Notes on Audio: 'ELI In Conversation: Second Life and Virtual Worlds - An Approach to Active Learning'

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Chris Johnson - Experience in Second Life - first thing he built was an auditorium, but he realised this was against everything else he believed in. It helped him to rethink his teaching methods and his desire to create an environment where students learn. Second Life doesn't work as a content delivery model.

Sarah Smith Robbins - You see clearly with this that students 'slump over' if you teach at them in Second Life. If this happened in class we might wake up to the limitations. People use this for student created content. My teaching sometimes never really worked because I was not the only expert in the classroom, but was at the front and so was the focus.

Teshia Roby - Active learning rubric can help student teachers think about how this works both when creating presentations and in an active environment like Second Life.

In SL we can create a community of educators who can observe each others work and learn from each other and see the effects of certain things. In fact many teachers invite people to observe.

Chris Johnson - Classroom roles change in SL compared to the classroom. You need to let people know that it is OK to make mistakes, in fact that it is expected that we'll all have problems.