Mobile phone project: email from Stefan to participants, Jan 2011 (for some context)

Hello everyone.

Dale and I met today to finalise our virtual world plans for 2011.

As discussed previously, we will support Sue, Justin, Jason and Mark to undertake virtual world training and to work out activities with us.

We would like to do this in February 2011. Can you please let me know if this suits, and if so, when in Feb?

We would like to spend a full day undertaking virtual world training (our colleague Craig will do this with teachers), then I and Craig will work individually with teachers to finalise/create/refine virtual world activities and assessment in OH&S, Sustainability, Building Design and Building Documents. We will also need to identify class groups we will be working with.

This year, we will learn from 2010 by using technology that is already in place and we know works (that is, the quizzes that involve students using the blue dialog boxes to answer questions). This is not as advanced as the ‘clipboard’ system we had planned to use – the dialog box options only include yes/no and multiple choice questions. But the technology behind the more fancy clipboard option is still not in place in OpenSim (although it’s been promised for months), and so we will opt for the safe option so we can deliver as planned.

The other thing we are developing this year is the option of putting some virtual world activities onto USB data sticks. We’ll do this and test it out in class. We will compare the old USB1 standard with the current USB2 standard and the forthcoming USB3 standard, which is faster but hasn’t been widely adopted yet. This will provide useful information for those who want to do virtual world activities that are portable and self-contained.

So, as a next step, could you all let me know:

1.When in Feb you’d like to work together to develop activities and assessment quizzes

2. What class you’d like to target in 2011

Thanks a lot,

Stefan