It’s Wonderland & the pICTsl Farm for Faculty Development
Posted on August 10, 2008
Filed under Announcement, Conversations, Harbingers, News, Trends and tagged Teach/Learn
When one thing leads to another, you have to go with it. Human resource challenges and our general consensus that AW is rather last year’s VW model, and Wonderland is potentially tomorrow’s model, we’ve made some decisions.
I’ll continue participating in the Wonderland/Immersive Education development community as a user and potential content builder. Cathy (Mari) will likely start snooping around there too.
Jon Rizzo (ITS), who’s becoming conversant with SL building and likes to play, has got a parcel on the Farm to play on in his free time (if the surf isn’t up :)).
We’re brainstorming on the design and content of a faculty development “outpost” at the pICTsl Farm. (We may call it something else).
In keeping with the initiatives goals, on top of the trends, and aware of our institutional readiness to accommodate vw technologies, we’re going to continue to provide faculty development in this domain and wait and see otherwise.
The faculty development outpost, or (maybe we’ll call it a barn) will be the only one of its kind in SL. Our emphasis is on using SL to introduce faculty to being and working in an avatar-based, 3D environment.
This parallels other work we’re doing with the Library, ITS and CTL, introducing faculty to social software. The main difference is that while web 2.0 seems to have reached its tipping point, web 3.0 is still “out there” for most folks.
I don’t see an avatarized version of psych 101 in the near future.
~~Suzanne
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Suz,
i wish you the best as you sharpen the cutting edge.
Michael/Terran