I have been discussing with my avatar friends (colleagues, students) about the example and the cases of good learning experiences in the Second Life. Many different issues have arisen, but one common opinion has been on the agenda as an important issue almost in every discussion and dialog: good SL-learning units or objects should extremely well structured. For example, if the learning objects are used, they should be organised in the clear serie format. Otherwise the learnest will get lost easily.

One course may be a house or one stair of the house with the doors from the one activity room (task or learning object) to the next activity room. In the virtual world the tasks and activities should be more clear than in the learning situations of the real life. One can travel and surf with the avatar to so many directions and with so many different styles that is is easy to lose the horizont and scope very soon. That is why the structuration of the guidance and activities is in the centre of the mentoring and tutoring of the tutor avatar.

How to show video clips in SL?

I have met people in SL every friday and learned a lot. Discussions and travelling (teleporting) together with other avatars are interesting. Also many seminars have opened many new routes for me developing skills and thinking. Yet, some very basic SL-skills are still missing. For example, I have not yet managed to show video clips in SL, just used some my outside links (Youtube etc.). Too busy, should slow down a little?