Our Plan
This course involves two parts, including a weekly meeting “in world” on Second Life and weekly discussion of internship related questions on our Moodle forum. This page is concerned with the weekly discussion on the Moodle forums.
The purpose of this forum discussion is to to support your learning in your internship by bringing you into a conversation with your peers over issues of immediate relevance. It is designed to maximize the advantages of collaborative learning among students working all over the world by exploiting modern online collaborative tools and virtual environments, including our Moodle forum and the HWR space on Second LIfe. As you will see on the IBMAN to IBMAN page, you and your classmates have much to share.
The forum component is composed of the following elements:
- Answering the weekly questions and offering at least two responses to those of others on our Moodle forum.
- Discussing these questions and participating in related role playing and other activities in as organized in our Second Life meetings.
- At the end of the semester selecting and editing 3 posts you think might be most helpful to IBMAN students that will follow you and posting them on our IBMAN to IBMAN website.
- Printing out all of your posts and comments, along with a 1-2 page review of your learning, to be submitted to me by 15 July 2011.
Forum Posts
Your task will be to address the questions we have posed in forum entries by the assigned date on the Moodle forum. These questions will resemble those found here: The Weekly Questions from WS 2010-11. They are designed to help you examine more closely what you are experiencing, reflect on your learning, and thereby help you make the most of your internship’s tremendous opportunity.
Comments
Each week, you are required to respond to at least two of the posts of others, perhaps beginning with a very simply “thank you for sharing”, but you will soon likely find yourself comparing and contrasting your situation with others, offering helpful advice, and sharing your insights.
The purpose of this activity is to support your weekly review of each other’s posts, to help you examine them sensitively and even critically, and so learn from and enjoy the support of your classmates.
IBMAN to IBMAN
To get a good idea of the often very intelligent, thoughtful, and insightful learning and writing that you will be doing (!), please visit the IBMAN to IBMAN website created by the present group of IBMAN Internship in Second Life students. They have selected posts they think might interest and inform you about doing internships, and in turn, at the end of the semester you will add a selection of your posts for the benefit of those that will follow you.
In addition to offering you an opportunity to review your learning in preparation for your final comments and forum post submission, this exercise will offer you an opportunity consider how your experiences and learning might appear to others and thereby give you a chance to develop a larger or longer-term perspective. It will also connect you to those that came before and those that will come after.
By addressing the assigned topics in this carefully-measured way, your thought and writing will build depth, complexity, and sophistication and all much to your advantage!
An earlier, more formal discussion discussion of the course objectives, requirements, and readings in the standard institutional format is to be found on Campus4You. If you have questions about any of this, please do not hesitate to contact Bruce Spear or Marcus Birkenkrahe.
Where to Start
Your next step should be to read the Technology page, follow the instructions for setting up your headset and installing Second Life. If you are in Berlin, please attend the special hands-on workshop on Tuesday, 25 January 2011, 4-6pm, in Room 130.