Jane works in the JISC-funded Regional Support Centre (RSC) for the West Midlands. As she describes in the podcast, some of her time is taken up with activities to support, and progress, the use and development of Second Life within post-16 education in this region.
Jane is also in the process of purchasing an island, then developing it, within Second Life to support these activities. Jane is also the co-maintainer of the JISCmail Virtual Worlds mailing list.
You can find Jane on LinkedIn, Twitter and Flickr. She is also, of course, in Second Life as Ladyjane Plympton.
It’s the 20th of April, so in today’s Start the Week podcast Anna Peachey describes some of her Second Life activities.
Anna is a teaching fellow at the Open University and has been involved (through her company Eygus) in Second Life developments at that institution. She is in her third year of using Second Life for tutorials with students studying T175 Networked Living: Exploring Information and Communication Technologies, and has worked with Liz Thackray to provide sample tutorials for other T175 students, as well as a 2 day course event inworld.
Anna chaired the ReLIVE08 conference in Milton Keynes, wearing a pair of wings to the event:
Anna flits between Devon, where she is usually based, and Nepal. She can be followed on Twitter.
Kate Boardman is the head of e-learning at the University of Teesside. As such, she is involved in a number of Second Life activities within the university and has created a fair amount of “stuff” herself in-world. In this weeks podcast, she describes her path to using Second Life, and some of the issues she has dealt with in using this media within an academic environment.
If you want to see her in the flesh and hear her speak, then Kate is doing the 3pm keynote presentation at the Virtual Worlds event in Sunderland on the 21st April. Her slides can be viewed online:
David Burden is the manager of Daden Ltd, a virtual worlds agency based in Birmingham. He’s the interviewee for this week.
Why are we interviewing someone from a commercial company rather than an academic? Well, as you will hear, David and co. have been active in many UK academic Second Life developments. They have also developed PIVOTE, a virtual learning authoring system for virtual worlds which came out of the JISC-funded PREVIEW project; David describes PIVOTE in some detail.
David is a good speaker and you can hear him speak, along with many other UK academic developers, at the Virtual Worlds event in Sunderland on the 21st April. He also tweets.
