Classrooms of the Future - Virtual Education April 27, 2007
Posted by Joseph Papaleo in General, classroom.trackback
Wow!
Many of us have heard of Second Life. But did you know there were many educational resources available? Check out Jo Kay and Sean FitzGerald’s wiki page on this very topic.
From the Educational Uses of Second Life wiki page, I found this list of links.
- Distance and Flexible Education
- Presentations, Panels and Discussions
- Training and Skills Development
- Self-paced Tutorials
- Displays and Exhibits
- Immersive Exhibits
- Roleplays and Simulations
- Data Visualisations and Simulations
- Libraries, Art Galleries and Museums
- Historical Re-creations and Re-enactments, Living and Immersive Archeology
- Computer Programming
- Artificial Intelligence Projects
- Artificial Life Projects
- Multimedia and Games Design
- Art and Music Projects
- Literature, Composition and Creative Writing
- Theatre and Performance Art
- Photostories
- Machinima
- Treasure Hunts and Quests
- Virtual Tourism, Cultural Immersion and Cultural Exchange
- Language Teaching and Practice, and Language Immersion
- Social Science and Anthropological Research
- Awareness/Consciousness Raising and Fund Raising>
- Support and Opportunities for People with Disabilities
- Politics, Governance, Civics and Legal Practice
- Business, Commerce, Financial Practice and Modelling
- Real Estate Practice
- Product Design, Prototyping, User-testing and Market Research
- Interior Design
- Architectural Design and Modelling
- Urban Planning and Design
- Further Resources
There are heaps of resuorces avaialble and I can see it will take me some time to get through. Am I keen to explore it?
- Yes just to see what can be done
- No because I’m scared I’ll spend far too much time there. I think that at the moment, I might stick with the latter option.
This is a fantastic list - thanks for pointing us to it! Now, if only I was ‘allowed’ to explore this in my workplace, I would be even happier.
Jo and Sean certainly do a great job leading us all in this field. The problem is bandwidth (of course) for schools in Australia, and the fact that there are so many aspects of Web 2.0 that we need to encourage teachers in - that somehow SL does not yet have the prominence that I believe it will in coming years.