Does Your Campus Need a Second Life?

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Does Your Campus Need a Second Life?

• Ana Gonzalez - Director of Instructional
  Technology
• Terence Peak - Training Coordinator
• Phil Youngblood - Assistant Professor CIS
• University of the Incarnate Word
• San Antonio, Texas

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Seven Principles of Good Practice -Chickering
and Gamson (1987)

1. Encourage contact between students and faculty
2. Develop reciprocity and cooperation among
   students
3. Encourage active learning
4. Give prompt feedback
5. Emphasize time on task
6. Communicate high expectations
7. Respect diverse talents and ways of learning.

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1 Contact

• Encourages contact between students and faculty
• Factor in keeping students motivated and involved
• Augments face-to-face contact

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Contact Opportunities

• Learner instructor same world
• Faculty /Student contact in-world (SL)
• Faculty /Student contact in real world (RL)
• Learner instructor different worlds
• Students face screen, receive instruction in SL,
• Communicate through IM, Voice
• Instructor should always focus students
  attention
• Leadership determines communication
• Focus attention in both environments

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2 Reciprocity Cooperation

• Develops reciprocity cooperation among students
• Collaborative/social vs. competitive/isolated
• Facilitation of group study, discussions,
  problem solving

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Cooperation Opportunities

• Residents learn to be a class
• Experienced users assist novices
• Teach each other skills
• Share scripts
• Explain SL etiquette
• Behavior adjusts according to environment
• Learn and adhere to community standards

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3 Active Learning

• Uses active learning techniques
• Students can
• Talk write about it
• Relate it to the past
• Apply it to the present

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Active Learning Opportunities

• Synchronous /Asynchronous
• Instructors available to scaffold
• Residents progress from Newbie to complex
  scripting

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4 Prompt Feedback

• Gives prompt feedback
• Critical observation
• Assessment of knowledge competence
• Frequent assessment

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Feedback Opportunities

• Sources of feedback
• Instructor and student in SL
• Instructor and student in RL
• Instructor in RL, student in-world
• Student to student (RL or SL)
• Blog community experience

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5 Time on Task

• Emphasizes time on task
• Allow proper amount of time to complete tasks
• Set time limits to complete tasks

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Time on Task Opportunities

• Specific time requirements for completing tasks
• Syllabus outlines RL SL allotment
• Focus on RL SL accomplishments
• Time Zones

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6 High Expectations

• Communicates high expectations
• A self-fulfilling prophecy students respond to
  what is asked of them.

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Expectations Opportunities

• Communicates high expectations
• Syllabus outlines expectations for
• Communication
• Student output
• Focus on SL Community Standards
• Expectation that SL abilities will develop
• Grading standards
• 30 RL
• 70 in SL

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7 Diversity

• Respects diverse talents and learning styles
• Different students different talents styles
• Diversity in race, color, religion, income
• Diversity also relates to the quality of a
  students educational foundation

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Diversity Opportunities

• 7 Newbie, 4 veteran users
• Digital immigrants natives
• Ethnically diverse
• Variety of Avatars
• Learning styles skew Visual and Sequential
• Source Richard M. Felder Barbara A.
  SolomanNorth Carolina State University

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Learning Styles
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Resources for Further Study

• Chickering and Gamson. Seven Principles for Good
  Practice in Undergraduate Education. The
  American Association for Higher Education
  Bulletin, March, 1987.http//honolulu.hawaii.edu/
  intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/7pr
  incip.htm
• Chickering and Ehrmann. Implementing the Seven
  Principles Technology as Lever. The TLT Group
  Teaching, Learning, and Technology. (Originally
  published in AAHE Bulletin, October, 1996, pp.
  3-6).http//www.tltgroup.org/programs/seven.html

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Resources for Further Study

• Chickering Gamson. Development and Adaptations
  of the Seven Principles for Good Practice in
  Undergraduate Education. New Directions for
  Teaching and Learning, no. 80, Winter
  1999.http//www.umflint.edu/resources/centers/tcl
  t/resources/evaluating_teaching/pdf-bin/Developmen
  t20and20Adaptations20of20the20Seven20Princip
  les20for20Good20Practice20in20Undergraduate2
  0Education.pdf

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Resources

• Proceedings of the Second Life Education
  Workshop, August 24,-26th, 2007
  http//www.simteach.com/slccedu07proceedings.pdf
• Proceedings of the Second Life Education
  Workshop, August 20, 2006 http//64.233.167.104/s
  earch?qcache0WqY9HQK0eEJsecondlife.com/business
  education/education/slcc2006-proceedings.pdfsecon
  dlifeeducationalworkshophlenctclnkcd1gl
  us
• SLED Second Life Educators Forum
  http//www.simteach.com/forum/

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Resources

• Second Life Education Wiki http//www.simteach.co
  m/wiki/index.php?titleSecond_Life_Education_Wiki
• Getting Started in SL http//secondlifegrid.net/g
  ettingstarted
• Map of the SL Campus world http//tinyurl.com/jna
  fl
• Index of Learning Styles Questionnaire
  http//www.engr.ncsu.edu/learningstyles/ilsweb.htm
  l Barbara A. Soloman Richard M. Felder North
  Carolina State University

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Questions??

• Ana Gonzalez
• UIW Director of Instructional Technology
• agonzalez_at_uiwtx.edu
• 210/829-3737
• Terence Peak
• Coordinator of Technology Training
• tpeak_at_uiwtx.edu
• 210/829-3920

• THANK YOU