The Virtual Campus Dean, Juliette Winterer, has scheduled a series of face-to-face meetings next week, at various times, and at all campuses. She has also scheduled an online meeting in Second Life (an online chat room with some very interesting educational applications, see end of email). She has asked the campus and division deans to announce this to faculty at each of the campuses; any faculty member using Blackboard (WebCT) is welcome to attend. These meetings are not required. Only attend if you wish to.
Here’s the schedule:
- Monday 9/8, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm York Campus, room 128
- Tuesday 9/9, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Lancaster Campus, cafeteria
- Wednesday 9/10, 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm, Lebanon Campus, room 114
- Thursday 9/11, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Gettysburg Campus, room 140J
- Friday 9/12, 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Harrisburg Campus, S102 and all other campuses by compressed video
- Friday 9/12, 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm online, in Second Life, in the HACC region
For those of you with full-time work elsewhere, attending may be difficult. If so, let her know. If she hears many responses, she will try to schedule an evening meeting the following week in Second Life.
If you want to go to the Second Life meeting, it will be located in HACC’s new Second Life region. You need to:
1) Download some Second Life software onto your computer if you haven’t already (http://secondlife.com).
2) Get acquainted with how to navigate in Second Life by going through their Orientation Island.
3) Let her know your avatar’s name so that you can be granted access to HACC’s region, which is not public. Thanks to Patrick Early for getting a space for HACC started. (Note: an avatar is an online visual representation of you that you can move with keystrokes and use to communicate with others.) She needs to know that name no less than one day before the meeting is scheduled.
There is a YouTube video you can view: “Educational Uses of Second Life“:
This shows you what people were doing a year ago. There is more now than there was then when the video was made, but it gives you a taste of Second Life.
Those wishing to look more closely at a broad range to online tools available can use this link as a jumping off point.
