Recent Presentations
While I’m gearing up for another semester of financial accounting, I wanted to share some recent presentations I’ve made and interview given related to Second Life. Last week I had the pleasure to do two presentations related to the work I’m doing with Second Lifeâ„¢ at the American Accounting Association 2008 Conference in Anaheim California.
The first presentation was for the 17th annual Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies and I presented some initial results of student perceptions of engagement related to their Second LIfeâ„¢ use and it’s impact on their performance. I have a lot more analysis to do and will be presenting a more detailed analysis at the upcoming Second Lifeâ„¢ Education Community Convention taking place September 5 – 7 in Tampa, Florida this year in conjunction with the Second Life Community Convention. I will post details of that after the session, but for those interested will post my slides from the AAA below.
My second presentation was given as part of the Conference on Teaching and Learning and was geared to how I used Second LIfeâ„¢, Twitter, Camtasia Studios, Meebo, Jing, and Concept Maps in my course. Whew that was a lot to over in 40 minutes! The slides for that are provided below.
Lastly, I was interviewed yesterday by CDB Barkley from the New Media Consortium as part of their Studio One series (follow the link for other interesting interviews). I mainly focused on the use of NMC’s orientation island which I’ve discussed previously in this blog and my plan on bringing in over 700 students this fall into Second Lifeâ„¢ (in just a few weeks, which says quite a bit about my lack of blog posting this summer).
Well it’s been a busy few weeks, but the real fun begins in 2 weeks as 700+ students enter begin using Second Lifeâ„¢, I promise to keep everyone posted with greater frequency.