Posts Tagged ‘second life’
Second Life course
Posted by: ashleytan on: September 18, 2009
Warren Sheaffer of Saint Paul College offers a course called Second Life Basics. This is part of a certificate for its Computer Information Systems Technology programme [article].
Here are some choice quotes that I extracted from the article:
We’re challenging the whole notion of concrete, sequential learning by offering a rich learning environment that allows students to [...]
Misrepresentation
Posted by: ashleytan on: September 12, 2009
This was recently featured in the Straits Times.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Second Life (SL) is not a game. There are no levels to go through, points to get, or game bosses to kill. It is a multi-user virtual environment (MUVE).
There are MUVE games like World of Warcraft, but SL is [...]
Virtual Orchard Road
Posted by: ashleytan on: August 6, 2009
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The Straits Times online reported how anyone in the world can visit Singapore’s Orchard Road from Aug 9. It’s no coincidence that Aug 9 is also our National Day.
As the ST link will not last long, I am providing links to SG Entrepreneurs which has its own take on it, and to the blog [...]
Magazine article 3
Posted by: ashleytan on: June 29, 2009
I introduced readers to Second Life in my third article (pp. 26-27) as a guest writer for iknow magazine.
Second Life still alive
Posted by: ashleytan on: March 15, 2009
Second Life in the news.
Just because it is not as popular as FaceBook or Twitter does not mean that it is going away.
Second pedagogy?
Posted by: ashleytan on: March 9, 2009
Sometimes I wonder how I would function as an educator without the Internet to help me with resources both human and non-human.
My four classes of teacher trainees started exploring Second Life (SL) this week. Over the weekend, someone I met a few years ago by email (and only this year in person) sent me a [...]
My Prezi presentation on Second Life
Posted by: ashleytan on: February 21, 2009
I have just completed my draft of a revised presentation on Second Life that I intend to use with my classes in two weeks time. I used a new presentation tool called Prezi to do this.
One thing I like about Prezi is how you can break out of the linear presentation mode that is so [...]
Educational Second Life?
Posted by: ashleytan on: October 1, 2008
In his blog entry, Anastasia Vesperman (Feldspar Epstein in SL) responded to the same questions that Karl Kapp answered about educational Second Life (SL).
In essence, he reiterated how educators have only just started exploring the possible educational affordances of SL. We don’t really know what is effective and we are still finding out.
However, the study [...]
21st Century Learning Environments
Posted by: ashleytan on: September 26, 2008
This week marked the start of my introduction to my preservice teachers to what I call 21st Century Learning Environments.
They will be exploring Second Life* as a multiuser virtual environment and NIE’s very own Classroom of the Future as physical realisation of what learning environments might look like in the not-too-distant future. I am also [...]
