Project Outline

This is going to be very general at this point. I am one of those people who has to see the big picture before I can put it in small pieces. I still have a few articles to read. I have read quit a few already and the information is interesting, new, and intriguing. There are so many facets to virtual worlds in education. Limiting my information to 5-6 minutes will be difficult. However, 5-6 minutes of good video is a little intimidating :) I am going to develop the information around my mock speaker who is on of the creators of AET, which is a university that takes place in a virtual world. All of the students go to school as avatars. So I am still developing a plan, but this is an idea of the sequence.

I. Virtual Worlds in Higher Education
A. Where they started and where they are today
II. Bringing a physical sense through teaming
A. Harvard (Second Life)
B. Experiments and Projects
III. Developing Professionally
A. MIT (Second Life)
B. SLED
C. List Serves and Professional Organizations
IV. Online classrooms
A. AET Active World
B. What does it look like
C. What do the students have to say
D. Challenges of on-line learning
V. Background and Introduction of Guest Speaker