Introduction

Posted February 12, 2008

I will finally hunker down and explore Second Life.  I am very interested in how it might interface with higher education from a virtual learning environment.  I feel like a copycat since Susan already selected Second Life but, after looking at many of the other Web 2.0 applications listed on Go2Web.net, I really felt that I would get the most from Second Life.  We already incorporate blogger.com and pbwiki.com into our courses so, selecting these tools would be the easy way out.  :)

In the meantime, I have created a blog but I couldn't find where to post it in our Moodle.  I will document my journey at the blog: http://epedagogy.blogspot.com.  Feel free to join me.

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Mid-Stream

Posted February 27, 2008

I am enjoying SL more now that I have had several EUREKA moments.  In fact, I am organizing a proposal for Centenary College to adopt an island, create a replica, and incorporate recruiting efforts as well as student services for our remote students. 

I have tried to encourage one of my classes to let us experiment with SL in class but the students rebelled and decided that they have enough of cyber-reality...they'd prefer to see my face in front of the podium each week.  *sigh*