Hi everyone!

I met with Dallas TreFoil today  (Dallas Mcpheeters, a grad student at the University of Arizona today to help him set up the Sloodle Awards System with his course that he will be teaching in March.  Dallas got land granted to him from Sloodle.org - you can reach it by using Second Life to teleport here:  http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sloodle/25/140/23

Dallas has an exciting plan set up for his students in March using SLOODLE!  Details are below:

Here's a breakdown of what we will be doing and learning during our virtual experience together...

• Meeting in Second Life, a virtual world, by way of our own personalized Avatars. We can work together or self-paced so no worries about scheduling conflicts and last minute changes.
  
  
• Taking virtual field trips together to explore the Metaverse in all its grandeur. We'll focus on educational sites and discuss the pros and cons of a virtual space for learning.
  
  
• Participate in a virtual classroom complete with quiz chair races, power-point presentations, YouTube videos, and live polling.
  
  
• Create your own content by building virtual learning objects.
  
  
• Enjoy a fireside debriefing chat as a self-reflective and peer-review assessment tool to complete our experience.
  
  
• The take-a-ways for participants include the following...
  
  
• Fulfilling several national educational technology standards (NETS).
  
  
• Learning to navigate, communicate, and build within virtual world platforms.
  
  
• Learn to use contemporary communication and collaboration tools (NETS-A std#5)
  
  
• Learn innovative technology tools to facilitate student creativity (NETS-T std#1)
  
  
• Learn first-hand the strengths and weaknesses of virtual learning environments (NETS-T std#1)
  
  
• Learn about public attitudes toward new technologies and future trends (NETS-A std#5)
  
  
• Learn cutting edge tools for distance learning (NETS-T std#1)
  
  
• Learn how virtual learning environments (VLEs) can enhance constructivist approaches in course development (NETS-A std#5)
  
  
• Learn the importance of connectivism within VLEs (NETS-S std#2)

If you want to read about this project and why I decided on it as well as the instructional design model used, strategies implemented, targeted outcomes, etc., you can read my detailed proposal via the Word .doc file download link below (It's a big 1.4Mb file). You can view a brief power point as an intro to education within Second Life here:

http://www.slideshare.net/dallasm12/second-life-for-education-3186421

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sloodle/25/140/23