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January 08, 2008
Brown Bag 2007-12-07 (Our First)
Meeting minutes from the first inaugural brown bag session of the Second Life community of the University of Michigan.
DATE:
December 7, 2007; 12:10pm
ATTENDING (most, not all):
Bridget Jennings
Brunopesto Contepomi
Gillian Oh
Gyokuran Enzo
Hello Marksman
Kaiya Qunhua
Kinderella Bright
Memetic Projects
Mizzuga Dawg
Perplexity Peccable
Philomena Flanagan
Sladly Nieminen
Snotball Snoats
Ted Welles
Titus Darwin
Vitesse Vella
Wrenaissance Jewell
MAIN TOPIC:
Planning future brown bags and community building events for UM in SL
Freebies from this meeting was a large collection of T-Shirts. Unplanned freebie was roasting marshmallow on a stick to toast over the campfire.
Where were folks located:
- Public Health (7)
- home (2)
- LRC (2)
- office (2)
- Dearborn (1)
AGREED:
- Meeting weekly
- RL location for December 2007 will be Public Health, 2615 Crossroads
- Send topic of discussion in advance, via email and to UM Secondlife group inworld (if possible)
- Make a wiki to share chatlogs and facilitate discussions
- SecondLifeEd folks will promote Brown Bags to students in their schools and departments
POTENTIAL RL LOCATIONS W/ SL CLIENT INSTALLED:
- CAIDENT, in School of Dentistry (ITCS lab, open use)
- 2615 Crossroads, SPH (Classroom, requires reservation)
- Language Resource Center, LSA, Mac Classroom
FUTURE TOPICS:
General:
- how to decide on future meeting topics
- identifying land that could be used for educational purposes
- where can students exhibit and share and create work?
- a checklist for event planning and preparation
Skills:
- voice configuration
- safe places for newbies
- best places for education
- who and how to ask for help
- finding professional attire
- getting dressed, making outfits, making clothes 101
- building tutorials
- scripting tutorials
- how to stream audio/video for events
- things to do with textures
- building tours or HUDs
- tips for combined RL/SL events
- capturing class sessions for asynchronous viewing
- machinima
- using mouseview and taking pics in SL
- things to do with your Profile
- lag and how to prevent it
- finding/using animations
- creating custom animations
- navigation in SL, tips and tricks
- inventory management skills
Education:
- examples of uses of SL for education (UM and other)
- best practices in SL education
- tours to educational places + discussion/conversation
- tour of Wolverine
- SL for distance learning
- Herding Cats 101 (how to coordinate a class moving around SL)
- developing mentoring system for new teachers in SL
- bootcamps for new teachers in SL
- what is the learning curve like for new students in SL?
- do we need an alternative orientation for our students? (different from the regular SL orientation)
- what types of SL instruction and class activities best work with new students?
- what alternatives exist to the SL orientation?
- teaching in SL, lessons learned
- managing student accounts w money
- conducting constructivist learning activities in SL
- market penetration of SL in our student populations
Issues:
- voice or not
- rules or guidelines for effective use of voice
- checklist for event planning & preparation
- tech requirements for effective RL spaces for SL teaching
- is there too great a learning curve for classes to use easily?
- learning curve vs. learning cliff: does SL keep changing too much to be effective in education?
- do we need a real world pre-orientation before students enter SL?
- providing or getting tech support for SL for UM activities
- Doing field research in SL, getting started, logistics, etc
- marketing SL to managers and department chairs
- finding funding for SL projects
- do we want to have an open brown bag for non-UM folks maybe once a month?
- promoting open events to students and community (ie. http://hungryhungrycoeds.com/umich - lol)
Speakers:
- guest presenters on projects going on
- Giorgio Massei's Italian class in SL Winter term
Experimental Techniques Or Tools:
- group tour bus
OTHER ITEMS DISCUSSED:
- Getting permission to use UM logo on tshirts (etc) for our community
- Getting permission to share UM-branded freebies with broader SL education community
- Including alums and community in our discussions
- A freebie store for UM Merchandise on Wolverine
- Alumni should ask to join the group Wolverine-Community
PROPOSED WIKI TOPICS:
- what might be potential projects for School of Information DFE (internship) experiences?
PROPOSED FUTURE EVENTS:
- Enriching Scholarship: series of daily workshops in SL
- Inworld Workshop series with invited speakers from around SL with areas of special expertise (building, scripting, etc.) (Ted Welles offered to help pay to hire folk to do these sessions)
Posted by pfa at January 8, 2008 01:13 PM