I’ve been working on a tutorial for State of Play Academy showing instructors what to expect and giving some tips. (I lack mastery of my video editing tools, so don’t ask me why there’s so much empty space around it.) It’s a snippet of a text chat that’s taking place among three course participants during […]
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Last Thursday I had the opportunity to lead a lecture/discussion in Second Life for CyberOne-Extension about relationships, networks, and how to build relationships through one-to-ones. The night before I had attended a training by Milosun Czervik on behalf of the SL Library Group on presentation tools available in SL. I picked up some really useful tools at the Milosun’s presentation, most notably a chatfeeder (works like a teleprompter — you pre-write the talk and press a button to “speak” each line from the text) and AngryBeth’s whiteboard…
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WBUR ran a story yesterday morning on the use of virtual reality software/hardware to train surgeons. See Simulating Surgery (RealMedia format). The story describes various efforts to institute practical, hands-on, but simulated training for operations that would otherwise be possible only in actual, life-threatening situations. Because surgery is a kinetic skill, the simulations necessarily involve a combination of software and hardware, although more and more of it is moving into the software side with virtual reality technology.
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[This is a backdated post actually made on 10/17/2006]
I’m starting as a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society this month, studying legal education / training and how technology may be fundamentally changing both the practice for which we are training attorneys as well as the methods we use to teach. The project […]
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