Learn 4 Life

TeachMeet Second Life 2010

This will be the first TeachMeet in Second Life, so, in theory a Global Teachmeet - see the Wiki for instructions.

On Friday May 7th at 8pm GMT there is the first Teachmeet in Second Life. This is open to all educators working in Second Life and allied Immersive Worlds from ALL sectors.

If you do not know what a “TeachMeet” is then go along to the wiki and watch the video at :

http://teachmeet.pbworks.com/TeachMeet-Second-Life

A teachmeet is where teachers gather to share good practice - they make 7 or 2 minute presentations.

I am quite happy to facilitate the evening and anyone with Machinima, slides, interactive objects or simply wishing to present please get in touch with me off list.

Eyebeams Electricteeth AKA Leon Cych

http://teachmeet.pbworks.com/TeachMeet-Second-Life

My interview/ presentation at Wise Kids conference Swansea and Bangor

Here I am on the other side of the camera for a change - that’s a novel experience - talking about Second Life to David Wilcox at the Wise Kids conference at Bangor.

You can see one of my sessions at the earlier Swansea conference here (scroll down) where I show some video of Vicki A Davies and talk about the Reaction Grid Open Sim she has been using with her students. I outline some of the ideas behind “skinning” your own virtual world and do a walkthrough of Second Life.

Amplified Education

At BETT2010 this year - one of the fringe events that was very low key but very popular (these videos separately have been viewed almost 500 times), was the Amplied Education discussion evening.

I am grateful to the 20 or so people who turned up for the round table discussions - there were at least 3 Becta ICT in Practice Award winners there that evening which might give you an idea of the quality of debate, interest and focus around the subject.

Here are the three sessions captured on film:

1) Games in Education led by Tim Rylands

2) Fun at Work PART 1 led by John Heffernan

Fun at Work PART 2

3) Digital Identity PART 1 led by David White where he kicked off with his Visitors and Residents idea,

Digital Identity PART 2

We only touched on 3 subjects from over 20 on the wallwisher site put up for the purpose :

For me the evening was fascinating and I hope to organise and film (with Drew Buddie)  further sessions looking at theory, practice, ideas across sectors not just education in the coming months. My thanks go to all the people who turned up and the participants willing to film, document and take part in these sessions. It has taken me half a week to process and upload the video (anyone got some friendly CUDN access in London (The London Metropolitan Network)they want to donate to this cause in the future? After all we are capturing a lot of useful data?)

BETT 2010 - halfway there…

I have had an amazing BETT 2010 so far. Most of my time has been spent at the Open Source Cafe and on the MirandaMod stands streaming video out in real time and making small vox pop videos like this :

But the most interesting part of the BETT2010 show so far was the AmplifiED event held on the Thursday night - about 20 people of the projected 60 turned up but the evening was a fantastic success. As usual my Mac is chuntering away in the background encoding video of all the sessions but in the meantime before I go to bed here’s a very quick and jerky video teaser I threw together quickly to whet your appetite for the HD quality films to come.

Tim Rylands had to leave early, but, as usual, his input was both entertaining and informative - the quality of discussion was very high in all three convos - thanks to Drew Buddie and especially Danny Nicholson for organizing everything - I hope to have the video of the sessions out next week - it was a lively evening. Interesting to get some cross-sector opinions and lively debate - I definitely want more AmplifiEd events to stir up debate across the country - excellent.

The amazing Joanne Jacobs liveblogged the evening as well - more coming soon.

TeachMeet tomorrow night should be very interesting…

Derek Robertson’s Canvas Virtual World Presentation at the Scottish Learning Festival 2009

This is the Twitcam archive film of Derek Robertson’s Canvas Virtual World presentation at Scottish Learning Festival 2009.