2. “ Meeting the challenge - Adopt or Avoid” Exploring the potential of virtual worlds for learning and teaching
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4. Exploring the potential of virtual worlds for learning and teaching "...the whole point of Second Life is that there isn't necessarily a point to it, it's about what you are doing there that is significant." (Lecturer in Law, GCU)
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18. Exploring the potential of virtual worlds for learning and teaching at GCU Lela Vela & Myrtle Scorble (Jacqueline McCallum & Theresa Price) talk about their work and thoughts on teaching in a 3D virtual Clinical Simulation Ward Video clip available on YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/user/kathtrinder "We wanted to look at skills we could do in Second Life that we can't do in the actual skills lab“ " ...a couple of students said that after maybe about 5 or 10 minutes they actually forgot they were in Second Life..."
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20. Exploring the potential of virtual worlds for learning and teaching at GCU Forensis Michalak (Michael Bromby) on his use of, and thoughts about, using 3D virtual worlds for teaching in Law Video clip available on YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/user/kathtrinder "...explaining to the students that whole point of Second Life is that there isn't necessarily a point to it, it's about what you are doing there that is significant.” "This is a bit odd. I'm not sure I like it" (student comment)
21. Exploring the potential of virtual worlds for learning and teaching In a 2007/8 survey of student uses of digital technologies, 3 out of 160 students had used Second Life ™. Most did not know what it was. - http://www.academy.gcal.ac.uk/ldn/
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23. Exploring the potential of virtual worlds for learning and teaching at GCU Morrow Merlin (David Moffat) on his use of, and thoughts about, using 3D virtual worlds for teaching AI Visualisation Video clip available on YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/user/kathtrinder “ They were more concerned with the colour of their hair…” " We expected to have difficulties with students being unfamiliar with Second Life, so we thought at the beginning they may not even be able to operate the scenario."
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26. Exploring the potential of virtual worlds for learning and teaching at GCU Aero Byk (Frank Brown) chats about his ideas for using Second Life as an additional support environment for GCU's student mentor initiative Video clip available on YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/user/kathtrinder “ My daughter..has grown up with these technologies and is entirely at ease with them...they meet up there, they chat, they build stuff, they exchange stuff...”
