Introduction

The Second Life Forum met at Staffordshire University in June 2007 to discuss how Second Life could be used in teaching and learning.

This page is the outcomes of the discussion. If you would like to add your own comments to any of the discussion topics, please do so.

Discussion topic 1: Review Salmon's Best Practice Model for online discussion and consider to what extent Second Life can facilitate effective online discussions:

The group felt that SL could be very useful in supporting online socialisation.

Discussion topic 2: Review the Best Practice Model for online collaboration and consider to what extent Second Life can facilitate effective group collaborative activities. Do you have any ideas about projects/group activities that could be run in Second Life?

A number of ideas were proposed - group role play, interviews, group task to stage and 'event', group engagement in commerce.

Discussion topic 3: What issues might arise when using Second Life?

Access to technical equipment suitable to run Second Life, user skills, need to be sure all students have equal access to run a group project.

The Best Practice Models for E-learning community forum for Second Life is here http://crusldi1.staffs.ac.uk/moodle/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=239