[Generation 50+ in SL]

oh you have hit a chord with me!  I am 54 and am so tired of the endless over sexulaized child avis.  I have been in SL for 12 years and and the at the risk of sounding like and old fuddy'duddy, it was never this bad! LOL!  I want a place to go talk to someone and have a real conversation.   I want help with my av now that I had to have a bi-lateral mastectomy--I want her FLAT.   I miss the times when you could just sit around a campfire or whatever and just talk.  

[Creating an online course in second life?]

Not at all- it is like using Word Press-- just a jump in and go package.  It is very user friendly with a big user community.  

[Creating an online course in second life?]

I ended up using Moodle for my online classes- it is great that there are so many options for online education now.  My philosophy- don’t make them(your learners) think*. Meaning the framework you use should be so intuitive it should be practically invisible— don’t make them THINK about where to go or how to do inside your tool.   The learning should be about YOUR CONTENT.  

[Creating an online course in second life?]

I used to teach a course in Second Life in 2007.  The learning curve was way too steep for the content.  I did not want to TEACH Second life, I wanted to teach the content within Second Life.  But my students (even though our first two sessions were F2F) had so much trouble just navigating the world,  it made it frustrating for them, and nearly impossible for me to teach them.  The platform got in the way of learning.  

Just an FYI, many schools have tried to do this.  You might check with the Lindens to see if they have kept records.  Just off-hand, Harvard and the International Society of Technology Educators taught classes in SL, but no longer do.  

[When did you last see a Bellessarian home available?]

I have a feeling I will be spending my NYE day looking for a victorian