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Interview with Shirley Williams - Professor at University of Reading
Why did you start working with Second Life?
August 2006
What were the difficulties you encountered?
Many:
Technical ones with the needs to have ports open, which are normally behind firewalls;
Lack of good enough graphics cards;
Downtime (has got better over the years)
People:
The problems of communicating are made worse by fact that someone can be out of the chat range and it is not obvious they are not “hearing”
Realising the time zone of a meeting and arriving early or late.
Having difficulties moving around in the environment.
What are the pedagogical potentials of virtual worlds?
Reaching learners who are distant and given them a sense of presence.
What is the added value of using Second Life for teachers? What is instead for students?
As above
Which is the best result you obtained so far using second life as a pedagogical tool?
The MUVEnation course is the most successful teaching and learning experience.
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