Comments on: Was Second Life Engaging?

By: Tracy B

Tracy B — Sun, 24 May 2009 16:14:40 +0000

I’m dying to know if you are still using Second Life.

I have registered, and poked around a little, but, like your students, am having a tough time getting where I want to go. I’ve recently begun teaching Accounting Principles, on top of a diverse accounting career. In atempting to get today’s students ‘engaged,’ I came across several references to second life, and it seemed like the overall panacea to my experience that the students are challenged to show up with a pencil and calculator, much less having opened the text book. I was surprised and disappointed to see that so many students thought SL was too complicated and too much technology. I’d been laboring under the assumption that if we could just apply enough techno-bells and whistles to the debits and credits, they’d all be in balance! I also assumed there was no one under the age of 30 who thought anything in a gaming system was too complicated!
I guess this underlines the message that not all students of any generation — boomers, genx,or millenials — can be lumped together. And I’ll keep looking for the magic wand to enthuse my students.

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By: Charles Wankel

Charles Wankel — Sat, 31 May 2008 05:36:34 +0000

My experience using 2L in management courses is that some students are not technology oriented and are less comfortable in proceeding in game-like environments. What they want to go into 2L in groups, perhaps lead by a professor, so that they have constant directions, explanations, successes, etc. This is a model that I am proceeding with.

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By: JamesReilly

JamesReilly — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:50:34 +0000

I like to think i’m learning, but when i learn one thing another comes along, 24hours in the day is just never enough, cheers for your insight

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By: Bonnie Long

Bonnie Long — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 10:19:46 +0000

Hi Steven,

Thanks for sharing the results of your survey! I’m in the middle of an MSc dissertation investigating the use of SL as a place for virtual peer support for pre-service teachers. I have found many similar results when it comes to students’ use of SL. I’d like to use some of your comments (not the student comments) in my research, if you don’t mind? I’ll be happy to share my results with you when I finish the dissertation in May.

Regards,

Bonnie Long
MSc in Technology and Learning
Trinity Collece, Dublin