Snapshot #9 info collection extension
Hello,
VWW is now putting together snapshot #9, which will be out later this summer.
Staff of three UK education funding bodies have requested copies of this particular snapshot. It will also be the last snapshot until December.
A gentle request – if you haven’t already, would you like to have a go at answering a question or two from the list for this one?
If you email me anything by this Sunday, then it’ll go in. Please email to:
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1. What are you doing in virtual worlds? Teaching, learning, research, publicity, and/or anything else?
2. Going well? Not? Want to say why?
3. Money is tight. The ‘golden age’ of education money may be ending. How are you getting funded? How do you think your virtual world activities will be funded in the future?
4. Long distance travel is increasingly precarious. Ash, strikes and airlines going under ground flights. Travel is expensive (even in the UK with extortionate train fares) and takes up a lot of time. Virtual Worlds could, possibly, be used instead of many workshops, conferences, meetings et al. Your thoughts on this? And how do virtual worlds such as Second Life stack up against other event-replacing media such as Elluminate and Skype?
5. Second Life. Using just that, or considering other virtual worlds? If so, why?
6. Problems with universities blocking access to Second Life. Is anyone still having that, or are we over it now?
7. Handling large numbers of students in virtual worlds simultaneously i.e. more than 30. Do you have experience of this? How did it go?
8. What do you think of the new Second Life viewer, both the UI/usability changes and the new functionality it enables (e.g. media on a prim)?
9. Do you have a view on the new Second Life Terms of Service conditions and ownership rights which are creating a bit of a hoo-hah in some quarters? Do you think it will affect you? Does it matter in the grand scheme of things?
Thanks for your input – this is much appreciated.
