50SL #13 - Gnoma Workshop
Steven Warburton set an in-world hand-on workshop, aimed at letting us all experience SL teaching from the student perspective as well as see a number of teaching tools in action. The invitation was sent out to the overarching group EVEN, that includes members of the MUVEnation and LLL3D project. The session was run by an avatar called Zuleika Deere, who is associated with an SL teaching institute NCI.
The session was help at Lake Gnoma Classroom, Gnoma (194, 217, 501), which must be a sky platform, but since I teleported directly there I didn't realise.
The session was due to start at 9.00 am (local time), but few of us where there at time, it was some 20 minutes waiting while others were tracked down, Marga (Paz0 kindly updated latecomers so the rest of us weren't delayed.
The teacher Zuleika, ran the class by giving us all a box with all the necessary materials, she pasted into the chat window instructions that were pre-prepared and in between answered questions. Some of the time I found this quite slow and I was doing other things. At other times great screeds of text was pasted into the chat and I had to scroll back to find the starting point of the text. Because we were a mixed ability group some people had more difficulty than others, but by following the instructions I made a skirt, and so did about half the people there (see http://www.flickr.com/photos/ssswills/2397601357).
One thing that I liked about the style of teaching was that Zuleika posted up slides of what the edit window etc should look like.
What I found most difficult was that I really don't have enough space on my screen to see all the sub-windows that I needed. I also found that other people (and their names) got in the way when trying to get a view of some of the things on the board.
All in all it was an interesting event, I would like to engage in a dialog about the teaching techniques.
