Project Description:

The purpose of the Virtual Classroom project is to provide a platform for educators to experiment with designing spaces for learning.

The organizers of this project will invite individual educators to design and build their ideal learning space for use as a virtual classroom in Second Life or as a prototype for a real-life classroom. The participants will create their spaces on a parcel of land in Jokaydia, a virtual island in Second Life. Each participant will be given a period of one month and the necessary support and resources to complete the project. As part of the project, each participant will document the process of planning and building through screenshots, guided tours, regular blog entries, and video capture. Once the project is completed, the organizers will conduct an interview with the participant to highlight his or her work and bring it to the attention of a wide audience in the form of a downloadable podcast. Screenshots, blog entries, and video clips describing the project and its various stages of development will also be made available online in order to encourage discussions about classroom design both in real life and in a virtual environment such as Second Life.

The organizers of the Virtual Classroom Project expect that this endeavour will be of particular interest to not only educators and educational technologists but also institutions interested in exploring learning space design, teacher preparation, and teacher professional development both in virtual worlds and in real life.

For more information about the Virtual Classroom Project, please contact Konrad Glogowski (SL: Konrad March) using this contact page.

For further information vist the Virtual Classroom Wiki page.