Thursday, May 20, 2010

Save the Dates! SecondLife Training Series

Have you heard of the virtual world SecondLife and wondered how to use it in your online courses? Curious about the Colorado EduIsland space in SecondLife available to CCCOnline faculty and students?

Join us for the series of 5 training sessions described below.

Register for the training from the following link:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dEQzR2tYSjNmcm1mX1NKOW1TWU43RFE6MQ

Session 1 - Second Life Series - Simulated Learning Spaces
May 27, 2010 (3:00 - 5:00 PM Mountain) - Online, via Elluminate.
In this session, we will be exploring educational values using SL or other simulated spaces, use of SL in classroom for teaching and building learning communities, and you will learn how and where to set up accounts. At this session, participants will be polled for the best times to have remaining sessions.
Session 2 - Second Life Series - Moving around in SecondLife
June 24, 2010 (Time TBD) - in SecondLife
In this session, we will visit and examine existing learning spaces in SL, and we will go through some exercises on how to maneuver your avatar in SL.
Session 3 - Second Life Series - Expression and Learning through Communicating in SecondLife
July 22, 2010 (Time TBD) - in SecondLife
In this session, we will be presenting and practicing the use of various communication tools for traditional and non-traditional forms of communication.
Session 4 - Second Life Series - Educational Expressionism
August 19, 2010 (Time TBD) - in SecondLife
In this session, we will be talking about writing performance based curriculum for simulated spaces for your classroom.
Session 5 - Second Life Series - Conference – Virtual Podium
September 17, 2010 (Time TBD) - at CCCOnline Faculty Conference
In this session, the SL series attendee's will present curriculum and educational tools learned from series.

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