Oh dear. Due to having too few registrations I’ve had to reschedule the planned SHE09 conference into 2010. Don’t know exactly when it will be, but we may make it part of a wider workplace learning conference that explores that potential of real-life simulations in supporting learning in the workplace. And, forming a bridge between theory and practice.
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Just sitting here sipping coffee in the evening sunshine. We’re holding a one day conference workshop on simulations in higher education on 5th November 2009. The conference website gives you all the details, the call for presentations, the price and the registration process. Why not enter a presentation submission if you have any experiences in using simulations for teaching and learning? Jim Vanides, who works in worldwide education strategy with HPs Global Social Investment initiatives, has written a posting on his blog about a meeting we had in SL and a demo of the simulator. It’s a really nice posting and his blog is really full of great ideas and reports from work in education, so I’m putting a link to it here. I went to demonstrate the accident simulator to the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health in Leicester this week, and they very kindly recorded an interview for their YouTube channel. They have been really supportive, so I wanted to say a big thank you for that. Here’s the video of the interview. Isn’t it weird to see yourself? I look a bit Quasimodoish here. I really do have shoulders
Welcome to the twitter stream for the E-learning Development Unit at the University of the West of England Here are two machinima, that show the general layout of the island and how the HUD operates.
Wow! Manuel and I just back from giving a paper at the AACE EdMedia World conference on technology in education, in Honolulu, Hawai’i. Fantastic location, great conference – see https://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/ for details of the speakers and all the papers and activities. We were there giving a paper on simulations in HE, inculding our work here in Second Life. If anyone would like a copy of our paper, just click on this link aace-honolulu-09-lf-and-mfp. In the meantime, here are some pics of the location and the event. Be very jealous
Here’s a photo of the next simulation project we’re working on with Citrus Virtual. This is with our colleagues in Social Work and is a simulated residential care home for the elderly. Here social work students who have particular career interests in working with the elderly in care will be able to watch a simulated event and then interact with it, in a similar way to the acccident scenario in the warehouse next door. This simulator also facilitates an emphasis on role play amongst students and tutors. Well, the accident simulator is now finished and through beta testing. We’ll be piloting it with volunteer student groups this semester with a view to getting feedback and tweaking any issues that appear, so that we can use it for real in the 09/10 academic year. We’re experimenting with using sound too, as the dummy avatars ”talk” to each other during the simulation using text chat at the moment, and it can be a bit hard to follow what is happening and read the text. It works really well, and I’m so pleased with the outcome |
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