As I have been playing with Second Life over the past month I have thought of many different ways to bring this into my classroom. First my thinking was using the rich culture worlds and students can role play in Egypt, Nazi Germany, Mexico and I even went swimming with sharks. So much can be done with this but, there are so many barriers that make it difficult to break through.
Ross Perkins, Ph.D is an instructional designer and has designed many of the educational sites for Second Life. He states that although this is a terrific tool, many teachers still are using the same old teaching techniques but, in SL. If it can be
done in Real Life (RL) then why do it in SL? For instance; meeting in a community room in SL as avatars and using a white board as an instructor lectures. Yes, innovative in the fact that it is in SL but not unique. Where SL has it's benefits is g
oing to places that students can't go. Some great sites that educators can visit and provide a virtual trip to hist
orical and educational sites.
Teleport to Ancient Rome: http://slurl.com/secondlife/The%20Roman%20Empire/103/3/22
Teleport to Astrono
my Planetarium:
Experience a Tsunami @ http://slurl.com/secondlife/Meteora/202/32/2
Live and experience Native American lands @ http://slurl.com/secondlife/Native%20Lands%20East/212/34/23
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