HYPAR Hands-On in Second Life!

Posted on June 4, 2007 
Filed Under conferences, education, secondlife, tafe, virtualworlds

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Sean and I had the pleasure of presenting some workshops at the HYPAR Hands-On Workshop last Friday.

For those who don’t know ‘TAFE-speak’, the HYPAR program is a focussed on working with young people aged 15 to 19, and is designed to help the most disadvantaged young people in the community to engage in education and build pathways to further education or employment. For further info about HYPAR, check out their Hyparpaedia on Wikispaces or visit the EngageMe website.

Anyway, during the presentation, we provided an overview of some of the educational uses of Second Life, showed some videos, talked about both the Teen and Adult Grids and attempted to get everyone in world for a bit of an explore.

Despite some technical difficulties, I think most participants got an idea of how Second Life could be used. It was definitely exciting for us to hear how teachers working with youth at risk from a range of subject areas including construction, IT, communications, general education and many more are contemplating using virtual worlds with their students.

You can download the workshop material below:

You may also be interested in some of the online resources we shared during the workshop including:

We didn’t manage to get to all of them - but some of the places and spaces we recommended to participants included:

And I still can’t resist this video as a good overview of Second Life (you gotta love ‘the voice’!)

Coming Up Soon…..

Our next online event is coming up - check out the E-Learning Network’s Online Conference website for more info! ;)

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