Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Day four-Virtual worlds, learning design and designing a program

Today we explored the virtual world of Second Life with Jo Kay who is an international leader in this use of virtual worlds for educational delivery.

Jo presented in world by talking us through the process and what we were seeing via Skype. So Jo and I (aka White Donardson) met in Second Life. Jo explained what we were doing, Suk translated the presentation and I recorded it on my iPOD. We went to Jokadia (Jo's island) the International Spaceflight Museum and to Wheelis Island. Several of the trainers teach children with a disability and so were interested in what was happening in Second Life for those with a disability. The session was a great success thanks to Jo (and she was in Edinburgh delivering at 12.30am!).

We then discussed learning design. pedagogy and how eLearning could be implemented into a learning program. The trainees then began designing a program on Korean Energy Conservation as an exercise. it was uplifting to see the trainees starting to link the theory and practice that we had been discussing during the program.

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