Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Remote teaching assistance in Second Life


For todays class I logged on to Second Life from home to see how much help I could be from there.
In a nutshell, it was a great way to observe the kids interacting virtually and be a part of that interaction.
In terms of assisting the students it wasn't very effective, although many may need a short lesson on using the communicate tool so they are not limited to communicating with avatars they can see.
I had very little idea of what was going on in the lesson, when I met the students they were hanging around an apartment which one of them has taken over. The one who had taken it over (B) had built a wall locking the rest in. I showed them how they could get out using the camera, so it was actually a lesson most of them will remember.
During this interaction a student from the US popped in. The transcript for this is included in the field reports.

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