explicit bargains: setting realistic expectations for learning in virtual worlds

Explicit Bargains: Setting Realistic (Yet Powerful)

Expectations for Teaching in Virtual Worlds

Sarah “Intellagirl” Robbins

SLCC 2008

You RAWK!!

I have to learnWHAT?

I don’t see

the point

I haveto

supportWHAT?

Can’t you just use our LMS?

The faculty want to do WHAT?

Are we going to be

sued?

I know this will work! Just give it a

chance!

How can we ensure that teaching in Virtual Worlds is as powerful as we believe it

can be?

A better approach to

implementation

Here Comes Everybody:

The power of organizing without

organizations

Clay Shirky

ReadMy book!

The Promise

The Tool

The Bargain

The Promise

Increased “presence”

NOAA‘s Meteora

Community bonding

Fun!

www.squonksl.blogspot.com/

The Tool

Stigmergy

Lumiere Noirthe Ivory Tower of Primitives

CustomizedAvatars

GlobalCommunity

Multi-modalCommunication

Ed LamoureuxSl.nmc.org

The Bargain

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The Learning Curve

Install and learn to get around

Customize Avatar

Learn to Build

Learn to Script

Students suspend self-limitations

Loyalist College Border Crossing

Best, justified

use of the tools

Necessary expertise

to serve as guide,

advisor, AND

instructor

Course Eval: “The whole SL thing just didn’t make sense to

me. Why did we do it?”

Students spend only minimal time and effort in SL.

Your SL island is trashed/griefed/abandoned.

“My students keep coming up with problems/issues that I

can’t solve!”

“We built this great space and now our faculty don’t seem

interested in using it.”

“My students have trouble logging in.”

Administration: “I thought you said that our SL space would

increase our enrollment!”

What deal are you making?

SL: Intellagirl TullyEmail: intellagirl@gmail.com

Web: intellagirl.comSkype, Yahoo, AIM, Gchat: Intellagirl

Sarah “Intellagirl” Robbins