Buzz3 Summary

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[edit] Teachers Buzz Session 3 Summary

(Sep 18, 2006, 6:00 PM SLT) summarized from full transcript

  • Audio via Skype was less than desirable, not everyone could hear and we experienced feedback -- the workable way is for moderator to mute all and designate who can speak. Audio recorded from first 33 minutes http://media.nmc.org/sl/audio/buzz/buzz-060918.mp3
  • SL issues, several outages this week, passwords exploited- again stability issues challenge educators. Backup strategies?
    • web casting
    • skype/chat, Breeze, Learning Times
    • SL as a secondary meeting place (internet site as primary)
    • alternative platforms Never Winter Nights
    • create self directed activities rather than synchronous activities (Snowbell Tiger at Virreal Land)
      • students keep record of in word activities (log?)
      • first step of digital production is avatar creation/design
  • Problems also this week with creating multiple accounts for faculty/staff; it appears a browser cookie may limit the number to 10
  • Demo accounts are handy, but some were unusable after the password breach (lost track of the question response needed to reset a password)
  • issue: trouble "selling" SL to your students or administration because of the "eye bleach" (SL sleaze) factor?
    • private / semi-private islands; other places have tension between desire for safe place and wanting open-ness ("too many restrictions takes away from the essence of what SL is")
    • "Don't private islands lend themselves to the balkanization of Second Life? "
    • restrict creation/script abilities (10 minute return on any created prim; scripts disabled)
    • parcel costs are perceived as high by many acadmic admins.
    • hold sessions in a sandbox where focus is on learning, then branched ou explorations
    • "It helps to have set objectives, a one hour maximum timeframe, and some goals to complete, then a way of evaluating the session and refining it."
  • technical topics
    • Doug Latrell's island (NetG) has casts area with each seat on its own parcel, so each has a separate audio stream see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HYiHOmaFyk
    • "portable audio" Janor Slichter (a whole slew of tiny files linked in a loop)
  • types of classes mentioned this week
    • role playing in our business development courses (Doug Latrell)
    • teacher ed (Snowbell Tiger)
    • Advanced Topics: Games course exploring the future of games and game designs (Lyr Lobo)
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