On-line Meeting with Gavin Dudeney

Peter Carlsson and I had an on-line meeting with Gavin Dudeney, who's been offering courses in Second Life from his base in Barcelona for a while now. Gavin described the way he's set up his two-week course in how to run courses in Second Life, and very interesting it was too. Gavin's course emphasises technical matters a little more than we will, but it's clear that they're important too. It's clear too that we're thinking along the same lines, although we're working in the context of a university system, where everything takes a little longer! It's also very likely that our students will be well-motivated, since we're able to award university credits at the end of our courses.

Among the ideas we want to steal are the treasure hunt at the begin of Gavin's course and the idea of reflecting on expectations at the beginning of the course coupled to reflecting on the development of ideas at the end. With a bit of luck we'll be able to hire Gavin at some time in the next 9 months …

Peter and I then talked about some of the ideas we'd been having … and then headed off to the coffee room after the meeting to begin sketching things out. The next post is about what we discussed.