One of the presenters is going to create a variety of resources and make them available to others as open source e.g rezz on demand boards which will allow an environment to be changed at the click of a button. This is something that might be very useful as a tool for teaching where the environment can change as a consequence of the learner’s interaction with the environment.
Other resources:
* MIT debating board
* pandorabots.com who have chatbots and are engaged in AI research
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A second presenter had some good ideas for doing PBL in SL using two types of scenario:
1. Information driven – which would have some info e.g. a picture and a set of questions using the blue box which would trigger further events – possibly linking to the rezz on demand
2. Avatar driven – where the students interact with avatars which are RL people. There are possible issues with this as it is person (avatar) intensive.
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A third presenter had an interesting idea about setting up a sequence of events e.g. writing a report; as a set of interlinked objects to show the structure visually. Each object would give information when touched. [Could be in chat or in the form of a note card ?]
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I need to follow up on all of these.
