Week+8

=Week 8: March 1 – March 7=
 * Learning Communities & Professional Networking in Virtual Worlds**

In addition to using virtual worlds to teach, many faculty, instructors, and administrators are increasingly using virtual worlds to network and learn from colleagues around the world. Using these worlds and platforms to better learn and network ourselves means we can pass on these skills to our students. This week we’ll discuss a number of existing communities, organizations, resources, conferences and other groups that educators can join to continue their ongoing learning about education in Second Life and other virtual worlds.

We’ll also talk about how virtual worlds might especially lend themselves to Learning Communities and Personal Learning Networks (PLN) for life-long formal and informal learning.

Reading
[Best Practice] “Using Virtual Worlds for Sophisticated Assessment” Submitted by Dr. Chris Dede of the Harvard Graduate School of Education * Posted by Global Kids on May 5, 2008 at 12:18pm in Aha Moments http://www.rezed.org/forum/topic/show?id=2047896%3ATopic%3A3042

To view this reading, you will need to visit the RezEd website at http://rezed.org and create an account. RezEd is an online hub for practitioners using virtual worlds, and offers access to high quality resources, podcasts, discussion forums, and research about using virtual worlds for learning.

Second Life Tasks
No Second Life task this week to allow time for the Final Project.

Forum Posts 7
Report on your progress in completing the Final Project before the next class. Do you have any questions about the project? Have you run into any stumbling blocks?