Online Experience

[Bill Brennan]

Second Life meeting, Webinar, Elluminate session or something else?

Please share your online experience using this forum...

[Kim Bunchuck]

Here are some webinars from my e-mail inbox:


Here is a webinar - It may be a little too late:



WEBINAR TOPIC: Supercharge Your SIEM Investment with Database Activity Monitoring
FEATURED SPEAKERS: Dean Ocampo - Director, Product Marketing, Imperva & Aarij Khan - Director, Product Marketing, ArcSight
DATE & TIME: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 | 11:00 AM (PDT)





https://imperva.webex.com/mw0305l/mywebex/default.do?nomenu=true&am...


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Here is another one:

Topic 2:

WHAT:
Webcast: Tolly Group Findings for Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0

WHEN:
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
9:00AM PT / 12:00PM ET

WHO:
Kevin Tolly,
President/CEO, Tolly Group

Carsten Hoffman,
Senior Product Marketing Manager, Symantec


https://www4.symantec.com/Vrt/offer?a_id=71138


PARTNERS

[Diane Del Vecchio]

I did enjoy my SL experience. Just like anything new, the learning curve is slow in the beginning. I thought that the ability to communicate, and collaborate worldwide was so beneficial. What a wonderul chance to interact with highly respected individuals. The other opportunites on SL are great as well, Harvard Law School, Columbia University, etc. I went there again Wednesday night to show it to my fiancee. There was a Librarian meeting about to get underway.

[Bill Brennan]

Thanks Diane. Were you able to join a few groups. I find that is the easiest way to stay connected and in the loop.

[Kim Bunchuck]

In searching for an online event, I found this article:

http://www.collegeotr.com/college_otr/japanese_woman_arrested_for_v...

It seems a women killed her husband's online avatar and he had her arrested. I just wanted to share this case of the virtual and real world colliding.

Kim

[Susanne Norman]

I registered and tried out Second Life since I missed the class when you discussed it. I signed up and picked a new name for myself. There were many things to do but I especially liked using the virtual shopping with the Linden dollars. I saw that you can communicate with others but it felt weird communicating with people who were not really actual people or people who were pretending to be someone they are not. I rather use facebook to communicate with people I really know. I liked the idea of the grid and traveling through out the world. This was a fun experience but who has time to do another thing on the internet. Not me.
Sue

[Bill Brennan]

Susanne,
This can become time consuming and overwhelming at times. If you are willing to give it a try some other time, I would suggest joining the ISTE group.
Bill

[C. Barry Edwards]

Well!! I set my clock to remind me of the session on SL at 4:00p.m. on saturday. That's the end of my sabbath. I felt that there would be enough time for me to take the tutorial and also interact with other participants. Little did I know that the learning curve is a bit wide. Not to say the least but I was not able to register and choose my avatar and get to the meeting on time. Actually at approximately 4:45 I had just got my screen name and was able to navigate my avatar. I got to the gate of a compound after walking for a while, but I could not get through the gate. Not to be out done I went into flight mode and was able to get in the compound. I saw three dots in the distance and assumed that they were other avatars. The closer I got the farther they seemed to be. I think I really need the tutorial. Unfortunately, I did not get to the tutorial and after flying and walking around for awhile, I had to accept defeat. I however will sign up for the upcoming basic tutorial session later this month.
My experience was very adventuresome and I feel I'm hooked.

[Bill Brennan]

Barry,
I will send you some info as it comes my way. I had trouble myself on Saturday. The link I had teleported me to a different spot and then I had to be brought back to the right place.
Bill

[Kim Bunchuck]

My adventures into an online experience didn’t turn up any online experiences that I felt applied to this class. I decided to explore how online experiences are being used in teaching. Brigham Young University is offering a class called: “Introduction to Open Education”. The class materials are all online here: http://opencontent.org/wiki/index.php?title=Introduction_to_Open_Ed...

The instructor is teaching this class as if it is a multi-player role-playing game. Students are assigned teams of four with each student taking a different character: Artisan, Bard, Merchant or Monk. The class gets progressively harder and students go on “quests” together to advance to levels. The grading is done by the levels of the game that your character has achieved by the end of the semester. If your character gets to a certain level, you get a certain grade as shown below:
• Level 7: A
• Level 6: B
• Level 5: C
• Level 4 or below: F
To quote Dr. David Wiley, the teacher and designer of this class: “Instructional design faculty are frequently criticized for delivering information about innovative new pedagogical methods to their students in the form of traditional lectures - for talking the talk but failing to walk the walk. Setting positive examples is important for people in every field.”

I think that using a multi-player role-playing game model for instruction is something that students would love. As a former “Dungeons and Dragons” player myself, I can see how it could work in either an “on-paper” format like we did back in the 1980s or today's format with virtual avatars in Second life.

Kim

[Roseann Segura]

While trying to think of something different to do that is applicable to my teaching area, I decided to finally give Skype a try. I am lucky enough to have my husband's cousin staying with us for a while. He has a Skype account, so I used it to talk to his family in Colombia, South America. I interviewed them about their daily routine, since that is the topic I am covering now with four of my five classes. I asked them approximately 15 questions or so and I recorded their answers. I found that it wasn't that difficult to use Skype when I had someone who is experienced with it helping me. I think that this is something that can be beneficial to a foreign language teacher who has contacts in another country. I thought it was great. I hope to one day be able to use it in my classroom and actually have the students interview students from other countries.

[Bill Brennan]

Roseann,
Glad to see you were able to play with Skype. When using this on your network at school, I would suggest testing to see if you can download and/or even run it. You will probably have to get your techs to configure it over the network. Its very simple to do and can be used right away.
Bill

[Leslee Cristiano]

An interesting thing happened to me on the way to Second Life. I signed up, but had trouble getting to the site. I went back later to try again, but had difficulty with my password. It is certainly interesting that when having this problem, you are instructed to call a number and you actually talk to a live human not an avatar. To get my password reset, I had to answer an assortment of questions before they would assign me a new password. It was similar to calling about a credit card or bank account. I hadn’t expected there to be so much security. Once I received my new password I was able to enter Second Life. I must agree with my colleagues that it’s quite a learning curve! I wandered around learning to maneuver, I couldn’t master sitting, but flying was no problem. I then transported to join a Mayflower discussion with someone from the ship, but was not able to locate them. I need to practice! SL was fun, but time really flew. I’m afraid my first life takes up too much time to be able to have a second life.