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Online Presentation Tips
With the expansion of education into online environment, one of the challenges an instructor faces is seemingly impersonal character of online learning. To overcome this barrier, instructors record their lectures, presentations, notes and feedback and publish them in their courses … Continue reading
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Teaching in Sakai: First Impressions
Michael Black, Senior Instructor in the Computer & Information Sciences Department, shared his first impressions on teaching in Sakai at a workshop on October 28, 2011. As an early adopter, Black began teaching in Sakai during the 2011 summer semester. … Continue reading
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from eCampus News: Ending the ‘tyranny of the lecture’
Speaking at the 2011 Building Learning Communities (BLC) conference, organized by educational technology thought leader Alan November and his ed-tech consulting firm November Learning, Harvard University physics professor Eric Mazur asked participants to think of a skill they were good … Continue reading
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SAESL Blog: Research Etiquette in SL
If you’ll allow me, I haven’t posted in a while here at the SAESL blog, but something’s been on my mind of late… This past week, I encountered two self-proclaimed researchers in Second Life that really made me take a … Continue reading
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Tagged Aevalle, education, etiquette, research, Second Life, virtual, worlds
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SAESL Blog: New 3rd party web-based viewer coming
With the new SL web-based viewer getting limited “sneak peeks” over the past couple of weeks, the people I’ve talked to have not been very impressed, especially those trying to access it on-campus. That said, I received a Tweet today (isn’t Twitter … Continue reading
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SAESL Blog: Performance Technology Tour
Hope you can all join us on our Second Life Performance Technology tour today at 6pm! http://slurl.com/secondlife/Jaguarland%20USA%20Education/63/20/27
SAESL Blog: SL Education and Education Directory
Claudia Linden announced the launch of SL Education, and a a Linden Lab-hosted Education Directory. SL Education is a great location for students, colleagues and adminstrators to start their journey in Second Life. The site contains information on topics such as community resources, how to … Continue reading
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SAESL Blog: Moving in!
We’re just getting set up and started here at WordPress. The Ning group will probably be deleted in July as per the new Ning changes. So far, I went through what we had up in the Ning group and pulled … Continue reading
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