Clare and Aaron, otherwise known in Second Life as Arwenna Stardust and Isa Goodman, have yet to meet outside of this multi-user virtual environment (MUVE). Brought together in December 2006 by a posting on Aaron’s Eduforge project site, NZ Education in a Virtual World, they have both pursued different but related explorations of the educational possibilities offered by the rich Second Life environment.
In this presentation they will offer a glimpse of their Second Life world, the good, the bad, the ugly and the beautiful, and provide an overview of some of the exciting educational initiatives currently underway there. These extend from ongoing development projects such as Sloodle (a Moodle/Second Life mashup), through the construction of shared learning spaces, to research about and within Second Life itself.
Their objective is to encourage discussion on how to create real education in a MUVE and to seek comment and support on the collaborative creation of a Second Life campus for New Zealanders to share. |
