting the ball rolling

Welcome to my (first) week of moderating discussions for this group. What I plan to do is every morning (my time) post a question that will hopefully stimulate some discussion. I can't keep my eye on it all day every day sadly, but I will check back in as time and other commitments allow and try to give some nudges. For that reason I won't give a position on the question until later in the day, although some of you will know my position on some of these questions anyway.



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Posted on May 12, 2008 at 5:45am — 4 Comments

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At 4:23pm on June 16, 2008, Barry JosephBarry Joseph said…
Welcome to the RedEd beta! If you have any thoughts on how you can contribute a best practice about your work, start a group about an area of interest, moderate a discussion, or be involved in other ways, please let me know. And if you have any feedback on how RezEd can be improved, do not hesitate to contact me.

Of course, I encourage you to invite your colleagues to the site!
At 7:20pm on May 8, 2008, Cathy Arreguin / Mari AsturiasCathy Arreguin / Mari Asturias said…
Welcome Eloise! Great to have you here!
 
 
 

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