Comments about some matters of the course

Yes, could be a good moment to answer these proposed questions.

* Was it easy to define objectives and criteria?
Yes, for us has been rather easy to define objetives, because all of us have similar aims, the educational potential of Second Life.

* How did you distribute the work?
First, each of all have visited and choose some places, using the "reach option" of SL. After we have visited the places choosen for other components of the group. Later we have had a couple of meetings in SL to choose the most relevant site and to organize the work. In the meantime we have sent each other some information via email to complete a template.

* How did you feel about your own particpation?
I feel good enough about my participation, taking in mind my work planning.

* How did you feel about other participation?
It has been easy at all. We have understood we need to complete the work, and we have done it, in a very pleasent environment.

* Where there any problems, or misunderstandings?
Not significant misunderstandings, the distribution of the work wich each component had to have was clear enough.

At the end, we´ve got the following site:
http://mvn08.pbwiki.com/Group-4%3A-sub-group-3-Cedro

Sites visited

I´ve examined The University of Essen. Even I cannot control a lot of tools in SL, I´ve has the impression of visiting one very interesting site. There where pannels whith photographs of diferents cities in Europe and Africa, and the chance of acces to pictures, videos,... about the cities.

After I´ve gone to Etiopa Educational Center, devoted to show and teach about environmental matters. There is a museum, rent of houses. Rather big site, there is a there is a train fueled with energy proceding for air generator, wich makes a travel around the site.

I´ve taken some pictures, hosted in flikcr.
They are here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/637731@N22/?added=6

Sitios en SL

Po fin, tras arduas idas y venidas, me ha decidido por dos sitios educativos en SL.

Esta primera foto es de Etiopia Island

http://www.flickr.com/photos/xabilak/3120766088



La segunda foto es de la Universidad de Geografía de Essen

http://www.flickr.com/photos/xabilak/3119976561

Subgrupo 4.3 Cedro

Bueno, pues ya estoy asignado a un subgrupo, junto a Azucena, Cris, Pilar Pilar lo siento pero no encuentro tu foto) y José Luis.
No he comprendido bien como hay que dar inicio a esta actividad 3, pero lo que está claro es que hay que organizarse deprisa para no estar el último día como locos.
1) Hay que definir bien lo que hay que hacer - alcance -. Todos lo tenemos que entender, no importa si pasamos tiempo en esta tarea.
2) Distribuir el trabajo de cada componente del grupo. Secuenciar las actividades, estimar los tiempos y crear hitos, es decir fechas - pocas claro que no hay mucho tiempo - en las que nos comprometamos a aportar lo que se ha definido con antelación.
3)Definir cómo - supongo que wiki, SL o ambos - y cuando nos vamos a comunicar.
4) Y una vez que hayamos hecho esto..... manos a la obra.

Fashion Show

I have had the chance to go to fashion show orgaized by Group 4. Has been a curious experience; a lot of avatar talking to each other without any pause. You can talk to your friends, dance, even to encourage the participants. Really like in RL. Very good for socialize people.
Anyway, I wait for the moment in wich I could examine the pedagogical possibilities of SL. I´m sure there are a lot, but I can´t still imagine them very clear. I´m agree when some people say that there is no more e-learning, no more d-learning, only learning; I think the border betweeen them is going to blur in the near future, and that will be a sort of integration between Moddle - or other tool -SL, blogs, wikis, sincronous activities like conferences, .... But this will require tons of competence in Information Tecnology, or at least the competence of learn to learn very quicly. For people like me, not digital native, this is becoming a little dificult (when I learned what was mp3, it appears mp4) because the pace of change is almost exponential.

In the meantime, and to be ready for the new era, I´ve decided to change my hairstyle ;)

My first video in SL

Bonbon, don´t laugh of me please.

4 de Diciembre

Conversación muy agradable e instructiva con Elious.




En el momento de sacar la fotografía está "ausente".