Ron made a comment about not knowing what Second Life is and noting that he just hadn’t had the time to check it out. Here’s a little video explanation of why the New Media Consortium thinks it’s important. The propaganda isn’t as interesting as the view of their campus. Yes, this is what it looks like in-world.
September 23rd, 2008 at 10:04 am
I haven’t had a chance to check it out either….Amazing!!!
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:46 pm
We are glad you like the video– which ironically is now more than 2 years old. I think we may have a new one on the works; we also collect other educational related videos on our jukebox:
http://nmc.vodpod.com/
and stay tuned with NMC Campus at http:/sl.nmc.org/
September 25th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
Thanks for the video, it was really useful. I am getting it slowly but surely. Learn by exploring. Wasn’t that the motto? It has worked pretty good so far.
It is amazing to see the 3D graphics in these online worlds. Could this be the classroom of the future? I would be interesting, but I would be concerned with social development, What do you think?
September 25th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
I *hope* they’re not the classroom of the future. We have too many classrooms and not enough learning now.
They *might* be good for learning and inquiry tho. That would be exciting.