Presentation by Tanya Joosten at the Distance Teaching and Learning Conference in Madison, Wisconsin

1. Evaluating Second Life as mediated communication to facilitate learning Tanya Joosten [email_address] http://www.uwm.edu/~tjoosten SL Juice Gyoza

13. Obvious Question

14. What about the process?

16. How do we evaluate virtual worlds?

17. Mediated Communication

18. Virtual Worlds as CMC Medium Asynchronous Discussion Forums Synchronous Collaboration Tools Virtual Worlds Technology Text-Only, Static Images, Tables Text, Audio (VOIP), Static Images, Video Text, Audio (VOIP), Static Images, Video, 3-D Cues Written Verbal, Emoticons Written Verbal, Emoticons, Oral Verbal, Nonverbal: Paralanguage, Kinesics Written Verbal, Emoticons, Oral Verbal, Nonverbal: Paralanguage, Kinesics, Proxemics, Haptics, Objectics, Environmentics Feedback Delayed Immediate/Real Time Immediate/Real Time Participants Limited to course size Limited by task, invitees, and bandwidth, Somewhat limited by bandwidth and task, open attendance Media Richness Lean Medium Rich

19. Distance Education

20. General Education

21. Evaluating Virtual Worlds

24. Survey Performance

26. Richness

27. Social Presence

28. Engagement

29. Learning Community

30. Learning

31. Performance

32. Satisfaction Satisfaction: Participating in Second Life was a useful experience.