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| Title | Second Life in real life: exploring the educational possibilities of multi-user virtual environments |
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| Organising Institution | ALT (Association for Learning Technology) |
| Venue | National College for School Leadership |
| City | Nottingham |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start date | 23 Oct 2008 |
| End date | 23 Oct 2008 |
| hayley.willis@alt.ac.uk | |
| URL | http://www.alt.ac.uk/workshop_detail.php?e=297 |
| Other information | The aim of this workshop is to introduce participants to immersive 3D environments from a practical perspective and to stimulate critical inquiry into the possibilities that massively multi-user virtual environments (MUVEs) offer our learning and teaching practice. The workshop is divided into two sessions. The first session of the day will introduce participants to Second Life as a particular genre of MUVEs and orientate participants in-world through a set of people and object based interactions and activities. The second session in the afternoon will focus on a series of activities that will help participants develop a critical set of tools for understanding the role that these environments might play in the field education and in particular distributed learning. The participants will be equipped with basic knowledge to be able to explore and discern for themselves the value of immersive worlds and be able to respond to what many commentators foresee as one the next major technologies to impact upon ICT in education. |
