I’m such a lucky duck. I get to work with two phenomenal instructors in SL and learn how to teach and how to teach in SL. Not only that, but they are from south carolina and the UK, so I get to be part of this really cool new international organization that we’re forming (more on that when it’s officially formed).
Today we taught our first class together. It was brilliant. We worked soo hard for weeks on our ideas and built a lesson plan that worked really well. There were lessons learned too.
All text – boring (we knew that, didn’t we?)
No toys till the end – or – at least be prepared to include them in class. For example, when playing with bear shooters, use them to teach mouse and cam controls.
incorporate fun preferably interactive activities
It is so interesting to try to apply pedagogy to a virtual world. As I wrote the lessons i was in charge of, i tried to be very concise in the way I broke down each task. I thought it was good. Then I put it up. And it seemed boring, obvious, and too repetitive. I wonder if the students felt that way.
Activities for the next class. No more of this text stuff unless absolutely necessary.
Funny, I feel like I grew today.
