Experiences

1. Second Life as teaching environment Pyy

2. Second Life in teaching! Motivational Enjoyable Inspirational Experiential Communal Collective Surprising Astonishing Stunning

3. Second Life brings: Creativity Feeling of presence Has unlimited opportunities to develop different kind of learning environments Provide opportunities for different types of learners

4. Second Life dangers Students' freedom to move disturb learning? Will the group stay together ? No more forbidden 18< ? Video and image upload costs Side-effects and disruptive behavior are possible

5. Second Life technically Requires much capacity from computer and the network Parameter settings can be difficult at the beginning Construction of the learning environment requires special skills and can, at least at the beginning, be laborious and time consuming Technical problems are still common Requires installing user application to the PC (rights and know-how)

6. Successful teaching practices Pair Work (Auxiliary instructors or teachers) Find out in advance the infrastructure of participant ‘s equipment Guidelines for the creation of Image (Avatar) Guidelines for Second Life installation and settings

7. Successful teaching practices Provide social etiquette instructions (the people are behind avatar) Group Guidance must be carefully planned in advance Novice users in SL should be invited to training site

8. Successful teaching practices Avoid long lectures - organize activities (workshop) Use chat effectively (instructions) Use Notecard to administrations, tasks sand program lists

9. Successfulteachingpractices Be Prepared to Technical Problems (back up) SL requires a bold attitude and an ability to tolerate failure - learning new all the time

10. What kind of teachings in the glass, SL is suitable for Language teaching - authentic speakers of languages Use of experts as a part of teaching Simulating of Social situations - customer support

11. What kind of teachings in the glass, SL is suitable for Simulation of Spaces and places of - the potential of constructing Drama and role playing Distance meetings and group discussions Lectures

12. What do we expect from the co-operation project? Pioneering spirit Activity Courage Find out what works? Find out what does not work? People, network!!!