Teaching in Second Life

Originally uploaded by Daniel Livingstone.

I’ve not written anything about it yet, but I’ve been using Second Life with a class this semeter. It’s been an interesting experience for all I think, and I’ve learned from it too.

I’ve taken a very constructivist/constructionist approach to things, and let the class experiment and build largely whatever took their fancy. I then discovered that I needed to provide more explicit guidance to get everyone going (extra scaffolding required). Meanwhile, a few interesting structures emerged…