Listened to some great guys from Preston College talk about their experiments with Second Life.
Some things to think about when we do our experiment:
It costs about £400 to buy some space (preston has an island Beat island) then about £80 a month upkeep.
Up to 100 users at one go can enter your space.
Currently only 2 users from one ip address can apply per day to SL.
When you join you have to do an orientation exercise, to train you to fly, dress yourself, drive a car, talk to others etc.
The sl project at preston is currently offered as an enrichment programme, media students are currently part of the project.
Sloodle enables interaction with moodle, so you could take moodle tests & blog in sl back to moodle.
E-safety is taught & students told if they are told to leave certain places they have wandered into they must immediately or lose their access to SL.
They have steered clear of replicating their college buildings and creating a virtual classroom set up with a teacher , white board etc, but want to look at different dynamic for learning.
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I would agree - little point spendign a load of time and money in SL to replicate the real world.
Design - project question - what environment to use.
I might use a chalet in the high alps!
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