Nowhereman's Workshop

The workshop I have attended is very informative and easy to grasp. It is titled “Using scripts and SL objects to teach English in-world”

There was much food for thought. At the beginning, there is a check up of the prior or knowledge by rezzing and changing the position of an object rezzed by clicking on built by choose "edit" in the pie menu and playing with different arrows around the prim. It was something we have used by the end to place word in a game like activity of fail tree. It was done through creating notecards to submit our answers. Nowhereman was consciously to make participants fully engaged in his workshop, thought he experience fair and stress before beginning his workshop. There was a discussion about the implication of the use of that family tree and ways to implement it our classroom. Participant received a notecard enabling them to modify Nowhere man’s objects. Despite not finishing activity one, but I have learned a lot from it.

The second activity had to do with scripting, which enables the teacher to know the students who are actively contributing to the workshop and see how much knowledge they have become skilled at, in the virtual world.

The Instructions were understandable: of as he fostered the learner’s curiosity. Most of these learners were experienced in SL, except me as a newbie. I felt there is too much to learn. That was why, I kept asking for details and question of the various elements I did not know. Nowhereman was skilful in dealing with questions without being discarded by his focus in the workshop. It was a timely workshop.

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Build a Basic Board game with Daffodil

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• Both opening and closing of the workshop were excellent. She begun by setting a friendly atmosphere and ended up by giving materials and links for future use. Which created a highly efficient learning environment?
• The overall objective was successfully achieved as the participants were enthusiastically motivated and continue discussion after the time limit of the workshop
• The sub objectives were attained through the use of the inventory and building tab
• Tutor’s personally objectives were accomplished effectively, including starting and ending on time. The instructions were well received by the participants who carried out the activities cheerfully. There is the use of local chat and shouting method, and highlighter on some how the interactive-board: I will give instructions were given through the “SpeakEasy HUD”, and participants asked questions in local chat.
• Each participant had a spot where to build his game board. Their movements was limited to that space, whereas, Daffodil moved from time to time to better clarify or provide help for the participants.
• The late comers were dealt with successfully. She even waited for my connection to get better, but in vain. There is an avatar, who has nothing to do with Muvenation, who was welcomed to attend the session.
• The participants were given references
• There was a “FREE Teaching Board” link which was provided by a participant: http://slurl.com/secondlife/MUVEnation/124/204/25
• In her workshop, Daffodil was in dealing with outstanding:

v manage movement

v the flow of talk

v dealing with disruptions

v teacher and students’ rapport

v catching interest of audience

v timing and pacing

Personally, despite the bad connection I had besides being a newbie, I have many things that I will be using while designing my own workshop.