our campus in sl
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Presentación en el 1st European Immersive Education Summit (Leganés, 29-11-11)TRANSCRIPT
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Our campus inFrancisco López Hernández
@PacoLopezH
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I feel as…
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• I’m a librarian, not a professor• Our goal is humbler• Our results are very humble, too
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• Our models were libraries in SL:
• Info Island
• Information Archipelago
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• A good way to display and access information• Visibility• Possibility of cooperation with fellow librarians
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• An island in SL from January 2008• Campus available in June 2008• More than 4.400 visits since then
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• But?• Activities?• Training courses?• Eh, is there anyone there?
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Activities• Meetings. • Reader’s club.
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Training courses for blended learning
degrees• Only one, and only with one student…
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Some ideas collected here• Second Life is out of the Immersive Education Initiative.• Technical requirements.• If socialization is not a goal, we’d better to use other tools.
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Some ideas collected here• Don’t use it only for upload contents• If it’s empty, is boring.• Ahhhhg!
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Some questions• Is there enough information for potential users (professors, students)?• Aren’t we able to explain the benefit of this environment for educational purposes, especially for blended learning?• Has Second Life as a whole, and specially as an educational environment, perhaps been a victim of its own success?
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Answers• Many given here.• Students don’t know we’ve got this tool.• Some professors do, but their framework is different.• And other professors…
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Opportunities• We don’t try to change educational paradigms, only to help… •Blended learning: Isolation leads to dropout.• Library training courses for blended learning degrees.• Information Literacy.